Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.49
Amazon.com Inc. uses many robots in addition to those it acquired with Kiva Systems a decade ago. The Seattle-based e-commerce company noted that it has more than 750,000 robots working with its employees to relieve them of repetitive tasks. Amazon today announced that it is launching a new robot to help fulfill customer orders for the upcoming holiday shopping season. It is also testing Agility Robotics' mobile manipulation system. The new system, Sequoia, is already operating at an Amazon fulfillment center in Houston. Based on a series of research and development efforts at Amazon, Sequoia integrates multiple robots to containerize…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.62
…already used NVIDIA AI and the Jetson platform, including Amazon Web Services, Cisco, John Deere, Medtronic, PepsiCo, and Siemens, NVIDIA said. To accelerate AI application development and deployments at the edge, NVIDIA has also created a Generative AI Lab for Jetson developers to use with the latest open-source generative AI models. Generative AI could transform industries Generative AI can ease development by enabling users to provide more intuitive prompts and change AI models, said NVIDIA. Those models can be more flexible in detecting, segmenting, tracking, searching, and even reprogramming anything, it said. In addition, models created with generative AI can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.56
…intelligence to serve the global e-commerce, warehouse and distribution, and manufacturing industries. The Noida, India-based company recently partnered with Amazon Web Services to improve warehouse robot performance and opened a “smart factory” with Purdue University. Its U.S. offices are in Irvine, Calif.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.36
…it has earned the trust of companies including Google, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung, Hyundai, NASA, Sierra Space, and Blue Origin. It also works with partners including Formant, “There are few others in the industry of robotics with the capability of PickNik, especially capabilities as expansive as their abilities with dexterous manipulator control,” stated a robotics engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center. Investors see potential in solving complex problems Stellar Ventures and Cypress Growth Capital led PickNik Robotics' pre-seed round. The investment joins the company's existing $5 million in non-dilutive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding contracts with NASA's Johnson…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.20
…and storage systems. Interroll counts leading brands such as Amazon, Bosch, Coca-Cola, DHL, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, Walmart, and Zalando are among its users. It had a global network of 35 companies with sales of CHF 664.4 million ($720.75 million U.S.) and 2,500 employees as of 2022. Interroll's two-floor facility in Ticino, Switzerland, specialized in techno-polymer injection-molded parts, presented a logistical challenge. Materials handling between production and the logistics area required manual labor because existing systems couldn't provide the necessary flexibility for multi-floor operations in a dynamic environment with people and other equipment moving around. Interroll wanted to increase…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.65
…properly integrated and communicating. Moreover, most companies don’t have Amazon’s advantage of scale. So how can automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), lift trucks, and fleet management software provide greater operational agility? Note that demand is driving innovation. The global market for logistics robots could expand from $8.28 billion in 2023 to $38.13 billion by 2033 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.5%, according to Future Market Insights. “The adoption of logistics robots cuts down warehouse labor expenditure and helps businesses function efficiently,” it said. This does not mean that robots are taking jobs but that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.85
…president of worldwide sales before it was acquired by Amazon.com], while every client is unique, you want at least 60% of what you do to be the same for everybody.” VandenBrook is meeting with the rest of Onward Robotics' executive team next week about its roadmap. “We've built internal processes so that we go back and evaluate if there's an ROI [return on investment] every time we deploy capital,” he explained. “Does it align with our strategy? We've had to say, 'No,' numerous times over the past two years; there's only so much 65 employees can do.” “I’m inspired every…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.07
…University of Technology. The company has also collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and BT Group, which provide cloud and 5G communications infrastructure for its autonomous vehicle systems. Bridge round is another investment opportunity The Series A+ funding is a combination of equity and debt and the result partnership with an unnamed global private equity (PE) firm. Conigital declined to identify the PE firm but said it manages £150 billion ($185.7 billion) in assets. The company asserted that its latest investment positions it as “the highest-funded driverless vehicle startup in the U.K. and Europe.” Conigital said the funding is in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.83
…included: Tim Kentley-Klay, founder of Zoox, which exited to Amazon Ryan Gariepy, co-founder and chief technology officer Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors, which Rockwell Automation recently acquired Daniel Kottlarz, founder of MYBOTSHOP, largest robotics research reseller in Europe Tobias Redlin, founder of IGO3D, which said it is largest desktop 3D printer distributor in Europe Ascento’s funding included non-dilutive funding from the Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse and the European Space Agency incubator ESA BIC. “We accompanied the founder team for over a year as sparring partners and the dedication, execution speed and how the team is listening to its customers to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.82
…usage has slowed somewhat since the pandemic. For example, Amazon.com anticipated building lots of warehouses and paused on that. I don’t think it says anyting about long-term interest in mobile robots. It's not just logistics; there are lots of things for them to do both indoors and outdoors. As for cobots, that was another technology that when it was first on the scene people said would outstrip industrial robots. While that didn't happen, more and more companies are realizing they can do more with them now. It was the same with industrial robots—there was initial explosion of interest, then people…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.29
…through initiatives such as the ARM Institute's RoboticsCareer.org and Amazon's Mechatronics and Robotics Apprenticeship program. The U.S. Alliance of Robotics Clusters has also set onshoring as a priority. Its members—MassRobotics, Silicon Valley Robotics, and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network—have all pursued their own workforce development initiatives. Reshoring and nearshoring After trade conflicts with China, the COVID-19 pandemic, and other supply chain challenges, the U.S. and other countries have encouraged the production of automobiles, processors, and other goods closer to home. The CHIPS Act and Build Back Better Act have directed federal funds to reshoring for the computer and infrastructure industries, respectively.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.71
…“There are benefits to doing things that are beyond the black box.” This work is funded, in part, by Amazon, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and Ocado Group.