Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.19
…change or demand fluctuates through seasonality, you can update delivery points or routes in seconds.” While software helps with the flexibility of a robotics solution, Drexler advises that the navigation technology used also is essential for speed of set-up. The best systems, he adds, use multiple technologies to see and understand the layout of a facility, functioning much like a person’s eyes and brain would in learning how to navigate an unfamiliar building. Clearpath calls the technology its robots use to “learn” a new facility simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM, says Drexler. The resulting “spatial representation” the robots acquire…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.16
…centers. With robots, Amazon has been able to reduce delivery times, improve productivity and cut operating costs (Santagate 2018). Apparel: Sewbots are helping to decrease costs and promote worker safety in the clothing supply chain. These robots are a combination of artificial intelligence, robotics and 3D printing (Lennane 2018). Once sewbots are implemented, customers can interact with them via an app to order custom-made clothing. The app receives a picture of the customer, discerns the exact body measurements, sends the data to the nearest sewbot plant, and then directs the sewbot to create the customized article of clothing. It is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.08
…reduce injuries and make jobs easier, enabling more efficient delivery of all kinds of products. And with packages arriving incredibly fast in homes everywhere, what’s not to like? You can learn more on NVIDIA's site about Isaac Sim, Jetson Orin, Omniverse Enterprise, and Metropolis, as well as from this Deep Learning Institute course: “Introduction to Robotic Simulations in Isaac Sim.” About the author Gerard Andrews is a senior product marketing manager focused on the robotics developer community. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he was product marketing director at Cadence, responsible for product planning, marketing, and business development for licensable processor IP.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.07
…set schedules for drivers, using relay routes and changing delivery design systems to get drivers home more frequently are keys to fighting the driver shortage. “The ratio of those exiting the business against those entering the business is significantly unbalanced,” he says. And as trucking challenges and rates rose, rail was able to “raise prices sharply,” the report states, reversing a decline seen in 2016 rail pricing. Productivity improved among the Class 1 railroads with the report noting that some rails embraced what it called “precision railroading” principles. In the meantime, while international trade accounts for 27% of U.S. GDP—including…