Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.87
November 09, 2022
…U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore. AutoStore PickUpPort designed for consumers The AutoStore System consists of an aluminum grid, robots, bins, ports, and a controller. The stacked bins are arranged in a grid. Robots ride on rails along the top of the grid, retrieving bins as needed. The bins are then delivered to a port, where warehouse operators are typically stationed to pick up or fill in products, tag, pack, and send them out. A controller acts as the brain behind the whole operation, said the company. AutoStore said its PickUpPort does not…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.48
November 07, 2022
…Jack Sim as chief technology officer. The Seoul, South Korea-based company has also continued its global expansion, with facilities in San Jose, Detroit, Tokyo, and Shanghai, as well as Friedrichshafen and Dusseldorf, Germany. The company today also announced a reorganization of its account management and sales engineering teams to better support customers. German Etlender has joined STRADVISION’s Dusseldorf subsidiary as head of sales engineering, while Yihe Zuo joined as senior solution engineer at its Seoul headquarters. Account management and sales engineering teams have been reorganized worldwide. Source: STRADVISION The new appointments follow the recent hirings of Bapu Kiranagi as solution…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.87
November 06, 2022
…Ill. I-Botics, Twente, the Netherlands Team UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea Team Northeastern, Boston Inbiodroid, Irapuato, Mexico Team SNU, Seoul, South Korea AlterEgo, Genoa, Italy Avatar-Hubo, Las Vegas Last Mile, Osaka, Japan Dragon Tree Labs, Moscow The mobile manipulators needed to traverse space in a simulated energy plant, find a weighted canister, and successfully pick and place them. NimbRo conducted its task in about 5:50, about half the time of second-place winner, Pollen Robotics. Team Northeastern placed third with 21:09. ANA Avatar XPRIZE awarded to NimbRo Team NimbRo won the grand prize of $5 million. The second-place and third-place received $2…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.87
October 26, 2022
…the orthopedic surgical robot business,” Lee added. KDB Investment is a private equity firm that is wholly owned by Korea Development Bank. It focuses on promoting and advancing the interests of companies by providing financial and operational supports. Customers in the global market looking for more flexibility and choice over current offerings will embrace THINK Surgical's differentiated business model, said KDB Investment. Another shareholder in THINK Surgical is Seoul, South Korea-based CUREXO Corp., which is developing a spinal surgery robot.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.39
October 18, 2022
…location data across the contiguous U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, as well as a growing number of countries worldwide, including Canada and Taiwan, said Swift. The company said it can deliver absolute positioning at the continental scale required by today’s safety-critical applications. Skylark has been independently rated against other Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) networks as providing the highest levels of safety, accuracy, and availability, Swift Navigation said. Swift said it has built specific software and receiver platforms for each application—from automotive and mobile to industrial machine control—to solve the unique problems that precision location poses for each…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.73
October 13, 2022
…level at 186,102 units in 2021. The Republic of Korea was the fourth largest robot market in terms of annual installations, following the U.S., Japan, and China. Robot installations increased by 2% to 31,083 units in 2021. This followed four years of declining installation figures. The operational stock of robots was computed at 366,227 units, growing 7%. Source: IFR European adoption mostly grows Robot installations in Europe were up 24% to 84,302 units in 2021. This represents a new peak, noted the International Federation of Robotics. Demand from the automotive industry was steady, while demand from the general industry was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.93
October 12, 2022
…Air-Oil to customers across each respective region. Suwon South Korea Doosan’s new collaboration with Air-Oil Systems significantly impacts the company’s customer reach and distribution potential within the U.S. market for its full lineup of robots, it said. This follows significant regional milestones recently achieved by Doosan Robotics, including the announcement of its American expansion, and opening of its Plano, Texas headquarters during this year’s Automate Show. Building off a successful year Alex Lee, general manager at Doosan Robotics Americas, said “Air-Oil has evolved over their long history as a distributor. As they continue to grow and expand their expertise in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.66
September 22, 2022
…Geek+ said it has over 1500 employees, with offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore. It has raised more than $539 million in funding, according to Crunchbase.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.38
September 14, 2022
…of $15 billion (U.S.) in 2020. The Seoul, South Korea-based group founded Doosan Robotics in 2015. The company said it makes cobots and service robots for the next generation of manufacturing. Doosan develops three cobot lines Doosan Robotics' four M-SERIES collaborative robots are equipped with six torque sensors in every joint. The company said they enable customers to experience advanced cobots with industry-leading safety and human-level dexterity. The M-SERIES cobots have been particularly popular in Germany and the U.S. because of their versatility, as well as their intuitive and easy application, said Doosan. The models have a working radius of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.53
September 12, 2022
…offices in Germany, the U.K., the U.S., Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. Last month, Geek+ raised $100 million (U.S.) in Series E1 funding to continue its global expansion. Geek+ follows global mobile robot growth More than 100,000 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and AMRs shipped globally last year, according to Interact Analysis. It noted that AMR shipments surpassed those of AGVs and that China and the U.S. are leading markets for mobile robots. In addition, the firm predicted that 2.1 million mobile robots will ship by the end of 2025. The global market for mobile robots could expand from $13.56 billion…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.01
August 16, 2022
…the need for additional sensors onboard. The Seoul, South Korea-based company’s platform, dubbed LV5 CTRL TWR, collects 3D data from the environment using cameras and lidar. Computer vision and deep learning-based AI analyze the data, determining the most efficient and safest paths for vehicles within the covered area. The system takes advantage of a vehicle’s V2X communication system, which comes standard in many modern cars and is used to improve road safety, traffic efficiency, and energy savings. With that system, the platform can manage a car’s existing features, such as adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, and brake-assist functions, to safely…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.04
August 09, 2022
…C funding round of $88 million. The Seoul, South Korea-based company said it plans to continue developing its artificial intelligence-based perception for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems, or ADAS. “We're thrilled to be announcing funding that will allow us to continue to lead and innovate in the ADAS space,” said Junhwan Kim, CEO of StradVision. “We are very grateful for our partners' continued support. This year has been crucial to expanding our North American and global business, and their funding will allow us to continue to accelerate in this direction.” Founded in 2014, StradVision claimed that it is an…
