Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.58
November 01, 2021
…year, Gaumard launched a mixed-reality training system using a Microsoft HoloLens 2 for VICTORIA. “We found that learners are curious to learn more about complex clinical conditions,” Archetto said. “When a baby is being born, what's happening in utero before? If we could visualize that, we could combine it with the actual delivery simulator.” “While there are many augmented and virtual reality [AR and VR] systems, they're cartoonish, and there's no interaction between the learner and the simulated patient,” he said. “We thought about how could we merge the virtual and real world. It's not just augmenting, which is why…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.55
October 21, 2022
…and mapping (SLAM). Instead, InOrbit created the map in Microsoft PowerPoint to illustrate where the robots were. The internal map the MiR robot used was different than the one the LocusBot used, said Walker. “All of these are different independent systems, and you have this visualization software that InOrbit has made with this graphic design map,” he said. Walker added that the status of each robot could also be seen in InOrbit’s software. He claimed that it was a pretty easy processs, taking the three companies only about 20 minutes to set up the whole demo. “Once the interoperability standard…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.21
February 10, 2021
…to Android devices is replacing Windows mobile systems, which Microsoft stopped supporting with new updates in late 2019. The shift to Android, says Keith Phillips, president and CEO of Voxware, is based on three key reasons—easier to use, more efficient and a better return on investment. He goes so far as to call the shift to Android as “a freight train on a downhill slope.” While touchscreen devices are on the rise, don’t expect them to entirely displace keyed mobile devices, says Scot Stelter, director of offering management for Honeywell Productivity Solutions and Services. Keyed devices will still be part…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.10
November 22, 2018
…highways and has partnered with Uber Technologies Inc. Apple, Microsoft, Ford, and many others are also involved in the development of autonomous vehicles. There is another combine, Waymo/Google/Alphabet, working out kinks in the technology. Lyft and General Motors are combining efforts. And of course, Tesla and its innovative CEO Elon Musk, the peripatetic Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor are bullish. The U.S. chip-making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion. The combination is expected to accelerate innovation for the automotive and trucking industry and position…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.97
October 03, 2022
…University, whose School of Engineering offers a master’s degree in robotic engineering, demonstrated how augmented reality (AR) using a Microsoft Hololens could control a Kinova light collaborative robot arm and a Turtlebot mobile robot. Tufts also had a Spot legged robot from Boston Dynamics, and MIT CSAIL demonstrated two smaller quadrupeds. The Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern University showed a rover with a robotic arm, its entry into the 2021 University Rover Challenge. In April, Northeastern won a Research, Innovation, Scholarship, and Entrepreneurship (RISE) award for its robot to extract, melt, and purify water from subsurface ice on Mars.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.83
July 31, 2017
…the equivalent of combined revenues of Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu and then some (a lot) more. It is also a big employer: the US Bureau of Labour Statistics suggests that 1.79m people work in this sector driving 7.2m trucks for inter-city freight transport earning an average salary of 41.3 k$/year. No wonder this is a hot topic now then. Trucking is also potentially an easier target than general passenger cars. This is because it spends much of its time in intercity roads which are less congested and less sinuous than city ones. The driver may remain in the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.57
September 20, 2022
…robotics and embedded computing ecosystem, including Canon, John Deere, Microsoft Azure, Teradyne, and TK Elevator. NVIDIA said its Jetson ecosystem is growing rapidly with over 1 million developers, 6,000 customers, 2,000 startups, and 150 partners. Jetson partners offer a wide range of support from AI software, hardware, and application design services to cameras, sensors and peripherals, and developer tools and systems. Orin Nano is supported by the NVIDIA JetPack software development kit (SDK) and is powered by the same NVIDIA CUDA-X accelerated computing stack used to create AI products in fields such as the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.12
June 08, 2017
…technology for making warehouse automation more agile. In particular, Microsoft’s HoloLens AR glasses—which allow a view of the physical reality, but can mix that view with holographic information—are seen as a promising means of mimicking hard-wired, pick-to-light solutions. Matthews Automation has been developing with HoloLens to achieve a virtual PTL capability, says Bast, using the glasses at a demo at the ProMat 2017 show. Currently, Bast adds, the glasses aren’t rugged enough for warehouse use, “but we believe that as these [AR glasses] solutions become more industrialized, and frankly, more cost effective, there may come a time when maybe there…
