Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.03
January 28, 2022
…the following eight projects. AI Robot Programming Assistance Lead: University of Memphis Partners: READY Robotics, FedEx, DeepHow Description: There are technologies that can now dramatically reduce the knowledge necessary to program and install a robot, using no-code methods that make robotic programming accessible to those on the factory floor. However, there is still the limitation of process automation knowledge that can bottleneck or be a detriment to a successful robotic installation. This project aims to create an assistance system that can act as a stopgap for this lack of expertise by providing suggestions and corrections during robot task programming. This…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.94
April 04, 2022
…expand into new markets. RE2 was formed out of Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center in 2001. The company makes robotic arms that are used in the defense, medical, construction, energy, and undersea industries. Purchase nearly doubles Sarcos engineering team By acquiring RE2, Sarcos said it hopes to be able to broaden its customer base and bring on more talent. The company said the RE2 staff nearly doubles the size of its engineering team. With the acquisition, which will be paid $30 million in cash and $70 million in Sarcos common stock, all RE2 staffers will be retained, and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.26
April 19, 2021
…pretrained models. In addition, GTC 2021 featured speakers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley, on research applications. NVIDIA supports self-driving vehicle development Huang said that NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, a computing system on a chip (SoC) expected to go into production next year, will be the central brain of autonomous vehicles. Volvo Cars said it will use NVIDIA DRIVE Orin in its next-generation XC90 vehicles. NVIDIA claimed that DRIVE Atlan will be a “data center on wheels” and be able to perform more than 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS). “Atlan will be a technical marvel –…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.09
June 28, 2021
…professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University. “We need to get tools in the hands of the people who should be using them, in the first wave of emergency responders.” Murphy is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellow, and director of the Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory. She has spoken about the role of robotics in responding to emergencies and infectious diseases, as well as the importance of human-machine interaction. Economic incentive needed for development “While many drones are being used by firefighters and law enforcement, there's not…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.79
December 31, 2021
…Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, students and engineers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute discovered a single solution to two of these material removal challenges. The team included research and development experts from Siemens Technology, as well as application guidance and support from Yaskawa. Together, these automation experts devised a system that uses robots to remove weld beads from inside a tube. Material removal operations are essential to a variety of industries and range from very light finishing to heavy gate removal. Some processes are relatively simple, while other parts require a variety of tools and techniques over many hours…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.63
May 23, 2021
…even delay maintenance.” Thanks to Near Earth's connections with Carnegie Mellon University, it has access to a large set of algorithms, Foessel said. “We partner and integrate,” he said. “There are two ways to become relevant in 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.14
September 03, 2023
…to execute touch-driven tasks with precision. Researchers at Columbia University are among the latest to address these challenges. They have demonstrated that robotic fingers can be trained to execute complex in-hand manipulations of intricate objects, relying solely on the sense of touch to guide their movements. The elimination of dependence on visual input, demonstrates the true potential of tactile-driven robotics. That work follows advances in dexterity in recent years from the likes of both OpenAI and MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). While the former is better known today for ChatGPT, in 2018, it made headlines by training…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.39
November 22, 2021
…and idle-reduction technology.” Founded in 2018 by veterans of Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), Locomation said it is developing autonomous vehicle products and tools to enable its clients “to implement an operating model designed for autonomous vehicles.” The Pittsburgh-based company's team includes experts in robotics, artificial intelligence, trucking, freight optimization, safety, and automotive technologies. Locomation ARC to lengthen operations Locomation’s Autonomous Relay Convoy (ARC) system consists of two-truck convoys that are electronically tethered. The Human-Guided Autonomy product enables one driver to operate the lead truck while a second driver rests in the follower truck, which is operating…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.36
July 16, 2020
…Cyber Security Education and Research at North Dakota State University. “In a technology field growing and changing as much as additive manufacturing is, it’s difficult to anticipate everything that could represent a cybersecurity threat or other threats to the operation of the system.” Deploying AM for product prototyping is a wholly different scenario than wielding the technology for production purposes, which then opens the door to various issues. Simply put, Straub contends, the stakes are much higher. “With prototyping, the security issue is a throwaway compared to producing something that’s going to be used especially if safety is critical to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.99
January 25, 2023
…and automation. He was previously a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and iRobot. “I'm an engineer by training and have been working on putting computer vision in things that fly, drive, or have arms for 25 years,” said Geyer. “I'm part of the interface between engineering, sales, and marketing.” Demographics and supply chain shifts We've heard a lot about the labor shortage being the biggest challenge for supply chains. How does that help or hurt robotics? Geyer: Companies are looking at their strategies and are seeing the demographics. Boomers are retiring, birth rates are plummeting, and even now, customers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.51
January 18, 2023
…up the Pittsburgh robotics ecosystem, which is anchored by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and incudes more than 130 robotics organizations. The organization said its mission to accelerate robotics adoption by connecting this community to the world. The PRN makes connections, expands collective knowledge, and tries to positively influence the advancement of robotic and artificial intelligence. About the Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative was formed to apply for the Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the initiative of the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s American Rescue Plan programs, which aim to boost economic recovery from the pandemic…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.49
May 26, 2021
…a BS in computer science and human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. Brennan continues to build the BlueLabs team, actively recruiting world-class experts. Our vision is well over 10% of our engineering capacity will be working on advanced research and development. Will you be working with outside academic researchers? Graves: Yes. Blue Labs will work with the world’s best technologists, inside and outside of Seegrid. The team has an entrepreneurial mindset: iterate quickly, explore aggressively, and work to rapidly adopt or discard new ideas and technologies. In order to maximize talent and gain a full understanding of the complex topics…
