igus announced 247 new products, including a low-cost mobile manipulator and AI-based tools for configuring systems.
Rockwell Automation partners with Microsoft on three projects
Rockwell and Microsoft plan to jointly provide systems for factory design, real-to-simulation digitization, and cloud management.
BlackBerry and AMD partner to reduce latency in robotics
BlackBerry and Advanced Micro Devices said they plan to address the need for ‘hard’ real-time capabilities in robotics-focused hardware.
Southwest Research Institute to make robot programming more user friendly with SWORD
The Southwest Research Institute offers the SwRI Workbench for Offline Robotics Development for motion-planning applications.
Mecademic says Absolute Calibration services improve robot accuracy
Mecademic said MAC enables it to deliver robots that meet industrial precision and accuracy requirements out of the box.
Viam brings in $45M to accelerate enterprise partnerships
Viam says the funding will enable it to accelerate partnerships, drive commercial innovation, and further develop its platform.
OSRF launches Open Source Robotics Alliance to strengthen open-source software projects
With this initiative, the Open Source Robotics Foundation aims to strengthen governance of software projects and support the ROS community.
Apptronik to integrate Apollo humanoid with NVIDIA general-purpose foundation model
Apptronik is working with NVIDIA’s Project GR00T to enable general-purpose humanoid robots to learn complex tasks.
Foxglove launches upgraded platform with enhanced observability
Foxglove says that the upgraded platform combines the company’s previously separate Foxglove Studio and Data Platform products into a single platform.
Cogniteam chooses RTI Connext for cloud robot communications, management
Cogniteam is using Real-Time Innovations’ Connext to facilitate communications for scaling deployment of robot fleets.
Pleora adds RapidPIX lossless compression technology
Pleora Technologies said RapidPIX meets the low latency and reliability demands of machine vision and medical imaging applications.
MassRobotics returns as strategic partner for 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo
MassRobotics will announce Form & Function Challenge winners and host an engineering career fair at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo.
Formic focuses on ease of use with new robot software
The Chicago-based RaaS provider has launched software to make robot-based manufacturing available to companies without in-house expertise.
RoboXchange examines real-world operational challenges and new brains for robots
At the first MassRobotics RoboXchange, Locus Robotics shared tips on warehouse challenges, and Opteran showed a new navigational approach.
Synopsys to acquire Ansys to join forces for silicon-to-system design, simulation, and analysis
Synopsys is adding Ansys’ simulation to its testing and electric design tools to help developers engineer more complex systems.
Persee N1 3D camera module from Orbbec uses NVIDIA Jetson
Orbbec’s Persee N1 combines a stereo-vision 3D camera and a computer based on NVIDIA Jetson for accurate and reliable data.
NVIDIA Isaac Sim on AWS to ease robotics development
NVIDIA said roboticists will have improved access to preconfigured virtual machines to run Isaac Sim workloads.
Terra AI provides 4D perception for robot navigation, manipulation
Terra AI is part of Stereolabs’ vision technology stack intended to provide more accurate perception to autonomous systems.
Acceleration Robotics launches ROBOTCORE ROS 2 hardware
Acceleration Robotics introduced RobotCore ROS 2, a time-sensitive networking solution delivering speeds thousands times faster than current standards.
Wizard Easy Programming now allows ‘no-code’ approach to ABB industrial robots
Wizard Easy Programming lowers barriers to automation for new users and offers ecosystem partners a tool to support their customers, according to ABB.
Numurus opens advanced registration for NEPI Engine
The NEPI engine comes pre-built with rich capabilities that engineers can leverage to speed up software development.
NVIDIA’s RVT can learn new tasks after just 10 demos
NVIDIA Robotics Research has announced new work that combines text prompts, video input, and simulation to teach robots more efficiently.