Archives for February 25, 2019

Automated guided vehicles market size forecast to be worth $7.3 billion by 2025

February 25, 2019 by Mai Tao

The global automated guided vehicles market size is expected to reach $7.3 billion by 2025, from the current size of more than $2 billion, according to a new report by Grand View Research, registering a 16.5 percent annual growth over the forecast period.

AGVs are transforming the way materials can be moved within manufacturing and distribution facilities.

In a production environment where several operations are carried out simultaneously, these vehicles can ensure predictable and reliable transfer of raw materials as well as manufactured products from one point to another within the facility, thereby eliminating any potential disruption in production. [Read more…] about Automated guided vehicles market size forecast to be worth $7.3 billion by 2025

How The Field Of Robotics Is Benefiting From Advancements Made In Artificial Intelligence

February 25, 2019 by Nicola Harvey

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Artificial intelligence and robotics result in a powerful combination when it comes to automating tasks both inside and outside the factory setting.

Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more present in recent years in robotic solutions, thus introducing learning capabilities and flexibility in what were consider rigid applications.

Despite the fact that artificial intelligence is still in its early stages and many have not yet felt the impact that artificial intelligence has, it has been a transformative technology when it comes to certain applications within the manufacturing sector. [Read more…] about How The Field Of Robotics Is Benefiting From Advancements Made In Artificial Intelligence

Sweden: Leading the pack in digitization and smart industry

February 25, 2019 by David Edwards

A closer look at this year’s partner country for Hannover Messe

Spotify, Klarna, Skype and iZettle are all big names in the digital world. And they have one thing in common: they are all from Sweden – Stockholm, the country’s capital, to be precise.

Two of the world’s biggest computer games, Minecraft (Mojang) and Candy Crush (King), where also developed in Stockholm. Ericsson, world leader of telecommunication systems was founded for more than 100 years ago.

All this undoubtedly makes Sweden’s capital one of the world’s major technology hotspots. In fact, Stockholm is widely regarded as one of the world’s biggest “unicorn factories” and ranks second only to Silicon Valley when it comes to the number of local startups with a market capitalization of over one billion US dollars. [Read more…] about Sweden: Leading the pack in digitization and smart industry

BMW and Daimler invest more than €1 billion in joint mobility services

February 25, 2019 by Anna

The BMW Group and Daimler AG are pooling their mobility services to create a new global player providing sustainable urban mobility for customers.

The two companies are investing more than €1 billion in total to develop and more closely intermesh their offerings for car-sharing, ride-hailing, parking, charging and multimodal transport.

The two companies’ mobility services have a combined total of over 60 million active customers to date.

ASTI Mobile Robotics and InSystems Automation sign commercial partnership deal

February 25, 2019 by Anna

ASTI Mobile Robotics and InSystems Automation have signed a commercial partnership agreement in order to strengthen their position in the European market.

With this agreement, ASTI Mobile Robotics and InSystems Automation will expand markets and take up new opportunities, as a result of synergies from having complementary automatic guided system vehicles (AGVs) ranges.

ASTI Mobile Robotics and InSystems announced the business agreement at LogiMAT 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany, where the companies shared a booth.

Qualcomm robotics platform: Connectivity key to transforming robotics industry

February 25, 2019 by Sam Francis

By Lian Jye Su, principal analyst at tech advisory firm, ABI Research

Qualcomm has just announced the launch of Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Platform. The platform is the company’s first comprehensive end-to-end robotics development platform that features heterogeneous computing architecture with support for artificial intelligence processing, additional camera, sensors, and video modules.

Aside from Qualcomm’s in-house software development kits, the platform also supports Linux, Robot Operating System, and Amazon AWS Robomaker, making it very accessible to robotics creators and developers.

Most importantly, the platform features integrated support for LTE cellular connectivity and future upgradability to 5G. [Read more…] about Qualcomm robotics platform: Connectivity key to transforming robotics industry

Qualcomm launches new platform to ‘transform the robotics industry’

February 25, 2019 by Sam Francis

Qualcomm Technologies has launched its Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Platform – the chipmaker’s first integrated, comprehensive offering designed specifically for robotics.

Building on Qualcomm Technologies’ success in robotics and drone products available today, this purpose-built platform features a “highly optimized” set of hardware, software and tools designed to help manufacturers and developers create the next generation of advanced consumer, enterprise and industrial robotics products. [Read more…] about Qualcomm launches new platform to ‘transform the robotics industry’

Continental unveils augmented reality HUD

February 25, 2019 by Anna

Continental has unveiled an industry-first full-colour demonstrator of an automotive-specific Head-up Display (HUD) based on waveguide technology.

This demonstrator is the result of the joint development with DigiLens Inc., one of the leading experts in projection technology enabled by switchable holographic gratings.

HUDs with graphic augmentations in a real-world view offer intuitive driver support. Embedding the augmentations in the real world makes the driver immediately understand where their attention is required and why.