Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.22
March 01, 2020
…comfortable using public cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and others. Most software providers that offer cloud options also typically provide some flexibility for customers who either won’t or can’t (due to regulatory requirements) move to a fully public cloud infrastructure. According to Stucker, early adopters in the cloud space have focused on private clouds, but that is slowly shifting to public cloud infrastructures. “These installed cloud architectures can become obsolete quickly,” Stucker says. “Leasing compute power makes more sense for companies than buying hardware and hiring a team to manage it.” Goel, meanwhile, thinks…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.49
October 09, 2019
…to bring AI into industrial manufacturing. “Major cloud players, AWS and Microsoft, have established a wide range of partnerships with industrial AI development platform vendors, AI software vendors, and system integrators to provide an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge solution to enhance operational efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and optimize resource consumption in factories,” said Lian Jye Su, Principal Analyst at ABI Research. In China, the Chinese government has listed 10 key industrial manufacturing segments under Made in China in 2025, and AI is a strategic component of the Information Technology segment. Since 2015, the government has been encouraging provincial and local government, public agencies,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.45
August 20, 2019
…of more than 100,000 robots, which operate using the AWS cloud, to fulfill customer orders. These robots complement human capability to “help make us smarter,” according to Tye Brady, Amazon robotics chief technologist. “Our three principles – lower prices, wider selection, and enhanced customer experience – will not scale up by manual labor only, they keep accelerating and growing only if we augment and supplement human intelligence with machine intelligence” Brady believes we can accomplish this with collaborative robots “who work in concert with our associates.” Sometimes that means extending human activities with robotics. Other times, that means delegating separate…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.57
August 16, 2019
…advanced functionality of JetBot ROS (Robot Operating System) and AWS RoboMaker, with AWS IoT Greengrass pre-installed, SparkFun’s JetBot AI Kit is the only kit currently on the market ready to move beyond the standard JetBot examples. Many other popular AI frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe and MXNet are supported, and Jetson Nano is capable of running multiple neural networks in parallel to process data and drive action. Each SparkFun JetBot AI Kit includes the following: NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit; Robot Platform Chassis and all Prototyping Electronics; 64GB MicroSD card—pre-flashed with the JetBot Image; 145 Field of View, wide-angle camera…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.06
March 14, 2019
…Amazon launched the platform known as Amazon Web Services (AWS) internally in 2002. It officially launched to the world in 2006. It’s now the leader in the cloud infrastructure industry, beating out market pillars, like IBM and Microsoft. According to AWS CEO, Andy Jassy, AWS was born from out of internal needs. Then they realized they could develop it into a real service company. AWS was the first cloud infrastructure as a service, and competitors like Microsoft, IBM, and Google took years to respond. This is what allowed Amazon to capture the market share. They created a service in response…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.08
March 11, 2019
…Evans. “Instead, just as companies rely on services like AWS rather than building and managing their own server racks, anyone can leverage Fictiv’s platform and global network to streamline the product development and production process, providing the flexibility to win in today’s competitive global market.” Fictiv has targeted the automotive, medical, robotics, aerospace and consumer electronics industries. Key features and benefits of the Fictiv platform include: 3D printing, CNC, urethane casting and injection molding with instant pricing available online; Finishing and post-processing services; Automatic design for manufacturability (DFM) feedback; Online order tracking for visibility on production and shipment status; Vetted…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.20
June 25, 2018
…in even shorter turnaround times.” Australia-owned Advanced Warehouse Solutions (AWS) is one of the biggest providers of Australian Made storage equipment. AWS has installed the largest flow racking system ever built in Australia. Their solutions are designed to work with all types of automated solutions such as the Butler robotics system from GreyOrange. In the global logistics and warehouse automation market for robots, significant growth is expected in the years 2018 to 2022, with a CAGR of more than 11 percent. Innovations in the supply chain will be a key differentiator for businesses in Australia to stay competitive. The robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.74
February 09, 2018
…to the tech giant’s hugely successful cloud computing business, AWS. With AWS, Amazon first built out infrastructure that could serve its own needs, and, once that was established, began selling the same tools to third parties. SWA could be on a similar track. As independent analyst Ben Thompson put it, Amazon’s ultimate goal “is to take a cut of all economic activity.” AWS lets Amazon siphon some of the profits of digital businesses by selling them the infrastructure they need to reach their customers, and SWA could do something for companies with physical products to deliver There’s no guarantee, of…
