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“Over the last decade, our AMRs have solved material handling challenges for some of the largest companies in the world, but our customers have made it clear that there was a missing member of the team – one that could pick up a pallet on its own,” said Chief Executive Officer and founder of OTTO […]

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Vecna Robotics jointly announced at MODEX 2022 with Big Joe Forklifts its latest autonomous offering for labor-intensive material-handling workflows called the Vecna Co-Bot Pallet Jack (Vecna CPJ). The solution leverages Vecna controls onboard a Big Joe designed pallet jack. The result is a fully autonomous pallet jack that brings the strength of both companies together. […]

Companies must prioritize safety when deploring autonomous mobile robots. The ANSI/RIA R15.08 safety standard for mobile robots, recently released by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Robotic Industries Association (RIA), should be your guide. The post Safety First – Ensuring Mobile Robots Will Not Pose a Risk to Workers appeared first on Robotics Business […]

When considering a large complex system, such as an AI cluster, supercomputer, or compute cluster, you may think you only have two options—build from scratch from the ground up, or buy a pre-configured, supercomputer-in-a-box from a major technology vendor that everyone else is buying. But there is a third option that takes a best-of-both-worlds approach. […]

The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) racecar, a Dallara AV-21 programmed by team PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and the University of Alabama (USA), set a new land speed world record of 192.2 MPH / 309.3 KPH at the historic Kennedy Space Center this week. Organized by Energy Systems Network, the primary goal of the IAC […]

In this regular feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. The post What’s New in HPC Research: BaGuaLu, PolyCoder, Turbulent Flows & More appeared first on HPCwire.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will start field testing its drone-traffic-management capabilities in the spring of 2022. Its end goal is to eventually integrate drones into the National Airspace System. The post FAA begins testing drone traffic management capabilities appeared first on The Robot Report.

As human-caused climate change warms the planet, creating drier conditions across the Western U.S., wildfire intensity has grown. California’s wildfires over the last few years have devastated land, families, and communities. Rising tree and undergrowth density over the decades has provided fuel for catastrophic fires. Ongoing drought has created tinderbox conditions around the state and […]

White Castle is installing Miso Robotics‘ Flippy 2 frying robot at an 100 fast food locations. Rollouts of Flippy 2 are being phased by region and will be planned out and scheduled in the months and years ahead. The post White Castle installing Flippy 2 frying robots at 100 locations appeared first on The Robot […]