Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.91
March 11, 2022
…confused.” Some of its partners include Savioke, Konica Minolta, ROS industrial, Infinium Robotics, and KONE. KABAM offers a range of indoor and outdoor robots for security, deliveries, mapping, and hospitality. The company said its robots are modular to meet individual customers’ needs. It said it is deeply inspired by automotive design. It claims that its robots have a 99.3% success rate and have logged a collective 23,700 hours of operation time. KABAM said it has knowledge in machine design, precision manufacturing, and international supply chains, as well as access to global commercial channels. The company said its expertise, in combination…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.55
February 28, 2022
…the robot to self-correct its movement if the position of the robot or the target object shifts. Mitsubishi supports ROS functions To simplify the process of adding custom functions, Mitsubishi Electric's new system supports the Robot Operating System (ROS). Mitsubishi has also developed a linkage function to centrally manage information on its Edgecross edge-computing software, ROS, and the entire system. Connectivity and multi-vendor capability can simplify the monitoring and analysis of entire production lines for enhanced productivity and quality, said the company.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.37
February 22, 2022
…of the MoveIt motion-planning software. MoveIt Studio built on ROS 2 RE2 Robotics uses MoveIt Studio to speed the integration of its RE2 Sapien and RE2 Sapien Sea Class robotic arms for new applications across multiple markets. PickNik said its software provides an intuitive user interface that allows robot operators to remotely manage complex robotic arms using “supervised autonomy.” MoveIt Studio is based on the open-source MoveIt 2 platform, which PickNik described as an industry standard for robotic arm control through the Robot Operating System (ROS 2). The company offered a beta version of MoveIt Studio in November. RE2 said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.92
January 11, 2022
…of useful robots, said Cogniteam. Source: Cogniteam NVIDIA and ROS support The latest NVIDIA Isaac release includes support for the Robot Operating System (ROS) developer community. NVIDIA has released new Isaac GEMs, hardware-accelerated software packages that make it easier for ROS developers to build high-performance AI-enabled robots on the Jetson platform. Software developers can now install advanced AI algorithms from NVIDIA Isaac ROS GEMs and standard ROS packages in just a few clicks, said NVIDIA and Cogniteam. The cloud-based approach allows teams to collaborate anywhere around the world, they added. “We’ve been synchronizing ROS and other third-party integrations since the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.24
January 07, 2022
…be successful. While the teams use common hardware and ROS-based software, what are some of the technical challenges this time? Mitchell: Can we demonstrate multicar high-speed automation? Another challenge we're facing is wear and tear from stress of practicing. Every car has wrecked at least once. The cars themselves become bit of a liability. The hardware gone through a lot, including transport from Indianapolis to Las Vegas. We're starting to see some stress-test carnage. It's tough, because the teams want to compete on their unique algorithms. But as with any racing series—like Formula 1, where there's a series winner for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.16
January 07, 2022
…robust hardware platform complies with the Robot Operating System (ROS) and software algorithms, said the company. The board will include nine TDK technologies including SmartSensing for any phase of robot development, said Anson Yeganegi, senior management of business development at InvenSense during a virtual press conference. He cited the rapid growth of the robotics market and TDK's offerings for industrial, consumer, surveillance, service, and companion applications. Source: TDK Robots include numerous technologies, and TDK provides several of them, so it decided to combine sensors on a single platform to facilitate every stage of development, Yeganegi said. “This provides for quick…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.24
January 03, 2022
…Robotics, NVIDIA announced support for the Robot Operating System (ROS) and ROS2, and we launched the Isaac ROS library, which includes highly performant robotics and AI algorithms. More on NVIDIA and Robotics 10 Technologies for Autonomous Vehicle, Robotics Developers From NVIDIA's GTC 2021 Ottonomy Develops Autonomous Robots for Indoor and Outdoor Deliveries Top Three Trends With the Current Iteration of Robotics NVIDIA Expands Simulation Omniverse With Blender and Adobe Integration NVIDIA Spring GTC 2021 Shows New Processors, Simulation Tools for Robotics Developers With NVIDIA’s support for ROS, the open-source community now has the tools necessary to take robotics applications to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.14
December 22, 2021
…Bieller: There are so many approaches to tackle interoperability—the ROS [Robot Operating System] community is active on the subject, Mass Robotics developed a standard, VDMA and VDA published a specification, OPC is working on the topic, amongst others. It will be hard to achieve critical mass and make a sustainable impact. We need large scale implementation and adoption—and this most likely will require collaboration between different parties and a certain consolidation. IFR is happy to engage and facilitate dialogue. Ryden: One of the things we at MassRobotics are looking at is charging interoperability. Right now, all mobile robots have their…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.54
December 14, 2021
…meet certification requirements. Apex.OS is a real-time fork of ROS 2.” “Our first challenge was that real-time processing could not rely on dynamic memory allocation, which happens almost automatically in C++,” he explained. “In automotive systems, resources are constrained, and memory could run out.” “We've reworked memory allocation to be static when booting up CPUs,” Becker said. “Memory is pre-allocated, which is a major change.” “Second, ROS relies on locking,” he added. “We changed it to never write directly to disk but to the buffer, decoupling access from execution.” Also this year, Apex.AI opened new offices in Stuttgart, Germany, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
November 17, 2021
…a widely used framework within the Robot Operating System (ROS). Companies and academics use the motion-planning software to enable robotic arms to interact with and manipulate objects. MoveIt is now used worldwide in hundreds of robots, including projects by Google, Microsoft, Fetch Robotics, Kinova, and Franka Emika. For example, robotic arms are used in space missions to repair satellites and augment astronauts inside space stations. They will also be needed to build the future Moon base. The challenge is that fully autonomous robotic arms are not yet possible, nor does mission control want them to be. Most applications of robotic…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
November 15, 2021
…communication interface, and it can provide upon request. Three software packages are available: a C++ library, Robot Operating System (ROS) support, and a cross-platform 3D data visualizer. In addition, a separate interface adapter is available for firmware updates.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.78
November 12, 2021
…difficult-to-film angles at a click of a button. In April, Doosan announced that its collaborative robots are compatible with ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy, the latest version of the Robot Operating System. Doosan Robotics will be exhibiting at CES 2022, showcasing its technology lineup from Jan. 5 to 8, 2022.
