Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.70
…which includes sensors, an autonomy stack, and visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM), and adapt it to specific applications, Talla told Robotics 24/7. Electronics makers embrace digitalization Leading electronics manufacturers are working to optimize their workcells and assembly-line operations while reducing production costs, said NVIDIA. The company noted that the $46 trillion electronics manufacturing industry includes more then 10 million factories that could benefit from digitalization. “Manufacturers globally spend more than $6 trillion a year in pursuit of quality control, and they apply defect detection on nearly every product line,” wrote Adam Scraba, director of product marketing, in a blog…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.68
…system, or ROS, which is largely related to navigation, localization and travel, much like a warehouse control system controls a conveyor or sorter. On top of that, the robot is continually observing warehouse conditions that might impact how it gets from Point A to Point B and learning from recently completed routes. “The robot is always making mental notes about the warehouse conditions so on its next trip, it might try a different route,” says Karen Leavitt, chief marketing officer for Locus Robotics. If you have more than one robot, they are sharing that information with the central server, much…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.60
…its robots use to “learn” a new facility simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM, says Drexler. The resulting “spatial representation” the robots acquire about a DC helps deployment speed and adds to the base flexibility of adding more vehicles, he says. AR as accelerator Augmented reality (AR) glasses are another promising technology for making warehouse automation more agile. In particular, Microsoft’s HoloLens AR glasses—which allow a view of the physical reality, but can mix that view with holographic information—are seen as a promising means of mimicking hard-wired, pick-to-light solutions. Matthews Automation has been developing with HoloLens to achieve a virtual…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.42
…This will require the development of camera-based algorithms for localization, object detection, classification, semantic segmentation, and path planning. These sidewalk robots are still far from being totally autonomous. First, they are often deployed in environments such as US university campuses where there is little sidewalk traffic and where the sidewalks are well-structured. Many robots are also restricted to daylight and perception-free conditions. Critically, the suppliers also have remote tele-operator centers. The ratio of operators to robots will need to be kept to an absolute minimum if such businesses are to succeed. There is still much work to do to improve…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.27
…in unknown or dynamic environments. SLAM — or simultaneous localization and mapping — can be used to generate 3D maps of environments with camera images from multiple viewpoints, but it requires revisions when objects move and environments are changed. To help overcome some of these shortcomings, the NVIDIA Robotics research team has co-developed with the University of Washington a new model, dubbed Motion Policy Networks (or MπNets). MπNets is an end-to-end neural policy that generates collision-free motion in real time using a continuous stream of data coming from a single fixed camera. MπNets has been trained on more than 3…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.08
…trade discussions led to conversations about near-shoring or the localization of production, like moving production to Turkey to serve Western Europe or Mexico for the United States. You mentioned risk management and recovery. Are companies rewriting their playbooks? I believe so. COVID-19 has pushed us to be more flexible and agile than ever before. And our customer base is asking us for digital tools, such as risk management platforms with predictive analytics, to understand where disruptions might come from. We’ll see more and more future requests. As a supply chain leader, is your strategy changing? Our strategy in SCS is…