Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.60
…of graphics processing unit-accelerated supercomputer in the cloud on Microsoft Azure. Built to handle demanding artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing applications, the largest deployments of Azure’s new NDv2 instance rank among the world’s fastest supercomputers, offering up to 800 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected on a single Mellanox InfiniBand backend network, NVIDIA reports. It enables customers for the first time to rent an entire AI supercomputer on demand from their desk, and match the capabilities of large-scale, on-premises supercomputers that can take months to deploy. “Until now, access to supercomputers for AI and high-performance computing has been reserved…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.88
…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, and state-owned…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.80
…easily submit jobs to secure high-performance compute infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. The launch of Distributed Compute Services (DCS), a new family of applications, enables users to distribute, manage and solve simulations on a variety of compute resources. DCS empowers users to more effectively use compute resources across operating systems, networks and locations. In the Fluids suite, ANSYS Fluent has a new user experience that enables engineers to complete more computational fluid dynamics simulations in less time and with less training. Additionally, in ANSYS 2019 R3, a new automated workflow speeds the ANSYS Fluent adjoint solver so users can easily find…
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The Role of AI in the World Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, two companies thinking deeply about the role of AI in the world and how to build secure, trustworthy and ethical AI to serve the public, have partnered to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems. OpenAI was founded in late 2015 by Elon Musk and Sam Altman who were motivated in part by concerns about existential risk from artificial general intelligence. Through this new partnership, the companies will accelerate breakthroughs in AI and power OpenAI’s efforts to create artificial general intelligence (AGI). The resulting enhancements to the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.98
…or on clouds such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. MATLAB Parallel Server offers access to cluster resources through the familiar MATLAB environment, provides the ability to run on multiple machines without algorithm changes, and helps to access cloud clusters or local high-performance computing (HPC) resources. Expanded access also offers flexibility in working with academic researchers, students, and faculty from other institutions by offering them access to MATLAB and Simulink. Now these academicians can access MATLAB on authorized campus machines and university HPC clusters for their non-commercial work. This helps to support collaborative research projects across institutions and provides…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.12
…MQTT messaging protocol, data is then transmitted securely to Microsoft Azure or other publicly and privately hosted cloud services, so that companies can analyze it to spur innovation and accelerate their IIoT strategies. Moxa employed intuitive user interfaces and functions so that engineers can easily tap into the cloud for their IIoT deployments. Initial setup to full implementation can be completed within a few steps for immediate realization of efficiencies and cost savings. In addition, advanced diagnostics tools are supported to assist users in identifying connection issues so that a variety of field devices can easily share data in the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.94
…backdrop. The use of AI has already crept into average consumer tech, evident in iPhone's personal assistant Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, and in Google's autocompletion of user sentences. NVIDIA's betting it will become part of enterprise workflow, largely driven by the parallel-processing power of the GPU. The acquisition, new products, and featured speakers at the NVIDIA's GTC reinforces this belief. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces the JETSON Nano, a $99 AI computer for the maker community. Image courtesy of NVIDIA.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.94
…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 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.16
…technology, engineering and math (STEM). A study released by Microsoft, in partnership with KRC Research, found that despite the priority K-12 schools are placing on promoting STEM, efforts to expand interest among girls has not been universally successful. Lack of role models and support from parents is part of the problem, the study found. Girls lose interest in the field as time goes on. According to the study, 31% of girls thought jobs involving coding were not for them by middle school while the percentage jumps to 40% by high school. Part of the remedy, the study concluded, is to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.29
…rugged cases for iPads and rugged computer/enclosure bundles for Microsoft Surface Pro 2-in-1 computers. They added tablets after the introduction of the iPad in 2009, when customers came to them with stories of trying—and failing—to use tablets in factory settings. Once MobileDemand got a few years of experience under their belt selling tablets for manufacturing environments, they commissioned a study comparing the use of consumer-grade and ruggedized mobile devices. Findings include: The average organization budgets for a mobile computing device to be useful for 3.5 years, yet less than one in five non-rugged devices last that long. Rugged mobile computing…
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…highways and has partnered with Uber Technologies Inc. Apple, Microsoft, Ford, and many others are also involved in 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.16
…low cost of computing, powerful but lower priced sensors, Microsoft opening up the Windows API – it’s core set of application programming interfaces - and “a lot of new open source codes that has enabled new libraries to classify and utilize data.” Parrott believes the early wins in this space are going to come “from modifications to goods-to-person solutions that become goods-to-robot solutions” and that the long-term winners are going to be “the early adopters who take a slow approach to implementation.” So, what is the state of piece picking robots? I spoke to three startups with projects that have…