Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.16
October 09, 2020
…and now employs 500 engineers to perfect the technology. Google spun off its self-driving car company Waymo, which is working on self-driving trucks with the big truck manufacturers Daimler and Volvo. Switching to automated drivers will not only save billions, but it also has the potential to save thousands of lives. Crashes involving large trucks killed 3,903 people in the US in 2014, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and a further 110,000 people were injured. More than 90% of the accidents were caused at least in part by driver error. Driver fatigue is a factor in roughly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.26
September 15, 2020
…the more effective use is to put on VR googles and view the results,” says Sovani. “AR/VR technologies may also be helpful to give reluctant consumers a way to experience autonomy, to see what it’s like to ride in an autonomous car in virtual reality,” notes Sovani. Meeting in Pixels During the Shutdown To test-drive cars not yet physically built or mocked up, Volvo has been using Varjo’s XR-1 hardware. The driver drives a real car wearing the XR-1 headset to experience the inside of a car that only exists in pixels. XR, which stands for extended reality, is AR…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.82
September 11, 2020
…Robotics on the second or third page of a Google search. Following a telephone call with the company’s founder and a trip to New Hampshire to see the robots in action in the company’s tech center, they felt they had a solution ready to move forward. Hanrahan was particularly impressed by the depth of functionality in Waypoint Robotics’ software and the experience of the engineering team. “They had at least five people who had worked on two other robots before this one,” he recalls. One of the first steps was to design a large cart on wheels that could be…
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 36.92
June 26, 2020
MakerBot, a subsidiary of Stratasys, joins the Google for Education Integrated Solutions Initiative to deliver a 3D printing experience for teachers and students. The MakerBot Cloud integration with Google For Education provides teachers with familiar tools as they get started with 3D printing with their students. The MakerBot Cloud platform, MakerBot’s print preparation and management solution, is now integrated with Google for Education to provide educators and students with an easy 3D printing workflow. One of the key challenges that teachers face when using 3D printers as a learning tool is how to best manage student submissions and print files.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.66
June 24, 2020
…to advancement in their industries while some have even gone on to become household names. Past recipients include Airbnb, Google, Kickstarter, Mozilla, Palantir Technologies, Spotify, TransferWise, Twitter and Wikimedia. Technology Pioneers have been selected based on the community’s selection criteria, which includes innovation, impact and leadership as well as the company’s relevance with the World Economic Forum’s Platforms.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.75
May 11, 2020
…as a service (IaaS) providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba and IBM; cloud-based collaboration and application providers; telecom operators providing cloud services; cloud connectivity partners; and colocation data centers. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted several examples of processes that can be digitized and virtualized,” Bicknell continues. “Google has told job seekers it will conduct all interviews virtually via Google Hangouts for the foreseeable future. Corporate video conferencing is enabling both legal and medical case discussions, while telemedicine is being used to provide COVID-19 remote diagnosis and treatment. “The necessary wider move to cloud will now pose questions for organizations…
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 9.99
January 10, 2020
…to Predictive CAD In May 16, 2018, explaining how Google uses neural networks to speed up Gmail users’ email composition in a blog post, Yonghui Wu, Principal Engineer of the Google Brain Team, wrote, “Smart Compose is a new feature in Gmail that uses machine learning to interactively offer sentence completion suggestions as you type, allowing you to draft emails faster. Building upon technology developed for Smart Reply, Smart Compose offers a new way to help you compose messages—whether you are responding to an incoming email or drafting a new one from scratch.” Similar types of R&D efforts are ongoing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.03
October 21, 2019
…Machine Learning: New Perspectives and Strategies (Nov. 13, 9:15 a.m.-10:15 a.m.) Vincent Vanhoucke, principal scientist and director of robotics, Google ● Present State and Future Directions for Intelligent Vision-Based Collaborative Robots (Nov. 13, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.) Henrik Christensen, Qualcomm Chancellor’s Chair in Robot Systems, professor of computer science at UC San Diego and director of the Institute for Contextual Robotic, UC San Diego; and co-founder, Robust.AI. Last year, CRAV.ai drew more than 500 attendees, including engineers and decision makers from companies like Google, Apple, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Toyota and many more. The full agenda can be found here:…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.78
September 04, 2019
…is gaining traction with shippers serving small regional markets. Google’s parent company Alphabet, for example, has the FAA’s blessing to begin food delivery in Virginia using the same drone technology it now uses for food logistics in Australia. Amazon introduced its Prime Air delivery drone last June, with the intent to deliver food from the Amazon platform. Finally, Uber Eats is testing the first-ever commercial application of drone food delivery in high-density urban areas. The initial customer tests will showcase what the future of food logistics may look like for millions of consumers worldwide. Ryan Hammer, corporate vice president and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.54
August 28, 2019
…to traditional cargo airlines and “last-mile” trucking companies, the innovation is gaining traction with shippers serving small regional markets. Google’s parent company Alphabet, for example, has the FAA’s blessing to begin food delivery in Virginia using the same drone technology it now uses in food logistics in Australia. Amazon introduced its Prime Air delivery drone last June, with the intent to deliver food from the Amazon platform. Finally, Uber Eats is testing the first ever commercial application of drone food delivery in high-density urban areas. The initial customer tests will showcase what the future of food logistics may look like…
