Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.68
October 22, 2021
…its robotic technology in treating pediatric patients. Teleoperation and 5G networking could help to democratize healthcare. “The notion of being able to project expertise with a highly skilled expert projecting in for half an hour,” said Fischel. “It's not just the user interface; the physician needs all the necessary information and low latency.” “We have done 10 to 20 telesurgery procedures, where an operator was in Boston and the patient was in Milan,” he recalled. “It has been very difficult to travel or get into hospitals, so our clinical support teams joined procedures remotely. You still need a medical team…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.68
May 23, 2021
…in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, and advances in 5G networking and edge processing. Similarly, Markets and Markets forecast a CAGR of 55.9% for the commercial drone services market, growing from $4.4 billion in 2018 to $63.6 billion by 2025. It noted increasing development of industry-specific applications such as inspection and delivery, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. “We're not just selling the data or the hardware,” said Rabkin. “There's an opportunity to make the business model sensitive to the financial model. For example, if you charge per inspection, the value of the inspection has to have a higher rate of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.67
October 07, 2020
…to simulate and visualize the signal propagation of its 5G network deployment using real-world city models. Omniverse also has support from software partners including Adobe, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, Robert McNeel & Associates and SideFX. Blender is working with NVIDIA to add USD capabilities to enable Omniverse integration with its software. “The importance of our two-year collaboration with NVIDIA cannot be overstated,” said Amy Bunszel, senior vice president for Design and Creation Products at Autodesk. “Projects and teams are becoming increasingly complex and we are confident Autodesk users across all industries will share our enthusiasm for Omniverse’s ability to create a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.66
April 16, 2021
…a repeater,” he added. “Like automotive companies, we want 5G to improve safety and autonomy, but it's not there yet in the U.S. Carriers are investing in the big cities, but not in rural areas where many distribution centers are. Some companies themselves are looking to invest in small cells like those Qualcomm makes.” Markets and plans How has the market responded to SIERA.AI's AMRs and ADAS applied to lift trucks? “The demand in e-commerce means that 50% of the labor force churns every six weeks,” Agarwal said. “Logistics vehicle demand is at 2030 levels with infrastructure that's at 2010…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
April 18, 2021
…systems like what we delivered to MassTLC and Verizon's 5G lab.” “How fast we move depends on how fast demand grows,” he added. “We're sticking with off-the-shelf components, but if we make enough robots that it makes sense to switch power supplies or retune controllers, we can do that, and the performance won't change. That gives us a huge advantage, and we can make substantive improvements for expense.” “Even just seven degrees of freedom and omnidirectional capability alone would be enough, let alone power and cost,” Walker claimed. “This joins Waypoint's MAV3K heavy AMR, Kingpin top module, and AI camera.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
July 16, 2022
…the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, 4G and 5G networks, artificial intelligence and robotics all help companies to achieve better productivity, counter skilled labor shortages, and autonomously adjust operations to match the fluctuating consumer demands at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches. Most digital manufacturing concepts have undergone sufficient industrial tests and are now mature enough for implementation in different facilities. Implementing robotics on the factory floor is becoming inevitable due to its versatility and compatibility with emerging technological trends. Such progress aligns with most manufacturers’ goals. So what’s so special about 2022? Why should manufacturers accept…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
February 12, 2022
…good in cemeteries, and there's not a lot of 5G yet. I also can't imagine a person remotely controlling a mower on the side of a highway. The bigger the robot, the less likely they are to be nimble and autonomous.” “The Goats have been surprisingly autonomous, operating up to 72 hours at a stretch,” Erickson said. “This can lead to $1,000 per acre per year in savings.” “Our solution is hardware-agnostic,” he added. “We use Husqvarna machines because of the open APIs [application programming interfaces].” Does My Goat expect major mower providers to offer autonomous systems? “Most are focused…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
January 04, 2022
…example, a telecommunications provider used Omniverse Enterprise to model 5G coverage, Kerris said. NVIDIA's Project Tokkio is a platform for trainable avatars, and its Drive Concierge is an in-car virtual assistant. The company also announced NVIDIA Omniverse Studio for 3D design and Audio2Face, particularly for video games. Kerris described USD as the “HTML of 3D” and said NVIDIA is adding connectors. “Seven hundred companies worked with Omniverse in the early access program since GTC [NVIDIA's 2020 GPU Technology Conference], with 100,000 in open beta,” Kerris said. “Omniverse is moving out of beta and is available to GeForce RTX Studio. Free…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.62
September 28, 2021
…sensors including stereo cameras, and worked with T-Mobile on 5G. This machine can go into environments where it's better not to have humans, such as height or in a nuclear power plant. The XT can be operated as an avatar with virtually no latency to perform highly dexterous tasks. There is tremendous interest from power generation, construction, infrastructure maintenance and repair, and oil and gas. My personal gut instinct is that the Guardian XT will be an even bigger hit in its early hears than the XO. There are no issues of training operators or walking around with it. We'll…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.58
May 18, 2022
…users should be able to maximize performant networks like 5G without worrying about data costs. This is one of the main reasons why Formant moved to the real-time encoding of video data at the robot device to solve these problems for a world where robots are everywhere. Video capture for operations is challenging, here’s how we solved it As an engineer, I want to emphasize clearly at this point in the article, that operations introduce a complex situation that cannot easily be solved by just having your robot record a long video to it’s hard drive. Operations often want to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.56
March 01, 2020
…widespread availability of high bandwidth connections and the upcoming 5G wireless networks both work in favor of this trend. “We are seeing a trend toward virtualization technology, and this is a key enabler for running our software in the cloud,” notes Prakash Kota, CIO, Autodesk. “Many Autodesk customers are exploring the option of moving their desktops running Autodesk software to the cloud. We are also seeing companies such as Citrix, AWS and Microsoft Azure offer cloud-based desktops.” The shift from on-premises desktop to virtual machines suggests the security risks, too, have migrated to the cloud. But human behavior, as it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.54
October 12, 2021
…intelligence, and operations can connect through Wi-Fi 6 and 5G.” “As a single interface into enterprise robot operations, InOrbit provides the tools needed to identify and address problems, analyze and optimize processes, and increase fleet efficiency over time,” said Ben Waters, co-founder and CEO of WiBotic. “Like InOrbit, WiBotic’s autonomous charging solutions focus on keeping robots running.” “InOrbit has unparalleled ability to monitor the position and status of robots on the warehouse floor,” said David Pepper, CEO of Next Generation Robotics (NGR). “Combined with NGR’s cross-platform fleet orchestration software, customers will have all they need to get tasks done quickly…
