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PickNik Robotics Offers Beta of MoveIt Studio for Managing Robot Arms in Challenging Environments
PickNik Robotics' MoveIt Studio software builds on its support of the open-source robot arm motion planning software to make it easier for users to remotely manage robot arms.

10 Technologies for Autonomous Vehicle, Robotics Developers From NVIDIA’s GTC 2021
From autonomous trucks to robots in factories and warehouses, NVIDIA made a host of announcements at its GTC event, including new libraries, integrations, and simulation products.

Open-RMF Addresses Growing Robotics Interoperability Needs
From simulation to management of robot fleets in heterogeneous environments, Open Robotics' Open-RMF is an open-source approach to interoperability that is different than other efforts.

TUM Autonomous Motorsport Wins $1M Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered By Cisco
The Technical University of Munich beat eight other university teams in developing and racing its autonomous race car on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

MIT-PITT-RW Team Faces Obstacles at Indy Autonomous Challenge
The team from the University of Pittsburgh, MIT, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of Waterloo was undaunted by challenges with fundraising, collaboration, and a crash on race...

ROS Powered Race Cars Ready for Indy Autonomous Challenge
ADLINK provides a peek under the hood at the university teams, corporate sponsors, and open-source technologies participating in the Indy Autonomous Challenge.

NVIDIA Launches Isaac ROS to Provide AI Perception to Robotics Developers
NVIDIA said its latest Isaac ROS GEMs can help developers accelerate product development, improve performance, and simplify the addition of functionality into ROS-based applications.

Formant Partners With PickNik Robotics for Cloud Based Mobile Manipulation
To advance mobile manipulation, PickNik Robotics and Formant are collaborating on a cloud-based, low-latency interface for advanced motion planning for robot arms.

MOV.AI Launches Robotics Engine Platform for Mobile Robot Deployment
The latest version of the MOV.AI platform offers a visual IDE, advanced algorithms such as 3D SLAM, simulation tools, scene and behavior editors, an open API framework, and more.

MassRobotics Mobile Robot Interoperability Standard Has First Demo at FedEx During A3 Conference
Vecna Robotics, Waypoint Robotics, and WiBotic conducted a historic demonstration of the MassRobotics interoperability standard at the FedEx R&D enter during A3's conference in Memphis.

Cogniteam Releases Nimbus Cloud-Based Platform to Reduce Robot Time to Market by 80%
Cogniteam said its Nimbus operating system can cut development time by 80% and deliver a seamless user experience from development to deployment, as well as enable in-field maintenance.

Trimble Uses Synthetic Data, NVIDIA Isaac Sim to Explore Acceleration of Autonomous Robot Training
Before it could deploy Boston Dynamics' Spot robot for data collection indoors, Trimble used synthetic data from NVIDIA Isaac Sim to tune machine learning models.

NVIDIA Working With Open Robotics to Accelerate ROS 2 Perception for Robot Developers
NVIDIA is working to help robotics developers and startups by enabling ROS 2 to run on its Jetson processors for perception, modeling, and training in realistic environments.

GrAI Matter Labs and ADLINK Partner to Integrate SMARC Module With GrAI VIP
GrAI Matter Labs is combining its vision AI processors with ADLINK's development kits to enable smarter and more efficient camera modules on devices at the edge.

Agile Robots Raises Series C Funding, Claims to Be First Unicorn in Field
Agile Robots, which has headquarters in Munich and Beijing, has developed software and hardware and said it is the first intelligent robotics company worth $1 billion.

Renesas and eProsima Port micro-ROS to Microcontrollers to Simplify Robotics Development
Renesas and eProsima say that by making the RA microcontroller units the official development for micro-ROS will help facilitate IoT and industrial robotics adoption.

Velodyne Lidar, MOV.AI Team Up to Help Developers of Industrial Mobile Robot Applications
Velodyne Lidar's Puck sensors, plus MOV.AI's ROS-based Robotics Engine Platform, will enable developers to build mobile robots for dynamic environments, say partners.

Perrone Robotics Signs OEM Agreement With Local Motors for Autonomous Shuttles
Autonomous vehicle pioneers Perrone Robotics and Local Motors are collaborating to integrate Perrone's TONY autonomy kit into Local Motors Olli electric shuttle this year.

DoD Chooses Stratom for Stage II of Modular Autonomy and Robotic Software Program
Stratom, which worked on the first stage of the MARS program, will continue to help migrate military ground robots from ROS-M to ROS 2, the latest version of the Robot Operating...

InOrbit Joins MassRobotics and Supports Autonomous Mobile Robot Interoperability Standard
InOrbit, which is in the Robot Operations Group, has joined MassRobotics and is contributing to the organization's efforts to get mobile robots to work better together.



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