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…University, which also offers engineering programs in AM; and Carnegie Mellon University. “Workforce development is a key component of this,” Storer says. “Additive manufacturing is still in its infancy, and it is advancing faster than the workforce. We have a great university system here in Pennsylvania, and the schools want to get on board and train this ‘new collar’ workforce.” In addition, both America Makes and ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) are less than an hour’s drive from the campus. America Makes supports the project, and is promoting the project within its membership. Land development on the initial 30-acre site…
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…after Uber poached dozens of researchers and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University. It was reportedly Levandowski’s decision to rapidly expand those efforts into San Francisco at the end of 2016. In other news, Uber quietly dropped the name for its driverless truck unit, “Otto.” The change was made last month in the wake of a trademark infringement dispute with a similarly named Canadian company that markets its own robotic vehicle technology. Uber consolidated Otto’s activities under its Advanced Technologies Group, or Uber ATG, in April and “retired the Otto name,” it said without elaborating. The change came shortly after the…
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…Conference on Community Development, and Farnam Jahanian, president of Carnegie Mellon University. The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative said its partners include labor groups, educational institutions, workforce and economic development organizations, businesses, and more. During the application process, the collaborative convened a coalition of more than 90 public and private organizations representing 11 counties in southwestern Pennsylvania. The counties were Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington, and Westmoreland. The Pittsburgh Robotics Network (PRN) is representing the robotics industry, and it will collaborate with Innovation Works on one of the projects. “The collaborative extends its sincere gratitude…
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…this transformation.” Gather AI was founded in 2017 by co-founders Arora, Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, after launching from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
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…the commercial drone community as a whole.” Roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University founded American Robotics in 2016. The privately owned company said it focuses on designing, developing, and marketing industrial drones for rugged, real-world environments. In May, wireless broadband firm Ondas Holdings Inc. acquired the MassRobotics member, and they recently completed a $51.5 million equity raise that was heavily oversubscribed. Drones providers need FAA, industry acceptance The commercial drone industry is growing quickly and providing significant benefits to the U.S. public, but enabling expanded BVLOS operations is critical for the industry to truly take off, said American…
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…new solutions for industrial customers with both simple and complex needs. Honeywell also is collaborating with AI researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center to develop breakthrough robotics technologies for distribution centers. The company, through its Honeywell Ventures investment fund, has strategic investments in robotics companies, including Soft Robotics and Attabotics, to help automate complex tasks in dynamic environments to maximize productivity and labor efficiency.
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…systems.” The ARM Institute was created in 2017 after Carnegie Mellon University won a bid to start an institution focusing on workforce development and the use of robotics to boost U.S. competitiveness, according to its website. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. “We exist to strengthen U.S. manufacturing through innovations in advanced manufacturing technology, particularly robotics and AI, and prepare the workforce to work alongside these technologies,” stated the ARM Institute on its webpage. “Working across industry, government, and academia, we leverage a robust ecosystem to fulfill our vision and mission.” A DAWG in the manufacturing sector…
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…Ventures was founded in 2009 by Kai-Fu 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 these applications, we see many other opportunities for cooperation between MegaRobo and Bosch.”
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…been founded in 2012 by Galluzzo and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center, in the summer of 2014, it was largely a PowerPoint presentation on his laptop in the summer of 2014. I’m not sure if they’d gone live with a website at that point. But, with support from Rochester Drug Cooperative, Galluzzo and his team had built an autonomous mobile piece-picking robot that could go up and down a warehouse aisle and pick items from a shelf to a tote. At the time, they nicknamed it GOFER, which stood for general order fulfillment robot. Galluzzo now…
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…Galluzzo and Vladimir Altman, robotics engineers who worked at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center. Having worked on advanced projects in computer vision, embedded systems and autonomous manipulation, they were drawn into the industry by a customer who asked if they could develop a robot that picked items from warehouse shelving. Like many companies, this customer faced high labor turnover and hiring issues. The result was the first autonomous mobile manipulation robot worker that performed fundamental picking tasks in human environments. “We’re expanding what is possible to accomplish with autonomous robots,” said Galluzzo, CTO. “There is a great deal…
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…the ARM Institute and members Bluewater Defense, Henderson Sewing, Carnegie Mellon University, Siemens, and Sewbo. NIST looks to create economic opportunities “Rebuilding our manufacturing economy is an essential component to strengthening our communities and creating opportunity for all Americans,” said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in a press release from NIST. “The breadth and variety of these awards shows that manufacturing can be an economic driver in every community.” “From creating an advanced manufacturing testbed in Appalachia, to building clean, reliable power in Native American communities, these grants are essential to creating manufacturing jobs and skills in every corner of America,”…
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…soft robotics research, Hawkes and colleagues Carmel Majidi from Carnegie Mellon University and Michael T. Tolley of UC San Diego have published their viewpint in the journal Science Robotics. Explosion of interest in soft robotics “We were looking at publication data for soft robotics and noticed a phase of explosive growth over the last decade,” Hawkes said. “We became curious about trends like this in new fields, and how new fields take root.” More than a century ago, soft pneumatic tires replaced solid wheels, and the technology remains to this day. Source: UC Santa Barbara The first decade of widespread…