Market trends and business perspectives
Shortcut Robotics, a Los Angeles-based startup, has begun beta testing its first telepresence robot.
The beta tests will be conducted in two phases in order to make updates in between each phase.
The robot operates as a driveable video call, giving users the ability to maneuver around a remote environment and interact naturally with the people there. [Read more…] about Shortcut Robotics’ telepresence robot enters beta testing phase
Air taxi operators are unfazed by the 200 or so organizations designing vertical take-off electric aircraft. The IDTechEx report with the big picture is, Manned Electric Aircraft: Smart City and Regional 2021-2041.
Air taxi operators have placed large orders with a company that models itself on Tesla, entirely making born-electric, conventional take-off, fixed-wing aircraft.
Using extreme lightweighting, efficiency, and aerodynamics, Bye Aerospace has over $250 million of orders for two and four-seaters from air taxi operators and flying schools. It spent only $24 million to have certifiable demonstrators aloft.
Bye is so inundated with orders it has just doubled its prices because the aircraft still cost far less per mile than the polluting traditional equivalents. In the US, 11,000 of those are approaching 50 years old and illegality. Bye deliveries start from 2022. [Read more…] about Air taxi winners: Watch orders not investment, says IDTechEx
Siemens has opened beta testing of its next update of NX, the engineering giant’s computer-aided design software.
The NX application is part of Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) software unit, and can also be used for computer-aided manufacturing and computer-aided engineering.
NX – sort for Siemens Next Generation Design – includes design functions and simulation capabilities which feature real-world physics, and the company is strongly emphasising the new additions for additive manufacturing. [Read more…] about Siemens opens beta testing for forthcoming launch of NX
Startup company Diligent Robotics has raised $3 million in seed funding to launch “Moxi”, the company’s hospital robot.
Diligent Robotics describes itself as an artificial intelligence company which builds socially intelligent robots that help people with their jobs.
Its first product, hospital robot assistant named Moxi, is now out of beta and into market, beginning with the roll-out of Moxi into a Texas hospital starting October 2, 2019. [Read more…] about Diligent Robotics raises $3 million seed funding to launch Moxi the hospital robot
The Construct has launched a beta version of its integrated development environment.
The company says users of the IDE don’t need to code, and can develop Robot Operating System programs “graphically”.
TheConstructSim.com is an online robot simulation environment in which users can develop and test their systems.
