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Applied Manufacturing Technologies Partners With Soft Robotics for Materials Handling

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…soft robotic grippers, 3D machine perception, and SoftAI artificial intelligence. The company said its systems enable machine builders to solve the hardest piece-picking problems in industries such as food and beverage processing, consumer packaged goods, and logistics. “As an industry leader in robotics automation for over 30 years, Applied Manufacturing Technologies provides the right solution to each and every application,”…


SiLC Technologies Plans to Advance 3D Sensing With $17M Series A Funding

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…can provides context and improve perception of the environment, with applications in autonomous vehicles, biometrics and security, robotics, and more, said SiLC. Over the past year, SiLC has provided development systems to customers in mobility, industrial machine vision, robotics, augmented reality, and consumer applications. It said the new funds will help it provide more customer support as it brings its…


Richard King Mellon Foundation Approves $75M Grant to Build New Robotics Center at CMU

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…people to advanced visualization and perception systems that will be key for the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. Over the past 10 years alone, robotics research expenditures at CMU have nearly doubled, and are expected to double again over the next decade. The $45 million lead grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation will enable CMU to further expand…


PuduTech Raises $78M in Series C Funding for Service Robots

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…motion control, multi-machine scheduling, and perception and obstacle avoidance. The autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider said it has also worked on components, intelligent interaction, and simulation for testing. “Unlike many technology companies that 'hold a hammer to find nails,' Pudu's product capabilities are second to none in the industry,” claimed the company. Its product line includes the PuduBot and BellaBot…


Third Wave Automation Announces Partnership With Toyota Industries for Material Handling Vehicles

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…use of dynamic navigation, advanced perception in high racks, and use of shared autonomy are on the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology.” 'Shared autonomy' with a human in the loop Union City, Calif.-based Third Wave Automation was founded in 2018 and provides autonomous systems for improved efficiency and throughput. The company said it has combined machine learning, computer vision, and…


Robotic Vacuum Impregnation Can Reduce Costs and Waste, Says Ultraseal International

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…processes, it added. Despite the perception of Industry 4.0 as a revolutionary process requiring a huge level of capital investment, automation is increasingly affordable and available to organizations of every size. In fact, robotic systems often offer a fast return on investment, reducing floor space and allowing production processes to run for longer periods. Ultraseal said that in the case…


Innovusion Raises $64M Series B for Automotive Lidar

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…long-range lidar provides a complete perception and road management solution. The company claimed that its lidar has a 120-degree horizontal viewing angle, ultra-high resolution, and the industry’s longest detection range, capable of “seeing” up to 500 m (1,640 ft.). Innovusion said its “flexible gaze” function generates a detailed three-dimensional point of view to track vehicles and pedestrians while simultaneously maintaining…


AutoX Discusses First 100 Days of RoboTaxi Service Without Safety Drivers

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…regulations, the need for the perception and decision-making technology to mature for dynamic environments, and infrequent but serious safety incidents such as a fatal Tesla accident last month. In addition, automakers are concerned about the cost of sensors, artificial intelligence software, and other components before autonomous vehicles can be deployed at scale. The race to driverless vehicles continues to be…


Oculii Offers AI-Powered 4D Radar for Autonomous Vehicle Guidance, Raises $55M Series B Funding

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…intelligence software for for radar perception, this week said it had raised $55 million in Series B funding. The Dayton, Ohio-based company said its AI-powered Virtual Aperture Imaging platform dynamically sends out an adaptive, phase-modulated waveform that changes in real time with the environment. It then encodes that data over time, increasing the resolution of any radar hardware by up…


Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and MIT Work to Bridge Gap Between Robot Vision, Touch

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…their work in improving robotic perception for manipulation. Augmenting visual perception “Our origins were in motors and linkages, and it was a natural progression to the robotics space,” said Sullivan. “We were working on computer vision, and as we try to move to more diverse applications, we'd like to have robots manipulate objects in a more humanlike fashion. For example,…


Sarcos Robotics CEO Discusses SPAC Merger, Bringing Guardian XO Exoskeleton to Market

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…is sometimes a matter of perception. There's a rigorous process associated with being a defense contractor. The legal requirements can be a burden for commercialization, and there can be good reasons to separate them. We're doing a good job of slaloming these requirements. We're fortunate that our products are the same—which is different from iRobot, which had consumer robots and…


Meituan Raises $10B to Develop Robotic and Drone Delivery

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…150 kg (330 lb.), and perception capabilities to more than 150 m (492.1 ft.). The company is also testing drone deliveries. Tencent Holdings has a 17.7% stake in Meituan, which has invested $15 million in PuduTech's restaurant robots. Meituan also participated in last week's Series C round for 3D vision firm Mech-Mind Robotics. Meituan mainly uses human delivery drivers, but…


NVIDIA GTC 2021 Shows New Processors, Simulation Tools for Robotics Developers

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…are empty or stacked, its perception can change significantly,” said Gopalakrishna. “Using Isaac Sim with synthetic data generation and domain randomization, users can train robots in a more efficient way. We also supports the open-source community including ROS and ROS 2—we want the robotics world to grow faster and provide more meaningful applications outside of safety cages.” Louisville, Colo.-based AMP…


SIERA.AI Adds Autonomous Safety Features to Lift Trucks

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…done, by adding proactive depth perception and mapping to human-driven vehicles. The goal is to have an autonomous solution that's infrastructure-free, with cost savings within 12 to 18 months, and at the $50,000 price point of a current forklift truck,” said Agarwal. “We've developed an AMR and are working on autonomous lift trucks, but our ADAS kit costs less than…


MIRAI Accelerates Robotic Perception and Learning, Says Micropsi

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As robotics suppliers work to expand automation to new tasks and markets, their systems need to be easier to train and more flexible. Micropsi Industries has developed MIRAI, a control system that it said enables collaborative robots to perceive and react rather than follow preset programs. Micropsi was founded in 2014 and has offices in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Berlin, Germany.…


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