Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.22
July 10, 2022
…the university's website, Lee said that “current trends in precision agriculture and smart farming mostly focus on larger machinery or a single or a small number of robots equipped and programmed to perform highly specialized tasks. This project will serve as a critical pathway toward our long-term goal of establishing a deployable easy-to-use swarm robotic system that can serve as a universal platform for broad agriculture applications.” Harvesting berries with robots Other universities are hard at work on other innovations aimed at the agricultural sector. For example: developing gripper robots that could be used to harvest berries. A field of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.22
May 10, 2019
…a variety of DfAM tasks. For example, the Dell Precision 3000, 5000 and 7000 series of fixed workstations and mobile workstations can all be configured with NVIDIA GPUs. They are also certified for use with popular design engineering software packages. “Dyndrite's geometry kernel is purpose-built to use every bit, flop, register and clock cycle of the latest NVIDIA GPU,” said Shawn Hopwood, Dyndrite’s chief marketing officer. Thank's to NVIDIA's GPGPU programming paradigm, CUDA, Dyndrite can run all the computations of its kernel on the GPU. Though Dyndrite minimally needs a Maxwell architecture to run, the latest Turing line computes 5-15x…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.17
February 01, 2022
…nearly every aspect of product handling with high speed, precision, and little human involvement. This includes everything from automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that transport inventory between stages of the fulfillment process to automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) that bring goods in and out of storage. It also includes order-picking technology that can handle a limitless variety of products and packaging. Equipped with automation, facilities can run at their best, 24/7—even when labor is scarce. What does this mean for human employees? As more and more companies adopt automation, the role of the warehouse worker…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.16
May 12, 2022
…a variety of form factors and attributes with high precision and purity, with a special focus on plastic blends uniquely enabled by AI. The company resells these commodities, including bespoke chemical and polymer blends needed by processors and manufacturers, to end-market buyers. AMP said its secondary facilities drive down the cost of recovery while creating contamination-free, high-quality bales of recycled material for resale. The company added that its business model also introduces market certainty, lower disposal costs, and new revenue streams for established MRFs by creating a destination for residue that they would otherwise have to pay to landfill. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.16
October 23, 2022
…not only survey fields, but they can also support precision agriculture with real-time data collection for analysis and insight. Companies such as American Robotics and UAV Systems International have developed aerial imaging and seed-planting robots that can capture a bird’s eye-view of the farm and plant seeds according to the optimum capacity of the land. The Aurelia X8s Seed Spreader Drone developed by UAV Systems employs sophisticated wide-angle cameras, AI and machine learning, and computational methodologies to perform planting and seeding activity efficiently. Some seed-planting robots or drones are also capable of spraying pesticides and herbicides over the crops. Other…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.14
April 19, 2021
…innovations will reduce the planning times, improve flexibility and precision, and at the end produce 30% more efficient planning,” said Nedeljković. Omniverse Enterprise includes the Omniverse Nucleus server, which manages the shared database, and Omniverse Connectors, which are plug-ins to design applications. It also includes Omniverse Create for accelerating scene composition and enabling users to assemble, light, and render scenes, and Omniverse View, which provides for collaborative design and visualization through photorealistic rendering. “We believe very strongly that robotics has been moving slowly because of an inability to simulate the real world for fast prototyping,” Gopalakrishna told Robotics 24/7. “It's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.12
October 01, 2021
…the form factor can lead to a lack of precision, asserted Sachs. “For instance, if incision points are at the wrong site, too close together—say a hernia in the groin—the surgeon has to remove the arms and reinsert them to generate the right motion needed to operate in a different area,” he said. “Plus, physicians need more than 100 procedures to gain proficiency with legacy robots, and that adds OR time.” Single-port procedures provide simplicity Vicarious Surgical said that its system uses two flexible arms and different motion-control technology for a lighter-weight approach. “There's a huge advantage of any system…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.10
May 23, 2019
…collaborates with Nikon, a supplier of advanced opto-electronics and precision technologies, to improve insight into the 3D printing build process. These research activities, supported by Materialise software and the Materialise Control Platform, aim to provide users more control and increase productivity through analysis of the building process. Materialise and Essentium, a provider of 3D printing solutions for industrial additive manufacturing, entered into a strategic partnership in November 2018 to jointly advance and scale industrial 3D printing. In a first step towards that goal, the companies have announced the integration of Materialise’s Magics Essentials software with the Essentium High Speed Extrusion…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.08
May 16, 2023
…compute their grasp points, and grasp the items with precision [see video below]. The AI also deals with edge cases. In a different scenario, we implemented AI-powered vision quality-control solution to inspect eggrolls on a production line, identifying and removing defective ones. By complementing this process with robotics, the customer is now saving a lot of money annually. Furthermore, this automated process allows the company to recycle the meat from the defective eggrolls, adding a layer of efficiency and waste reduction. These are just a couple of ways in which we're applying AI and robotics to real-world production scenarios. ChatGPT…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.04
February 07, 2022
…robot move to where it’s needed? Picking systems require high-precision sensing to locate objects to manipulate. Today, vision-guided robots (VGR) are rising in popularity. They include the following capabilities: Recognizing an object with cameras or other sensors Determining the item's shape and position in space Picking and transferring the item to a target point with robotics hardware A seemingly simple task requires complex AI and ML technologies. VGRs are commonly used to locate objects on a conveyor belt. How does this help e-commerce companies? Most vision-guided picking occurs in warehouses. For example, the RightPick system from RightHand Robotics uses AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.04
December 07, 2021
…at low power, and it saves bandwidth. With real-time precision measurements and intensity, we can see glass or ice and classify objects by speed, such as a cyclist or a pedestrian.” The fiberless Eyeonic sensor integrates laser, optical circuitry, and detectors into a single silicon photonics chip (orange-reddish chip in the middle). Source: SiLC “SiLC is working with Bluespace on 4D predictive perception, superimposing 2-second predictions,” he said. “This can be done on rules-based algorithms rather than through training. This can run on a small ARM core and is less expensive than inference-based code.” SiLC said it offers Eyeonic in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.94
December 13, 2022
…of farming; it’s making their machines more productive with functional automation,” he added. “Our focus is to make the Precision Technology on our equipment so smart, that the customer can focus on the farm and let CNH Industrial take care of the rest.”
