Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.54
…is to accelerate adoption of robotics,” said Florian Pestoni, co-founder and CEO of InOrbit. “We want to bring the community together and offer tools for it to get cranking right away.” “When you launch development tools— what's amazing for me is that you think people will use them in a certain way, but they go and create things you couldn't conceive of,” he told Robotics 24/7. “We want to empower developers to do more faster.” Pestoni added that InOrbit's robot-agnostic data platform is designed to help companies master “the four O's of robot operations—observability, operation, orchestration, and optimization.” The Mountain…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.39
…“It was a dream come true,” said Adam Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical. “NYSE does a good job of setting that up—there was a huge 60-by-90-ft. banner outside. We're excited because of what this enables. This is an important milestone, and it represents our ability to take the next steps in surgical robotics.” Founded in 2014, Vicarious Surgical takes a novel approach in combining human-like surgical robot arms and virtual reality for minimally invasive procedures. The company said it was the first to receive “Breakthrough Device Designation” from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and it announced its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.61
…Corp. today announced a global partnership with Keenon Robotics Co., which focuses on indoor service robots. The global launch expands on Keenon's announcement last week of $200 million in Series D funding and collaboration with SoftBank Robotics. The companies said they will work together to expand the use of robotics in the service industry. They said that service robots will provide efficiency and productivity gains that will allow businesses to allocate more time and resources for staffers to refocus on customer service. “We are proud to partner with SoftBank Robotics, the leader in the robotics solutions industry,” stated Tony Li,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.43
…expanding engineering, sales, and support staff, including Ross Diankov, co-founder of Mujin and CEO of Mujin Corp. “Companies that want to automate mundane and repetitive material-handling tasks face a myriad of challenges, from the high costs of developing solutions for their difficult applications to unscheduled downtime and reprogramming costs when things don’t go as planned, or when robots must be reprogrammed due to a change in product or workflow,” stated Diankov. “As some of the largest companies in Asia have experienced, Mujin will bring a new wave of robotics technology to the U.S. market, with robots no longer needing to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.58
…reliable capacity for our customers today,” stated Gautam Narang, co-founder and CEO of Gatik. “Our long-term partnerships with the world’s largest retailers, strategic relationships with OEMs, and fleet servicing and maintenance partners have allowed us to address critical supply chain challenges and build an industry-defining business. With this financing, we are ideally positioned to commercialize our solution at scale.” Founded in 2017 by autonomous technology veterans, Gatik has offices in Palo Alto, Calif., and Toronto. The company focuses on short-haul, business-to-business (B2B) logistics for Fortune 500 retailers. Gatik said its fleet of Class 3 to 6 autonomous trucks are already…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.64
…centrally or locally,” noted Thomas Andersson, principal analyst and co-founder of Styleintelligence. However, companies should understand that micro-fulfillment centers can require process changes. “MFC is more or less an additional store,” said Knapp in the study. “When we build an MFC, we give it a store identifier, and we replenish not only the grocery store, but also replenishing the MFCs with its own inventory.” “We're building a very large, fully robotized replenishment system for a U.S. grocer right now that goes live in August,” said KNAPP in the study. “That system is being deployed to not only replenish stores, but…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.57
…for years to come,” said Gijs van der Velden, co-founder and CEO of MX3D. From design to 'living laboratory' The project was funded by the Lloyd's Register Foundation, and ABB, Air Liquide, ArcelorMittal, Autodesk, AMS Institute, and Lenovo helped MX3D realize its vision. The award-winning bridge was designed by Joris Laarman Lab, with Arup as lead engineer. “A few years ago, we came up with the idea to use the robotic 3D-metal printers that we developed to print a functional, full-size steel bridge,” said Tim Geurtjens, co-founder of MX3D. “Together with the excitement of this crazy idea also came the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.02
…the design, data, and development arm of DXC Technology Co. in Tysons, Va. It provides bespoke, end-to-end technologies for mission-critical systems, products, and services. DXC Technology helps global companies run their operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds. Robotic Drive gains cloud capabilities DXC Luxoft said the Robotic Drive Cloud offering brings together the production-ready Robotic Drive services, toolchain, and platform into a new, cloud-based approach for automotive customers and OEMs such as BMW. AWS offers over 125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, and more. DXC…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.62
…expectations for rapid online order fulfillment. Whether micro-fulfillment will gain much traction outside of grocery remains to be seen. In e-grocery, there are some unique order and service-level requirements. Online shoppers typically want same-day home or curbside delivery for groceries, and you may have 40 items in a customer order, which is higher than in most other retail segments. By contrast, consumers may be fine with one- or two-day delivery for many other types of goods, though expectations tend to be rising. On-demand fulfillment network providers do offer technology, especially software tools that help determine where to hold inventory and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.17
…advanced development, analytics, and control at Festo SE & Co. KG. “This brings two major benefits: We protect our customers' data, and we gain speed because the robots can take over many tasks more quickly. In this way, the collaborative robots can, for example, support production workers with repetitive, heavy, and tiring tasks.” During the project, a total of four autonomous picking stations will be set up for training the robots: two at the IFL and two at Festo SE headquarters in Esslingen, Germany. In the FLAIROP research project, autonomous robots process articles at several picking stations by means of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.14
GeekPlus Technology Co. today announced that it has reached an industry milestone with 20,000 autonomous mobile robots sold worldwide. The Beijing-based company said its technology provides rapid growth capabilities to accelerate the transformation of the global supply chain. “In past months, we've seen worldwide curiosity turn into action with numerous business leaders deciding to invest in intelligent automation,” stated Yong Zheng, founder and CEO of Geek+. “For us, the rapid growth demonstrates our R&D team's ability to develop world-class solutions and signals future opportunities to gather more industry know-how. Our goal is to improve our customer's operation management and continue…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.29
…alongside human driven vehicles without disruption,” stated Yibiao Zhao, co-founder and CEO of ISEE. “Our solution understands its surroundings and intuitively predicts other drivers’ behavior, enabling smooth vehicle-vehicle and human-vehicle coordination, keeping equipment and drivers safe.” “Our launch marks the beginning of our mission to build towards a future where autonomous machines can thrive alongside humans and easily and safely integrate into any environment,” said Zhao. ISEE systems work alongside people A growing shortage of skilled and qualified drivers, as well as ongoing safety and efficiency challenges, has led warehouse and logistics companies to consider automation, said ISEE. While mobile…