Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.80
May 20, 2021
…chair, automobiles, and footwear. Organizations including Ashley Furniture, Sennheiser, Google, the Mayo Clinic, Northwell Health, and New Balance use Formlabs printers to develop, prototype, and manufacture end-use consumer goods at scale. With its latest funding, Formlabs said its 3D printing offerings will further advance mass customization to enable everything from more personalized healthcare to custom headphones and more. SoftBank investors to join Formlabs board “We’re incredibly excited to work with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to help build Formlabs’ next chapter and continue delivering the industry’s most accessible 3D printing technology for everything from prototyping to production,” said Natan Linder, co-founder…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.77
June 19, 2024
…of experience in building AI and developer-focused tools from Google and API development platform Postman. Maxim’s infrastructure, which sits between the foundational model and application layers of AI stacks, is deeply focused on AI developers who comprise the traditional AI and machine learning engineering field, as well as the emerging class of backend engineers now leading AI development across organizations. Maxim said its software stack can provide end-to-end AI evaluation across the development lifecycle: right from prompt engineering, pre-release, and post-release testing for quality and functionality, to data management and fine-tuning. The company said its automated evaluation platform can help…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.72
April 01, 2020
…warehouse inventory levels. “Our customers call our YMS the ‘Google of Trailers, because finding and keeping track of any information associated with a trailer or shipment in the YMS is easy and fast” Matt Yearling, CEO of PINC “PINC AIR collects and processes inventory information inside of warehouses 100 times faster than humans can,” says PINC CEO Matt Yearling. “With a simple, three-click process, the drone flies autonomously, captures inventory data, processes the data onboard, and sends it to the cloud without any human interaction.” Once in the cloud, that data is automatically compared to what’s available in the warehouse…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.67
October 27, 2016
…report, some of the world’s biggest corporations - Apple, Google, Daimler-Benz and countless others - are behind the fast-moving technology that is pushing driverless vehicles. Read: Possibility of Driverless Trucks Offers Hope for Truck Driver Crisis Currently now well beyond the initial testing phase, driverless trucks hold promising technology that can increase highway safety, reduce human error and perhaps ease the chronic driver shortage plaguing the trucking industry. “I do not think driverless trucks are a pie in the sky”John White, chief marketing officer for U.S. Xpress But that also comes with some built-in obstacles, too. And as with other…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.66
July 07, 2024
…It is now available for immediate download from the Google Play and Apple App Stores for Android and iOS devices. Smart SafetyVest expands ergonomic safety monitoring applications VivaTech also featured the first public appearance of the German Bionic Smart SafetyVest. German Bionic said its vest marks a significant expansion of the group of people that can benefit from its human-centric technology, as it is tailored not only for those working in physically demanding roles - such as logistics, construction, manufacturing, and healthcare - but for anyone interested in monitoring and improving their ergonomic safety. German Bionic said its Smart SafetyVest…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.56
June 26, 2020
…autonomous tech startup helmed by the former head of Google’s self-driving car project. Amazon has also invested in electric vehicle startup Rivian. As Brad Templeton mentions, the creation of a robotic delivery fleet by Amazon would be a blow to large shippers like FedEx and UPS. Amazon has become a huge shipper, and electric robotic delivery vehicles would be highly cost-effective and efficient. While Amazon has pushed the world into pretending everything has free shipping, the reality, of course, is that the cost of shipping does matter. Amazon’s competitors would face an even harder battle fighting off the giant. Related…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.56
May 23, 2019
…begun to deliver pizza by drones in New Zealand. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, used drones to deliver Chipotle burritos to Virginia Tech’s campus. And Zipline is using drones to deliver medicines faster in Ghana and other markets in Africa. These examples may seem small today, but I believe they are monumental for the development of drone technology. Early adopters will be lightweight products like pizzas and medicines, due to weight restrictions. These smaller drones can only physically and legally carry packages under ten pounds, and Amazon Prime Air restricts their package weight to half that, at five pounds or less.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.55
October 25, 2022
…the development of advanced robotic applications. Its partners include Google, Amazon, and Samsung. The company also supports and collaborates with the worldwide open-source robotics movement and is the lead developer of the MoveIt motion-planning framework. PickNik to develop capture controls for SpaceWERX Under its SpaceWERX contract, PickNik Robotics will help develop enhanced control for on-orbit capture of space assets and increase the overall efficiency and safety of U.S. Space Force operations. The work will focus on capturing and manipulating objects in orbit using robotic arms for in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM). PickNik will use its MoveIt Space software, which…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.54
January 22, 2022
…Virtual Ocean to create a geospatial experience similar to Google Earth. This week, Terradepth added executives with experience in the Internet of Things, maritime systems, defense, and engineering to its management team. The company, which was formed in 2018, said its high-resolution undersea maps will enable users to gain environmental and other scientific insights remotely. Terradepth said its long-range “buddy” drones shift between collecting data and uploading it to the cloud. They can help overcome existing limitations in unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) battery life and pressure tolerance, it added. Judson Kauffman, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and co-founder and co-CEO…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.50
April 24, 2017
…and auto giant are now evaluating autonomous vehicle technology. Google-owner Alphabet recently spun out its self-driving car unit, Waymo, into its own subsidiary. Apple was just granted a license in California to test autonomous vehicles. Ford and General Motors are also doubling down on creating autonomous vehicles. Now Amazon could be eyeing driverless car technology as a way to get items to people's doors faster, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. “Amazon.com Inc. has created a team focused on driverless-vehicle technology to help navigate the retail giant’s role in the shake-up of transportation, according to people…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.48
March 14, 2019
…as a service, and competitors like Microsoft, IBM, and Google took years to respond. This is what allowed Amazon to capture the market share. They created a service in response to internal needs. Then they began to look at the problem differently, and AWS came into the world. Amazon’s Current Logistic’s Fleet Amazon’s current transportation fleet is impressive in size. Not when you stack it up against UPS or FedEx, but they only started building it in the last few years. That makes it impressive. So impressive in fact, that Morgan Stanley Analyst Ravi Shanker assessed that it’s too big…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.44
November 22, 2018
…the development of autonomous vehicles. There is another combine, Waymo/Google/Alphabet, working out kinks in the technology. Lyft and General Motors are combining efforts. And of course, Tesla and its innovative CEO Elon Musk, the peripatetic Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor are bullish. The U.S. chip-making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion. The combination is expected to accelerate innovation for the automotive and trucking industry and position Intel as a leading technology provider for highly and fully autonomous vehicles. So What’s Happening in Trucking? Last…
