Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.12
…Morgan Stanley has become head of strategic finance. Sumit Chopra, new head of software support, came from Cisco and Amazon Web Services. Dexterity is currently working with customers across North America and Japan.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.12
…mobile robot maker Kiva Systems, which was acquired by Amazon and rebranded to Amazon Robotics. He is currently Sony’s AI America director and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2020. Rick Faulk: CEO of Locus Robotics and former CEO of Quiet Logistics, with more than 30 years of experience in the logistics industry. Elaine Chen: a well-known roboticist, currently director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts University and former entrepreneur in residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. Amar Sawhney: a prolific serial entrepreneur in the medical devices industry, currently CEO of Pramand…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.10
…76 research institutes. Like other organizations — including BMW, Amazon, and Siemens — Fraunhofer IML relies on NVIDIA Omniverse for advanced applied research, said NVIDIA Corp. Fraunhofer IML moves from MP3s to AMRs The Fraunhofer Society has more than 30,000 employees and is involved in hundreds of research projects. In the 1990s, for instance, Fraunhofer was responsible for the development of the MP3 file format, which it said led to the digital music revolution. Seeking to send AGVs along the same path as the compact disc, Fraunhofer in 2013 launched the Smart Transport Robot (STR). BMW and others now widely…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.09
…warehouse automation company Kiva Systems, which was acquired by Amazon in 2012. The Zurich, Switzerland-based company said it has combined fully autonomous drones with advanced data analytics to provide insights that enable increased operational efficiencies. Verity aims for inventory market leadership Verity said its clients can gain real-time visibility and precise control over their inventory, cut labor and equipment costs, improve customer service, and reduce CO2 emissions. The company claimed that its data collection and analysis system is reliable and can be installed in one week. With installations across 13 countries, Verity asserted that it is “the market leader in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.08
…and Vanderlande. Representatives from leading global companies attended, including Amazon, DHL Supply Chain, FedEx, General Electric, GXO Logistics, Moderna, Siemens, Target, Toyota, and UPS. In addition, the 2023 keynote session focused on how clothing provider Ariat International reimagined its operations by automating its warehouses. Matthew S. Hardenberg, vice president of distribution for Ariat International, was joined by John Santagate, vice president of robotics for Körber Supply Chain Software, and Randy Randolph, vice president of channels & partnerships at Geekplus America. This year’s event will highlight new developments in these applications and more. How to speak at the 2024 Robotics Applications…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.07
…24 through race day on Nov. 11 where the competition will be live broadcast via Twitch in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.05
…challenges of developing robotics applications. Organizations such as NASA, Amazon, Formant, and Kindred have partnered with the company to develop robotics applications. PickNik leads MoveIt development PickNik Robotics also leads the development of the open-source MoveIt project, a widely used framework within the Robot Operating System (ROS). Companies and academics use the motion-planning software to enable robotic arms to interact with and manipulate objects. MoveIt is now used worldwide in hundreds of robots, including projects by Google, Microsoft, Fetch Robotics, Kinova, and Franka Emika. For example, robotic arms are used in space missions to repair satellites and augment astronauts inside…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.00
…original team that worked at Zoox, a self-driving company Amazon bought in 2020 for $1.2 billion. Kohen said he brought a lot of what he learned at Zoox with him to SparkAI, including using humans to handle the shortcomings of artificial intelligence. “Our unique take that was very contrarian at the time was that the last 5% is not something you can fill with more tech,” he said. “There's a cognitive gap that's going to take a few decades to build, so in the meantime, the only cognition that exists in the world is in our heads.” “Our job through…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.00
…fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) enterprises such as Unilever, Flipkart, Amazon, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Dabur. The company recently opened a Center of Excellence for Advanced Robotics Research and Development in Fremont, Calif. From left to right: Johnny Andersen, general manager of Addverb Europe; Pieter Feenstra, CEO of Addverb EMEA; Håvard Hallås, chief commercial officer of Element Logic; and Hans-Jörg Braumüller, group design and consulting director of Element Logic. Source: Element Logic AMRs maneuver to new markets Unlike automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), AMRs don't require predefined, fixed paths, instead defining their routes on the fly. If an obstacle is detected, the AMR…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.93
…the XPO Direct shared-space distribution network, voice integration with Amazon Echo and Google Home to track the last mile delivery of heavy goods, and the XPO Connect digital freight marketplace with multimodal infrastructure. As reported by FreightWaves, XPO has worked with 29 robotics companies and deployed 79 different types of robots across its warehouses. Other XPO robotics vendors include Massachusetts-based 6 River Systems, which has deployed more than 100 robots for XPO; and KUKA Group's Swisslog, which is said to be providing the robotics for the digital warehouse XPO is building in the U.K. for Nestle. It was unclear whether…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.92
…second half of 2023. Labrador Systems' investors include SOSV/HAX, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, iRobot Ventures, and Grep VC. It was awarded a National Science Foundation Phase I SBIR Grant in 2021. Engelberger grant to be presented at Automate The Engelberger Foundation will award its grant to Labrador Systems at a ceremony tonight at Automate 2022. Tickets to the award ceremony are available online. Mike Dooley, co-founder and CEO of Labrador, discussed advances in assistive robotics and demonstrated the company’s assistive robot earlier in the event. Joseph Engelberger is widely considered the “father of robotics” for inventing the first industrial robot in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.91
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