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OTTO Motors this week released software to provide customers more visibility into fleet performance to support the world’s largest autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, deployments. “Over the last few years, we’ve seen facilities test AMRs for automating material handling,” stated Jay Judkowitz, vice president of product at OTTO Motors. “Today, they are no longer testing; they are operationalizing. As a…
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VisionNav Robotics showed off a range of its autonomous forklifts, including the VNP15 and the VNSL14, at LogiMAT 2022 last week in Stuttgart, Germany. The company is a global supplier of autonomous industrial vehicles and intralogistics automation. Shenzhen, China-based VisionNav said its automated guided vehicles (AGVs) work in hundreds of facilities across the world, providing pallet storage, narrow-aisle operations, automated…
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With a combination of mobile robots, easy-to-use interfaces, and real-time business intelligence, Locus Robotics Corp. is helping warehouse customers meet the demands of today’s growing e-commerce and other businesses, said Jasmine Lombardi, chief customer officer at the company. She spoke at the Reuters Supply Chain Execution 2022 Conference in Chicago earlier this month. Wilmington, Mass.-based Locus' autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)…
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DETROIT—At the Automate 2022 trade show and conference here this week, Flexiv Ltd. showed off its latest technologies. The company demonstrated its Rizon 4, Rizon 4s, and Rizon 10 systems combining robotics and artificial intelligence. “This is the first time that Flexiv attends the Automate Show as an exhibitor,” stated Howard Huang, director of sales and business development for North…
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Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology firm that takes advantage of artificial intelligence, announced this week that it has completed a $60 million Series D financing round. To date, the company has raised $366 million since its founding in 2014. The Hong Kong-based company “provides AI solutions to the top pharma and biotechnology companies to enable streamlined R&D efforts and transform the…
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Silicon photonics maker SiLC Technologies Inc. this week announced that Cloud Light Technology Ltd. will deliver volume manufacturing of its Eyeonic Vision sensors. Monrovia, Calif.-based SiLC was founded in 2018 by a team with more than 25 years of experience in photonics, product development, and manufacturing. The startup said it uses a proprietary, silicon-based semiconductor fabrication process to manufacture its…
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Driving a tractor may be different than driving a car, but both vehicles and their users can benefit from autonomy. Apex.AI today announced that AGCO is adding capabilities to its Fendt Xaver concept vehicle. AGCO will incorporate the Apex.OS software development kit, or SDK, into its autonomous farming robot. “We are leveraging our success in the automotive and autonomous driving…
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DETROIT—Skilled welders are hard to find, so it’s best to assign them to higher-return jobs instead of using them for simpler welding tasks, according to Acieta. The company said at Automate 2022 here that fabricators and job shops can now give the easier, low-value weld jobs to its new FastARC CX1000 collaborative robot. “The FastARC CX1000 repeatedly welds accurate and…
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Vayyar Imaging Ltd. this week announced that it has finalized $108 million (U.S.) in Series E financing, bringing the 4D imaging lidar company's total funding to more than $300 million. Koch Disruptive Technologies, or KDT, led the round. “We are pleased and proud to progress our partnership with existing investors including KDT, as well as additional backers, which are joining…
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Brain Corp. last week announced that it will adopt Google Cloud as the core technical infrastructure for the management of its fleet of autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs. “With the scale and speed of growth of AMRs now powered by BrainOS, it’s essential that we have the most powerful technology infrastructure underpinning it,” said Jon Thomason, chief technical officer at…
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READY Robotics Corp. this week announced a strategic investment from NVIDIA plus plans to integrate NVIDIA’s Omniverse Isaac Sim into READY Robotics’ Forge/OS. The Columbus, Ohio-based company said NVIDIA’s investment allows it to improve its core Forge/OS 5 platform as well as to support a growing ecosystem of partners and developers. READY Robotics added that it provides a foundation that…
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DETROIT—Service robots promise to help people “age in place.” Labrador Systems Inc. this week announced that it has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Engelberger Foundation for its work on a new generation of assistive robots. The foundation created the grant to recognize companies that “have made significant progress in the development of service robots.” Labrador said it is…
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DETROIT—The robots aren't just coming—they're here, and North American industry has continued to adopt automation at record rates. In the first quarter of 2022, companies in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico ordered 11,595 industrial robots—up 28% compared with the first quarter of 2021, according to the International Federation of Robotics. Revenue rose by 43% and reached a value of $664…
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Collaborative robot arms can gain additional degrees of freedom with certain configurations. Last week, Festo Corp. said it has developed a UR+ certified four-axis system for cobots from Universal Robots A/S. The new system adds more axes of motion beyond the UR robots' six axes and comes ready to install, said Festo. Mississauga, Ontario-based Festo makes pneumatic and electromechanical systems,…
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