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Automate 2024: Doosan Robotics to unveil new cobot, robot ecosystem

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…Moodie” is coupled with “Tetote,” Bridgestone's soft robot hand powered by bendy rubber artificial muscle that employs a pioneering cocktail recommendation system to serve a cocktail based on visual and audio cues. Doosan will also present its Training Kit, a certified training equipment which allows users to practice and experience Doosan’s cobot training programs anytime, anywhere. Doosan Robotics joined forces…


Indy Autonomous Challenge to Relaunch Simulated Races With Autoware Foundation, Autonoma, TIER IV

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…radar, Cisco for communications, and Bridgestone for tires,” he explained. “There aren't a lot of real-world examples of all these technologies working together, from engines and wiring harnesses to sensors and software.” IAC has hosted four oval competitions, with one IAC team setting a world record for autonomous racing on an oval track reaching 180 mph at Las Vegas Motor…


Kodiak Robotics Moves, Adds Sensors to Fifth Generation Autonomous Truck

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…Cummins X15 Series engines and Bridgestone America's smart-sensing tire technology. The company recently announced a 24-month U.S. Department of Defense project to help automate future U.S. Army ground vehicles. Advancements made within the scope of that project served as the foundation for the fifth-generation truck, it said. Kodiak said the introduction of the new generation of its autonomy platform comes…


Team PoliMOVE Makes a ‘Threepeat,’ Winning Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES 2023

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…Automotive Research integrated sensors, and Bridgestone supplied the tires. dSPACE provided simulation and validation technology and the onboard supercomputer, and AWS provided cloud computing and data analytics. The initial 31 university teams used open-source software including the Robot Operating System, or ROS 2. PoliMOVE pulls ahead in close contest Yesterday's challenge required racecars to take turns passing one another as…


Einride Keeps on Trucking Autonomously With $500M Investment

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…Appliances, a Haier company; and Bridgestone. In October, Einride Saga successfully completed a pilot on a U.S. public road, which Einride said made it the first company to receive approval to do so for a vehicle without a safety driver on board. In November, the company showed its latest release of Einride Stations, freight capacity as a service, and grid…


Bridgestone Begins Testing Soft Robot for Piece Picking at Logistics Sites

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Bridgestone Corp. today announced that it has started a proof of concept for soft robot hands to automatically perform piece-picking tasks at logistics sites. The company said it will seek to achieve small-scale commercialization of soft robotics created with various partners during its next Mid Term Business Plan, from 2024 to 2026. “From the perspective of the declining birthrate, aging…


Behind the Scenes At Indy Autonomous Challenge

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…from industry leaders like Schaeffler, Bridgestone, Cisco and AWS. Luminar provides our lidars and then the teams had to pay $300,000 to acquire the car. Essentially, in the autonomous challenge, we raise sponsorship money through donations of hardware and software. We also subsidize the car cost a bit, but we wanted to make sure that teams were invested in the…


TIER IV Raises Series B Funding Toward Autonomous Driving Technology

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…Holdings Inc. and new investor Bridgestone Corp. Yamaha has designated several “new businesses” and “growth businesses” as “strategic business fields” in its new “Medium-Term Management Plan (2022–2024)” announced in February of this year. As one of its new businesses, the company established eve autonomy Inc. as a joint venture with TIER IV in 2020. Its goal was to commercialize automated…


May Mobility Closes $111M Series C Funding to Develop Toyota Autonomous Mobility Platforms

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…its previously announced program with Bridgestone, May Mobility is working on a project with MONET Technologies and SoftBank for an international route in Tokyo. A Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS equipped with May Mobility’s ADK will launch this fall as part of a new public on-demand AV deployment. Source: May Mobility Investors support 'driver-out' operations May Mobility said its Series C round…


Navya to Assemble Urban Utility Vehicles With Autonomous Potential for Muses Europe

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…is owned by tire manufacturer Bridgestone Corp. Muses Europe said it is getting 80% of its added engineering and manufacturing value from French suppliers, including: Calip Group for the production of the cabins Bosch France for the assembly of the cabins F2J Stamping for the production of the chassis Nava to assemble 300 vehicles Navya will assemble the first pre-series…


Kodiak Robotics Raises $125M Series B to Advance Self-Driving Trucks

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…in Kodiak's Series B round. Bridgestone Americas and BMW i Ventures previously invested in the company. Cowen served as exclusive placement agent to Kodiak Robotics. Kodiak Robotics said it will use the Series B funds over the next 12 months to double employee headcount by adding at least 85 people to its team. The company will also expand autonomous service…


Einride Rolls Into U.S. Shipping Market With Remote Truck Driver, New Products, and New York HQ

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…also partnered with customers Oatly, Bridgestone, and GE Appliances, a Haier company. Since Oct. 1, 2020, Einride said its partners have seen a 90% decrease in CO2 emissions with electrical transport, while matching the cost of diesel. Einride will officially establish a U.S. headquarters in New York, where parts of the leadership team will be based. In addition to its…


Kodiak Robotics Announces Fourth Generation of Autonomous Truck Sensors, Plans to Double Self-Driving Fleet

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…Kodiak trucks run exclusively on Bridgestone tires, and they will be equipped with Bridgestone cloud-connected sensors to capture critical tire-centric data. That data will be analyzed and processed into live actionable insights, increasing uptime, safety, and operational efficiency, said the company. As NVIDIA DRIVE Orin becomes available, Kodia plans to use the supercomputing platform. With more than 250 TOPS (trillion…


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