Before today, Waymo has welcomed new riders incrementally in the city, and now it’s opening it up to everyone.
RTI Connext to deliver real-time data connectivity to NVIDIA Holoscan
RTI Connext provides reliable communications for users of NVIDIA’s Holoscan SDK to speed development of devices such as surgical robots.
Wayve launches PRISM-1 4D reconstruction model for autonomous driving
Wayve says PRISM-1 enables scalable, realistic re-simulations of complex scenes with minimal engineering or labeling input.
Waabi raises $200M from Uber, NVIDIA, and others on the road to self-driving trucks
Waabi, which has been developing self-driving trucks using generative AI, plans to put its systems on Texas roads in 2025.
At CVPR, NVIDIA offers Omniverse microservices, shows advances in visual generative AI
Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX can generate synthetic data for robotics, says NVIDIA, which is presenting over 50 research papers at CVPR.
Beep deploys autonomous shuttles at Honolulu airport with partners
Beep discusses its pilot of Miki shuttles with Sustainability Partners and the Honolulu DoT at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.
IEEE launches study group to explore and develop humanoid robot standards
ASTM International’s Aaron Prather will chair the IEEE humanoid study group, which is open to other standards development organizations.
Collaborative Robotics expands with new Seattle office and AI team
Collaborative Robotics has established a foundation models AI team and partnered with the University of Washington on research.
Inside the development of FarmWise’s weeding robot
Learn how FarmWise overcame the challenges of developing a weeding robot with linear slides, computer vision, AI and more.
RBR50 Spotlight: Opteran Mind reverse-engineers natural brain algorithms for mobile robot autonomy
Opteran commercialized its vision-based approach to autonomy by releasing Opteran Mind.
Unleashing potential: The role of software development in advancing robotics
As robotics serves more use cases across industries, hardware and software development should be parallel efforts, says Radixweb.
Investor Dean Drako acquires Cobalt Robotics
Cobalt AI is set to expand the use of its human-verified AI technology in various enterprise security applications.
Vention, NVIDIA partner to bring automation and AI to small manufacturers
Under the collaboration, Vention and NVIDIA will use AI to create near-accurate digital twins significantly faster and more efficiently.
Adapta Robotics execs explain development strategies for testing and inventory robots
Adapta Robotics grew out of a university competition team, and the Romanian startup identified electronics and retail as markets.
NVIDIA highlights Omniverse, Isaac adoption by robot market leaders
CEO Jenson Huang announced that robotic factories can accelerate industrial digitization with NVIDIA AI and Omniverse.
1X shows advances in voice control, chaining tasks for humanoid robots
1X Technologies showed advances in AI and teleoperation enable multiple humanoids to conduct a sequence of tasks.
Teradyne Robotics names James Davidson chief AI officer
The move comes as Teradyne, which owns Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots, has embraced AI as part of its strategy.
OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group
OpenAI is creating a new internal robotics research group after pulling back from robotics research in 2021.
2024 edition of U.S. robotics roadmap points to need for more federal coordination
The 2024 edition of “A Roadmap for U.S. Robotics” calls for a more strategic approach and retraining for economic growth.
NVIDIA, ORBIT-Surgical teach surgical robots key skills in simulation
ORBIT-Surgical, developed using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Omniverse, showed how to train robots to move a needle at ICRA.
Stanford researcher discusses UMI gripper and diffusion AI models
Stanford Ph.D. researcher Cheng Chi discusses the development of the UMI gripper and the use of diffusion AI models for robotics.
RBR50 Spotlight: Capra Robotics bridges gap between VELUX’s indoor, outdoor logistics
In 2024, Capra Robotics introduced the Capra Hircus, an unique autonomous mobile robot (AMR) designed to navigate challenging terrain with ease.