Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.03
November 22, 2022
…week that its self-driving robot Neubie has won a CES 2023 Innovation Award in the smart cities category. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring consumer electronics and ICT products for outstanding design and engineering. For the event, a panel of industry expert judges thoroughly review candidate products from across the world before the US Consumer Technology Association (CTA) finally selects the highest-rated products in technological prowess and innovation. Neubie is an autonomous mobile robot developed for stable self-driving in the urban environment characterized by high position error rates and complexity. Neubie uses V-SLAM cameras The robot uses…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.42
November 21, 2022
…in more use cases.” Cepton to be recognized at CES 2023 Cepton was also recently named a CES 2023 Innovation Award Honoree for its lidar products. In a statement, Cepton CEO Jun Pei said he was “thrilled” for his company to be honored and used the opportunity to showcase its latest lidar product the Vista-X120 Plus. The company will be showing it off at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. “Vista-X120 Plus is designed for both today’s consumer vehicles as well as the next generation – intelligent, electrified and software-defined,” Pei said. “As the automotive industry evolves, our lidar innovations…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.43
November 04, 2022
…care and senior living. First announced in January at CES 2022, the award-winning Labrador Retriever personal robot empowers people to live more independently and extends the impact of caregivers. The assistive robot lightens the load of daily activities by physically bringing essential items within reach. Labrador will offer home care and senior living organizations a professional grade version of the robot, the “Retriever Pro,” with additional features to help caregivers and staff manage client care. Labrador’s first customers Labrador will make the Retriever Pro available as a service, creating fleets of robots for care providers to deploy to support individuals…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.58
October 12, 2022
…the workforce,” said GreyOrange. The new system is fully CE-compliant and is compatible with all standard container sizes, said GreyOrange and Technica. It can handle cases, cartons, totes, bags, and more, they added. “By transforming one of the most time-consuming and labor-intensive processes in the warehouse through partnership with Technica, our fulfillment platform now delivers the most comprehensive warehouse solution in the market,” said Samay Kohli, co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange. “We enable smart robotic intralogistics for every process step in the warehouse, offering supply chain leaders a fully integrated solution for significant productivity, speed and efficiency gains in a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
October 02, 2022
…Indianapolis Motor Speedway last October, and making history at CES 2022 in January with the world’s first-ever, head-to-head autonomous racing competition. The history of IAC The IAC started as a $1 million prize competition with 41 university teams signing up to compete more than two years ago, representing top engineering and technology programs from 14 U.S. states and 11 countries. Based in Indiana, the IAC said it is working to establish a hub for performance automation in the state and is harnessing the power of innovative competitions to attract the best and the brightest minds from around the globe to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.82
September 16, 2022
…dynamic environments without human intervention, said the company. The CE- and ETL-certified robot also features hybrid navigation with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and QR Codes. In addition, the AMR includes safety features such as 360-degree obstacle detection, anti-collision bumpers, and emergency stop buttons in both the front and rear. Rexroth said AMR experts will be at its AMR and Logistics Week booth to discuss visitors' unique applications. They can also explain how a robot fleet can improve the safety of their workers and help overcome operational challenges, said the company. The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) is the organizer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
September 14, 2022
…raised $33.7 million and exhibited the NINA cobot at CES 2022. At this year's Automate show, Doosan recently announced its American expansion, with headquarters in Plano, Texas. IAS to distribute cobots in the U.S. Industrial Automation Supply (IAS) has served original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the Northeast since 1993. The Portland, Maine-based company distributes electrical controls and automation components. IAS is New England's only Phoenix Contact Automation Elite Distribution Partner. The company said it “understands the challenges its customers face in a way online distributors and catalog houses can’t. This has made Industrial Automation Supply 'the go-to distributor' of industry-leading…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.75
August 30, 2022
…range of more than 500 m (1,640.4 ft.) at CES earlier this year. Silicon photonics industry veterans founded SiLC in 2018. Since then, the company has developed frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar sensors. It said its 4D+ Eyeonic Chip integrates all photonics functions needed to enable a coherent vision sensor, offering a small footprint while addressing the need for low cost and low power. SiLC targets its innovations at the robotics, autonomous vehicle, biometrics, security, industrial automation, and other markets. Eyeonic looks ahead for autonomous applications Ultra-long-range visibility is a requirement or many machine vision applications, including automotive, metrology, construction,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.52
August 20, 2022
…also announced that IAC will return to next year's CES. Can you provide an overview of the organization in general, and explain what the Indy Autonomous Challenge is? Paul Mitchell: The Indy Autonomous Challenge, for the last three years, has been running a global prize competition among elite engineering universities to develop software that can control and pilot fully autonomous race cars, and to engage in head-to-head racing competitions. Are these competitions? Where are they held? Mitchell: There have been two competitions so far. The first was held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on October 23rd, 2021. And then the second…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.65
July 25, 2022
…the Symani Surgical System in Europe where it received CE mark in 2019. MMI also intends to accelerate plans to commercialize in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific, as well as advance clinical research including securing an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct a pivotal study. Understanding the the Symani System The company said the Symani System was developed specifically to address the challenges of microsurgery and is the only system that offers NanoWrist Instruments designed to improve a surgeon’s ability to access and suture small, delicate anatomy. The company said the Symani Surgical System…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.08
July 11, 2022
…Association today announced that the IAC will return to CES on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. The Arlington, Va.-based Consumer Technology Association (CTA) successfully demonstrated autonomous racecars at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Organizers and sponsors included Energy Systems Network (ESN), the United Arab Emirates' Technology Innovation Institute (TII), remotely driven car service Halo, and 5G network provider T-Mobile. Nine teams from around the world competed with the same base cars from Dallara and lidar sensors from Luminar, adding their own self-driving software. Team PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano and the University of Alabama won the $150,000 grand prize. It…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.63
July 11, 2022
…MAGiC system for minimally invasive cardiac ablation procedures for CE Mark approval in Europe. MAGiC is a magnetic interventional ablation catheter that uses robotic navigation for precision, stability, and flexibility when diagnosing and treating cardiac arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats. Stereotaxis said it drew on nearly 20 years of experience with existing technologies and has been involved in more than 100,000 procedures. “We are very pleased to reach this important milestone,” stated David Fischel, chairman and CEO of Stereotaxis. “This is a seminal event for Stereotaxis as a company and for the physician community that is pioneering the frontiers of robotics…
