Advantech announces a new partnership with MOV.AI. Advantech’s rugged hardware can be integrated with MOV.AI’s Robotics Engine Platform, making it easier to develop and deploy AMRs for businesses.
FORT launches Endpoint Controller
FORT Robotics builds products to help robot builders and users to increase productivity and accelerate innovation.
Sereact’s PickGPT lets users instruct robots with natural language
Sereact has announced PickGPT, a robotics transformer that combines large language models with the company’s computer vision technology.
Bosch Rexroth opens production plant in Mexico
Bosch Rexroth opens a new plant in Querétaro, Mexico to complement the activities at the established sites in North America.
DLRob announces self-training addition to its robot controller
DLRob, and AI and robotics technology company, announced a new feature for its vision-based controller that was released earlier this year.
Cincoze adds to its line of embedded computers for industrial automation
Cincoze recently launched the DX-1200 embedded computer, the latest addition to its Rugged Computing – DIAMOND product line.
Siemens, Comau collaborate on Sinumerik Run MyRobot
Siemens has entered into a cooperative agreement with Comau to offer their jointly engineered product the Sinumerik Run MyRobot / DirectControl.
How AI chipset bans could impact Chinese robotics companies
The US is restricting the sale of the most powerful artificial intelligence processors to China.
FORT’s NSC sends commands to robots wirelessly
With FORT’s NSC embedded, users are able to send commands through the company’s patented technology for safety and data integrity.
NVIDIA accelerates mobile robot development with Isaac Nova Orin
State-of-the-art computing and sensor architecture powered by the new Jetson platform enables next-gen 3D-sensing for AMRs.
NVIDIA announces availability of Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit
NVIDIA has over one million developers now deploying on Jetson with John Deere, Medtronic, Hyundai Robotics, Komatsu, Meituan among early adopters
ABB adds 2 OmniCore robot controllers
ABB said both controllers include more than 1,000 hardware and software functions encompassing areas such as programming, offline commissioning and simulation, maintenance, vision and safety.
Miniature controllers from FAULHABER control a range of dc motors
The new MC 3001 are unhoused versions of the FAULHABER motion controllers and, by means of the integrated output stage with optimized current measurement, can control dc micromotors, linear dc servomotors or brushless dc motors from the company’s product line from 6 to 30 mm. With an overall height from 2.6 mm and a format…
Yaskawa taps Realtime Robotics’ motion planning expertise
Yaskawa is tapping Realtime Robotics’ motion planning technology to improve a variety of materials handling and fulfillment applications, including piece picking and mixed case palletizing. Yaskawa said using Realtime’s technology enables its robot cells to be deployed and used more efficiently. The first of these mixed pallet robot cells will soon start being installed at…
ABB introduces a new ROS driver for its robots
A new ROS driver for ABB robots was introduced at the recent ROS-Industrial Conference. The driver, which is now available on GitHub, is designed to ease interaction between ABB robot controllers and ROS-based systems by providing ready-to-run ROS nodes. Here is a look at the included (principal) packages are brief descriptions for each: abb_rws_state_publisher: Provides…
MGS Manufacturing uses Stäubli robots, controls for inspection of medical devices
MGS, a contract manufacturer for a major European medical device maker, turned to Stäubli robots to support automated inspection of single-use catheters.
Freedom Robotics provides remote control support for European Rover Challenge
Freedom Robotics explains how it helped support the ERC Space and Robotics Event with teleoperation and remote monitoring software, as well as lessons learned for industrial automation.
University of Leeds scientists develop robot-assisted, semi-autonomous colonoscopy
Scientists at the University of Leeds said their development of magnet-guided, semi-autonomous robotic colonoscopy could make the procedure easier for examiners and less painful for patients.
Titan Medical obtains robotic surgery patents for camera and gesture control
Titan Medical, which has been developing the Sport single-port robotic surgical system, has received U.S. patents for an in-body camera positioning system and hand gesture controls.
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning helping Army advance drone swarms
Army researchers developed a reinforcement learning approach that allows swarms of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles to optimally accomplish various missions while minimizing performance uncertainty. Swarming is a method of operations where multiple autonomous systems act as a cohesive unit by actively coordinating their actions. Army researchers said future multi-domain battles will require swarms of…
CNC Guide from FANUC is free and includes five-axis simulation, training tools
FANUC America has added five-axis workforce training tools to its simulation and CNC Guide offerings, the latter of which is free through September 2020.
Wandelbots raises Series B funding, readies TracePen robot teaching device for release
Wandelbots, which has developed the TracePen tool for manual training of robot motions, has raised $30 million for its global expansion.