Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.33
February 03, 2022
…on where I can add value. I'm not an MIT-trained engineer, but I was a Navy officer. Vecna has added a couple of new executives, including a chief marketing officer, a senior vice president of product management, and a chief people officer. We're building on the foundation of the strong engineering culture to move the company forward. This allows Daniel to focus on innovation, and for me to use my expertise in building out solutions that are deployable, scalable, and secure. Vecna is a leading robotics company in the Boston area and a member of MassRobotics. How does being part…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.32
September 03, 2023
…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 on advances in deep learning to reorient a robotic hand to handle over 2,000 objects. As the pace of AI innovation continues to accelerate, we’re not far from seeing deep learning models for robotic dexterity deployed in real-world assembly lines. Giving robots awareness of their…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.32
September 30, 2022
…research articles on robotics with experts from institutions including MIT, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan. Backed by multiple venture capital firms, Dextrous Robotics received a competitive grant from the National Science Foundation in 2021. Dextrous Robotics designs for precision The job of loading and unloading trucks is one of the most challenging to fill in the logistics industry, according to Dextrous Robotics. Trailers can reach extreme temperatures depending on the season, and heavy packages stacked up to 9 ft. high regularly fall on workers. In addition, the repetitive and non-ergonomic lifting of items can put strain even on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.31
April 30, 2019
…as detailed by Matthias Winkenbach, Ph.D., director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab. Podcast: How Final Mile Logistics & White Glove Services are Impacting Shipping To gain a competitive advantage in last-mile logistics, shippers need to understand the top seven trends in last mile logistics. 1. Last Mile Logistics Gets Faster Fulfillment Fulfillment timetables are changing. Consumers want faster fulfillment, and shippers need to move more product at a faster pace. Shipments that previously required one hour to process are now being forced into three-minute intervals, if not faster times. Consequently, last mile logistics is finally in a position to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
April 04, 2022
…on display was what Jim Rice, a professor at MIT, calls “sustaining innovation.” This type of innovation represents “the combining and application of a mix of inventions, existing processes, and technologies in a new way to create improvements in cost, quality, cash, and/or service.” A great example of this recommended to me by several fellow MODEX attendees was the new goods-to-person system from OPEX, which decouples robots from its high-density storage medium. Goods-to-person isn’t new for the industry or OPEX, but the new product is a sustaining innovation based on what the company has already done. Industry consolidation continues One…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.27
April 21, 2022
…have been bought by several hospitals, as well as MIT. MatrixSpace designs a smarter drone Matthew King, vice president of autonomous systems at MatrixSpace Inc., said his company is developing an “AI software defined sensing and autonomous response platform” for drones. King said it starts with the company’s millimeter-wave radar and mesh network device, which he claimed no other autonomous drone making company has developed. “This has an AI sensor-fusion and perception layer that feeds into the mission autonomy engine onboard the drone that enables it to execute any mission that’s programmed into it,” King said. “Whether that is scanning…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
September 06, 2023
…illness, some health professionals are still not convinced. At MIT, professor and psychologist Sherry Turkle said she worried that the interactions of machines “push us along a road where we’re encouraged to forget what makes people special.” “The performance of empathy is not empathy,” Turkle said. “The area of companion, lover therapist, best friend is really one of the few areas where people need people.” About the author Oliver Mitchell is a partner at ff Venture Capital. His areas of focus are drones, robotics, and applied AI. Mitchell is also an adjunct professor at Yeshiva University. This column is reposted…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
September 26, 2019
…“Rise of the hyperlocal fulfillment centre”, Supply Chain at MIT.com, April 26, 2018. “The challenges of last mile logistics and delivery technology solutions”, Shelagh Dolan, Business Insider, May 10, 2018. “The future of grocery: e-commerce, digital technology and changing shopping preferences around the world”, Neilson.com, April 2015. “The race is on: 43% of consumer expect 'much faster' deliveries in 2018”, Marie Griffin, Retail Touch Points, April 2, 2018. “Real estate costs through the roof”, Emily Atkins, Inside Logistics, May 10, 2018. About the Author Greg Braun is a co-founder of C3 Solutions and is responsible for the marketing and sales…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.24
August 25, 2023
…team: Dexai Robotics (principal investigator), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Topic areas addressed: Automated robotic task planning Description: Fixed manipulators perform tasks that require speed and correctness. As the restaurant industry struggles to return to pre-pandemic levels and continues to navigate workforce shortages, robotics can help to fill the gap. This project will build upon Dexai Robotics’ existing product by doubling improvement on ingredient pickup robot moving time, improving the planning time for utensil pickup, and improving on meal throughput. While the use case is focused on the food industry, the deliverables from this project could benefit the broader robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
June 05, 2019
…an “automation-readiness roadmap” for your own company. Participants included MIT’s Jeffrey Lipton, Dematic’s Crystal A. Parrott, Karen Leavitt of Locus, and Matt Wicks of Honeywell Intelligrated. During the discussions, Leavitt focused on the selection process and planning that should go into any investment in automation or robotics. “Robots are cool, but cool doesn’t pay the bill,” he pointed out. “The question is, will this investment really drive both the top and bottom lines? That’s what companies need to answer.” Pick a solution that’s right for your business, 6 River Systems’ Fergal Glynn added, and try to avoid pilot purgatory (i.e.,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
June 09, 2023
…more picks. Mountz enlisted the help of his former MIT roommate Peter Wurman and Raffaello D’Andrea, who served as the faculty advisor and system architect of Cornell University’s robot soccer team. “I was a professor coming up for tenure,” Wurman told Robotics 24/7. “Mick pitched something interesting to me, but if the company failed, we'd have great material for years of research.” The trio went to work building a system. The result was a mobile robot and pod shelf designed to carry multiple items. “Once we decided that we should move orders and not just products, we worked out the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
March 24, 2021
…to load up a container with sample boxes in a wide range of sizes and drop it off at MIT and say, 'Hey, you guys solve it,' as a new pick-and-place challenge,” he said. “We have so many projects that we're going to be working on for automation.”
