Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 64.21
AMD has announced Azure Data Explorer, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution optimized for data exploration and near real-time analytics, will now offer customers access to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC processors. In a collaboration between AMD, Azure compute and Azure Data Explorer, the Azure Data Explorer service is now offering the AMD EPYC processor based Azure Dav4, Eav4, Easv4 and Lsv2 VMs for use. The family of AMD EPYC processor based Azure VMs enables Azure Data Explorer customers to gain up to 30%–50% more performance on data analytics workloads for the same cost. With this performance…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 39.36
…has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to further integrate Azure cloud, HPC, digital twin and IoT services offerings. According to the company, Ansys Cloud, the underlying platform for running Ansys products in the cloud, integrates Azure cloud and HPC services with Ansys simulation technologies. New features will enable customers to use their existing software licenses and reduce modeling run times by increasing cores per job. Additionally, the company says the features will deliver price-performance improvements and incorporate customers’ existing Azure contracts. This could make it easier for larger organizations to migrate from on-premises HPC to Ansys Cloud. “As a strategic…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.35
…be able to connecting its new sensor to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform for logistics, retail, healthcare, and fitness applications. Orbbec to launch ToF cameras Orbbec announced its plan at CES 2021 to introduce its new time-of-flight (ToF) camera product line, supporting multiple ToF sensors, on-board depth computing, six-axis IMU (inertial measurement unit) motion tracking, and multi-camera synchronization. ToF is a technology for capturing the exact position and shape of objects and scenes, said Orbbec. Similar in principle of how ultrasound uses sound waves to create an image, ToF uses light to measure shapes, movement, and position of static or moving…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.23
…deployment of micro-fulfillment solutions for eGrocery will use Microsoft Azure Private Edge Zones, Azure Stack Edge and Azure Sphere. They will also use Azure Data & AI to unlock insights across the digital supply chain. The Network Supply Chain model will also integrate into Microsoft’s on-premises hybrid-cloud Azure Stack Edge, which powers both the operational Nexus and robotics via integrated LTE/5G wireless communications. “The FoodX software platform is the ideal partner for Attabotics and its hardware,” said Scott Gravelle, Attabotics Founder, CEO and CTO. “The ability to save retailers time and money is more important than ever, and that’s why…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.05
…graphics processing unit-accelerated supercomputer in the cloud on Microsoft Azure. Built to handle demanding artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing applications, the largest deployments of Azure’s new NDv2 instance rank among the world’s fastest supercomputers, offering up to 800 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected on a single Mellanox InfiniBand backend network, NVIDIA reports. It enables customers for the first time to rent an entire AI supercomputer on demand from their desk, and match the capabilities of large-scale, on-premises supercomputers that can take months to deploy. “Until now, access to supercomputers for AI and high-performance computing has been reserved for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.07
…an end-to-end architecture for autonomous mobile robots on Microsoft Azure that can enable new business applications across industries, reduce upfront costs, and allow for the rapid implementation of customer-specific use cases. “This platform sets the power of Microsoft Azure on the move by bringing it from the cloud to the edge and into highly advanced mobile robotic devices, giving them the autonomy to unlock novel business use cases,” stated Filippo Rizzante, chief technology officer of Reply. “Thanks to the agile reference architecture, we are able to implement customer-specific use cases in various industries that include all types of mobile robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.86
…autonomous driving (AD) on the Microsoft cloud computing platform Azure, the company says. dSPACE will work with Microsoft to offer research and development engineers in the automotive industry an end-to-end solution that is scalable, secure, efficient and agile, dSPACE reports. The development of ADAS/AD functions relies on capturing large volumes of data from the vehicle perception sensors, buses and networks, and on generating simulated scenarios to analyze the behavior of the software, individual systems and subsystems, as well as complete, integrated systems. The incoming data has to be enriched to a usable format, and it must be easy to distribute…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.36
…leverages Microsoft’s cloud, industrial IoT and edge services, including Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge, enabling manufacturers to connect individual sites and implement projects across their enterprise network. This enables customers to save time and money by reducing the complexity that they typically undertake as part of an industrial internet of things (IIoT) implementation and greater digital transformation effort. Factory Insights as a Service is an on-ramp for manufacturers interested in improving their operations by providing intelligence and insights on operational performance, asset use and workforce efficiency. “Factory Insights as a Service offers our industrial customers a leaner, accelerated…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.15
…serve the public, have partnered to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems. OpenAI was founded in late 2015 by Elon Musk and Sam Altman who were motivated in part by concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence. Through this new partnership, the companies will accelerate breakthroughs in AI and power OpenAI’s efforts to create artificial general intelligence (AGI). The resulting enhancements to the Azure platform will also help developers build the next generation of AI applications. The partnership covers the following: Microsoft and OpenAI will jointly build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies OpenAI will port its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.65
…for how robots can help in everyday life.” Microsoft Azure to provide AI infrastructure for deployment support Figure will leverage Microsoft Azure for AI infrastructure, training, and storage. “We are excited to collaborate with Figure and work towards accelerating AI breakthroughs,” said Jon Tinter, Corporate Vice President of Business Development at Microsoft. “Through our work together, Figure will have access to Microsoft's AI infrastructure and services to support the deployment of humanoid robots to assist people with real world applications.” Figure recently announced commercial agreement with BMW The Figure team is made up of individuals knowledgeable in AI-enabled robotics from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.21
…Operating System (ROS) in Windows 10, Linux, and the Azure Web services. The software company has been focusing on industry-specific cloud/edge computing, including Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Its projects for intelligent robotics include “responsible conversational AI.” Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications said its conversational AI and “ambient intelligence” are used by 77% of U.S. hospitals and 85% of Fortune 100 companies worldwide. The company's products include Dragon Ambient eXperience, Dragon Medical One, and PowerScribe One for radiology reporting. All of these clinical speech-recognition products are built on Microsoft Azure and offered through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Nuance added that its systems…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.77
…Capital is a growth equity firm focused on late-stage technology companies in transportation, logistics, and energy. Wayve is using Azure, the cloud computing platform of new investor Microsoft, to scale its machine learning platform. Azure is providing the compute and storage required to run autonomous driving development and testing workloads. Wayve added that Microsoft Azure enables it to conduct machine learning experimentation and improve autonomy performance.