Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.24
…The Singapore-based company is currently completing fundraising rounds in Japan through connections provided by program mentors. MassRobotics introduced Eureka to partner Mitsubishi Electric, and the startup signed an agreement with Mitsubishi as a gobal platinum partner. The program helped Eureka’s leadership to explore applications in surgical lens manufacturing, which is an extension of its focus on traditional manufacturing. Bionomous provides laboratory equipment to automate the screening, sorting, and pipetting of miniature biological entities for more ethical and faster research in life science. CEO Frank Bonnet said that with the aid of the Catalyst Program, Bionomous was able to run a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.23
…for warehouse and logistics applications, according to Coats. A Japan-based company is already using 20 of the robots to perform 100,000 picks daily per unit. The success of the technology there could be the basis for quick adoption around the world, Coats said. “With everything we’re seeing, a lot of Fortune 500 companies are going to want to make their supply chains more redundant and capable,” he said. “By this time next year, you’re going to see some major names deploying these types of robotic systems.” Coats said he doesn’t expect any major changes in the underlying AI technology. Instead,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.22
…Corp., a major wholesaler of consumer packaged goods in Japan, has streamlined its picking processes with the help of RightHand Robotics. 2. AI manages mobile robot fleets As manufacturers and supply chains adopt automation, they need to control and manage their growing fleets of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Fleet management systems (FMS) from the robot vendors or third-party software providers can help. An FMS allows users or operators to centrally supervise numerous mobile robots from multiple devices via standard communication protocols. They can use devices incuding laptops, tablets, or smartphones to access the robots from anywhere, not just the shop…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.22
…create lasers on chips at our fabrication partner in Japan. We can deliver 10 to 100 times better performance than our competitors across 10 or more parameters.” “Eyeonic consists of one or more proprietary FMCW vision cores,” he said. “It integrates lasers, amplifiers, detectors, and passive devices into a single photonic chip. Each core processes returning photons one pixel at a time.” SiLC claimed that Eyeonic offers several advantages in comparison with existing cameras and lidar sensors. “Eyeonic is similar to an optical networking transceiver—it emits and receives photons,” explained Muenster. “What's different about this versus time-of-flight sensing or CMOS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.11
…even though it may not be apparent. Countries like Japan and Germany have already experienced firsthand the damaging effects of this global workforce crisis on their economies. In 2019, in the US alone, there were 7.6 million unfilled jobs — and we are not referring to high-tech jobs requiring college degrees, but rather low-skilled / unskilled jobs. Not to mention that many of these minimum-wage jobs are so strenuous that the crisis is compounded by labor turnover — we are at the limit of what humans can physically do in a day. The pandemic exposed the fragility of our labor-driven…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.03
…Center in Atlanta works alongside centers in France and Japan for round-the-clock coverage, he said. Screens in the center showed the status of robot fleets for retailers, grocery chains, industrial parts and healthcare suppliers, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs). When Exotec's robots encounter problems, they can be solved remotely in most cases, said Beau Martin, manager of Exotec's Service Center. However, the failure of an entire unit or an unexpected problem, like a gallon of sticky grape juice exploding at the top of a rack, will occasionally require more direct human intervention, he said. There is typically one technician onsite…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.97
…earlier this month. Sponsored by All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's largest airline, the Avatar XPRIZE is a four-year global competition focused on crowdsourcing the development of systems to deploy a human user's senses, actions, and presence to a remote location in real time. The avatars must be able to execute a set of tasks across real-world scenarios and convey a sense of presence for both the operator and the recipient of actions. “We are rapidly approaching an era where it will be possible for a doctor in New York to export their skillset virtually to respond to a natural disaster…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.95
…in the electronics space and introducing innovative technologies in Japan and beyond. Ossia and Marubun have been jointly developing a wirelessly powered IoT sensor receiver that can be embedded within a wide variety of electronic devices. “It simply makes good business sense to leverage wireless power for IoT that comes in the many hundreds of thousands, like ESLs and RFIDs,” said Satoshi Fujino, senior vice president at Marubun. “Wires and batteries are so limiting that these two devices have been held back from widespread innovation, not to mention adoption. Cota Real Wireless Power makes ESLs and RFIDs truly viable and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.88
…beverage-restocking robots across 300 Family Mart convenience stores in Japan. Cobot leader Universal Robotics is using Isaac Sim for workforce development to train end operators from the cloud. NVIDIA also touted six companies that have used its Jetson edge AI platform, including Agrist for its bell pepper-harvesting robot, John Deere for its autonomous tractor, Skydio for its Scout drone, Neubility for its delivery robot, and Seoul Robotics for its self-driving car “control tower.” These companies have also received recognition with CES 2023 Innovation Awards, Talla said. NVIDIA makes more simulation tools available Also at CES, NVIDIA also announced a major…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.72
…deployed beverage restocking robots across 300 convenience stores in Japan. Deutsche Bahn is training AI models to handle very important but unexpected corner cases that happen rarely in the real world — like luggage falling on a train track, to improve safety. Festo uses Isaac Cortex to simplify programming for cobots and transfer simulated skills to the physical robots. Fraunhofer is developing advanced autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) using the physically accurate and full-fidelity visualization features of Isaac Sim. Soft Robotics is harnessing NVIDIA Isaac Sim to generate synthetic data to train their robotic gripping systems to handle delicate foods like…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.37
…to robotics and had a demonstration at CEATEC in Japan two years ago with different manipulators. Most actual applications that our customers care about can't be solved through trial and error.” “Another type of machine learning is learning from demonstration,” he explained. “This is where cobots come in. In the future, the fastest, most natural way to teach robots to do something is kinesthetic. The challenge is the ability to generalize. Replicating one example is easy, but what if the parts are in different positions?” “We'd like to use AI to intepret rich sensor signals and enable the robot to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.17
…a tsunami were to once again interrupt supply in Japan, a supplier in Northern Italy, India, Mexico or the U.S. may be able to pick up the slack. In addition to strategic supply actions like those listed above, the top three actions being contemplated by respondents to potential future disruptions include partnering with vendors to better understand technology applications and business benefits (48%), piloting new technologies (42%), and increasing investments and budgets for innovative technologies (39%). Respondents also recognized that the supply chain of the future calls not just for the adoption of innovative technologies, but also for a different…