Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.42
August 16, 2023
…of India's manufacturing industry.” DFI supports mobile robots with Qualcomm As the use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) increases, the performance demands are also higher, noted DFI. The company has developed the QRB551, which it claimed is “the world's first single-board computer” (SBC) with the QRB5165 high-performance processor. This product works with Qualcomm's RB5 robot development platform, whose low power consumption and high performance make it suitable for integrating 5G networking and top-level edge AI for robotics innovations, said DFI. In addition, the QRB551 address AI applications such as appearance identification, defect detection, and human…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.32
July 17, 2023
…San Francisco-based Ware, which was acquired by Gather AI. Qualcomm joins investors In March, Verity announced that it had raised an initial $32 million in Series B funding. In this latest investment, Qualcomm Ventures joined backers including A.P. Moller Holding and Exor Ventures, the venture capital arm of Exor, whose portfolio includes Ferrari, Juventus FC, and The Economist. Existing investors included Fontinalis Partners, Airbus Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, ROBO Global Ventures, and Verve Ventures. “The supply chain of the future is autonomous and automated,” stated Boaz Peer, senior director of Qualcomm Israel Ltd. and managing director of Qualcomm Ventures Israel…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.88
April 12, 2023
…“hardware zoo” at CES included systems from Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA—all running the same code, said Nicholson. “Our SDK [software development kit] makes it all possible to tune the algorithms, port them, and test them on low-cost sensors,” he added. Vision, lidar, and 'living, breathing' digital twins Where does SLAMcore fall in the ongoing tug of war between lidar and vision systems? “We're not anti-lidar, but we're vision-first,” Nicholson replied. “Lidar will never be as affordable as a CMOS [complementary metal-oxide semiconductor] sensor, but we'll integrate with it. In the warehouse, if you've put down magnetic strips, you can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.64
March 17, 2023
…Specifically, the company will highlight its recent partnership with Qualcomm, since it is taking advantage of its robotics platforms, it said. Robots from the company's Flex Series line are mainly used for piece-picking, Guen noted, while robots from its Apex Series are used to carry pallets. Robots from its Max Series are used to handle similar items to the Flex Series but can handle higher case-and-pallet picking payloads. Its robots use lidar, computer vision and IMU sensors to navigate. Guen estimated that the Flex Series in particular will be popular in the U.S. market given the demand for more robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.18
February 16, 2023
…yesterday announced that it has received strategic investment from Qualcomm Ventures and Zebra Technologies. The Union City, Calif.-based company said the latest, unspecified funding brings its total financing to $70 million. Third Wave Automation (TWA) said the investment will enable it to accelerate innovation as its first product expands its select pilot program. It also plans to develop systems to automate other classes of forklifts, including narrow-aisle and counterbalance trucks. “With the strategic investment from Qualcomm Ventures and Zebra Technologies, we look forward to scaling production of our fork trucks, deploying them with new customers in a wide variety of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.89
January 19, 2023
…a founding member of ROBO Global’s advisory board and Qualcomm chair of robotics at the University of California San Diego, has joined the company as a board advisor. Outrider plans to continue growth Since announcing its Series B funding in 2020, Outrider said it has performed tens of thousands of fully autonomous trailer moves at customer sites and its Advanced Testing Facility. It claimed that its test site was the first in the world dedicated to yard automation. Fast Company recognized Outrider as a top 10 company in the logistics category in its 2022 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” list. Outrider…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.02
July 18, 2022
…of California, Berkeley. He was a co-founder of Snaptracs, Qualcomm’s consumer electronics subsidiary. Pinn oversaw the successful sale of the business, which led to a merger with Whistle and a $117 million acquisition by Mars. David Pinn. Source: LinkedIn Prior to joining Brain Corp, Pinn was head of finance for Antenna79, a technology startup backed by L Catterton, where he helped raise $94.9 million in private equity funding. Since joining Brain Corp in 2017, Pinn has held a variety of executive positions including chief strategy officer, and most recently, chief financial officer. In these roles, he helped lead Brain Corp’s…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 38.83
May 10, 2022
…few years but have been constrained by available hardware. Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today unveiled its expanded road map of 5G and edge artificial intelligence systems, including its new Qualcomm Robotics RB6 Platform and the Qualcomm RB5 AMR Reference Design. The San Diego, Calif.-based company said its new products will enable innovations in industrial automation, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), drones, urban air mobility (UAM), delivery robots, autonomous defense systems, and more. From the Amazon Astro consumer device and the Perseverance rover on Mars to wireless factories, robots “promise to make our lives easier, but many challenges remain,” noted Dev Singh, senior…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.23
April 26, 2022
…support safer, more reliable flight.” New system powered by Qualcomm ModalAI said VOXL 2 is powered by the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G platform. It is integrated with a PX4 real-time flight controller, which the company says has “an eight-core CPU up to 15 TOPs [trillions of operations per second].” The board also has seven image sensors, TDK internal measurement units, and barometer. The company spun out of chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies Inc in 2018. ModalAI is a Blue UAS Framework manufacturer, which means it works with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop component technologies. It also collaborates with Qualcomm. ModalAI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.48
April 14, 2022
…Investment Ltd. led Haomo.AI's Series A+ round, with participation by existing investor Shoucheng Holdings Ltd. Past investors include Meituan, Qualcomm Ventures, and GL Ventures. “Haomo is the most promising autonomous driving company in China, with proprietary core technologies,” said Liu Jian, chairman of Bank of China Group Investment, the direct investment arm of state-owned financial conglomerate Bank of China. “We expect the company, guided by its windmill strategy, to realize a virtuous circle of data, technology, and products through mass production and shipment and establishment of the MANA data intelligence system,” Liu added. Since the completion of this Series A+…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.36
March 14, 2022
…are working together under a new agreement devised by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., BMW Group, and Arriver Software to develop a scalable autonomous driving platform. The cooperation combines BMW’s autonomous driving (AD) technology, Arriver’s Vision Perception and New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) policy products, and Qualcomm’s chips, the companies said. A common goal They will focus on SAE Level 2 advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), SAE Level 3 automated driving functionalities, and NCAP solutions. The companies will build on top of BMW’s automated driving technology stack, which it launched in 2021 with the release of the BMW iX. The global ADAS market…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.06
March 14, 2022
…the Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge), outperforming teams from MIT, Qualcomm, Amazon, and others. ENOT has raised unspecified seed funding from New Nordic Venture. ENOT intends to cut computing costs ENOT.ai said its framework takes a trained neural network as input, after which it selects the sub-network with the lowest latency to ensure no accuracy degradation. The company said its neural architecture selection technology can achieve optimization ratios resulting in acceleration up to 20x and compression up to 25x. This can outperform other methods and reduce total hardware computing resource costs by as much as 70%, it claimed. ENOT explained that…
