Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.71
July 07, 2020
…lean manufacturing, reduction in business systems and overarching digital infrastructure, enable fast, nimble production ramps.” This collaboration extends bilaterally, providing customers of both companies with critical market advantages. Customers of the Fictiv Global Manufacturing Ecosystem, from startups to global OEMs, can access the exceptional global 3D printing capabilities of Jabil through a single digital thread. Beyond the 3D printing of parts, Jabil can now leverage Fictiv’s precision service model to offer volume manufacturing, data, packaging and on-time fulfillment to end customers with less risk. Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.72
June 26, 2020
…cost of traditional automation and without requiring any new infrastructure or change to warehouse layout. With Chuck, the most configurable collaborative robot in the industry, it’s easy to increase throughput, accelerate new hire training, reduce associate walking, and delight customers. The 6 River Systems solution expands beyond collaborative robots to increase efficiency across your entire operation. Within weeks, you can: Increase productivity in picking, packing, sorting, and replenishment Gain new, actionable insights through real-time data Realize continuous improvement without hardware or infrastructure changes “Operational efficiency is critical to providing an accurate and fast delivery experience, and the demand for this…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.24
June 24, 2020
…for operations characterized by fast growth and change. As inventories swell and order volumes grow, businesses must adapt warehouse infrastructure, implementing new automation and guided work technologies, inventory management processes, order fulfillment workflows and more. Helix is designed for this ongoing evolution, allowing users to simply add the corresponding module as business dictates. MHS Helix works seamlessly and securely across enterprise systems and machine-level controllers alike, providing the split-second response and information accessibility to keep operations moving. A variety of features get information to key stakeholders when and how they prefer, including email and SMS alerts, extensive logging, an informative…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.57
June 23, 2020
…“create a revolutionary in-vehicle computing system and AI computing infrastructure. Starting in 2024, this will be rolled out across the fleet of next-generation Mercedes-Benz vehicles, enabling them with upgradable automated driving functions to deliver software-defined vehicles, expected to hit the market in 2024,” according to the press release. “NVIDIA is all about solving problems ordinary computers can't solve,” said Huang. “And autonomous vehicles is one of the world's greatest challenges. It has enormous impact on the world.” Haung envisions most car on the road will become autonomous in the future, even if only a few currently are. “Going from here…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.58
May 26, 2020
…easy adoption and integration of AI into the university’s infrastructure. “The University of Florida is doing critical work in advancing AI, and Microway is ensuring that their DGX A100 systems support students and faculty as quickly as possible,” says Ann Fried, CEO of Microway. “AI is rapidly transforming all industries, and Microway is ready to support AI adoption with our expertise in delivering the world’s most advanced AI system—the NVIDIA DGX A100.” An NVIDIA Partner Network member, Microway is ready to support organizations and enterprises seeking to adopt AI with DGX A100 systems at launch. Customers in all domains, not…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.14
May 20, 2020
…to deploy the new DGX A100—is building a national infrastructure to accelerate AI research, development and adoption across the public and private sector. VinAI Research—Vietnam’s AI research lab, based in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City—will use DGX A100 to conduct high-impact research and accelerate the application of AI. NVIDIA Builds Next-Gen 700 Petaflops DGX SuperPOD NVIDIA also revealed its next-generation DGX SuperPOD, a cluster of 140 DGX A100 systems capable of achieving 700 petaflops of AI computing power. Combining 140 DGX A100 systems with Mellanox HDR 200Gbps InfiniBand interconnects, NVIDIA built the DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputer for internal research…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.21
May 11, 2020
…in cloud services over the next year include hyperscale infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and IBM; cloud-based collaboration and application providers; telecom operators providing cloud services; cloud connectivity partners; and colocation data centers. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted several examples of processes that can be digitized and virtualized,” Bicknell continues. “Google has told job seekers it will conduct all interviews virtually via Google Hangouts for the foreseeable future. Corporate video conferencing is enabling both legal and medical case discussions, while telemedicine is being used to provide COVID-19 remote diagnosis and treatment. “The necessary…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.28
May 06, 2020
…Respondents reflected the need to digitalize and improve existing infrastructure (63%), automation with robotics (51%) and achieve new levels of employee productivity (42%). Manish Gulyani, Vice President Marketing, Nokia Enterprise said: “We have reached an inflection point in Industry 4.0 transformation as the fast, secure, low latency connectivity underpinning its implementation now becomes available. This research indicates the strong marketplace appetite for industrial-grade wireless networking to capture the transformational benefits of digitalization and automation. We believe that demand, combined with easy-to-deploy private wireless solutions, will drive adoption.” The research examined near-term drivers influencing buying decisions for new industrial systems across…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.78
April 21, 2020
…self-driving technology to automated material handling vehicles, including: low infrastructure requirements for rapid installation 3D sensor fusion for high-confidence navigation flexible mapping that can be updated and modified as needed dynamic path planning & obstacle avoidance to adapt to any situation the ability to revert to manual operation Pivotal™ Orchestration Engine Pivotal is the world’s first continuously-improving multi-agent orchestration engine. Once integrated with your facility’s WMS / ERP system, Pivotal constantly monitors the real-time status of an operation across automated systems, manual processes, and IT / data sources to assign the right resource to the right job at the right…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.10
April 17, 2020
…there is no software installation required and no IT infrastructure to administer and maintain, allowing teams to get started quickly and to easily collaborate, innovate, and have fun. Used professionally worldwide by thousands of product developers, Onshape is free for students and educators. “Robots to the Rescue” is aimed at both FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition teams. In the first 10 days of registration, 282 FIRST teams have signed up so far. There’s plenty of time to sign up and compete, as the final submission deadline is May 15. Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.06
April 14, 2020
…service industries, but also on manufacturing enterprises, including 5G infrastructure vendors. Despite the current ongoing discussion on OpenRAN and open networks, most advanced 5G networks still rely on Tier One infrastructure vendors and their supply chain has been disrupted. The shortages of component manufacturing and/or network workforce deployment, such as integration engineers, are the main reasons of this disruption. These disruptions will cause 2020 5G network infrastructure revenue to fall as much as 10% of the forecasted US$2.1 billion, states global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. “The current virus outbreak will likely delay the deployment of advanced 5G NR…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.90
April 09, 2020
Integrating easily into existing warehouse infrastructure, the Swift autonomous mobile picking robot navigates multiple aisles to pick items at or above human-level speeds. Its integrated 3D item scanner scans products to create a uniform item database, while also teaching the robot to recognize the products it retrieves. The system includes SwiftLink fleet management software as a single point interface to connect, monitor and coordinate a fleet of robots with various warehouse management systems. Learn more here.
