Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.53
January 08, 2023
…take third place. MIT-PITT-RW is the team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of Waterloo (Ontario). It had to rebuild its vehicle after accidental collision a week earlier with a car from TUM, the team from the Technical University of Munich. In the final round, TUM Autonomous Motorsport's car passed that of PoliMOVE at a distance of under a few feet at more than 115 mph. The teams reached top speeds of 180 mph, a new autonomous speed world record for a racetrack, reported the IAC. In…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.51
June 10, 2021
…years, he has been a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A big part of his work, which takes place in MIT's Nanophotonics and 3D Nanomanufacturing Laboratory, involves studying common 3D printing approaches that expose a material to light to harden, or cure, it. One such approach, digital light processing (DLP), uses a flash of light from a projector to cure each layer of material being printed. BMF uses a special lens to focus projected light at much smaller scales. “The process shares a lot of similarities with regular microscopes, except we’re delivering a digital picture instead of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.47
November 23, 2022
…vibrant robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem in Massachusetts. The Boston-based organization provides ntrepreneurs and innovative robotics and automation startups with workspace and resources to develop, prototype, test and commercialize their products and solutions. Festo is an independent, family-owned company with headquarters in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. The company supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 customers of factory and process automation in over 35 industries, including the LifeTech sector and medical technology and laboratory automation. Its products and services are available in 176 countries. With about 20,000 employees in over 250 branch offices in 61 countries worldwide,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.35
June 22, 2023
…entrepreneurs to nurture robotics and automation startups, particularly in Massachusetts. “Not all points in time are equal,” said John Fish, CEO of Suffolk Technologies, the venture capital platform of Suffolk Construction and organizer of the fourth-annual BOOST accelerator program. “For the first time in the history of construction, the cost is greater than the value.” Fish noted that the industry, like many others, has a worker shortage, despite inflationary and recessionary pressures. He added that the Empire State Building was completed in 13 months, a feat that seems impossible today. “If we don't come up with creative ways to improve…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.32
October 04, 2018
…beverage alcohol retail license ever to be issued in Massachusetts. Today, Martignetti holds the distinction of being the largest wine and spirits wholesaler in New England. Two years ago, the company built a 700,000-square-foot state-of-the-art, LEED-certified headquarters location in Taunton consolidating all of its office, sales and warehouse operations in one location. Roughly half of the firm’s inventory is managed internally, while the remainder is vendor-owned. In liquor control states like New Hampshire, for example, the firm ships to a third-party warehouse where it pays storage fees until the state “draws” the product for retail sale. With about 12,000 total…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.26
June 04, 2021
…member of MassRobotics, an organization dedicated to growing the Massachusetts robotics ecosystem by helping innovators and entrepreneurs. Peter Howard, CEO of Realtime Robotics, responded to the following questions from Robotics 24/7 about the funding and his company's technology and plans: How much is Realtime working with investors Omron or Toyota? Howard: We work extensively with Toyota, which has been a hugely supportive investor from our earliest days. Our business interactions with Omron are at an earlier stage, based on their later investment. Don't most autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and collaborative robots already have collision-avoidance systems? What does Realtime add? Howard:…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.13
January 30, 2023
…NEVCA and MassRobotics for nurturing innovative startups in the Massachusetts robotics cluster. Vince Martinelli, head of product and marketing at RightHand Robotics, spoke with Robotics 24/7 about the company's partnerships, the need to consider both humans and automation, and his outlook for 2023. RightPick and automated storage What are some of RightHand Robotics' accomplishments from 2022? How do you work with automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS)? Martinelli: Last spring, we announced key partnerships with Element Logic, Vanderlande, and a couple of AutoStore partners. We've seen growth and the extension of piece picking with AutoStore's ASRS. A new customer was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.07
February 03, 2022
…member of MassRobotics. How does being part of the Massachusetts robotics community help it innovate and grow? Malloy: Daniel and Bob Davis, managing partner of Highland Capital, have been very generous with their time and introducing me to people. As a manager, I've spent the majority of my time focused on what we're doing as a fast-paced business. It's part of a good division of labor. Daniel is so plugged into the local scene and has relationships with many robotics companies. I definitely want to spend more time in Boston. In addition, he's a great thought leader. Take, for example,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.98
May 24, 2022
…a row. The company, which acquired Waypoint Robotics last year, ranked third as one of the fastest-growing companies in Massachusetts. 'With MassRobotics, the state government has a big interest in the community,” Lombardi said. “We need to differentiate ourselves from other robotics companies like Boston Dynamics to attract talent, and our culture is very much customer-first. I'm proud of my team, which brings the customer voice back to engineering and collaborates with other departments across the company.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.95
August 27, 2023
…heavy box up a flight of stairs, said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You might spread your fingers out and lift that box with both hands, then hold it on top of your forearms and balance it against your chest, using your whole body to manipulate the box. Humans are generally good at whole-body manipulation, but robots struggle with such tasks. To the robot, each spot where the box could touch any point on the carrier’s fingers, arms, and torso represents a contact event that it must reason about. With billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.95
May 18, 2021
…In 2020, MassRobotics, a consortium dedicated to growing the Massachusetts robotics ecosystem, launched the AMR Interoperability Working Group. Its stated goal was to “improve the use and adoption of autonomous mobile robots” by enabling different robots from different vendors to share status information so they work together more efficiently. “The ability to have multiple robots from different vendors operating in the same environment—as the market matures, this is going to happen,” said Tom Ryden, executive director of MassRobotics. “If you have a robotic forklift and a floor cleaner, how can they talk to each other?” “Functional and practical standards are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.92
March 18, 2022
…to Statista.com. MassRobotics, an public-private nonprofit dedicated to growing Massachusetts' robotics ecosystem, now has more than 60 members and a full facility in Boston’s Seaport District. Changing the narrative The tension between robots and jobs remains in the popular imagination. There are still people who question whether robots help workers be more productive or are here to replace them. To mark the release of its “5 Year Impact Report, 2017-2022,” MassRobotics today hosted a panel discussion about the role robots play in job creation, worker retention, and workforce efficiency. The consensus was that robots are being designed to work alongside…
