Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.27
…utility knives and two-way radios to personal computers and GPS receivers. On average, workers across all occupations nationally use about six tools to perform their jobs; however, workers in the trucking industry use about 27 tools on average, requiring a greater depth of knowledge and training that make it more difficult to automate their activities. Some workers use considerably more tools, including automotive service technicians (173), compliance officers (108), and truck mechanics (97). Occupations that use the most tools in the trucking industry, including degree of automation, 2015 Finally, there are some overarching regulations that could stall the automation impacts…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.47
…platform for autonomous navigation for drones and robots in GPS-denied environments. It also develops a hardware-optimized solution for indoor navigation for mobile phones and AR/VR glasses with low power consumption. HEBI Robotics—Modular series elastic actuator designed to function as full-featured robotic components. The modules quickly create custom robots of virtually any configuration from wheeled robots to collaborative robotic arms with multi-degrees of freedom. Kinema Systems—Addresses the depalletizing problem where boxes are picked off a pallet and placed onto a conveyor. The Kinema Pick product combines a custom 3D/2D sensor with 3D vision, deep learning, and motion-planning software to provide an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.18
…allow you to plan a detour. It’s tapping the GPS of all those other drivers to see which ones are slow. We’re doing the same thing for material flow. For complex systems handling thousands of orders per hour, predicting and preventing bottlenecks adds a lot of value. Modern: What is the importance of software in today’s distribution center and factory? And what kinds of data are customers asking for that they didn’t ask for in the past? Roach: Mark Andreessen wrote Mosaic, the first graphical browser for the Internet before co-founding Netscape. He was quoted a few years ago as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
…magnets and/or magnetic tape or localized global positioning systems (GPS). Innovations like simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)—or, building a localized map while at the same time localizing the robot within that map—are allowing mobile robots to “become completely autonomous in the work environment,” says Wohlrab, “rather than having to operate on a fixed path.” Discovering robotics’ Holy Grail Digging down into the technology and engineering that’s driving the modern-day robot, components like actuators, sensors, arms, hands and cameras (to name just a few) are all getting faster, more accurate and more cost-effective every year. At JBT Corp., for example, Mark…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 12.05
PINC provides scalable software, hardware, and services that enable companies to identify, locate, and orchestrate inventory throughout the supply chain predictably and cost-effectively. The company’s cloud-based real-time tracking platform, powered by an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network that includes passive RFID, GPS, computer vision, cellular, and other sensors, provides actionable insights and connected expert guidance that allow organizations to optimize their supply chain execution. PINC is part of Kaleris, an Accel-KKR Portfolio Company.