Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.20
…number of variables. The workflow begins by using a co-simulation model to create datasets to train a ROM, providing sufficiently accurate results across all of the physics required (Fig. 2). “ROM can improve product design in numerous ways,” says Jenmy Zhang, post-doctoral researcher at Autodesk. “A few examples include reducing overall time to generate many design possibilities, predicting part performance on the fly during interactive design and product performance probabilistic sensitivity or uncertainty analyses, which require repeating a simulation many times.” The accuracy question AI can handle large, complex applications. It has shown that it can work around data shortages.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.17
…returns with Seegrid’s vehicles,” said Tom Panzarella, Box Robotics Co-Founder. “This technology will enable Seegrid’s autonomous vehicles to gain an even more comprehensive understanding of the world, enabling them to be more productive and save customers time and money.” Seegrid’s acquisition of Box Robotics comes on the heels of the company closing a $52 million growth equity financing round last month, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $150 million. Seegrid intends to use the additional capital to accelerate new product development and increase the size of its workforce as it continues to deliver best-in-class automation solutions for its…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.31
…all with vivid realism. In the process, their clients gain a deeper understanding of each customer that opens up new opportunities to better serve them across channels. “Our collaboration with Materialise will help us deliver on our goal of making eyewear more personal. The shift towards eCommerce, digitally enabled smart stores and digital manufacturing is inevitable,” says Kate Doerksen, Ditto’s CEO and co-founder. “We are excited to bring combined solutions to our clients to create a differentiated, personalized customer experience and product offering.” The digital manufacturing technology makes it possible to shift from inventory-focused production to a more customer-centric approach,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.26
…large-scale AM technologies evolved and 3D printing, in general, gains traction, companies are more willing to consider the methods as a legitimate alternative to traditional manufacturing modes such as molding, milling and casting. The companies designing novel products in emerging categories such as electric mobility solutions are already predisposed to thinking outside the box and therefore are more open to modifying long-standing processes, including new modes of manufacturing, says Frank Marangell, chief business officer and U.S. president for Big Rep, which specializes in industrial AM printers and services. The abrupt disruptions to in-person work environments and to the global supply…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.38
…production parts among major aircraft OEMs,” comments Jānis Jātnieks, co-founder and CEO, of AM Craft. “Although COVID-19 has shocked the industry in the last few months, we are seeing efforts to return to business by remodeling passenger planes for cargo shipments, as well as projects to increase customer safety measures and improve the inflight customer experience – for example by providing mobile device charging stations and Wi-Fi infrastructures. In such cases, additive manufacturing is way ahead of slower and more costly traditional methods. “One of the mainstay pillars that enables us to realize this business case into real-world applications is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.55
…should only be conducted if deemed necessary. AI can gain info, process it, and provide the output to the patients and care team members via machine learning algorithms. The right combination of AI and predictive analytics technologies can also assist in optimizing hospitals’ operating efficiencies, increasing asset utilization, and maintaining required equipment disinfection. Internet of Things (IoT) IoT-enabled thermometers could potentially be used to take patients’ temperatures from a distance. Similarly, patients can take their own temperatures and upload their data via mobile devices for virtual monitoring by their care team. This enables healthcare providers to efficiently collect more data…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.26
…is KeyShot, widely used by product designers and architects. Co-founder Henrik Wann Jensen was presented with a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for his pioneering work on rendering as used in cinema. For years, Jensen insisted the CPU was the best environment for rendering. All that changed in July 2019 when Luxion announced it would support the NVIDIA RTX platform for real-time ray tracing, a key rendering technology. “Our development team was able to quickly show KeyShot with GPU acceleration and [show] where performance could be gained, which further convinced us to move forward with support for NVIDIA RTX,” said…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.21
…industries, the companies report. Together, the two companies will co-develop new 3D printed solutions for medical, automotive and apparel applications. DSM and Twikit are currently working on an end-to-end production workflow for 3D printed orthotics and prosthetics, showcasing additive manufacturing's customizability. Combining DSM’s materials and market reach with Twikit’s experience in software development and application development will facilitate improvements in advanced manufacturing techniques, the companies report. The partnership between the two companies will lead to new customizability and made-to-measure turnkey solutions across various industries. DSM and Twikit will explore new applications in the automotive, healthcare, and footwear industries. Twikit’s morphing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.17
…bringing 6 Rivers Systems into the fold Shopify will gain a group of staffers with decades of fulfillment software and robotics experience, as well as 6 Rivers Systems’ cloud-based software and collaborative mobile robots, known as “Chuck,” to the Shopify Fulfillment Network. This pairing, said Shopify, will increase the speed and reliability of warehouse operations through various tasks such as inventory replenishment, picking, sorting, and packing. Shopify also explained that that this acquisition is a “critical step to accelerate its growth,” with 6 River Systems continuing to build and sell their offerings for warehouses. The Shopify Fulfillment Network was introduced…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.30
…relieving people of tedious tasks.” DHL has already scored gains using AI in three key areas. In one DHL operation, people used to evaluate incoming shipments to determine if extra handling is required. It was a high-speed manual process with on-the-fly decision making that was fraught with the potential for error. DHL now uses AI and computer vision to evaluate incoming shipments and determine proper handling for people on the line. Productivity has increased by as much as 14%. The accuracy of detecting critical pallet properties has also increased along with the speed of handling. Just as important, explains Ha,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.23
…can stay at a more comfortable work cell and gain experience working with AMRs. “When you put robots into warehouses it’s typically a better working environment for the human workers,” says Barber. Not all AMRs function alike. Some solutions work on a good-to-person principle, bringing rolling shelves with goods to a workstation, while others work in aisles alongside humans, and others handle material transfer tasks. There are also mobile robots with sorter mechanisms or roller conveyor attachments on top, making it possible for a bot to transfer goods to fixed automation. Another variation are mobile bots that have a picking…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.25
…sleeping, so the leakage current dominates,” says Paul Washkewicz, co-founder and vice president of marketing of Eta Compute. “In fact, the real-time clock is completely dominated by leakage and is often the main function that is always on to keep the IoT device synchronized. Often the gains made going from 90 nm to 40 nm—for the SoC [system on a chip] to get more performance or shrink the die for cost—lock the SoC out of markets dominated by off leakage currents.” Designers seeking greater energy efficiency must consider power dissipation, which varies with the processing platform used. “Power dissipation is…