Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.36
October 04, 2021
…Nvidia GPUs, Omniverse, etc.), data, cloud-computing platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS), new hardware and advanced engineering. Many robotics startup companies are capitalizing on this “super evolution” of technology to build more intelligent and more capable machines. In parallel, there’s another phenomenon happening in the world: a “convergence of technologies.” It means that engineers are coming up with different silver bullets — engineering different algorithms, different hardware architectures, different methods, etc. — to solve the same fundamental problems. The Perl programming language motto, “there’s more than one way to do it,” perfectly captures what is happening in the robotics space. In contrast,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.41
September 29, 2021
…and Sun World Reducing investor risk and crop waste “AWS asked us to join its flagship accelerator program, and we're also working with Wavemaker to de-risk the market and chronological risk. I breathe a lot easier.” Future Acres has raised more than $1 million on SeedInvest to date, and its campaign ends on Oct. 6. Why has investment in agricultural robotics been slow until lately? “A healthy skepticism is important,” Reddy said. “Once we can demonstrate that our technology works, we'll see an accelerated evolution in agtech unlike any we've seen in recent decades.” “From traditional agricultural investors, because of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.44
September 15, 2021
…alleviate worker shortage, says UR The American Welding Society (AWS) estimates there is currently a shortage of 50,000 welders. It expects that figure to grow to nearly 400,000 by 2024, as many of today’s welders, who are now an average age of 55, retire. Welding is no longer part of shop classes in high schools, and some of the work is extremely repetitive in nature, not work a welder wants to do, said Joe Campbell, senior manager of applications development at Universal Robots North America. For example, Super Vac produces about 100 air ventilation fans per week, each one needing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.91
September 09, 2021
…has been an integral part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) since our beginning. Today, more startups build on AWS than any other cloud provider, and many of our customers started using AWS at an early stage to help scale their business and drive innovation. For example, Lunar Outpost, a pioneer in lunar surface robotics, uses AWS RoboMaker to test and validate robotics software in a simulated lunar environment, enabling it to speed up robot delivery and reduce software bugs in deployment. Let's look at how AWS Robotics is helping robotics startups use cloud technology to establish a scalable infrastructure for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.42
July 15, 2021
…autonomous driving with its Robotic Drive Cloud offering on AWS. The Robotic Drive tooling and services are available now and can reduce development and test times, as well as total cost of ownership to customers. The partners said they can offer a tangible competitive advantage to developers of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. “Creating this relationship will help our mutual customers accelerate their ADAS/AD [autonomous driving] programs while increasing flexibility and optimizing cost,” stated Luz G. Mauch, executive vice president for automotive at DXC Luxoft. “Together with AWS, we are moving toward a cloud offering called the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.01
June 30, 2021
…story and look at how Amazon Robotics is using AWS cloud technologies to deliver these amazing innovations. The next evolution of Amazon robots At surface level, there’s nothing new about using robots in industrial settings. People have been using them to automate undifferentiated, repetitive tasks since the mid-20th century. However, traditional robots have been limited in capability and have generally required extremely consistent conditions. A simple change in workflow or environment could mean complete reconfigurations with significant downtime on a production line, for example. In today’s fast-paced industrial facilities, at Amazon or otherwise, there are many different situations where the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.24
June 15, 2021
…work superbly across the technology industry, from Stripe to AWS, and we believe that our Usage-Based Rental model at Scythe is similar. By billing per acre mowed, our customers are able to more accurately predict their maintenance costs for properties and acquire machines at low or zero upfront cost, while Scythe has the benefit of a steady recurring revenue stream and the ability to upgrade machines in the field without being forced to support legacy machines. It’s a win-win for everyone. How much training will facilities managers or operators need to set up the mower, or is that covered under…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.34
May 23, 2021
…data analytics. One is to be a Google or AWS that has shown performance in vertical after vertical, or you can control the tools that gather the data, such as autonomous drones. By optimizing the flight path, you can gather quality, complete, and frequent data.” Regulations and full autonomy While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration now issues Part 107 waivers for beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights, such exemptions took a while to create, slowing the growth of the drone industry. “Right now, the technology is more advanced than regulations allow,” Rabkin said. “We still have two people right now—a pilot…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.53
May 11, 2021
…20.04 (Focal Fossa) operating system. Seattle-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that “ROS 2 Foxy is the most secure and reliable ROS distribution to date for production robotics application development.” While AWS RoboMaker no longer supports ROS Kinetic, its support of ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy for simulation and development does include Navigation2 (Nav2). Nav2 “is the second generation of the ROS Navigation software stack, enabling robots to move autonomously from Point A to B,” wrote Matthew Hansen, principal solutions architect at AWS Robotics, in a blog post last week. “Nav2 includes new features not previously available in ROS that help…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.03
April 30, 2021
…on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows and Amazon AWS RoboMaker starting in the second half of 2021. It added that it anticipates more robot applications incorporating the cloud and artificial intelligence to be deployed. To familiarize users to ROS 2 and expose its new features to operators, Doosan said it will supply tutorial packages on creating robot functions via its partner supporting site, Doosan Robot LAB. Video tutorials on ROS application will also be available on the site. Doosan Robotics has been supporting ROS Kinetic and ROS Melodic since 2019, and additionally distributed the ROS Noetic package in March…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.39
November 05, 2020
…that combines multiphysics solvers with scalable cloud supercomputers from AWS and Google Cloud. According to the company, OnScale Solve does not require any installation and can be accessed via a secure web-based connection to any web browser. The solution features multiphysics solvers, automation of tasks such as CAD repair and meshing, scalable cloud supercomputer infrastructure, intuitive UI/UX and integrated workflows, and integration with Jupyter notebooks and Cloud AI tools. Subscribers can open a Free Private account that includes 500 core-hours per year. Users can perform mechanical, thermal, and coupled thermal-mechanical analysis. The company plans to develop dynamic mechanical, nonlinear mechanics,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.26
March 01, 2020
…cloud. We are also seeing companies such as Citrix, AWS and Microsoft Azure offer cloud-based desktops.” The shift from on-premises desktop to virtual machines suggests the security risks, too, have migrated to the cloud. But human behavior, as it turns out, remains a bigger security risk than the holes in the company firewall and the cloud. A Famous IP Theft Case One of the most high-profile IP theft cases in the CAD industry occurred in 2002, when the source code of a pre- release version of SolidWorks was stolen. The culprit, Shekhar Verma, was a former employee of an outsourced…
