Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.67
…an algorithm called the Iterative Residual Policy (IRP), a general learning framework for repeatable tasks with complex dynamics. “Working with TRI has been an incredible experience,” she said. “The partnership has allowed us to leverage industry-level resources, which have been critical in driving our research forward. I am honored to have the opportunity to work with such a great team, and I am excited to see what we can accomplish together in the future.” Fuel cell catalyst durability Both hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen electrolyzers require catalyst materials that utilize expensive and rare elements such as platinum and iridium.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.45
…Australian manufacturer said it supplies some of the biggest companies in the world, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Apple, and General Motors. Advanced Navigation added that it has sales offices around the world and that it maintains carbon-neutral operations. In addition to novel autonomous subsea robotics, Advanced Navigation delivers AI-enhanced navigation technologies for land, sea, air, and space applications. The company said it “is committed to developing innovative products and systems that will be catalysts of the autonomy revolution.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.53
OTTO Motors and Kollmorgen today announced a strategic technical collaboration that they described as “a major milestone for the autonomous material handling industry.” The companies said they share a goal of delvering “exceptional” self-driving vehicle applications to original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators across industries globally. “As the autonomous material handling market matures, customers will expect all vehicles in their fleet to be intelligent machines,” stated Matt Rendall, co-founder and CEO of OTTO Motors. “We’re excited to cooperate with Kollmorgen to bring our AMR [autonomous mobile robot] technology to vehicles of all shapes and sizes.” With more than 15 years…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.55
…additional programs and curriculums that offer opportunities for the general workforce to develop the skills they need to work in robotics. For example, to meet the needs of neighboring businesses, Dallas College in South Dallas, Texas, recently developed a grant-funded mechatronics training program that provides its students with five mechatronics certifications in mechanical drives, fluid power, programmable logic controllers, electrical motor controls, and robotics. The program is based on the MRA program we created for our apprentices. Can you specify some of the skills that participants would be learning and using? Carter: The program teaches technical skills in areas such…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.27
…operations and manufacturing,” said Jim Lawton, vice president and general manager of robotics automation at Zebra Technologies. “Turnover rates are over 40% in both sectors, so labor is a constraint that must be dealt with.” “AMRs can quickly fill the labor gap. When AMRs collaborate with people, operational productivity, efficiency, and accuracy significantly improve,” he asserted. “Deploying even a small fleet of AMRs—as few as a dozen—that work autonomously with humans also adds a valuable measure of control.” The rise of autonomous mobile robots would not have happened without a number of technical advances, further convincing users of their value.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.38
…across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Its customers include General Motors, Volkswagen, and KUKA. Brightpick Autopicker designed for e-commerce, grocery “Brightpick Autopickers can pick and consolidate orders faster than any other fulfillment system,” Zizka said. “They do not need to travel back and forth to pick stations, which means warehouses need fewer robots, resulting in lower cost and complexity.” “What makes Brightpick Autopicker special is not just that it is an autonomous mobile picking robot, but also that it is part of an end-to-end solution for order fulfillment,” he added. “Brightpick started as a goods-to-person system that used AMRs to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.21
…excited to exhibit robots from our partners like OTTO Motors and other industry leaders.” “This is a space for the robotics community at large to learn and advance the state of the art in robot operations,” he added. “It’s also a place for everyone else—from kids to older adults—to experience how robots can help with everyday chores.” InOrbit addresses RobOps needs “Amazon is adding about a thousand robots a day,” according to Cathie Wood, chief investment officer and CEO of Ark Invest, as reported by CNBC. “If you compare the number of robots Amazon has to the number of employees,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.46
…robots based on operation complexity. Hierarchical Robot Learning Framework Based on Reinforcement Learning for Decision Making and Control Source: General Motors Principal Investigator: General Motors Project Team: GE Research, University of Virginia, and Siemens Corporation Project Description: This project seeks to employ a Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm to allow manufacturing robotic systems to perform new tasks with minimal or no manual intervention. The team will do this by building a hierarchical RL framework in which expert knowledge, historical data, and digital twins are used to effectively learn manipulation policies to perform unstructured tasks. These outputs are expected to reduce the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.14
…they visited us in our offices in Munich. In general, as time goes by, more and more investors are interested in construction robotics. Compared to the first pre-seed and seed raises we've done in 2018 and 2019, fundraising was easier, despite the pandemic and recession. Here are some interesting facts about KEWAZO's new investors: Fifth Wall—the world's largest ConTech/PropTech [construction and property technology] fund Cybernetix Ventures—Boston-based firm focused on robotics, automation, and AI startups Unorthodox Ventures—the investment firm by contrarian entrepreneur and Big Ass Fans founder Carey Smith Nemetschek—a Munich-headquartered construction industry software concern. Nemetschek Group includes companies such as…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.70
…a “significant” ADAS lidar series production award for its General Motors business. Cepton is also engaged with all Top 10 global OEMs. The previously announced investment, in the form of convertible preferred stock, was approved at a special meeting of Cepton stockholders on Jan. 11, 2023. It is convertible, beginning on the first anniversary of the issue date, into shares of the company’s common stock at an initial conversion price of $2.585 per share. “We’re excited to have completed our third investment in Cepton, which solidifies our commitment to lidar and increasing automotive safety for drivers worldwide,” said Michiaki Kato,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.41
…and Asia. Its customers include leading companies such as General Motors, Volkswagen, and KUKA. Currently, the U.S. accounts for approximately 25% of Photoneo Brightpick Group’s revenue. Photoneo Brightpick promises speedy deployment Brightpick said its robots autonomously pick, consolidate, and dispatch orders in large, small, and micro-fulfillment centers. The company claimed that its end-to-end system takes less than a month to deploy, enables warehouses to reduce their picking labor by 95%, and cuts costs for order fulfillment by half. Brightpick has been actively rolling out its warehouse automation in Europe, including with Rohlik Group, one of Europe’s largest online grocers, with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.65
…team via either locally hiring experienced talent from the Motor City or relocating members from Seoul. Our most most significant achievement was that we now have very tight partnerships with our valued customers ZF and Aptiv, and we got investment from them. Personally, I believe my family, including my husband who grew up in Minnesota, is enjoying our life here. My second- and fourth-grader sons are both in soccer and baseball teams. I played pickleball here for the first time and now am really enjoying it. The Michigan subsidiary opening has been a major step for STRADVISION, allowing us to…