Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.05
April 26, 2022
…it provides customers the data collection, analytics, and subsea manipulation capabilities to support and maintain ocean assets. The products and services can also reduce their operational footprint, operating costs, and greenhouse gas emissions, improving offshore health, safety, and environmental exposure, Nauticus claimed. Nauticus Fleet includes Hydronaut, Aquanaut Hydronaut is the surface part of Nauticus Fleet. It is an 18-m (59-ft.) optionally crewed autonomous surface vessel (ASV) that supports the launch, recovery, and real-time operations of Aquanaut, its underwater robotic counterpart. Hydronaut ferries Aquanaut to and from the worksite and supports battery recharges and the communications link from the local remote…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.04
January 18, 2023
…(below) demonstrates a natural progression of the robot's perception, manipulation, and autonomy. It also shows how such robots could eventually assist human workers, in this case by bringing tools up scaffolding. “This video ... is meant to communicate the expansion of the research that we're doing on Atlas,” said Scott Kuindersma, Atlas team lead at Boston Dynamics. “We're not just thinking about how to make the robot move dynamically through its environment, like we did in parkour and dance,” he said. “Now, we're starting to put Atlas to work and think about how the robot should be able to perceive…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.90
August 23, 2023
…robot arms, dynamic walking from bipedal models, and fine manipulation from upper-body systems. As a result, Apollo has a modular design, allowing users to decide whether it is best suited for a particular application as a full humanoid, a torso on wheels, or a stationary mounted robot. In addition, Apptronik has put most real-time processing onboard Apollo, with some fleet management and instructions in the cloud, according to Cardenas. “A lot of that is thinking about low compute and making algorithms more efficient to run onboard,” he said. Safety a consideration for collaboration At 5 ft., 8 in. tall, Apollo…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.84
June 25, 2023
…simulated environments, they’re all fully interactive. We're training mobile manipulation agents in one project, where they're moving objects and briniging or rearranging stuff. In simulation, we've seen various robot models. Do you build 3D models of each, and how does that translate back to physical robots? Ehsani: They're put into the Unity development platform. We have built a Python package on top of a ROS package to bridge the simulation-to-reality gap. The APIs used for training in simulation or in the real world are similar. We make them as close as possible, and it's absolutely possible to train in both…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.84
August 05, 2022
…realized it would require a combination of mobility and manipulation to achieve it. Ninety percent of warehouses are still manually operated today, so we saw an opportunity for a flexible robot that could help improve warehouse safety and productivity while accelerating the flow of goods throughout the global supply chain. We focused our initial development efforts for Stretch on trailer and container unloading because it’s the most challenging and physically punishing task in the warehouse. At this stage, we’re just beginning to deploy production robots with early-adopter customers like DHL Supply Chain, Gap, H&M, and Performance Team – A Maersk…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.82
August 22, 2021
…for multiple tasks. Combining locomotion, a humanoid design, mobile manipulation, and a smooth user interface is a still a tall order. As with the concept of multipurpose household robots, the hardware of humanoids would need artificial general intelligence (AGI) to be able to generalize lessons and be flexible and capable. Today, researchers and developers expect to distribute the computing for AI between the cloud and edge devices. Humanoid robots gain agility, seek purpose Many androids are designed for human-machine interaction, and some are more lifelike than others. It's worth noting that the ones that are closest to finding commercial value…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.58
September 06, 2022
…of 810 mm (31 in.). The robots can be used in applications such as general assembly, surface treatment, precision manipulation, and mobile operation, said Flexiv. Earlier this summer, the company announced that it had raised $100 million in a Series B+ round, bringing its total money raised to $196 million, according to Crunchbase. Flexiv was just one of more than 200 companies and organizations that had exhibits at the expo, which ran from Sept. 1 to 3. It is organized each year by the Chinese government and has been held in Shanghai for the past three years.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.33
February 23, 2022
…in supply chain automation is fast, accurate, and reliable manipulation of variable objects. RightHand Robotics Inc. has raised $66 million to continue developing its piece-picking technology and expanding its partner network and presence worldwide. “This Series C funding round attracted top-tier investors who know the space and share our vision that piece-picking automation enables predictable throughput with lights-out item handling, while meeting customer needs for scalable fulfillment services,” stated Yaro Tenzer, co-founder and CEO of RightHand. “We are eager to continue expanding our solution set and global presence to meet the needs of warehouse operators worldwide.” Harvard Biorobotics Lab, Yale…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.18
March 03, 2020
Boston Dynamics, a world leader in mobile manipulation robots, and OTTO Motors, leader in industrial autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), today unveiled a demo of the future of warehouse automation. In a video released today, Boston Dynamics’s logistics robot, Handle, can be seen picking boxes and building pallets on top of OTTO AMRs in a distribution center testbed. Last year, Boston Dynamics announced its efforts to add flexible, highly mobile automation technology to the warehouse with its Handle robot and Pick computer vision system. Since then, the team has integrated Pick’s box detection software into the Handle robot and sold and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.13
November 08, 2021
…the sense of touch is just as important for manipulation and teleoperation. Touchlab Ltd. has been developing flexible sensors that it said are less bulky than others on the market and could enable new applications. “At Amazon's re:MARS conference in 2019, Jeff Bezos said that people 40 years ago thought that the hardest challenges would be in artificial intelligence and machine learning,” recalled Zakareya Hussein, CEO of Touchlab. “Many of those have been addressed, but grasping is still hard.” “We were approached by clients trying to solve the grasping problem,” he told Robotics 24/7. “We're aware that physical robots are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.07
April 04, 2022
…for $100 million. Sarcos provides commercial exoskeletons and teleoperated manipulation systems for the utilities, defense, and other industries. The Salt Lake City-based robotics company said it was buying Pittsburgh-based RE2 to expand into new markets. RE2 was formed out of Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center in 2001. The company makes robotic arms that are used in the defense, medical, construction, energy, and undersea industries. Purchase nearly doubles Sarcos engineering team By acquiring RE2, Sarcos said it hopes to be able to broaden its customer base and bring on more talent. The company said the RE2 staff nearly doubles…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.06
January 13, 2021
…identifies items to pick, place and sort into complete end-customer orders. Kindred’s CORE/AutoGrasp combines AI-powered machine vision, grasping and manipulation algorithms that handle a range of merchandise, including deformable items such as polybagged items. Kindred SORT robots have picked more than 100 million units in production to date.
