Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 88.06
November 15, 2024
Bipedal humanoid mobile manipulation robot (MMR) provider Agility Robotics recently announced motion components provider Schaeffler Group has made a minority investment in the company. In addition to the investment, the companies have signed an agreement in which Schaeffler intends to purchase humanoid robots from Agility Robotics for use across the whole global Schaeffler manufacturing and warehouse network. “We, at Schaeffler, will integrate this technology into our operations and see the potential to deploy a significant number of humanoids in our global network of 100 plants by 2030,” said Andreas Schick, Schaeffler AG COO. “We look forward to the collaboration with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.68
November 06, 2024
…and simulation tools and workflows for robot developers, including humanoid developers, at the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) in Munich, Germany. The lineup includes the general availability of the NVIDIA Isaac Lab robot learning framework. These include six new humanoid robot learning workflows for Project Generalist Robot 00 Technology (GR00T) and new world-model development tools for video data curation and processing, including the NVIDIA Cosmos tokenizer and NVIDIA NeMo Curator for video processing. Open-source Isaac Lab can scale robot training NVIDIA Isaac Lab is an open-source robot learning framework built on NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for developing OpenUSD applications for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 46.71
October 17, 2024
…research partnership aims to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot. Partnership looks to push humanoid research further Boston Dynamics has a longstanding reputation for advances in humanoids, from extreme mobility to bimanual manipulation. The latest generation of Atlas is the result of years of hardware/software co-design aimed at building the most capable humanoid platform, both in terms of physical capability and software interfaces for authoring whole-body behaviors. This combination, according to the companies, makes it an ideal platform for advancing the science of AI-based manipulation skills. “There has never…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 36.36
October 11, 2024
Autonomous vehicle and humanoid robot company Tesla hosted its We, Robot event on October 10 at the Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif. At the event, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk highlighted that “the future is autonomous.” Musk and Tesla showcased new features of the company’s Optimus humanoid robot and unveiled two new autonomous vehicles: Robotaxi and Robovan. Optimus makes drinks, has conversations The Tesla Optimus humanoid was front and center at We, Robot. Attendees shared photos and videos on Twitter/X of Optimus pouring drinks and interacting with humans throughout the event space. In December 2023, Tesla released Optimus…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.79
August 29, 2024
…China-based embodied AI and robotics company, unveiled its first humanoid robot model, the Dr.01, at the World Robot Conference in Beijing. The robot is the startup company’s first and aims to diversify from DEEP Robotics’ prior quadrupedal robotics into the humanoid robotics space. During the five-day event, DEEP Robotics also demonstrated a series of capabilities of its embodied AI-powered quadrupedal robot. AI training drives evolution of “Intelligent Agent” Through AI and big data training, future humanoid robots are expected to assist humans in performing repetitive, high-precision tasks, safeguard personnel safety in hazardous environments, enhance human productivity in industrial settings and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.24
August 12, 2024
Robot Era, a Beijing-based humanoid robot startup, introduced a self-developed dexterous hand called XHand. The company says it allows for the completion of a number of everyday and industry tasks. XBot-L humanoid uses the XHand Robot Era’s XBot-L, a full-size humanoid robot, is equipped with the XHand. In the video below, XBot-L exercises its fingers, clenches and unclenches its hands, swing its arms, chucks plush toys into a box and fondles a purring cat. The robot also cuts a withered leaf from the stem of a potted plant, handles robotic gears, pumps a balloon and shoots plastic marbles. Another element…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 45.92
August 08, 2024
Figure AI, the California-based general purpose humanoid robot developer announced the release of Figure 02, the company’s second-generation humanoid. The company received a $675M Series B round earlier in 2024, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. OpenAI neural network improvements in Figure 02 As part of the new humanoid, Figure 02 has a new addition for its artificial intelligence and neural network technology for, “speech-to-speech reasoning,” according to the company. When Figure AI announced its Series B round, including in the investors were OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA and others. Along with the funding, OpenAI and Figure AI announced the companies had…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.45
July 23, 2024
…Slack. Walti, who, prior to Mytra, led the Optimus Humanoid Bot team along with robotics and warehouse logistics at Tesla, founded Mytra alongside Ahmad Baitalmal, who led factory software at Tesla and Rivian. The company was born out of the Venture Equity (VE) team at Eclipse. Mytra is backed by several investors, including Greenoaks, who led the company’s Series B Eclipse, who led the previous seed and Series A rounds, in addition to co-founder and chairman of Okta Frederic Kerrest’s 515 Ventures Individual investors, including Garry Tan and Lachy Groom, among individual and corporate partners. “Warehouses are the backbone of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 77.55
July 02, 2024
…focus on the latest technology and application advances for humanoid robots at its upcoming Humanoid Robot Forum. The new educational conference will be held Oct. 7 in conjunction with A3’s Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference, sponsored by FedEx, on October 8-10, both at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, Tenn. A3 said its previous Autonomous Mobile Robots and Logistics Conference in 2021 attracted over 650 industry leaders. A3 also held a panel discussion on humanoid robots at Automate 2024 in Chicago. “With all of the new developments in humanoid robots, we believe the timing is right for the industry’s…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 50.10
June 27, 2024
Agility Robotics, creator of the Digit bipedal humanoid mobile manipulation robot (MMR), and pure-play contract logistics provider GXO Logistics, Inc. announced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement to begin deploying Digit in GXO’s logistics operations. The companies claim their agreement is both the industry’s first formal commercial deployment of humanoid robots and first robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) deployment of humanoid robots. The agreement follows a proof-of-concept pilot in late 2023 at GXO’s warehouse for global women’s apparel retail brand SPANX outside Atlanta, Ga. “We’re building on the success of last year’s groundbreaking pilot with Agility by deploying fully operational Digit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.97
June 27, 2024
…robotics companies, along with discussions centered on artificial intelligence, humanoids, sustainability and scalability. Business leaders share knowledge, develop connections As part of the opening sessions of the summit, Fady Saad, general partner at Cybernetix Ventures, mentioned how the “second Industrial Revolution is happening right now.” As part of the panel discussion on “Robotics as an Investment Class,” Saad was joined by Eric Paley of the Founder Collective, Lane Bruno of Silicon Valley Bank and Udit Bhatnagar of McRock Capital. The discussion centered on investments from venture capital firms and financial institutions for robotics startups and robotics companies in search of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.44
June 26, 2024
…are becoming increasingly common, such as with surgical, logistics, humanoid, quadrupedal, aerospace, agriculture, food and beverage, and underwater robotics. Forcen said its full stack force/torque sensing systems are designed for these complex and less-structured applications using three core proprietary technologies: ForceFilm - A monolithic thin-film transducer enabling sensing systems that are light, thin, stable across both drift and temperature, and scalable, especially for multi-dimensional sensing. DedicatedOverload - A dedicated overload protection structure that acts as a six DOF hard stop. This dedicated protection structure provides sensitivity and overload protection to be designed separately and enables durable use of the overload…
