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Comau Introduces N-220 Industrial Robot With Streamlined Design for Ease of Use

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…potential, the N-220 implements Nodal speech-based coding language for open, easy programming, the company explained. “Comau has leveraged its long-standing experience in industrial robotics to respond to the increasing need for new-generation automation that is also cost-effective and easy to use,” said Pietro Ottavis, chief technology officer of Comau. “It’s the right product at the right time.” The company added…


Secretary Walsh Participates in MassRobotics Panel on the Influence of Robotics on the U.S. Job Market

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…Joe Biden recently gave a speech at the ARM Institute's headquarters in Pittsburgh about the role that organization is playing in building out the economy by helping train manufacturing workers. Before his speech, Biden spoke with Moskowitz about the narrative that robots are taking jobs from people. Ira Moskowitz, CEO of the ARM Institute “We all talked about this narrative,…


ReWalk Robotics, Imago Rehab Join Massachusetts Funded Wearables Research With Harvard, Boston University

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…in occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech, language and hearing sciences, health science, human physiology, behavior and health, and nutrition. Funds go to four research projects The funding will initially support four specific research projects. They are part Harvard and BU’s broader efforts to commercialize research that can help people recover injury, extend capabilities as they age, and restore them to…


Mitsubishi Electric Announces New Robot Control System Designed to Cut Production Times

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…AI system, which includes high-precision speech recognition software, 3D sensors and cameras, to help its robots sort and arrange items. Maisart is an abbreviation for “Mitsubishi Electric's AI creates the State-of-the-ART in technology.” Workers will be able to dictate commands to the robot system either by voice or by using a tablet. The system is pre-programmed to complete tasks and…


Gaumard Scientific to Introduce HAL S5301 Multidisciplinary Patient Simulator

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…“Using the latest technology, conversational speech and AI have been incorporated to emulate real life. For the first time, we have developed a simulator for brain injury training with highly advanced motor movements. HAL S5301 brings Gaumard's most advanced technologies to offer the world's most advanced simulator.” The Miami-based company designs and manufactures simulators that have demonstrated value for emergency…


NVIDIA General Manager of Robotics Says ROS, Simulation Will Advance Robotics in 2022

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…such as industrial kitchens. Improvements in natural language understanding will enable speech-enabled robotics applications for customer service and entertainment.


AI Becoming an Essential Feature for Picking Robots

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…a virtual assistant using AI-augmented speech and voice recognition based on natural language processing.” This progress seems to be accelerating, pushing the state of the art in underlying tools, methods, and sensors that are also critical for the machine vision and motion planning systems that are at the heart of autonomous picking systems, Martinelli added. “Robotic arm costs have come…


Gaumard Scientific Robotic Simulators Show Value in Training Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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…dynamic facial expressions, movement, and speech,” claimed the company. In addition, Gaumard supplies the SUSIE childbirth torso and ZOE gynecological trainer. Bridging the uncanny valley “One of the benefits of simulation is that we can reproduce high-risk, low-frequency complications over and over until the learner gets it right,” Archetto said. “They may occur only once or never in training, but…


Lucas Systems, Fetch Robotics to Jointly Optimize Warehouse Worker and Robot Collaboration

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…23 years, so our AI-driven speech engine has been refined to handle noisy warehouse environments, as well as multiple languages. How will the joint offering be sold—directly, or through third parties? Ramoutar: We have a flexible model where the joint Lucas-Fetch solutions can be purchased directly or through partner channels, depending on customer preference. When will the integrated solutions be…


WellSaid Labs Raises $10M Series A Round to Build ‘Human-Parity’ Synthetic Voices

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…on AI challenge Creating natural-sounding speech from text is considered a “grand challenge” in the field of AI and has been a research goal for decades. Over the past three years, WellSaid Labs said it has developed advances in the quality, speed, and reliability of neural text-to-speech (TTS) systems. In June 2020, the company claimed that its TTS technnology became…


How Amazon Integrates Physical and Emerging Digital Technologies With AWS IoT

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…language processing, machine learning models, speech synthesis, and all of the other complexity is performed in a digital system that sits beyond the walls of your home but is able to connect to that door lock and perform a physical action on your behalf. For an end user, the beauty of Alexa is that they don’t have to know how…


MegaRobo Raises $30M Series B for Light Robotics, IoT

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…Lee, who developed a continuous speech-recognition system for his doctoral thesis at Carnegie Mellon University and who later led Microsoft Research Asia and Google China. “MegaRobo's technology increases efficiency in production automation,” stated Dr. Ingo Ramesohl, managing director at RBVC. “Already today, robots from MegaRobo are used for special applications in the end-of-line production of household appliances at Bosch. Beyond…


Microsoft Buys Conversational AI Firm Nuance Communications for $19.7B

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…reporting. All of these clinical speech-recognition products are built on Microsoft Azure and offered through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Nuance added that its systems are designed to work with core healthcare systems, including electronic health records (EHRs), to alleviate the burden of clinical documentation and empower providers to deliver better patient experiences. It added that more than 55% of physicians…


Warehouse Mobility Makes a Move

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…and Steve Yurrick, director of speech and mobile technologies at Lucas, talk about a recent innovation—a multi-modal picking system that runs on an Android smart watch. They say the first application is at a UK third-party logistics (3PL) provider that operates a multi-channel DC for one of the country’s largest cell phone retailers. Previously, the operation was guided by a…


NVIDIA Ships Advanced AI System

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…Thai natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, computer vision and medical imaging. Element AI—a Montreal-based developer of AI-powered solutions and services—is deploying DGX A100 to accelerate performance and feature optimization for its Orkestrator GPU scheduler to meet growing AI training and application demands. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) will use the DGX A100 systems to further accelerate its…


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