Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.67
…described Intrinsic as its “other bet” in addition to Waymo autonomous cars, Verily Life Sciences for healthcare, and Wing delivery drones. Tan-White said Intrinsic has been working on its technologies for five and a half years, and it is looking for partners in the automotive, electronics, and healthcare industries that are already using robots. Intrinsic's staff is based in Mountain View and Munich, Germany. It includes leading roboticists and AI experts such as Chief Technology Officer Torsten Kroeger, Engelberger Award winner Martin Haegele, robotics innovator Rainer Bischoff, and reinforcement learning expert Stefan Schaal. The startup is hiring for several engineering…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.14
…reduces errors – and customer dissatisfaction due to wrong deliveries! As you can hire robots as part of a Robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) offering, you can flexibly scale up and down as your demand dictates. Hire more when it’s busier, return them when business calms down. Adding them for a peak is easy, too – they just need to be connected to your network (assuming the system is already in place). This makes them highly cost-effective, especially as you don’t have high upfront costs related to fixed automation. Besides this, they’re easy to integrate without disturbing operations and get to know their…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.87
…stated Florian Pestoni, co-founder and CEO. “Third-party logistics, parcel delivery, and warehouse operators need to orchestrate robots performing different tasks, and interoperability across robot vendors is one piece of that puzzle. Now customers can connect any compatible robot to the InOrbit cloud.” Mountain View, Calif.-based InOrbit said its robot-agnostic management platform can enable robotics suppliers and operators to develop, deploy, and orchestrate AMRs at global scale. The company said its multi-cloud platform provides secure real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring, incident management, and remote interventions. “MassRobotics released this standard to help move the industry to the next level…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.60
…of vehicle miles travel including ride hailing, sidewalk and delivery robots, and AVs. I do think the segment that Optimus Ride is focusing on is overlooked. City governments will restrict single-occupancy vehicles, including ride hailing, and as we see environmental collapse, people will realize that transportation is part of the solution. Autonomous shuttles are like putting back in a smaller version of street cars with more flexibility and without the infrastructure. Along with bike-sharing services, they can help deal with the demise in connectivity between neighborhoods. What is the role of public policy in encouraging autonomous transport? Klein: I'm not…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
…shared plenty of news stories about how automation is enabling the current e-commerce boom and how robotic and drone delivery trials are progressing. At the same time, smart speakers overtook several social robots, most agricultural systems are still in the prototype phase, and today's videos of dancing humanoids only came after years of failures such as those in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. Over the past year, many companies laid off staffers, but relatively few shut down. Here are some recent failures and possible lessons to be drawn from them.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.05
…stock and convertible bonds sale. The company serves food delivery, ride-sharing, retail, hospitality, and other sectors. It said it serves more than 2,800 counties, districts, and cities in China, and it claimed that it makes more than 40 million orders per day. Tencent was founded in 1998 and provides social media, advertising platforms, and financial and business services, and it invests in technology companies. The Shenzhen, China-based company increased its share in Meituan from 17% to 17.2%, and the subscription price was HK $273.78 per share. Meituan expands deliveries, partnerships Along with JD.com and Neolix, Meituan obtained approval from Beijing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.46
…market to rapidly expand into adjacent verticals including last-mile delivery and ride-hailing, which total $9.4 trillion annually. Aurora partners to scale commercialization Aurora Driver includes software, hardware and data services to autonomously operate passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks. Aurora said it has made extensive technical investments across the self-driving stack, including its long-range, multi-modal sensing suite with FirstLight Lidar, its Virtual Testing Suite, and the Aurora Atlas HD mapping system. The company has partnered with Volvo Group (including Volvo Autonomous Solutions) and PACCAR (including the Peterbilt and Kenworth brands), which together represent about 50% of the Class…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.32
…in its stores. Walmart has also invested in drone delivery, autonomous vehicles for middle-mile and last-mile deliveries, and cleaning robots. “The digital transformation happening today, alongside evolving customer habits, is reshaping the retail industry,” said Joe Metzger, executive vice president of supply chain operations at Walmart U.S. “To serve customers now, and in the future, our business must provide the right tools and training to our associates so they can deliver the items our customers want, when they want them, with unmatched convenience. We're investing in our supply chain at an unprecedented scale in order to optimize that process end…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.27
…order fulfillment and with Drone Express on testing drone deliveries. Kroger to grow DC, add more automation Kroger's distribution center (DC) opened in 2003 and currently services 115 stores in central and northwest Ohio, as well as southeast Michigan and the Ohio River Valley region. During the renovation, the company will expand the facility by 130,000 sq. ft. (12,000 sq. m). “This collaborative project will allow us to better serve customers in the region,” Lucchino said. “This transformation by Kroger will further improve the speed and service that the company delivers to its customers, and reaffirms Delaware’s leading role in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.11
…approaches when the aim is enabling next-day or two-day deliveries, including providers of technology-driven warehousing services, also known as “on-demand” warehousing. Micro-fulfillment and on-demand warehousing aren’t the same thing, but they do both address the need to meet consumer expectations for rapid online order fulfillment. Whether micro-fulfillment will gain much traction outside of grocery remains to be seen. In e-grocery, there are some unique order and service-level requirements. Online shoppers typically want same-day home or curbside delivery for groceries, and you may have 40 items in a customer order, which is higher than in most other retail segments. By contrast,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.00
…Verizon and partners Skyward and UPS announced connected drone deliveries to The Villages, a retirement community in Florida that has tested a number of autonomous systems. More recently, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Skyward to test cellular-connected drones and software for complex operations such as beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights and universal traffic management (UTM). The FAA is also working with American Robotics Inc. and Scientific Applications & Research Associates Inc. (SARA) on applying SARA's acoustics-based collision-avoidance technology with American Robotics' Scout drones. In February, Verizon said it would acquire incubed IT,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.15
…safely on China’s complex urban streets by detecting occluded delivery scooters behind vehicles from several hundreds of meters away. It added that the system’s higher-resolution sensing capability enables them to drive at higher speeds safely, extending the operational design domain of the company’s driverless fleet. AutoX said it has built the Gen5 system with an electrical and electronic architecture that satisfies global functional safety standards. The company said that the Gen5 production process is established with strict supplier management and quality control on a modular and vehicle level. Before going on the dedicated assembly line, components go through rigorous automotive-grade…