Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.23
November 18, 2024
…Partnerships with Siemens Energy, SLB, AWS, Shell, BP, and NVIDIA can enable improved support and faster response times, enhancing efficiency and safety across North America. ANYmal quadruped built to inspect complex, hazardous spaces ANYbotics’ U.S. expansion brings its flagship AI-enabled quadruped inspection robot, ANYmal, closer to American operators. Designed with an IP67 rating, ANYmal can autonomously perform real-time inspections and condition monitoring across multi-floor and outdoor facilities, including navigating complex, hazardous spaces. Its capabilities can help enhance asset management by automating routine tasks, enabling predictive maintenance, and reducing human risk. ANYbotics' expansion in the U.S. will provide customers with enhanced,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.31
November 06, 2024
Software provider NVIDIA recently revealed new AI 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,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.21
September 13, 2024
…machine-tending application with new AI-based perception capabilities running on NVIDIA Jetson and Isaac acceleration libraries integrated into UR’s new PolyScope X platform. This combination enables dynamic path planning, ensuring the robot takes the most effective, collision-free paths in and out of the machine without requiring extensive user configuration. UR plans to make this technology available for a wide range of applications, including machine tending and other material handling tasks. “AI isn’t just hype,” said Ujjwal Kumar, group president of Teradyne Robotics, parent company of Universal Robots. “We’re seeing significant interest in physical AI. By adding high-performance compute hardware to our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.63
September 05, 2024
…innovation across borders. Speakers to include Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm The summit will feature sessions including a debate on the future of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), panel discussions on AI-powered precision medicine, and workshops on AI's role in sustainable development and smart cities. Executives from Silicon Valley and worldwide, policymakers, and AI researchers, will lead discussions on the future of AI governance, the ethical implications of AI, and the role of international cooperation in harnessing AI’s potential covering important topics such as the ethical AI framework and the impact of the Islamic World AI Charter. Speakers will include Cristiano…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.03
September 01, 2024
…robots across the U.S. in 2025.” Serve Robotics secured $30M in funding in August 2023. Investors include Uber and NVIDIA. “We're thrilled about our collaboration with Serve Robotics and Uber Eats,” said Steph So, senior vice president of digital experience at Shake Shack. “In line with our vision of enlightened hospitality, this partnership highlights our commitment to leveraging innovation to enhance guest experiences both in and out of Shack.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.13
August 08, 2024
…B round, including in the investors were OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA and others. Along with the funding, OpenAI and Figure AI announced the companies had reached a collaboration agreement to develop AI models. The research combines OpenAI’s neural network and artificial intelligence with Figure’s humanoid hardware and software. Figure 02, according to the company, is able to maintain a conversation with humans through the humanoid robot’s microphones and speakers. The companies developed and tested custom AI models to enhance Figure 02’s responses and conversation ability. Design enhancements on Figure 02 Along with the neural network and AI updates, Figure 02 looks…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.26
July 03, 2024
…series Stereo Vision 3D cameras are now integrated with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, a reference workflow for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) built on GPU-accelerated Isaac ROS. These cameras enhance depth quality and provide longer-range sensing in varied lighting conditions, which lets Isaac Perceptor - whose general availability was announced by NVIDIA at COMPUTEX - output 3D reconstruction and obstacle cost maps of any unstructured environment. Gemini 330 series provide clearer view The Gemini 335/335L/336/336L cameras operate in both passive and active laser-illuminated modes to ensure high-quality depth and RGB data output, even in challenging lighting conditions. The depth algorithms are processed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.19
June 28, 2024
…The opening included a panel discussion featuring Deepu Talla, NVIDIA VP of robotics and edge computing, Rainer Brehm, Siemens Factory Automation CEO, and Ujjwal Kumar, Teradyne Robotics group president. The panelists discussed the use of physical AI across industries, underscoring the transformative power of advanced automation for businesses and workplaces. “The launch of this new headquarters marks a significant milestone for Teradyne Robotics as we bring together two leading companies in robotics innovation,” said Kumar. “We will now have the optimal environment to evolve our technological capabilities, which are already in high demand.” Collaboration will enable Siemens PLCs to control…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.43
June 27, 2024
…THEIA-CAM camera reference design kit for embedded applications using NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Jetson Orin Nano platforms. The camera is based on THine’s THP7312-P image signal processor (ISP) and Sony’s IMX258 13 megapixel CMOS phase detection autofocus (PDAF) image sensor. THine said its pre-optimized ISP firmware can provide ultra-quick autofocus using PDAF. THine said its kit hardware includes all items required to interface with Jetson Orin carrier boards with a 22-pin MIPI CSI-2 input connector, including a camera board in an acrylic case and a flat flexible cable. The Video4Linux2 (V4L2) driver for the THSCJ101 is also available to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 42.28
June 12, 2024
…Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP), recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to bring industrial automation technology to small and medium manufacturers by using NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing to advance cloud robotics. This announcement made during COMPUTEX 2024 in Taiwan, marks a year of collaborative efforts from Vention to leverage artificial intelligence to simplify industrial automation and robotic projects, from the design of equipment up to their operations. Vention MAP looks to use NVIDIA AI to simplify UX Vention's cloud-first MAP is inherently AI-enabled, drawing on a proprietary dataset of several hundred thousand robot cell designs created since the company's founding.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.83
June 11, 2024
…supports Dex3-1 force-controlled dexterous hand installation, optional tactile sensor arrays, greater knee joint torque and arm load and optional NVIDIA Jetson Orin high computing power module to support secondary development.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 36.42
June 10, 2024
At COMPUTEX in Taiwan, NVIDIA announced that major Taiwanese electronics makers are using the company’s technologies to transform their factories into more autonomous facilities with a new reference workflow. The workflow combines NVIDIA Metropolis vision AI, NVIDIA Omniverse physically based rendering and simulation and NVIDIA Isaac AI robot development and deployment. By using the workflow to build digital twins for real-time simulation of different factory layouts, manufacturers can optimize space, processes and efficiency without costly physical changes. The news came from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote demo at COMPUTEX 2024. Electronics manufacturers adopt NVIDIA technology to build robotic…
