Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.31
November 05, 2021
…unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform complex navigation and manipulation tasks in a GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System)-denied environment. A swarm of UAVs must identify a target vessel from several similar vessels in open waters in a GNSS-denied environment. It must then offload specific items from the target onto an USV in the shortest possible time using autonomous technologies. Morrish said this is a new kind of exercise for robotics. “A nice thing about this challenge is that you tell people what you want, but you don’t specify an approach to do it,” he said. “The very idea of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.31
October 03, 2022
…added. Breakdown of the keynote sessions Mobility, Perception & Manipulation: The Building Blocks of Mobile Robots from Kevin Blankespoor of Boston Dynamics (9 a.m., October 11) From the pitching mound to the traffic light: Machine vision and AI beyond the factory from Jumbi Edulbehram, NVIDIA (9 a.m., October 12) Optimizing Cloud and Edge – Vision AI /ML solutions at scale from Mark Hanson of Sony Electronics – Semiconductor Solutions of America and Rajat Gupta of Microsoft (12 p.m., October 12) The new, refreshed basic and advanced Certified Vision Professional (CVP) courses will also be available at the conference. Attendees will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.22
May 30, 2022
…concept design will be capable of swift and safe manipulation of standard 463L cargo pallets in austere landing fields and will be a fraction of the weight of the legacy diesel-over-hydraulic 10K AT Forklift. “Unloading and loading heavy cargo pallets from austere landing fields will be done with RISE’s lighter-weight equipment that reduces transportation fuel usage,” said Arron Acosta, CEO of RISE Robotics. “Today, commercial articulated wheel loaders with large off-road tires do the job well, but reducing fuel consumption is a new challenge best solved by RISE.” RISE Robotics said its zero-emission machines incorporate the patented RISE Cylinder (U.S.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.19
August 22, 2023
…Robotics said it supports data collection, analytics, and subsea manipulation capabilities to support and maintain assets. It added that it can help customers reduce their operational footprint, operating cost, and greenhouse gas emissions to improve offshore health, safety, and environmental exposure. The company said it is developing an underwater robot derived from its Aquanaut that includes technology to support longer and more challenging missions. The electric-powered Aquanaut offers two modes—as a autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and as a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). In addition, the Leidos award will fund further operational enhancements to toolKITT, said Nauticus. The proprietary software package…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.16
November 06, 2024
…motion control and trajectory generation GR00T-Dexterity for robot dexterous manipulation GR00T-Control for whole-body control GR00T-Mobility for robot locomotion and navigation GR00T-Perception for multimodal sensing “Humanoid robots are the next wave of embodied AI,” said Jim Fan, NVIDIA senior research manager of embodied AI. “NVIDIA research and engineering teams are collaborating across the company and our developer ecosystem to build Project GR00T to help advance the progress and development of global humanoid robot developers.” The new NVIDIA Project GR00T workflows are coming soon to help robot companies build humanoid robot capabilities with greater ease. Developers can apply to join the NVIDIA…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.02
December 17, 2021
…provide customers the necessary data collection, analytics, and subsea manipulation capabilities to support and maintain assets while significantly reducing their operational footprint, operating cost, and greenhouse gas emissions, to improve offshore health, safety, and environmental exposure. Nauticus said its fleet of autonomous robots is able to operate from the surface to the seabed with the Nauticus Software Suite, an artificial intelligence and machine learning platform. The company said its first product, Aquanaut, is “the world’s first tetherless underwater robot capable of robust decision making for both long-distance ocean data collection and close-in dexterous manipulation.” CLAQ recognizes Nauticus growth potential Nauticus'…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.98
September 27, 2017
…and method for piece-picking or put-away with a mobile manipulation robot. The patent focuses on the underlying system and methods for the Swift Solution Suite, which powers IAM Robotics’ world’s-first mobile picking robot. This technology enables their robots to autonomously navigate human-friendly environments, identify the location of objects, and pick individual items or bins. It has already been deployed at a Rochester Drug Cooperative facility in Rochester, New York. This comes at a time when the US is facing a nationwide labor shortage of workers to fill material handling jobs. Logistics and manufacturing companies are also facing increasing pressures on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.85
October 13, 2020
…OEM. Those providing 3D printing services without such a record memorialized by blockchain technologies run the risk of data manipulation, he contends. Given the two companies are fellow start ups and are targeting similar industries, there’s a natural synergy between their offerings without any competitive overlap. “We don’t do anything they do and they don’t do anything we do,” Fox says. “But in working together and sharing data via standardized interfaces, there is huge potential to cross-pollinate our interests, expand markets, and provide greater total value per purchase to printers and end customers.” For a simple tutorial on blockchain basics,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.77
September 03, 2023
…robotic fingers can be trained to execute complex in-hand manipulations of intricate objects, relying solely on the sense of touch to guide their movements. The elimination of dependence on visual input, demonstrates the true potential of tactile-driven robotics. That work follows advances in dexterity in recent years from the likes of both OpenAI and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). While the former is better known today for ChatGPT, in 2018, it made headlines by training a human-like robot hand to manipulate physical objects with unprecedented dexterity by using a reinforcement learning algorithm and code. CSAIL also relied…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.76
October 17, 2023
…operations The Guardian Sea Class is a teleoperated, dual-armed manipulation system with six-function dexterity per arm and performs in depths of up to 1 km (3,280 ft.). It is electronically driven, which eliminates the added weight, size, and expense of hydraulic power unit systems, said Sarcos. As a result, maintenance costs and the risk of system downtime are reduced, the company claimed. The Guardian Sea Class system also reduces the need for divers to work in dangerous underwater conditions, allowing for safer, faster operations, Sarcos added. The company said its mobile robots and software promise to “redefine human possibilities and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.74
October 19, 2018
…two organizations are collaborating on the deployment of mobile manipulation solutions, or the type of robots that can both pick up and transport goods. “This is the goal that the entire logistics industry is working toward, fully flexible distribution solutions and models – the kind of capability that allows organizations to be responsive to the accelerated pace of change,” said Reed, “To achieve this vision, we’re having open dialogues about customers’ needs, a roadmap for the future, and where those two intersect.” “In the warehouse, fully-automated applications will be the key to sustainability and competitiveness in the new marketplace,” Stikes…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.72
March 29, 2021
…flexible movement of materials and improve working conditions for employees. Stretch combines Boston Dynamics’ advancements in mobility, perception and manipulation to tackle the most challenging, injury-prone case-handling tasks, and we’re excited to see it put to work.” Boston Dynamics is currently seeking customers to pilot test deployment of Stretch with truck-unloading tasks ahead of its commercial deployment in 2022. Interested parties can apply to join the Stretch Early Adopter Program by visiting www.bostondynamics.com/stretch.
