Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.57
…AI has already crept into average consumer tech, evident in iPhone's personal assistant Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, and in Google's autocompletion of user sentences. NVIDIA's betting it will become part of enterprise workflow, largely driven by the parallel-processing power of the GPU. The acquisition, new products, and featured speakers at the NVIDIA's GTC reinforces this belief. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces the JETSON Nano, a $99 AI computer for the maker community. Image courtesy of NVIDIA.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.39
…SpaceX. Parallel Systems' staff includes about 25 engineers from Google, Tesla, Uber, SpaceX, and more. Startup promises more flexible freight Although the U.S. has the world’s most expansive railroad system, with over 140,000 miles of track, less than 3% of that network is occupied by active trains at any given moment, estimated Parallel Systems. To make freight deliveries economical, today’s railroads typically focus on moving shipping containers more than 500 miles. Parallel said it has identified an opportunity to bring more business to rail by improving the unit economics over shorter distances. A more flexible system would alleviate pressure on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.33
…more tech-savvy folks.” “FedEx is also testing drones with Google Wing in Christianburg, Va., which is a small town where we're certified for bad weather and have some controls,” Prather said. “We're going to have to be really selective on where use cases make sense. New York City is too chaotic and dense. How would you open a door and get in an elevator? Does that even make sense in terms of ROI [return on investment]? We'll see folks enter and exit this space.” “We need a robot that can operate in both indoor settings like our sort facilties and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.11
…of robotics technology, along with tech companies such as Google, NVIDIA, and Intel. New-age AV startups such as Zoox, AutoX, and Optimus Ride have attracted huge investments. In addition, as AV companies grow to meet the challenge of human-robot collaboration at the level required to bring self-driving vehicles to market, the horizon for leveraging these solutions for other robotics applications could expand. There has been a lot of interest in delivery and disinfection systems during the pandemic, but are they sustainable as consumer habits shift again? Sharma: The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has increased an interest in robots, drones, and AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.93
…If you’re looking for a visual, think back to Google glasses. Zebra’s Wheeler says the display enables hands-free directed workflows. Instead of constantly redirecting attention to an out-of-view screen on a separate mobile device, the associate reads the needed information directly from a tiny screen mounted on the glasses. A mounted camera can also feed to a remote location a full view of what the person is seeing. Meanwhile, the glasses can receive and display an augmented reality feed from a remote location to aid problem solving right at the point of interest. Tying it all together As all of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.92
…development investment today. We recently announced our move to Google Cloud, which will support more mobile experience, data collection, and more advanced inventory analytics. With Sam's Club, we have more scale than any other robotics company on the planet, and our intention is to build on that scale. Is interoperability among robots from multiple vendors a concern in terms of fleet management? Pinn: Commercial environments are different from industrial environments, where one can do a greenfield deployment or have more control. Factories and warehouses can mix and match and create proprietary integrations. Brain's retail partners value enterprise-grade turnkey solutions. Any…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.80
…is gaining traction with shippers serving small regional markets. Google’s parent company Alphabet, for example, has the FAA’s blessing to begin food delivery in Virginia using the same drone technology it now uses for food logistics in Australia. Amazon introduced its Prime Air delivery drone last June, with the intent to deliver food from the Amazon platform. Finally, Uber Eats is testing the first-ever commercial application of drone food delivery in high-density urban areas. The initial customer tests will showcase what the future of food logistics may look like for millions of consumers worldwide. Ryan Hammer, corporate vice president and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.58
…is the equivalent of combined revenues of Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu and then some (a lot) more. It is also a big employer: the US Bureau of Labour Statistics suggests that 1.79m people work in this sector driving 7.2m trucks for inter-city freight transport earning an average salary of 41.3 k$/year. No wonder this is a hot topic now then. Trucking is also potentially an easier target than general passenger cars. This is because it spends much of its time in intercity roads which are less congested and less sinuous than city ones. The driver may remain in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.49
…and helped develop Street View and other technologies at Google. At Teleo, they lead a team with decades of technology and construction industry experience from companies such as Tesla, Amazon, Zoox, BAE Systems, and Topcon. Teleo is backed by UP.Partners, Trucks Venture Capital, F-Prime Capital, K9 Ventures, and YCombinator, among others. Later this year, the startup plans to launch semi-autonomous operations in addition to its remote operations offering. Contruction partners plan for more deployments Tomahawk Construction Fort Myers, Fla.-based Tomahawk Construction has partnered with Teleo to deploy its technology on 12 articulated dump trucks for land development of residential subdivisions,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.28
…by road scanning firms like Atlatec, data giants like Google and autonomous car developers themselves. Hexagon’s product line includes the Leica Pegasus mapping platform. With connection to VTD, the product lets engineers speed up road digitization. In one project, geospatial consultant Transcend Spatial Solutions used the Pegasus system to map and digitize the span of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge (“Demystifying Mobile Mapping,” xyHt, June 2016, xyht.com). TASS International’s parent company Siemens has a partnership with Bentley Systems, known for architecture and infrastructure software. “We can import data from Bentley Systems and automatically generate a full 3D city map within…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.23
…in a very real way. As the likes of Google and Apple pour resources into the development of driverless technology, the decreased price and improved performance of the vehicles are benefiting the makers of driverless industrial vehicles. Already, Amazon is poised to become one of the biggest users—and suppliers—of automatic guided vehicles in the warehousing and distribution space. But AGVs aren’t just for those with big budgets and massive operations. In fact, AGVs aren’t even always AGVs. The “guided” part of that acronym, familiar from decades of autonomous vehicles designed to follow magnetic tapes, wires and other fixed paths, is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.18
…and now employs 500 engineers to perfect the technology. Google spun off its self-driving car company Waymo, which is working on self-driving trucks with the big truck manufacturers Daimler and Volvo. Switching to automated drivers will not only save billions, but it also has the potential to save thousands of lives. Crashes involving large trucks killed 3,903 people in the US in 2014, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and a further 110,000 people were injured. More than 90% of the accidents were caused at least in part by driver error. Driver fatigue is a factor in roughly…