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Honeywell and Carnegie Mellon University to collaborate on robotics and AI for connected DCs

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…announced a strategic collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University to advance artificial intelligence and robotic technologies to help distribution centers address rising demands fueled by rapid growth in e-commerce. The initiative brings together Honeywell Intelligrated, a division of Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions, and Carnegie Mellon’s National Robotics Engineering Center. The two organizations are advancing the capability of artificial intelligence and…

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Rochester Drug Cooperative: Robots ready for work

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…was a robot specialist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the co-founder of IAM Robotics. While materials handling wasn’t necessarily top of mind for Galluzzo, he went to Rochester to learn about the picking process for slow-moving SKUs. In the spring of 2014, he made a pitch. “He asked us if we could get something that could pick two…

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Uber Fires Self-Driving Vehicle Engineer Anthony Levandowski amid Legal Battle with Google

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…of researchers and engineers from Carnegie Mellon University. It was reportedly Levandowski’s decision to rapidly expand those efforts into San Francisco at the end of 2016. In other news, Uber quietly dropped the name for its driverless truck unit, “Otto.” The change was made last month in the wake of a trademark infringement dispute with a similarly named Canadian company…

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Uber Reportedly Shopping Around For Self-Driving Mercedes-Benz Transportation Fleet

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…it poached from Google and Carnegie Mellon University. The company recently announced plans to expand its Pittsburgh facility to include a test track for driverless cars. “Uber isn’t valued at more than $50 billion because it’s a ‘taxi app,’ but because investors see Uber as a logistics company.” - Adrian Gonzalez, Adelante SCM Still, purchasing a fleet of cars, especially…

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Father of Robotics Joseph F. Engelberger dies at 90

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…in electrical engineering from Columbia University. An industry advocate, author, and international ambassador for robotics, Engelberger founded Unimation, Inc., in 1956, the world’s first industrial robotics manufacturer. Working closely with inventor George Devol, he developed the first industrial robot in the U.S., called “Unimate”, which was installed for industrial use in a General Motors plant in 1961. Since then, approximately…

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