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Realtime Robotics partners with Siemens to simplify integration of robotic workcells

June 25, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Realtime Robotics is partnering with Siemens to simplify the integration of robotic workcells into industrial facilities. (See video below.)

Realtime Robotics, which specialises in autonomous motion planning for industrial robots, says the initiative is part of its strategic partnership with Siemens Digital Industries Software division.

Realtime’s technology is being seamlessly integrated into the Tecnomatix portfolio, simplifying robot programming and workcell coordination by automating motion programming. [Read more…] about Realtime Robotics partners with Siemens to simplify integration of robotic workcells

Honeywell says it has built the world’s most powerful quantum computer

June 25, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Fancy new computer requires temperatures colder than the surface of Pluto in order to work properly… who’d want something like that?

Honeywell has built what it claims is the “world’s highest performing quantum computer”.

In a statement, the industrial and computing giant says: “Our team of scientists, engineers and technicians, have built what is currently the highest performing quantum computer available.”

With a quantum volume of 64, the Honeywell quantum computer is said to be “twice as powerful as the next alternative in the industry”. [Read more…] about Honeywell says it has built the world’s most powerful quantum computer

Bosch says its new chip is ‘revolutionizing navigation’

June 25, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Bosch, one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive components, says a new chip has invented is “revolutionizing navigation”.

The company says its new MEMS sensor – the SMI230 – is a highly precise sensor which constantly registers changes in the vehicle’s direction and speed, evaluates the information, and transmits it to the navigation system.

There, the information is combined with the positional data from the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and used for navigation. [Read more…] about Bosch says its new chip is ‘revolutionizing navigation’

Analysis: Qualcomm’s new robotics platform raises a few questions

June 22, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

By Rian Whitton, principal analyst at tech market advisory firm ABI Research

Qualcomm last week launched its next step in its bid to power the next generation of commercial 5G-enabled robots, with the release of its RB5 platform.

Bringing high-compute power and a significant degree of modularity to the energy-constrained robotic platform market, the RB5 is an evolution on the company’s RB3 platform released in 2019, and a potential game-changer in the development of smart robotic fleets.

RB5 is advertised as a premium platform, with an emphasis on sophistication over cost-efficiency, supporting high-performance heterogeneous computing with built-in 5G capability and 4K HDR video streaming. [Read more…] about Analysis: Qualcomm’s new robotics platform raises a few questions

Internet industry organisation calls for strengthening EU against tech giants

June 18, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

The internet industry association ECO has called for the strengthening of the European Union against tech giants that have caused enormous disruption across Europe and the world.

ECO has drawn up a six-point “catalogue of requirements” on behalf of the internet industry for the strengthening of Europe as a digital location.

The organisation says the internet industry is gaining increasing significance for the economy as a whole and promotes value creation in other sectors, thereby guaranteeing the innovation capacity of Europe as a business location. [Read more…] about Internet industry organisation calls for strengthening EU against tech giants

Qualcomm launches ‘world’s first’ 5G and AI-enabled robotics platform

June 17, 2020 by Sam Francis Leave a Comment

Qualcomm Technologies has launched what it claims is the “world’s first 5G and artificial intelligence-enabled robotics platform”. (See video below.)

The company says its Qualcomm Robotics RB5 platform is its “most advanced, integrated, comprehensive offering designed specifically for robotics”.

Building on the Qualcomm Robotics RB3 platform and its broad adoption in a wide array of robotics and drone products available today, the Qualcomm says its RB5 platform is comprised of an extensive set of hardware, software and development tools. [Read more…] about Qualcomm launches ‘world’s first’ 5G and AI-enabled robotics platform

Apple’s new iPad Pro sports LiDAR and new chip

June 17, 2020 by Sam Francis Leave a Comment

Apple’s latest version of its iPad Pro tablet computer integrates technology more commonly found in robots and autonomous cars – LiDAR.

LiDAR, short for Light Detection and Ranging, refers to a type of sensor which gives the device information about objects around it and the distance to them.

Apple says it decided to put LiDAR in the new iPad Pro to give the camera in the device a greater sense of depth. [Read more…] about Apple’s new iPad Pro sports LiDAR and new chip

Comau launches mobile app for remote monitoring and diagnostics of its robots and machining centers

June 15, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Comau has launched a mobile app for remote monitoring and diagnostics of its robots and machining centers.

The company’s “in.Grid/Link” is part of its Smart Digital Restart plan and internet of things platform developed in collaboration with Microsoft.

A light version of the application will be available for free for a period of six months, first in Italy and then in other countries. [Read more…] about Comau launches mobile app for remote monitoring and diagnostics of its robots and machining centers

Scientists develop new method of teaching surgery to a robot

June 12, 2020 by Mai Tao Leave a Comment

A team of scientists has developed a new way of teaching surgery to a robot that they say is far more efficient than other methods.

In a paper entitled Semi-Supervised Representation Learning from Surgical Videos, the team at Cornell University calls its algorithm Motion2Vec.

The team – which is backed by Intel’s AI Labs, Google Brain, and UC Berkeley – says Motion2Vec learns from video observations “by minimizing a metric learning loss”. [Read more…] about Scientists develop new method of teaching surgery to a robot

ADLINK teams up with Intel to launch ROS-based robotics technology

June 9, 2020 by Mai Tao Leave a Comment

ADLINK Technology, a provider of edge computing systems, has launched the ROScube-I with Intel, providing a real-time ROS 2 robot controller for advanced robotic applications.

The ADLINK ROScube-I Series is a ROS 2-enabled robotic controller based on Intel Xeon E, 9th Gen Intel Core i7/i3 and 8th Gen Intel Core i5 processors, and features exceptional I/O connectivity supporting a wide variety of sensors and actuators to meet the needs of a wide range of robotic applications.

The ROScube-I supports an extension box for convenient functional and performance expansion with Intel VPU cards and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit for computation of AI algorithms and inference. [Read more…] about ADLINK teams up with Intel to launch ROS-based robotics technology