Safety & Security

This week, we talk to the founders of Robotics Operations Group (ROG) about the organization’s growth and the delivery of “RobOpsCon” earlier this week.

Veo Robotics, the industrial automation company that created FreeMove, has announced the release of its new and improved FreeMove 2.0 Engine.

SICK and Festo Didactic have partnered to create a Safety Awareness Bundle that combines curriculum and hardware to teach robot safety. 

Teledyne FLIR pairs a radiometric thermal and visible camera payload featuring MSX with an affordable, flexible, and easy-to-operate airframe.

Knightscope chairman and CEO said the robotics industry focuses too much on technology and not enough on solving customer problems.

A SOC 2 report is a voluntary compliance standard and auditing procedure for companies with cloud-based products.

infiniDome and C-Astral will showcase their technology at Eurosatory on June 13th in Paris, France.

The team used algorithms originally developed to scan Controller Area Network bus networks used in automotive hardware.

The company is proposing an innovative approach to vehicle guidance using sensors deployed within the environment, rather than just on the autonomous vehicles.

Argo AI and The League of American Bicyclists released best practices for creating self-driving systems that operate safely around bicyclists.

Researchers hope to create new security systems for robots using transaction-based interactions as a way to build trust between humans and groups of robots.

The company adds two more certified integrators to its growing list of qualified integrators.

Honeywell and Infinidome announce a joint solution that will combine advanced sensors and ultra-strong GPS resilience technology to protect signals used by a wide array of vehicles

Waymo provides a glimpse at its SimulationCity software environment that it uses to test and validate driving algorithms.

Find out what’s happening in the world of robot operations and where you can go to learn how to scale your fleet to thousands of robots.

Leading cobot experts will review most critical issues for the safe operation of cobots, including standards efforts, risk assessments, and safety technologies.

Fetch Robotics announces that its product line of AMRs is now compliant with the new ANSI/RIA R15.08 safety standard.

Safety system monitors two protective fields simultaneously around a cobot, making it possible to dynamically reduce or stop the robot’s movement only when a person is too close to the working area.

FORT Robotics has closed on $13 million in funding led by Prime Movers Lab, an investor in scientific startups working to revolutionize the world’s most important industries and transform billions of lives. In addition to Prime Movers Lab, investors included Prologis Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lemnos Labs, Creative Ventures, Ahoy Capital, Compound, FundersClub, and Mark Cuban.…

Airdata UAV and Autel Robotics have partnered to offer a one-month free trial of the AirData Enterprise fleet management software to users of the Autel EVO Series II drones.

Pär-Olof Johannesson, CEO of TerraNet AB, offers his perspective on how the U.S. presidential election will affect the development of autonomous and electric vehicles worldwide, as well as relations with China.

The automotive sector has, for years, driven the growth of the robotics industry. But robots are now moving beyond industrial manufacturing environments and into other industries, including agriculture, construction, healthcare and logistics, to name a few. As robots continue to find new applications, alleviating concerns about safety and security are crucial to their adoption, acceptance…