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Saildrone Charts Course for Nautical Data Collection With NVIDIA
Saildrone provides three uncrewed surface vehicles, or USVs, to study the oceans, weather, and marine life, and it uses NVIDIA technologies to optimize data analysis.

Development of Battery-Free Multi-Rotation Absolute Mechanical Encoder
In recent years, greater accuracy, better reliability, and safety are demanded of motors, especially motors used in critical positioning applications. Such systems typically utilize servo motors with encoder feedback along...

Thoro.ai Continues Work With Big Joe Forklifts and Nilfisk to Advance Autonomy Stack for Mobile Robots
Big Joe Forklift recently launched a new pallet mover in collaboration with Thoro.ai. Robotics 24/7 visited Thoro.ai's headquarters to learn about the partnership and the company's goals.

Special Focus Issue
Robots See a Safer Future
Robot safety is more than caging off workcells. In this Special Focus Issue, learn how standards bodies, software and hardware providers, and integrators are working on improving safety.

As Mobile Robot Market Matures, Vendors Continue to Improve Fleet Capabilities
Mobile robot fleets need to be easy to manage and scale before they can be adopted across industries, and operations software and interoperability standards offer to help.

NVIDIA and Partners to Explore the Future of Robotics at Automatica 2023
NVIDIA and partners such as Wandelbots are showing how AI, simulation, vision, and the cloud are coming together to make industrial robots easier to deploy and use.

Indxx Talks About Top 10 ETF Index With Samsung, Economic Conditions for Robotics Investment
Indxx, which provides information for exchange-traded funds, will create the basis for a Samsung Asset Management fund. A Indxx managing partner identifies sectors of opportunity.

Photoneo Releases AI Extension Modules for Faster, More Efficient Pallet Unloading
Photoneo said its new Depalletization module for its existing 3D picking enables rapid unloading of varied boxes, while the Delayering tool can pick a full layer at a time.

Hesai Technology and NavVis Collaborate on Using Lidar for Reality Capture
Hesai Technology is workin to incorporate its lidar sensors into NavVis reality-capture devices. It is also working on robots with CRATUS Technology and Inertial Labs.

Photoneo Releases Gen3 of Ambient Light Suppression for Scanning in Challenging Lighting Conditions
Photoneo said the third generation of its Ambient Light Suppression, or ALS Gen3, technology will enable the scanning of black and reflective parts and changing lighting.

Hexagon Collaborates With NVIDIA to Accelerate Industrial Digitalization
Hexagon is connecting its reality capture and manufacturing platforms to NVIDIA Omniverse so enterprises can more easily develop and deploy digital twin applications.

Boston Dynamics Adds Capabilities to Spot Robot, Names Levatas as Certified Technology Partner
Boston Dynamics has partnered with Levatas to add visual inspection capabilities to Spot, and it has added safety functionality and hardware to the quadruped robot.

Indy Autonomous Challenge to Relaunch Simulated Races With Autoware Foundation, Autonoma, TIER IV
Indy Autonomous Challenge is partnering with simulation and software experts to relaunch its SIM platform, integrated with AWSIM, as it also readies for a Milan road course.

Autonomous Aircraft Software Market Is Competitive, Thanks to Tech Trends, Says Allied Market Research
Autonomous aircraft software is enabling better navigation and obstacle avoidance, as well as data collection and profitable applications, according to Allied Market Research.

Orbbec Develops High Performance Camera for Robotics Using NVIDIA’s Accelerated Computing
Orbbec said its Femto Mega RGB+Depth camera integrates with NVIDIA and Microsoft technologies to revolutionize the development of vision for robotics and industrial automation.

Lumotive and Hokuyo Partner to Build 3D Lidar Sensing Into Industrial Automation
Lumotive said Hokuyo will build the Light Control Metasurface optical semiconductor technology into Hokuyo's sensors for advanced robotics and autonomous systems applications.

Robot Safety Experts Outline Updates to Key Industrial Safety Standards
Robot safety standards organizations are working to keep up with the technology and industrial applications. Experts weigh in on where robotics standards are heading.

STRADVISION Opens Expanded Autonomous Driving Workshop in South Korea
STRADVISION said its new workshop in a South Korean industrial district is an optimal environment for R&D and testing object-recognition technology to improve SVNet performance.

Machine Vision Is a Boon for Robot Mobility and Safety
Machine vision and motion control systems have improved and are essential to ensuring robot mobility and safety, according to several technology and industry experts.

NVIDIA Announces Generative AI, Isaac AMR Platform, and Electronics Industry Users at Computex
NVIDIA announced new computing hardware, simulation software, and the Isaac AMR reference platform for mobile robots at the Computex event for electronics manufacturers in Taiwan.



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