Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.25
April 30, 2021
…to support ROS 2 on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Amazon AWS RoboMaker starting in the second half of 2021. It added that it anticipates more robot applications incorporating the cloud and artificial intelligence to be deployed. To familiarize users to ROS 2 and expose its new features to operators, Doosan said it will supply tutorial packages on creating robot functions via its partner supporting site, Doosan Robot LAB. Video tutorials on ROS application will also be available on the site. Doosan Robotics has been supporting ROS Kinetic and ROS Melodic since 2019, and additionally distributed the ROS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.30
April 28, 2021
…derived from cloud-based robotic operations. It has worked with Microsoft for supply chain management on the Azure cloud platofrm, and it recently partnered with FoodX for grocery fulfillment. “If you start to look at certain parameters, AI can suggest where to tune things,” Dickinson said. “For example, if the total open order pool is 60% of stated throughput, there's no reason to run it at 100%, or you could reduce the speed to delay maintenance windows.” “How can we get more throughput out of fixed assets—anything that can touch items, such as lift trucks, conveyors, or operators?” he asked. “Most…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.56
April 22, 2021
…Seattle-based institute was founded in 2014 by philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and is led by Dr. Oren Etzioni, a leading researcher in the field. AI2 employs a diverse team of more than 150 people. “Imagine a robot being able to navigate a kitchen, open a refrigerator, and pull out a can of soda,” said Etzioni, CEO of AI2. “This is one of the biggest and yet often overlooked challenges in robotics, and AI2-THOR is the first to design a benchmark for the task of moving objects to various locations in virtual rooms, enabling reproducibility and measuring progress.” ManipulaTHOR…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.42
April 15, 2021
…investor ecosystem with the likes of GM, Honda, and Microsoft as we work towards pioneering this emerging technology.” San Francisco-based Cruise has been developing electric, autonomous vehicles including the Origin ride-sharing vehicle. The company said it has been working for five years, with more than 2 million miles of real-world testing and 200,000 hours of simulation per day. In November 2020, Cruise and Walmart partnered to launch a self-driving delivery pilot using Cruise’s all-electric fleet in Scottsdale, Ariz. Walmart said the funding reflects its commitment to reducing carbon emissions in response to climate change. “What’s unique about Cruise is they’re…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.98
April 12, 2021
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is purchasing Nuance Communications Inc. for $19.7 billion. The companies said Microsoft will combine Nuance's experience in artificial intelligence in voice interfaces and healthcare with its cloud computing offerings. Microsoft has built on its Robotics Developer Studio with support for the Robot Operating System (ROS) in Windows 10, Linux, and the Azure Web services. The software company has been focusing on industry-specific cloud/edge computing, including Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Its projects for intelligent robotics include “responsible conversational AI.” Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications said its conversational AI and “ambient intelligence” are used by 77% of…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 32.09
April 10, 2021
Founded in 2013, Cruise is developing fully electric, autonomous vehicles such as Origin for ride-sharing and delivery services. In 2016, General Motors acquired the company, which is working with other automakers and technology firms such as Microsoft.
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 5.52
March 26, 2021
…take advantage of all of them?'” “We've had Google, Microsoft, and other big companies come to us asking, 'Why do we have to join multiple associations?'” he recalled. “We decided that we are stronger under one umbrella. It will include things such as a whole community for artificial intelligence.” “A3 is the front-facing brand for all 1,100 members, which will be better for the media and general public,” Burnstein said. “It will be easier to drive traffic to one website and tell our story to companies we'd like to engage with as members.” In addition, the consolidation will make it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.20
February 10, 2021
…to Android devices is replacing Windows mobile systems, which Microsoft stopped supporting with new updates in late 2019. The shift to Android, says Keith Phillips, president and CEO of Voxware, is based on three key reasons—easier to use, more efficient and a better return on investment. He goes so far as to call the shift to Android as “a freight train on a downhill slope.” While touchscreen devices are on the rise, don’t expect them to entirely displace keyed mobile devices, says Scot Stelter, director of offering management for Honeywell Productivity Solutions and Services. Keyed devices will still be part…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.51
January 26, 2021
…the deployment of micro-fulfillment solutions for eGrocery will use Microsoft Azure Private Edge Zones, Azure Stack Edge and Azure Sphere. They will also use Azure Data & AI to unlock insights across the digital supply chain. The Network Supply Chain model will also integrate into Microsoft’s on-premises hybrid-cloud Azure Stack Edge, which powers both the operational Nexus and robotics via integrated LTE/5G wireless communications. “The FoodX software platform is the ideal partner for Attabotics and its hardware,” said Scott Gravelle, Attabotics Founder, CEO and CTO. “The ability to save retailers time and money is more important than ever, and that’s…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.82
January 18, 2021
…Executive VP Gregory Bryant, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, Microsoft President Brad Smith, and other big names in the telecom, entertainment, retail, and high-tech sectors. AMD Keynote at CES 2021 “For all of us the tech industry, although we have had our challenges, 2020 was perhaps our most productive year. From how we work to how our kids learn to our entertainment, we’re accelerating the pace of digital transformation,” said AMD's Dr. Su in her keynote. The pandemic seems to have created a new demand for PCs for working from home. “In 2020, approximately 300 million desktops, laptops, and chromebooks…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 31.66
December 11, 2020
…assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) on the Microsoft cloud computing platform Azure, the company says. dSPACE will work with Microsoft to offer research and development engineers in the automotive industry an end-to-end solution that is scalable, secure, efficient and agile, dSPACE reports. The development of ADAS/AD functions relies on capturing large volumes of data from the vehicle perception sensors, buses and networks, and on generating simulated scenarios to analyze the behavior of the software, individual systems and subsystems, as well as complete, integrated systems. The incoming data has to be enriched to a usable format, and it must…
