Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.00
December 15, 2021
…No. 1 in market share worldwide for automated tow tractors. Seegrid launched several new robot models in 2021, including the Palion Lift, which it said is the only autonomous lift truck in the market with “industry-leading” 3D perception. Seegrid and Applied Intuition Seegrid said the partnership “involves a significant invesment” and will enable it to quickly validate product innovations in more supply chain environments and use cases than is feasible with manual testing. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Applied Intuition provides simulation tools for high-fidelity modeling used in autonomous vehicle development, testing, and deployment. The company said its suite of products, focused on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.97
December 01, 2021
…guidance system in Series 8 of its Palion Tow Tractor. Jeff Christensen, vice president of product at Seegrid, replied to the following questions from Robotics 24/7 about Seegrid IQ and the Palion Lift, which is available through the Seegrid Technology Early Access Program: What elements of Box Robotics' technology are in the latest generation of the Seegrid IQ technology? Christensen: Seegrid’s acquisition of Box Robotics added the 3D situational awareness capabilities, a key component of the company’s next-generation Seegrid IQ technology. Jeff Christensen, Seegrid All Seegrid AMRs have Seegrid IQ, leveraging sensor fusion to give the robots an extremely accurate…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 55.76
November 19, 2021
…robots are coming to help harvest specialty crops. Monarch Tractor this week announced that it has completed a $61 million Series B fundraising round. The Livermore, Calif.-based company said it will use the financing to scale its sales, service, and manufacturing footprint. The startup also plans to expand its product offerings and launch international pilot test programs for regional market validation. “Fruit and vegetable farmers have long been ignored in the electrification and automation movement, and that’s why the Monarch platform is built with them in mind,” stated Praveen Penmetsa, co-founder and CEO of Monarch Tractor. “Due to the ever-increasing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.73
November 17, 2021
…data, which includes over 49 million hours’ worth of tractor driving, will now be paired with Midnight Robotics’ autonomous driving technology so that actionable insights are acted upon in the smartest, most efficient way possible—autonomously,” he told Robotics 24/7. “Now through a single platform, growers can understand their farming operations needs and direct autonomous equipment to fulfill them, maximizing accuracy and productivity. The unified platform is greater than the sum of its parts and will set the bar for autonomous farming capabilities in the industry. Data plus autonomy yields more efficient farms Founded in 2013, Fieldin said its smart farming…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.07
November 14, 2021
…vendor’s robots,” Christensen added. “For example, our Palion Tow Tractors are picking and placing at conveyors. Our AMRs can pull alongside the conveyor and transfer an item back and forth between the conveyor and the tow tractor.” “We also have AMRs currently integrating with roll-up doors in facilities so our robot can open the door as it enters a new space and then close it after it passes through,” he said. Berkshire Grey works to ensure reliability When it comes to pick-and-place applications, automation providers say system effectiveness comes as much from AI-based software as it does from the robot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.84
October 29, 2021
…Lift, Seegrid has released upgrades to its Palion Tow Tractor and Palion Pallet Truck, extending the end-to-end capabilities of its AMR fleet. The company has also introduced Fleet Geek, a cloud-based analytics product that can provide critical insights to optimize workflows, increase utilization, quantify the value of automation, and scale automation initiatives across the enterprise. Customer insights from STEP will enable Seegrid to add valuable, real-world production data to advance machine learning models in its autonomous lift truck. “Seegrid customers have put their trust in us to help them safely increase productivity in their highly dynamic and complex factories and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.42
October 25, 2021
Autonomy is becoming a standard feature in some agricultural tractors. Cognitive Pilot announced that Kirovets K-7M tractors made by Peterburgsky Traktorny Zavod JSC will come equipped with the Cognitive Agro Pilot autonomous driving system starting next year. Production of fully self-driving tractors will begin in 2024, said the companies. Cognitive Pilot and Peterburgsky Traktorny Zavod (PTZ) said their joint offering will enable farmers to achieve new levels of quality and efficiency. They added that this is Russia’s first production-line OEM contract for autonomous tractors. “By combining the efforts of two market leaders in agricultural machinery and artificial intelligence, we will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.70
October 12, 2021
…No. 1 in market share worldwide for automated tow tractors. Interact Analysis' 2021 Mobile Robot report evaluated 2020 data and focused on material handling applications in manufacturing and logistics environments. “For nearly five years, we have been closely following the tremendous growth in the AGV [automated guided vehicles] and AMR [autonomous mobile robot] market across the globe, and this report reinforces that Seegrid has successfully capitalized on this opportunity,” said Ash Sharma, managing director and robotics and leader of the Warehouse Automation Division at Interact Analysis. “Our research indicates that the mobile robot market will only continue growing, given supply…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.37
September 29, 2021
…companies beginning in agriculture have focused first on autonomous tractors, autonomous weeding, and harvesting, where they try to comprehensively automate incredibly hard technical tasks, and often struggle to scale into a large market,” stated Charlie Andersen, CEO of Burro. “We’ve started instead with collaborative people-scale robots that help people by moving heavy things around.” “The beauty of this approach is that we can scale today around a ubiquitous pain point in the most labor-intensive areas of agriculture, while also allowing our platform to capture data and learn about many environments—providing the foundation for us to scale to countless other applications,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.75
September 29, 2021
…with indoor forming and now agricultural robotics.” While autonomous tractors are already being deployed around the world, different crops require smaller robots, she explained. “If you look at the $45 billion specialty crops market, the cost of production is 3x that of row crops,” said Reddy. “The way farms are designed is completely different than for grains harvested with combines.” “The other piece we saw in agricultural technology was a crowded space around fruit like apples and strawberries, but table grapes are a $1 billion industry in California, which has 99% of the U.S. market,” she noted. “We have a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.30
September 24, 2021
…Logistics Receiving Inventory is received (1) in trucks versus tractor trailers. While some inventory may be palletized, most is floor loaded. Items are manually unloaded for processing in an inbound receiving area (2) where they are inspected and inducted into the warehouse management system (WMS). Putaway/storage Large or bulky items that cannot be handled by automation are stored on shelving in the manual storage area (3). Inventory that can be stored in the mini-load automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) is placed into storage totes and inducted onto a conveyor and sortation system installed on the mezzanine level (4). Those…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.93
July 30, 2021
…with combine harvesters, but there will be applications in tractors and sprayers in the next year.” “We want to cover all the most popular agricultural machines,” he said. “Our concept is like Star Wars' R2-D2, which could be mounted on different vehicles with a standard cradle, to provide more value to our customers.” Why did Cognitive Pilot decide to provide Cognitive Driver as an add-on rather than build autonomy directly into farm equipment? “Agricultural machines have quite a long life cycle—tractors and harvesters are generally used for about 10 years,” replied Emelyanov. “By modifying vehicles in service into smart robots…
