Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.24
November 01, 2022
…and VoloIQ is an app that will run on Microsoft Azure “offering full transparency for the complex urban air mobility ecosystem in real time.” Saudi smart city invests in Volocopter Volocopter became a strategic partner with investor Neom in December 2021. Neom is a smart city or “cognitive region project” being built in Saudi Arabia. The joint venture plans to integrate the VoloCity air taxi and the VoloDrone into Neom's sustainable and connected mobility systems. It will also design and operate the region's all-electric public flight routes for the first seven years after launch. “At Neom, we strongly believe in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.21
March 01, 2020
…to allow their solutions to run simulations on the Microsoft Azure Big Compute platform. The Fortissimo Project At the end of 2019, the European Commission wrapped up its Fortissimo Project, which was launched to encourage the use of advanced modeling and simulation by providing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) access to cloud-based HPC resources. The experiments conducted in the early phases of the project resulted in 79 success stories and case studies that demonstrated how the use of cloud-based HPC could improve the value chain. The project was primarily targeted at cloud-based simulation, a number of additive manufacturing use cases…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.16
April 27, 2023
…facility’s operation. From there, the manager can start a Microsoft Teams meeting with colleagues at a manufacturing “cell”—which puts key people, machines, and supplies in one strategic location—inside the virtual factory. The team can then examine a robotic arm experiencing low cycle-time issues, access machine performance data, identify specific cycle-time problems, and view a live video stream with accompanying sensor data. “This showcase at Hannover Messe is only the beginning, as more industries embrace and implement the industrial metaverse,” said NVIDIA. More information about its partnership with Siemens is available online. About the author Rev Lebaredian is vice president of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.08
February 27, 2019
…technology, engineering and math (STEM). A study released by Microsoft, in partnership with KRC Research, found that despite the priority K-12 schools are placing on promoting STEM, efforts to expand interest among girls has not been universally successful. Lack of role models and support from parents is part of the problem, the study found. Girls lose interest in the field as time goes on. According to the study, 31% of girls thought jobs involving coding were not for them by middle school while the percentage jumps to 40% by high school. Part of the remedy, the study concluded, is to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.96
December 29, 2022
…On the software side, Drone Express has partnered with Microsoft to develop artificial intelligence for delivery drones. In October, Swift Navigation raised $100 million for positioning technology for drones, autonomous vehicles, and robots. Regulatory approvals advance Now that beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) permission is available from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), more teleoperated and autonomous drone deliveries are possible. In July, Flytrex got FAA approval to double its delivery radius to 2 nautical miles. “2022 was also a milestone year from a regulatory standpoint,” Bash noted. “Two companies were granted Part 135 air carrier certification [to Joby Aviation and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.90
April 09, 2021
…the cloud is a commodity. Companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and others make billions of dollars because they know how to package, deliver, and support that commodity at scale. So it will be with autonomous robots. Execution will drive AMR adoption If all the above factors have only heightened demand for AMRs in sectors like logistics, manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, and pharma, then we should expect a large number of robots to enter service in those sectors. However, I do not expect that robot uptake will be concomitant with demand until we have resolved the product/market fit issue.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.80
October 09, 2019
…AI into industrial manufacturing. “Major cloud players, AWS and Microsoft, have established a wide range of partnerships with industrial AI development platform vendors, AI software vendors, and system integrators to provide an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge solution to enhance operational efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and optimize resource consumption in factories,” said Lian Jye Su, Principal Analyst at ABI Research. In China, the Chinese government has listed 10 key industrial manufacturing segments under Made in China in 2025, and AI is a strategic component of the Information Technology segment. Since 2015, the government has been encouraging provincial and local government, public agencies, and state-owned…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.79
April 24, 2023
…Groundlight emerges from stealth Amazon AI veteran Dirac and Microsoft Hardware alumnus Avi Geiger co-founded Groundlight in 2019. The company emerged from stealth with $10 million in new funding led by Madrona, with participation from Greycroft Partners, Founders Co-op, Flying Fish, AscendVC, and EssenceVC. Groundlight asserted that its “platform empowers any developer, even those without data science experience, to quickly build robust vision solutions.” Previously, developers would have to gather and label a dataset, train a model, and then figure out a machine learning operations (MLOps) system to maintain it. This process could easily take months, noted Groundlight. By contrast,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.78
October 03, 2022
…Assistant X is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Microsoft Windows, where vision applications are created by constructing an intuitive flowchart instead of writing traditional program code. The latest version of the software, the Matrox Design Assistant X 22H2 offers users a simplified workflow for training deep neural networks along with a new inference engine that will enable higher performance and broader hardware support and allow users to visualize 3D data in the operator view. The Matrox 4Sight EV7, the latest version of the Matrox 4Sight series of industrial computers, has the processing power necessary to handle both traditional machine…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.72
May 06, 2024
…machine, and “Mixmaster Moodie,” a bartending cobot powered by Microsoft’s OpenAI. “Mixmaster Moodie” is coupled with “Tetote,” Bridgestone's soft robot hand powered by bendy rubber artificial muscle that employs a pioneering cocktail recommendation system to serve a cocktail based on visual and audio cues. Doosan will also present its Training Kit, a certified training equipment which allows users to practice and experience Doosan’s cobot training programs anytime, anywhere. Doosan Robotics joined forces with prominent global companies, to develop AI cobot offerings for commercial setting. These partners include the Apex Motion Control’s Baker-Bot Quad, a modular cake decorating system which consists…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.67
May 17, 2023
…from startups and companies such as Amazon, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung. It claimed that its growing list of customers and investors represents a wide variety of industries across Canada, the U.S., and other countries. Last spring, the company announced the completion of its Series A funding round. In November, the company received a C$30 million ($22.2 million U.S.) Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) contribution from the government of Canada, bringing its total funding to over C$100 million ($74.2 million U.S.). Sanctuary AI said it is actively raising its next funding round. To fulfill the ambitious mission of creating human-like intelligence…
