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Automate 2023 Shows Renewed Focus on Manufacturing, Partnerships, and Data as a Differentiator
Automate 2023 featured hundreds of exhibitors, and Robotics 24/7 spoke with many of them, as well as attendees and speakers to cull the latest manufacturing trends.

Find Your Way With NVIDIA Isaac ROS Map Localization
Before a robot can navigate, it needs to know where it is. The NVIDIA Isaac ROS Map Localization package provides a GPU-accelerated node to find the position of the robot...

OTTO Motors Adds Support for VDA 5050 Mobile Robot Interoperability Standard
OTTO Motors announced that its fleet will work with the VDA 5050 interoperability standard and other mobile robots and that it has made its connector open-source.

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NVIDIA Isaac ROS Developer Preview 3 Enables Developers to Build High-Performance Robotics Applications
NVIDIA has released Isaac ROS Developer Preview 3, showcasing new features to make it easier to create high-performance, power-efficient robotics applications.

Ease of Use Features Promise to Democratize Robotics for Smaller Manufacturers
Ease-of-use features such as intuitive interfaces and lead-through programming are making robots easier to deploy, use, and manage, facilitating adoption by small and midsize manufacturers.

Qviro Announces 2023 Best Industrial Robotics and Vision Award Winners
Qviro said its Spring Awards 2023 recognizes the providers of the best industrial robots, cobots, vision systems, and end-of-arm tooling for how they satisfy user demand and requirements.

PickNik Robotics and Motiv Space Systems Partner to Develop Advanced Robot Arm Capabilities
PickNik Robotics, which offers the MoveIt robot control software, and Motiv Space Systems, which makes the xLink robot arms, are working to advance in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing.

NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit Offers to Ease Creation of Robotics and Edge AI Applications
The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit announced at GTC 2023 includes performance and accessibility enhancements to help developers of industrial robotics and artificial intelligence.

NVIDIA Sees Simulation Continuing to Add Value for AI, Robotics Developers Heading Into GTC 2023
NVIDIA has supported AI and robotics developers with Isaac Sim and Jetson Orin, and Gerard Andrews explains how its latest and upcoming releases will continue to build the ecosystem.

Syslogic Offers Three Rugged AI Computers Based on NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB System on Module
Syslogic has introduced three embedded systems using NVIDIA's processors and software to ease the development of perceptive, rugged mobile robots and other systems.

Team PoliMOVE Makes a ‘Threepeat,’ Winning Indy Autonomous Challenge at CES 2023
Team PoliMOVE literally passed the competition, as nine university teams raced fully autonomous cars at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway as part of CES 2023.

NVIDIA Updates Isaac Sim to Advance Simulation for Robotics
NVIDIA has added features to its simulation platforms, including Isaac Sim and DRIVE, to apply AI and accelerate the development of robots and autonomous vehicles.

Intrinsic to Acquire Open Source Robotics Corp. to Expand Robotics Software Development Tools
Intrinsic said it will buy the Open Source Robotics Corp., the commercial subsidiary of the Open Source Robotics Foundation, for an undisclosed amount.

MOV.AI Releases Flow Development Environment to Simplify ROS Robot Development
MOV.AI Flow is a new visual IDE intended to speed up and streamline software development with the Robot Operating System. It is free and open-source.

RBTX Online Marketplace 2.0 Designed to Further Ease Robotics Development
The RBTX Robotics Marketplace 2.0 includes enhancements to connect users with providers of low-cost automation, consulting, and complete systems to address their specific needs.

BOWE GROUP Leads $8.2M Funding Round to Help MOV.AI Deploy Its AMR Development Software
BOWE GROUP is investing in the AMR and AGV robot software developer as the mobile robot market continues to expand.

PickNik Robotics Wins Space Force Contract for On-Orbit Capture, NASA Contract for Machine Learning in Space
PickNik Robotics recently won a U.S. Space Force contract for orbital robot arms, a NASA contract for supervised autonomy, and a Colorado AIA grant for space robotics.

Cogniteam Partners With 634AI to Reduce Operational Expenses, Boost Safety in Warehouse Robotics
Cogniteam, which has developed the Nimbus drag-and-drop platform, is working with 634AI's MAESTRO "control tower" to facilitate mobile robot and forklift operations.

MassRobotics, Partners Demonstrate Interoperability Standard at AMR and Logistics Week
Interoperability continued to be a hot topic at A3's AMR and Logistics Week, with a panel discussion and demonstrations of the MassRobotics standard and VDA 5050.

NVIDIA Isaac ROS Release Features Open-Source Fleet Management Tools for Autonomous Mobile Robots
This release includes new cloud– and edge-to-robot task management and monitoring software for autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleets, as well as additional features for ROS 2 developers.



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