Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 54.98
September 22, 2021
…Corp., which provides mission-critical vehicles and essential equipment, and Carnegie Foundry, a robotics and artificial intelligence venture studio, this week announced a strategic partnership. Oshkosh is also investing an unspecified amount in Carnegie Foundry to accelerate innovation in autonomy and robotics. “For years, Oshkosh has been developing autonomous technology that delivers greater productivity while reducing total cost of ownership for our customers,” stated John Pfeifer, president and CEO of Oshkosh Corp. “Oshkosh’s strategic investment in Carnegie Foundry will put our customers at the forefront of emerging innovation and technology in the robotics and autonomy space.” Oshkosh Corp. has more than…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.64
August 27, 2021
…million. “As a member of the faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, I have the privilege of engaging with students and faculty who define the state of the art in AI and robotics,” said Nate Michael, chief technology officer of Shield AI. “I joined Shield AI in the early days because it represented an opportunity to transition leading technologies from the lab to applications for good at a global scale.” “We are now well positioned to achieve this objective,” said Michael. “With this investment, we will further scale our AI operations to more rapidly solve pressing problems facing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 38.38
August 07, 2021
…— presented a unique challenge for researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research. “It's the unwritten rules of the road, that's pretty much what we're dealing with here,” said Christoph Killing, a former visiting research scholar in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute and now part of the Autonomous Aerial Systems Lab at the Technical University of Munich. “It's a difficult bit. You have to learn to negotiate this scenario without knowing if the other vehicle is going to stop or go.” While at CMU, Killing teamed up with research scientist John Dolan…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 55.12
July 26, 2021
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working with Apple Inc. to develop new ways to disassemble old technology. Their latest partnership builds on Apple's existing innovations, including recycling robots Daisy and Dave. Apple sought to support research initiatives that reimagine the disassembly of electronic devices and the recovery of valuable or hazardous materials. The company chose to work with CMU's Biorobotics Lab, part of the Robotics Institute. CMU lab develops new disassembly methods Matt Travers and Howie Choset, co-directors of the lab at Carnegie Mellon, and their team are designing machine learning models that will enable robots to teach themselves…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 60.85
July 20, 2021
Founded by Jorgen Pedersen, RE2 Robotics is a Carnegie Mellon University spinout that develops intelligent mobile manipulation systems. The company says it helps organizations across multiple markets improve worker safety, productivity, and efficiency through the use of robotics. RE2 Robotics added that it is committed to creating manipulator arms with human-like performance, intuitive robot interfaces, and advanced autonomy capabilities for use in any environment. Its RE2 Sapien robot arms are able to see, learn, and interact via the RE2 Detect and RE2 Intellect autonomy modules. With computer vision and machine learning, RE2's systems can operate with humans in the loop…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.42
July 20, 2021
…on July 20, 2001, as a defense subcontractor to Carnegie Mellon University by alumnus Jorgen Pedersen, the company incubated at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in Pittsburgh. Today, anchored in Pittsburgh’s Robotics Row, the RE2 campus encompasses two buildings on a city block in the Lawrenceville neighborhood and includes space for indoor, outdoor, and underwater testing of robots. Click here for larger version. Source: RE2 Robotics RE2 Sapien family grows RE2 Robotics said its RE2 Sapien family can operate in a variety of complex indoor and outdoor environments for use in the aviation, construction, defense, energy, and medical industries.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.54
July 16, 2021
…prediction, and feedback control for safe human-robot interaction,” said Zackory Erickson, an assistant professor in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. “This research could potentially be applied to a wide variety of assistive robotics scenarios, towards the ultimate goal of enabling robots to provide safer physical assistance to people with disabilities.” Li wrote the paper alongside CSAIL postdoctoral student Nadia Figueroa, MIT Ph.D. student Ankit Shah, and MIT Professor Julie A. Shah. They presented the paper virtually at the 2021 Robotics: Science and Systems conference. The work was supported by the Office of Naval Research.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.31
July 09, 2021
…Robotics American Robotics was founded by leading roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University and focuses on designing, developing, and marketing drones for real-world environments. It offers Scout as a “drone-in-a-box” turnkey data service under a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) business model. American Robotics noted that Scout is the first and only drone system approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for automated beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) operations with no humans on site. In the six months since it received FAA approval, the company has reported an 80% increase in business-development activity in key industrial sectors, including infrastructure. In addition,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.49
July 05, 2021
…the commercial drone community as a whole.” Roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University founded American Robotics in 2016. The privately owned company said it focuses on designing, developing, and marketing industrial drones for rugged, real-world environments. In May, wireless broadband firm Ondas Holdings Inc. acquired the MassRobotics member, and they recently completed a $51.5 million equity raise that was heavily oversubscribed. Drones providers need FAA, industry acceptance The commercial drone industry is growing quickly and providing significant benefits to the U.S. public, but enabling expanded BVLOS operations is critical for the industry to truly take off, said American…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.31
June 29, 2021
…robotics companies, research institutions, and universities in region, including Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), RE2 Robotics, Neya Systems, Carnegie Robotics, HEBI Robotics, Near Earth Autonomy, BirdBrain Technologies, Omnicell, and Advanced Construction Robotics. Grant marks formal launch The Richard King Mellon Foundation celebrated PRN's membership milestone with a grant of $125,000 to support its continued growth. The grant is part of its newly launched “2021-2030 Strategic Plan,” which aims to foster business growth for a diverse pool of talent in specific industry clusters. “The Pittsburgh Robotics Network will help position Pittsburgh as a national and worldwide robotics center – helping to attract…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.78
June 28, 2021
…some who get this,” she recalled. “Howie Choset at Carnegie Mellon University and Rich Voyles at Purdue University will be the first to admit that robots can't do certain things. But when coring through concrete walls or floors after a building collapse, each of them grabbed that dimension. They've developed things that can be done with a robotic elephant trunk or a tethered container that can shoot out arms to move. Both took away different morphologies from studying constraints around what we're trying to do.” Many tests of emergency response robots fail to replicate the unstructured environments they would face…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.68
June 25, 2021
…American Robotics was founded in 2016 by roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University. The Marlborough, Mass-based company claimed that it has developed the first fully automated drones to receive approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). American Robotics said platform uses innovations in robot autonomy, machine vision, edge computing, and artificial intelligence to enable enterprise customers to continuously monitor, digitize, and analyze their assets in real time. Last month, the MassRobotics member agreed to merge with Ondas Holdings Inc. Scout and TASA Cypress, Calif.-based SARA's Artificial Perception and Threat Awareness (APTA) Division develops sensing and collaboration systems…
