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Apptronik partners with Google DeepMind to accelerate advancement of humanoid robots

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Apptronik, the AI-powered humanoid robotics company, has entered a strategic partnership agreement with the Google DeepMind robotics team.

The partnership will bring together “best-in-class artificial intelligence with cutting-edge hardware and embodied intelligence, advancing humanoid robots that can be more helpful to people in dynamic environments”, according to the companies.

Jeff Cardenas, CEO and co-founder of Apptronik, says: “We’re building a future where humanoid robots address urgent global challenges. [Read more…] about Apptronik partners with Google DeepMind to accelerate advancement of humanoid robots

Honeywell and Google Cloud to accelerate autonomous operations with AI agents for the industrial sector

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Honeywell and Google Cloud are partnering to launch a “unique collaboration” connecting artificial intelligence (AI) agents with assets, people and processes to accelerate safer, autonomous operations for the industrial sector.

This partnership will bring together the multimodality and natural language capabilities of Gemini on Vertex AI – Google Cloud’s AI platform – and the massive data set on Honeywell Forge, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform for industrials.

This will unleash easy-to-understand, enterprise-wide insights across a multitude of use cases. Honeywell’s customers across the industrial sector will benefit from opportunities to reduce maintenance costs, increase operational productivity and upskill employees. [Read more…] about Honeywell and Google Cloud to accelerate autonomous operations with AI agents for the industrial sector

Google Cloud and ‘major manufacturers’ join OPC Foundation initiative

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Google Cloud has become one of the “who’s who of cloud suppliers and world-famous manufacturers” that have joined the OPC’s newly launched Cloud Initiative, according to the OPC Foundation.

OPC, also known as the OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA), is a machine-to-machine communication protocol used for industrial automation and developed by the OPC Foundation.

The OPC says the new members are looking to align
interoperability requirements in IT and cloud environments based on OPC UA. [Read more…] about Google Cloud and ‘major manufacturers’ join OPC Foundation initiative

GreyOrange’s robotic retail software solution now available on Google Cloud Marketplace

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GreyOrange, a provider of AI-driven warehouse automation technology, says its software as a service (SaaS) application, gStore, is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace.

gStore makes it easier for retailers to precisely locate inventory, manage stockouts, and enables personalized in-store experiences for customers using smart fitting rooms and self-checkout capabilities.

By providing real-time insights into inventory levels, item locations and stock movements, gStore enables retailers to execute store operations more effectively, simultaneously empowering merchandisers to speed up decision-making on pricing, promotions and placements to boost sales and productivity. [Read more…] about GreyOrange’s robotic retail software solution now available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Alphabet’s Intrinsic looking to integrate more closely with ROS

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Intrinsic – a business unit of Alphabet, the parent company of Google – has been exploring ways to bring the Intrinsic platform “closer together” with Robot Operating System (ROS).

From humble beginnings 17 years ago, ROS has grown to become the “backbone of all kinds of robotics products and projects around the world”, according to Intrinsic.

The open source community has long been at the edge of pushing for greater interoperability in robotics, with ROS playing a “critical role” in many of these advances. [Read more…] about Alphabet’s Intrinsic looking to integrate more closely with ROS

Google Might Be the First to Put Real AI in a Robot Body

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Robot technology is moving forward, thanks to heroic efforts by Boston Dynamics and various robot vacuum companies. But it seems like a gap is opening up between what chatbots like Gemini, Claude an ChatGPT can do, and the capabilities of physical machines. The former are writing symphonies while the latter are struggling to stumble across an empty room.

Incredibly, Google engineers foresaw this problem nearly a decade ago. Boffins believed that the invention of the transformer would assist with artificial cognition and improve language models, but they didn’t think it would translate easily into physical activity.

“This problem is currently dogging the household appliance sector,” says Vacuum Wars, a company that is always looking for the best robot vacuum on the market. [Read more…] about Google Might Be the First to Put Real AI in a Robot Body

Nvidia and Google’s Intrinsic developing ‘next-generation robots’

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Intrinsic, a software and AI robotics company at Alphabet, parent company of Google, has integrated Nvidia AI and Isaac platform technologies to advance the complex field of autonomous robotic manipulation.

This week at the Automate trade show, in Chicago, Intrinsic is spotlighting leaps in robotic grasping and industrial scalability assisted by foundation models enabled by Nvidia Isaac Manipulator, unlocking new value in industrial automation with AI.

Nvidia unveiled Isaac Manipulator at GTC in March. Isaac Manipulator is a collection of foundation models and modular GPU-accelerated libraries that help industrial automation companies build scalable and repeatable workflows for dynamic manipulation tasks by accelerating AI model training and task reprogramming. [Read more…] about Nvidia and Google’s Intrinsic developing ‘next-generation robots’

Advantages of Integrating Google OAuth 2.0 User Authentication into Your App

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In today’s increasingly digital environment, many organisations depend on secure internet data access to conduct their daily operations.

This post will dive deeper into what OAuth 2.0 entails and why you should integrate Google OAuth 2.0 user authentication into your app. [Read more…] about Advantages of Integrating Google OAuth 2.0 User Authentication into Your App

Qualcomm and Google expand collaboration around wearable technology

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Qualcomm Technologies says it is building on its long-standing collaboration with Google by bringing a RISC-V based wearables solution for use with Wear OS by Google.

This expanded framework will help reduce time to market for OEMs when launching smartwatches with advanced features like custom cores, low power, and higher performance.

Leading up to this, the companies will continue to invest in Snapdragon Wear platforms as the leading smartwatch silicon provider for the Wear OS ecosystem. [Read more…] about Qualcomm and Google expand collaboration around wearable technology

How to Track a Phone Number on Google Maps

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Google Maps is an excellent resource for finding businesses and getting directions. However, did you know that you can also use Google Maps to find location of phone number? This can be especially useful if you have lost your phone or if you are trying to find someone’s location.

This blog post will show you how to use Google Maps to locate a phone number, whether you have iOS or Android. [Read more…] about How to Track a Phone Number on Google Maps