Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.34
…robots have access to real-time 3D perception data for localization, mapping, object classification, and object tracking, the company said. “Boston Dynamics robots provide advanced mobility, dexterity and intelligence that enable automation in unfamiliar and unpredictable settings,” said Laura Wrisley, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Velodyne Lidar. “Equipped with Velodyne’s lidar sensors, their robots can autonomously navigate complex environments. They can safely avoid obstacles and find the fastest route to perform vital tasks in environments from manufacturing plants and construction sites to distribution centers and warehouses.” Lidar technology will help Boston Dynamics extend robot capabilities Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.24
…semantic and people perception as well as mapping and localization using cameras, the company added. Warehouse managers will be able to customize workflows, integrations, and behavior for an entire fleet of robots in minutes, through a no-code interface. “We’re excited about partnering with the right teams to bring Grace and Carter to warehouses and other industries where we can improve how robots work with people,” Robust.AI said. Robust.AI delves into hardware concept design During the development of Grace, Robust.AI said it recognized that current autonomous mobile robots (AMR) are slow to build, deploy, and adopt for many applications. This insight…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.53
…design challenges in areas including robot sensing, perception, mapping, localization, motion control, low-level control, or actuation. It claimed that it can do so at 500x the speed of modern processors. “Robots are networks of networks, with sensors passing data to compute technologies and actuators,” stated Víctor Mayoral-Vilches, founder of Acceleration Robotics. “These networks can be understood as the nervous system of the robot.” “Like with the human nervous system, low latency and real-time information is fundamental for the robot to behave coherently,” he added. “Faster robots—or with more dexterity—require faster computations.” “Hardware acceleration with ROBOTCORE empowers exactly this,” Mayoral-Vilches said.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.88
…is presenting digital twin and 3D safety concepts, part localization for bin picking, and lidar localization for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Founded in 1946, SICK is a leading maker of sensors, safety systems, machine vision, emissions monitoring systems, flow measurement, encoders, and automatic identification products for industrial applications. With more than 3,500 patents, the Waldkirch, Germany-based company offers systems for every phase of production in the logistics, automotive, packaging, electronics, food and beverage, material handling, and process automation markets. SICK has operations or representation in 65 countries worldwide, and its U.S. office is in Minneapolis. Digital twins enable safe machinery…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.77
…van. Doosan's system combined a heavy-duty robot arm, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for navigation, an OnRobot gripper, and a custom-made automated guided vehicle (AGV) base. Doosan displays commercial cobot uses In addition to its “closer-to-consumer” (C2C) markets, Doosan Robotics demonstrated its Dart suite for managing robots worldwide. The software is intended to democratize autonomy by enabling authorized users to see an entire warehouse fleet worldwide and to review the status and utilization of individual robots. Dart uses artificial intelligence to optimize actions, and customers can contact engineers on Doosan's TST team if necessary. Doosan demonstrated industrial applications with its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.09
…has 3D mapping, onboard semantic segmentation, onboard visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and terrain-aware motion planning. It also has 8 HDR cameras and a host of sensors. It’s designed for large landscape commercial contractors who make anywhere from $1 million to $100s of millions in annual revenue. The company isn’t selling the mower as a standalone. Instead, it charges by acreage mowed. Scythe has been testing the M.52 in three states: Colorado, Texas, and Florida. “We’ve been going out and mowing for landscaping contractors for years and testing in real-world environments,” Morrison said. “And we’ve been mowing with customers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.81
…tasks, featuring multiple difficulty levels for object-based, semantic, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and scene change detection (SCD). The challenge also focuses on a core requirement for household service robots: they need to understand what objects are in their environment, and where they are. This problem in itself is the first challenge captured in our semantic SLAM tasks, where a robot must explore an environment, find all objects of interest, and add them to a 3D map. The SCD task takes this a step further, asking a robot to report changes to the objects in the environment at a different…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.29
…environments, or Sim2Real. It will also discuss how accurate localization can improve autonomous vehicle and indoor navigation, as well as the use of AI and pose estimation for robotics development. NVIDIA will also present on how service robots can reliably manipulate deformable objects, such as sponges, mops, or bedding, in warehouses or hospitals. It will describe how systems can recognize and rearrange objects inro meaningful arrangements like table settings—a vision-based task that was previously impossible. In addition, the company's researchers will present a novel model-predictive control framework to bridge the gap between grasp selection and motion planning for human-robot handoffs.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.04
…data with the MOV.AI Robotics Engine Platform, advanced simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) navigation, obstacle avoidance, and risk-avoidance systems. The companies said they will help AMRs operate efficiently and continuously in dynamic environments, environments with little static information, and environments with repeated structures. “MOV.AI's mission is to speed up robot development and to provide AMR manufacturers and integrators with everything they need to develop and operate great robots,” said Motti Kushnir, MOV.AI's CEO. “Through our partnership with Ouster, we are able to offer our customers autonomy solutions that work seamlessly in environments with a limited field-of-view and physical features.” Lidar…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.43
…These sensors facilitate autonomous navigation and allow for intelligent localization and object detection. What’s more, these quadrupeds are typically flat on top, and most often allow developers to install additional payloads to run custom application software on the robot itself. Let’s take a look at five use cases where legged robots are making their presence felt in the real world: Energy Robotics Inspection Perhaps the most well-documented and widespread application of legged robots is remote inspection. Thanks to their ability to traverse rough terrain and unstructured environments, these robots are proving incredibly useful as a means of inspecting or analyzing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.33
…second for real-time positioning. This specific positioning data enables localization, navigation, and collaboration of robots, tooling, surgical instruments, and even humans. The new system enables any control system to receive the precise location of items with the transponders, claimed Humatics. The system is capable of sub-millimeter precision while delivering highly-valuable data regarding the asset's movement including pose, pitch, yaw, speed, etc., the company said. This data can be used to control assets in real time, digitize human movement for robotic interaction for process improvements, and identify manufacturing issues, among other use cases, said Humatics. “The end result of leveraging microlocation…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.60
…design. It provides support for deep learning, 360-degree simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), GPS-denied indoor navigation, high-resolution 4K imagery, and ultrasonic object detection for added safety. Qualcomm's latest products also suport 4G LTE, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi in addition to 5G, said Singh in response to a question during the briefing. In addition, it includes support for Linux and the Robot Operating System (ROS). Interest in the RB5 is largely coming in drones and service robots for cleaning, Singh said. He said the reference design could be used in first-mile and last-mile delivery, UAM, and many other applications over the next…