Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.00
June 15, 2022
…IEC 62443 standard. Those updates include being up to date on the latest version of the Robot Operating System (ROS), software code signing, and extended robot authentication.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.19
June 10, 2022
…lb.) and is based on the Robot Operating System (ROS). As a “hybrid” system, LilBuddy is able to travel long distances using natural guidance like an autonomous mobile robot (AMR), the company said. For precision docking, the vehicle relies on QR codes/fiducials or magnetic tape, like an automated guided vehicle (AGV). This dual capability give LilBuddy greater versatility within its working environment, claimed Resgreen Group. What’s inside LilBuddy LilBuddy features front and rear solid-state 2D/3D lidars that are used to map the areas traveled in and detect obstacles in its path. Once LilBuddy learns the map, it can be dispatched…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.56
June 09, 2022
…Apex.OS is based on the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS). Apex.AI received a strategic investment from Daimler Truck AG last month after raising $56.5 million in Series B funding in December 2021. AGCO adds autonomy to concept Founded in 1990, AGCO is a global designer, manufacturer, and distributor of farming machinery and precision agriculture technology. Its portfolio includes brands like Challenger, Fendt, GSI, Massey Ferguson, Precision Planting, and Valtra. Powered by Fuse smart farming systems, AGCO said its full line of equipment and services help farmers sustainably feed our world. The Duluth, Ga.-based company had net sales of approximately $11.1…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.61
June 07, 2022
…Beyond its Automate exhibits, Doosan Robotics is working on more software-driven capabilities. It works with the Robot Operating System (ROS). The company said it is building on its suite with a platform and integrated development environment (IDE) so that users can create an “app store” for tasks such as palletizing. Doosan also plans to offer Dart Meta, a simulation platform to be released in beta in the second half of this year, with an eventual release by 2024.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.48
June 07, 2022
…of engineers developing next-generation robot hardware and software, including ROS, the PR2, and TurtleBot. Wise serves as the chair of the IFR Service Robot Group, as a robotics board member for A3, and on the Materials Handling Institute Roundtable Advisory Committee. She is also an honoree in this year's Engelberger Awards. Deepu Talla, NVIDIA Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager for embedded and edge computing at NVIDIA. He is responsible for deploying artificial intelligence in devices such as factory robots, commercial drones, and video analytics. Previously, Talla was responsible for NVIDIA’s mobile business unit. Prior to joining NVIDIA in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.16
May 29, 2022
…real or simulated, it just needs to be running ROS. All configurations live in a modular add-on system, allowing you to easily extend the system with your own tasks, robots, environments, evaluation methods, examples, and more. All our code is open-source under an MIT license. For more information, see the PDF download “BenchBot: Evaluating Robotics Research in Photorealistic 3D Simulation and on Real Robots.” A lot of moving parts isn’t necessarily a good thing if they complicate the user experience, so designing the user experience was also a central focus in developing BenchBot. There are three basic commands for controlling…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.64
May 24, 2022
…Open Robotics today announced two features in the Humble ROS 2 release intended to improve performance on platforms that offer hardware accelerators. “The Robot Operating System evolved in a CPU-only world, but newer SoC architectures with onboard hardware accelerators required us to make changes to maximize efficiencies,” said Gerard Andrews, senior product marketing manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “We identified two things for this release—type adaptation and type negotiation.” The features are intended to help robotics developers incorporate machine learning and computer vision into ROS-based applications and will be available in the next Isaac ROS Developer Preview in late June,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.35
May 20, 2022
…interact with Ally,” Tolson noted. “While we provide full ROS [Robot Operating System] and programmatic interfaces, we also have low-code and no-code interfaces.” “For our no-code interface, we’re developing what we call Ally Apprentice, in which Ally can be taught to perform a task through demonstration,” he said. “In the back end, Ally Apprentice uses a collection of different AI technologies such as Neural Descriptor Fields to understand objects, machine vision with skeletal pose tracking, and simulation with deep reinforcement learning to train a set of skills and tasks. Those skills can also be applied to new tasks people want…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.82
May 20, 2022
…and adaptive system-on-modules, or SOMs. With native support for ROS 2, the open-source Robotics Operating System, and prebuilt interfaces, the new SOM kit enables rapid development of hardware-accelerated applications for robotics, machine vision, and industrial communication and control, said AMD. “The Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kits builds on the success of our Kria SOMs and KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit for AI and embedded developers, providing roboticists with a complete, out-of-the-box solution for this rapidly growing application space,” stated Chetan Khona, senior director of industrial, vision, healthcare, and sciences markets at AMD. “Roboticists will now be able to work in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.58
May 18, 2022
…challenges with visual data: Capturing USB camera video sources, ROS image streams, and offering a programmatic API for uploading images/video Reducing data transfer costs of images by encoding to multiple images into compressed video on device Handling latency issues by using statistics to try to show you a smooth live video stream slightly delayed depending on real world conditions that affect speed on the device, networking, and in the browser. Efficient storage of video telemetry combined with a custom video player for quick seeking and responsive observation. Allowing storage of non-critical video streams on device, but available for on demand…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.74
May 18, 2022
…digital lidar sensors. Based on the Robot Operating System (ROS), MOV.AI’s Robotics Engine Platform “provides robot manufacturers with out-of-the-box tools and infrastructure to develop unique, easy-to-deploy AMR software at a fraction of the time and cost,” according to the company's website. It includes a visual integrated development environment (IDE), off-the-shelf algorithms and integrations, and fleet management. MOV.AI said its platform also includes cybersecurity compliance and flexible interfaces with warehouse management systems (WMS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Complementary technologies to make AMRs more nimble With the demand for intralogistics services skyrocketing, warehouse environments are becoming increasingly dynamic and dense,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.45
May 10, 2022
…includes support for Linux and the Robot Operating System (ROS). Interest in the RB5 is largely coming in drones and service robots for cleaning, Singh said. He said the reference design could be used in first-mile and last-mile delivery, UAM, and many other applications over the next 12 to 18 months. “This is just the beginning of the next wave of innovation in robotics,” he said. The RB5 AMR Reference Design for mobile robot developers. Source: Qualcomm Technologies Users and availability Qualcomm said it continues to collaborate with robotics leaders to drive innovation for 5G and edge AI. They include…
