Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.87
…to racing at “The Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco” at the Texas Motor Speedway on Friday, Nov. 11 in Fort Worth, Texas. This comes after a record-setting competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last October, and making history at CES 2022 in January with the world’s first-ever, head-to-head autonomous racing competition. The history of IAC The IAC started as a $1 million prize competition with 41 university teams signing up to compete more than two years ago, representing top engineering and technology programs from 14 U.S. states and 11 countries. Based in Indiana, the IAC said it is working…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.43
…drive-by-wire system. It also has wireless communication technology from Cisco that allows the vehicles to communicate with each other and with race control. All in all, these vehicles are about over a million dollars in terms of hardware and software and technology. Does the university raise funds through sponsorship to attain the car and all required accessories? Mitchell: Much of the hardware and software on the car is provided through sponsorships, fitting the autonomous challenge secures 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.08
…grand prize in the Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). CES 2023 preps starting line “Collaborating with partners like AWS, Cisco, Continental, Dallara, dSPACE, and Luminar, the IAC is pushing limits for the entire autonomous community and helping to increase safety and performance of this life-saving technology, not only in motorsports, but across all modes of commercial transportation,” said the CTA. It added that next January's vehicles will include a boosted engine package. The next Autonomous Challenge @ CES will be limited to CES 2023 attendees, and transportation will be available from the Las…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.92
…Munich, yesterday won the Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco. TUM competed in a field of nine teams from 21 universities to win the $1 million grand prize in the first autonomous racecar competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The rules of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) required each team to compete in a fastest-lap competition that included an obstacle-avoidance component. The winning team recorded a two-lap average speed of 135.944 mph on the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) oval. Organized by Energy Systems Network and the IMS, the IAC said its primary goal is to advance technology that can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.18
…It also won the Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco at the Texas Motor Speedway in November (see full video below). TII EuroRacing—University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the Technology Innovation Institute (United Arab Emirates) TUM Autonomous Motorsport—Technical University of Munich (Germany), which won the Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco in October 2021 We're always working with the teams, not only to ensure a level playing field, but also to encourage collaboration,” said Mitchell. “It also gets more challenging, as we have healthy debates on how aggressive to be before we publish the rules.” IAC to exhibit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.54
…shape of the labor market. Oxford Economics collaborated with Cisco to study the implications of these trends on jobs over the next decade. The results are based on a brand-new, multi-layered modeling framework, that enables Cisco to simulate the real-world dynamics of technological change and its interaction with the world of work. They found that 6.5 million US workers will have to seek out a new profession over the next decade. Workers in transport, lower-level manufacturing, and agriculture jobs will face a difficult time. Meanwhile, they see new jobs emerging in other areas, such as computing, management, and media, as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.11
…senior vice president of engineering. Velusamy has shipped a number of industry defining products, including the Amazon Echo and Cisco’s first Telepresence System. In addition, John Moretti has joined as head of product, bringing expertise and experience from his work at Dishcraft Robotics and Wonder Workshop. Robust.AI is currently speaking with potential hardware partners for the development of Carter and with early customers for the product.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.97
…started to scratch the surface with blockchain.” Digital transformation: Cisco Most people think of Cisco as a world-class high-tech company. But four years ago, the company wondered why it couldn’t also be a world-class logistics company. As Cisco’s senior director of global logistics, Jack Allen was tapped to lead the project dubbed Logistics 3.0. “From the beginning, our objective was to enhance the customer experience, not make money on the logistics of moving parts around for our suppliers and customers,” Allen explains. Not that the whole idea didn’t give him pause. “A digital transformation of logistics is not just a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.04
…technology companies. Today, the Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco will take place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Nine teams with participants from from 21 universities and nine nations have programmed Dallara AV-21 racecars in pursuit of the $1 million first-place prize. The primary goal of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) is to advance technology that can speed the deployment of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles. It is also a platform for students to excel in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). University teams The following teams are competing in the Indy Autonomous Challenge:…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.24
…Chain Awards, representatives from Geodis, IBM, Johnson Controls, DHL, Cisco and IDC participated in a closing award panel that was moderated by Bob Trebilcock and touched on a host of topics of interest to senior-level supply chain executives. Day 2 highlights: Digitizing the supply chain “I feel like I’m living in a science fiction novel all of the time,” said Cisco’s Jack Allen, a veteran supply chain management expert whose second-day keynote focused on the digitization of the supply chain. “Things are happening now because we imagined them a long time ago,” he added. Jack Allen of Cisco speaks to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.24
…from leading research universities. Sponsors include big companies like Cisco and Luminar. Public policy is a helpful background. How is today's race different from October's race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS)? Mitchell: Teams must still be able to demonstrate their capabilities, but it's a smaller in-person crowd. It's open to CES attendees but scaled back due to COVID-19. Going back to the IMS, we showcased where the 19 teams were in their journey toward eventual head-to-head racing. Based on a variety of conditions, like weather, we didn't feel that putting multiple cars on track was a safe bet at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.20
…next year from BOXX, Dell, HP and Lenovo, among others, according to NVIDIA. Likewise, A40-based servers are expected from Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo. The NVIDIA RTX A6000 will be available from channel partners including PNY, Leadtek, Ingram Micro, Ryoyo and on nvidia.com starting in mid-December. Both GPUs will be available from OEM workstation and server vendors worldwide starting early in 2021. Support for NVIDIA virtual GPU software, including NVIDIA Virtual Workstation, will be available early next year.