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With a vision inference chip that can generate one quadrillion operations per second, upstart Recogni is going after chip-making heavyweights such as NVIDIA. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., the company makes chips that are used in autonomous vehicles for visual perception. Recogni said its Vision Cognition Module (VCM) system enables object detection accuracy up to 1,000 m (3,280 ft.) in…
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As the robotics community grows, so too are organizations offering to help the industry. The Robotics Group last week announced the recent approval of Schneider Electric, Third Wave Automation, and Daifuku Wynright's applications to join the MHI industry group. MHI, formerly the Material Handling Industry of America, is an international trade association that has represented the material handling, logistics, and…
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BALYO SA last week said it has successfully installed four very narrow aisle, or VNA, robots at Singapore Storage and Warehouse Pte. Ltd. The Arcueil, France-based company claimed that they are world's tallest autonomous VNA systems, with a lift height of 16.8 m (55.1 ft.). BALYO collaborated with Linde Material Handling on the project. “This project shows the tremendous superiority…
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Stratom this week announced the U.S. Army has awarded the company a contract to develop a personnel safety system for an unmanned combat vehicle called the Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light, or RCV-L. The unmanned diesel-electric hybrid vehicle was developed by Waltham, Mass.-based QinetiQ Group North America, a division of Farnborough, U.K.-based QinetiQ, and New Hudson Mich.-based Pratt Miller, according to the…
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After the success of their first program, MassRobotics and its corporate partners are calling on more startups to apply to their second Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst program. MassRobotics, Festo, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, MITRE, and Novanta said the program will provide companies the connections, guidance, and resources they need to grow. Mentors from the organizing companies will guide the selected startups…
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China's self-driving car market continues to accelerate. SAIC Motor's ride-hailing unit has raised more than 1 billion yuan ($147.3 million) in a Series B round, according to Momenta Group, an autonomous vehicle developer and participant in the funding. SAIC Mobility is now worth $1 billion (U.S.), Momenta said yesterday. “SAIC Mobility’s automotive leadership in the Yangtze River Delta has spread…
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Construction, utility, and infrastructure work at height can be difficult and dangerous and hence a good use case for robotics. This week, euroTECH Vertriebs GmbH announced that it has applied its vacuum technology expertise to facade construction. The Rosenfeld, Germany-based distributor claimed that its new eT-Litocran700 is the fastest device of its kind. “What do a giraffe gazelle (lat. Litocranius)…
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ABB Robotics announced this week that it will showcase a range of services and products it launched in the past year at the International Manufacturing Technology Show, or IMTS 2022, next month. The show runs from Sept. 12 to Sept. 17 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The Zurich, Switzerland-based company will display its GoFa collaborative robot equipped for welding; a…
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Vanderlande Industries B.V. last week announced that it has selected Kollmorgen NDC Solutions as a technology and service partner for its automated guided vehicle, or AGV, applications. Vanderlande said that Toyota Material Handling forklifts equipped with Kollmorgen's technology will strengthen its logistics and warehouse portfolio. “Vanderlande strives to deliver the best fully integrated autonomous vehicle offering as part of our…
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PickNik Robotics today announced the commercial availability of both its MoveIt Studio Developer Platform and MoveIt Studio SDK, or software development kit. The Boulder, Colo.-based company said the new software products help robotics and software engineers create, debug, and ship complex manipulation projects faster. “These premium offerings leverage cutting edge approaches that we have developed over seven years working with…
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NVIDIA highlighted today one of its NVIDIA Metropolis members, Seoul Robotics. The company is using NVIDIA's technology to retroactively add self-driving features to non-autonomous vehicles without the need for additional sensors onboard. The Seoul, South Korea-based company’s platform, dubbed LV5 CTRL TWR, collects 3D data from the environment using cameras and lidar. Computer vision and deep learning-based AI analyze the…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled e-commerce to stratospheric heights, with sales skyrocketing over 30% in 2020 and close to 40% in 2021. Globally, online shopping jumped to nearly $30 trillion, led by Alibaba and Amazon. This shift in consumer behavior has accelerated the adoption of warehouse automation, as packaging systems are estimated to climb to $69 billion by 2025. At…
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Human workers have the experience and knowledge for complex tasks such as grinding and polishing, but robots can bring consistency and precision, freeing those workers for supervision and quality control. GrayMatter Robotics today said it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence and robotics startup plans to use the investment to expand its team…
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Manufacturers must contend with high turnover, as well as yield, traceability, manual inspection costs, and shrinking margin concerns. Conventional visual inspection is not only time-consuming and costly, but also prone to human error. Advantech Co. and Overview last month joined forces to offer an “end-to-end” artificial intelligence system for vision inspection. Founded by Tesla automation engineers, Overview develops platforms using…
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RightHand Robotics last week announced that Gartner, the global research and advisory firm, has recognized the company as a Representative Vendor in its 2022 “Market Guide for Intralogistics Smart Robotics.” RightHand Robotics was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT. The team said it was intent on bringing…
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