Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.76
…warehouse inventory levels. “Our customers call our YMS the ‘Google of Trailers, because finding and keeping track of any information associated with a trailer or shipment in the YMS is easy and fast” Matt Yearling, CEO of PINC “PINC AIR collects and processes inventory information inside of warehouses 100 times faster than humans can,” says PINC CEO Matt Yearling. “With a simple, three-click process, the drone flies autonomously, captures inventory data, processes the data onboard, and sends it to the cloud without any human interaction.” Once in the cloud, that data is automatically compared to what’s available in the warehouse…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.71
…report, some of the world’s biggest corporations - Apple, Google, Daimler-Benz and countless others - are behind the fast-moving technology that is pushing driverless vehicles. Read: Possibility of Driverless Trucks Offers Hope for Truck Driver Crisis Currently now well beyond the initial testing phase, driverless trucks hold promising technology that can increase highway safety, reduce human error and perhaps ease the chronic driver shortage plaguing the trucking industry. “I do not think driverless trucks are a pie in the sky”John White, chief marketing officer for U.S. Xpress But that also comes with some built-in obstacles, too. And as with other…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.60
…autonomous tech startup helmed by the former head of Google’s self-driving car project. Amazon has also invested in electric vehicle startup Rivian. As Brad Templeton mentions, the creation of a robotic delivery fleet by Amazon would be a blow to large shippers like FedEx and UPS. Amazon has become a huge shipper, and electric robotic delivery vehicles would be highly cost-effective and efficient. While Amazon has pushed the world into pretending everything has free shipping, the reality, of course, is that the cost of shipping does matter. Amazon’s competitors would face an even harder battle fighting off the giant. Related…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.59
…begun to deliver pizza by drones in New Zealand. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, used drones to deliver Chipotle burritos to Virginia Tech’s campus. And Zipline is using drones to deliver medicines faster in Ghana and other markets in Africa. These examples may seem small today, but I believe they are monumental for the development of drone technology. Early adopters will be lightweight products like pizzas and medicines, due to weight restrictions. These smaller drones can only physically and legally carry packages under ten pounds, and Amazon Prime Air restricts their package weight to half that, at five pounds or less.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.59
…the development of advanced robotic applications. Its partners include Google, Amazon, and Samsung. The company also supports and collaborates with the worldwide open-source robotics movement and is the lead developer of the MoveIt motion-planning framework. PickNik to develop capture controls for SpaceWERX Under its SpaceWERX contract, PickNik Robotics will help develop enhanced control for on-orbit capture of space assets and increase the overall efficiency and safety of U.S. Space Force operations. The work will focus on capturing and manipulating objects in orbit using robotic arms for in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM). PickNik will use its MoveIt Space software, which…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.58
…Virtual Ocean to create a geospatial experience similar to Google Earth. This week, Terradepth added executives with experience in the Internet of Things, maritime systems, defense, and engineering to its management team. The company, which was formed in 2018, said its high-resolution undersea maps will enable users to gain environmental and other scientific insights remotely. Terradepth said its long-range “buddy” drones shift between collecting data and uploading it to the cloud. They can help overcome existing limitations in unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) battery life and pressure tolerance, it added. Judson Kauffman, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and co-founder and co-CEO…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.54
…and auto giant are now evaluating autonomous vehicle technology. Google-owner Alphabet recently spun out its self-driving car unit, Waymo, into its own subsidiary. Apple was just granted a license in California to test autonomous vehicles. Ford and General Motors are also doubling down on creating autonomous vehicles. Now Amazon could be eyeing driverless car technology as a way to get items to people's doors faster, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. “Amazon.com Inc. has created a team focused on driverless-vehicle technology to help navigate the retail giant’s role in the shake-up of transportation, according to people…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.52
…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 to internal needs. Then they began to look at the problem differently, and AWS came into the world. Amazon’s Current Logistic’s Fleet Amazon’s current transportation fleet is impressive in size. Not when you stack it up against UPS or FedEx, but they only started building it in the last few years. That makes it impressive. So impressive in fact, that Morgan Stanley Analyst Ravi Shanker assessed that it’s too big…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.48
…the development of autonomous vehicles. There is another combine, Waymo/Google/Alphabet, working out kinks in the technology. Lyft and General Motors are combining efforts. And of course, Tesla and its innovative CEO Elon Musk, the peripatetic Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor are bullish. The U.S. chip-making giant Intel announced Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire an Israeli company called Mobileye for $15 billion. The combination is expected to accelerate innovation for the automotive and trucking industry and position Intel as a leading technology provider for highly and fully autonomous vehicles. So What’s Happening in Trucking? Last…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.46
…human-robot collaboration on their facility floors.” The company has raised $28 million to date, from investors including GV (formerly Google Ventures), according to CB Insights. Veo provides computer vision to the world's top robotics vendors: ABB, FANUC, KUKA, and Yaskawa.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.45
…all, the cloud is a commodity. Companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and others make billions of dollars because they know how to package, deliver, and support that commodity at scale. So it will be with autonomous robots. Execution will drive AMR adoption If all the above factors have only heightened demand for AMRs in sectors like logistics, manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, and pharma, then we should expect a large number of robots to enter service in those sectors. However, I do not expect that robot uptake will be concomitant with demand until we have resolved the product/market fit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.44
…quantum sensing. The Australian manufacturer said it supplies some of the biggest companies in the world, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Apple, and General Motors. Advanced Navigation added that it has sales offices around the world and that it maintains carbon-neutral operations. In addition to novel autonomous subsea robotics, Advanced Navigation delivers AI-enhanced navigation technologies for land, sea, air, and space applications. The company said it “is committed to developing innovative products and systems that will be catalysts of the autonomy revolution.”