Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.41
June 16, 2022
…Robotics Corp. SIP co-led the strategic investment round with NVIDIA alongside existing investor Micron Technology. Columbus Ohio-based READY Robotics has developed Forge/OS, an industrial operating system for robots in factories and warehouses. Forge/OS provides a hardware-agnostic software layer that controls robots and related automation hardware from leading brands through a common set of application programming interfaces (APIs), according to the company. Using those APIs, READY Robotics said it has built a suite of low-code apps designed to make it simple for non-engineers to program and manage robot cells. “Manufacturing has been held back for decades by software silos between robot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.51
June 15, 2022
…including GKN Powder Metallurgy and Aluflexpack. Its partners include NVIDIA, the German AI Association, Tum.ai, and iMAGE S. Covision Quality has made a lot of strides in the nearly three years since its founding, said Franz Tschimben, CEO of Covision Lab. He told Robotics 24/7 that the company has customers in Italy, Germany, Croatia, and the U.S. Covision applies deep learning to inspection The software company said it takes advantage of technologies such as deep learning, 3D modeling, and image processing to complete its work. Tschimben said the main key performance indicators (KPI) Covision focuses on include reduction of scrap…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.72
June 08, 2022
…Robotics Corp. this week announced a strategic investment from NVIDIA plus plans to integrate NVIDIA’s Omniverse Isaac Sim into READY Robotics’ Forge/OS. The Columbus, Ohio-based company said NVIDIA’s investment allows it to improve its core Forge/OS 5 platform as well as to support a growing ecosystem of partners and developers. READY Robotics added that it provides a foundation that enables software developers to meet their demands. By enabling integration with processing at the edge, these systems can offer increased efficiency without compromising on privacy, latency, or data security, the company argued. “Manufacturing has been held back for decades by software…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.25
June 07, 2022
…an honoree in this year's Engelberger Awards. Deepu Talla, NVIDIA Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager for embedded and edge computing at NVIDIA. He is responsible for deploying artificial intelligence in devices such as factory robots, commercial drones, and video analytics. Previously, Talla was responsible for NVIDIA’s mobile business unit. Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2013, he worked at Texas Instruments for more than 10 years in various executive management and technical leadership roles. About Automate and A3 Produced by A3, Automate returns to Detroit after two decades in Chicago. The event will bring more than 500 companies showcasing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.40
May 29, 2022
…in robotics. We also recently upgraded to the new NVIDIA Omniverse-powered NVIDIA Isaac Sim, which has bought a raft of significant improvements to the BenchBot platform. Whether robotics is your hobby, academic pursuit, or job, BenchBot along with NVIDIA Isaac Sim capabilities enables you to jump into the wonderful world of robotics with only a few lines of Python. In this post, we share how we created BenchBot, what it enables, where we plan to take it in the future, and where you can take it in your own work. Our goal is to give you the tools to start…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.59
May 24, 2022
…designed to take advantage of the latest compute hardware. NVIDIA Corp. and Open Robotics today announced two features in the Humble ROS 2 release intended to improve performance on platforms that offer hardware accelerators. “The Robot Operating System evolved in a CPU-only world, but newer SoC architectures with onboard hardware accelerators required us to make changes to maximize efficiencies,” said Gerard Andrews, senior product marketing manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “We identified two things for this release—type adaptation and type negotiation.” The features are intended to help robotics developers incorporate machine learning and computer vision into ROS-based applications and will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.74
May 20, 2022
…can deliver nearly a 5X productivity gain over competing NVIDIA gaphics processing unit (GPU)-based systems, such as Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit and Jetson Nano Developer Kit using Isaac ROS SDK 4.6.1. AMD said it used the KV260 Starter Kit based on Kria K26 SOM, using Vitis Unified SW Platform 2021.2 and Kria Robotics Stack. Development time accounted for tool-chain setup with ROS 2, cross-compilation of host code, and creation of accelerators implementing two functions: doublevadd_publisher and accelerated_doublevadd_publisher. “The Kria SOM portfolio accelerates the design cycle for developers by starting at a more evolved point compared to chip-down design,” said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.22
May 13, 2022
…robotics technology, along with tech companies such as Google, NVIDIA, and Intel. New-age AV startups such as Zoox, AutoX, and Optimus Ride have attracted huge investments. In addition, as AV companies grow to meet the challenge of human-robot collaboration at the level required to bring self-driving vehicles to market, the horizon for leveraging these solutions for other robotics applications could expand. There has been a lot of interest in delivery and disinfection systems during the pandemic, but are they sustainable as consumer habits shift again? Sharma: The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has increased an interest in robots, drones, and AI owing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.50
May 09, 2022
…prebuilt software packages from the Robot Operating System (ROS), NVIDIA’s Isaac SDK GEMs toolset, and field-tested algorithms that Cogniteam developed in-house. Once mobilized, developers can keep Nimbus-operated robots up to date throughout their lives with the latest software and artificial intelligence developments through regular cloud updates and lesson sharing, said Cogniteam. This decade-old company said it has already developed robots in cooperation with companies such as NVIDIA, Intel, Mitsubishi, and others. Investment to grow sales, marketing teams Participants in Cogniteam's Series A round included previous investors Seabarn Management, Andrew Owens, and U.K.-based Panthera family office members. “We seized the opportunity…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.72
May 03, 2022
…our preconfigured algorithms, an Intel RealSense camera, and an NVIDIA embedded processor, robotics developers can be up and doing SLAM in minutes,” Nicholson said. “They can move from POC to actually embedding it at scale.” “Our technology has already been proven in commercial pilots and proofs of concept with customers as diverse as Meta, which uses SLAMcore in its cutting-edge Bombyx robot, to Synaos, which uses it to retrofit autonomous location and mapping capabilities to intralogistics vehicles,” he said. “This funding will allow us to rapidly scale to meet the demand from consumer electronics, logistics, industrial, and manufacturing sector clients…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.19
April 27, 2022
…road In addition to AUVSI Xponential 2022 in Orlando, Fla., Ottonomy.io has displayed its systems at CES, NRF, and NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Xponential attendees can learn more about the company's Ottobots at Booth 1038 at the Orange County Convention Center from April 25 to 28.
