In Episode 170 of The Robotic Report Podcast, co-hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman study the most recent video from Boston Dynamics exhibiting Atlas electrical humanoid autonomously shifting supplies. The video reveals Atlas shifting automotive elements from one storage bin to a different. They focus on how Atlas seems to maneuver in a different way from competing humanoids.
Featured interview with BionicHive
In our function interview this week, Oitzman and fellow editor Eugene Demaitre sit down with Gili Ovadia, vp of enterprise improvement at BionicHive, to study extra in regards to the firm‘s warehouse automation.
The BionicHive Squid cell robotic can drive alongside the ground of the warehouse and climb into the warehouse racking to place or get bins/totes from storage places on increased cabinets. Ovadia explains how the system works and the place BionicHive is deploying these automated storage methods.
Present timeline
- 1:20 – Boston Dynamics humanoid video dialogue
- 16:55 – Information
- 27:05 – Interview with Gili Ovadia from BionicHive
Information of the week
2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards open for nominations
Now you can submit nominations for the 2025 RBR50 innovation awards. They may acknowledge expertise and enterprise improvements in calendar yr 2024, and the awards are open to any firm worldwide that produces robotics or automation.
The classes embrace:
- Applied sciences, merchandise, and providers: This class consists of main or utilized analysis specializing in robotics and supporting applied sciences akin to movement management, imaginative and prescient, or machine studying. It additionally consists of new merchandise and enterprise, engineering, or expertise providers.
- Enterprise and administration: This class covers initiatives positioning an organization as a market chief or a corporation as an necessary thought chief within the robotics ecosystem. Vital mergers and acquisitions are related, as are provider, companion, and integrator relationships.
- Purposes and markets: The RBR50 will even acknowledge improvements that enhance productiveness, high quality, and cost-effectiveness, in addition to people who automate new duties.
As well as, the 2025 RBR50 awards will rejoice the next:
- Startup of the Yr
- Software of the Yr
- Robotic of the Yr
- Robots for Good Award
The deadline for submissions is Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
Locus Robotics methods attain 4B picks as warehouse automation accelerates
Locus Robotics Corp. introduced that its autonomous cell robots (AMRs) have assisted in 4 billion picks throughout its buyer deployments worldwide. The corporate famous that this milestone got here simply six months after passing the three billion decide mark and displays its management within the warehouse automation {industry}.
“This can be a really momentous second for everybody related to Locus Robotics – from our world crew of workers world wide to our increasing base of consumers,” acknowledged CEO Rick Faulk. “Reaching the 4 billion milestone in file time demonstrates the unimaginable momentum we’re producing in warehouse automation.”
Along with the 4 billion-pick milestone, Locus lately celebrated the grand opening of Locus Park, its new world headquarters in Wilmington, Mass. It’s now totally operational and residential to a whole lot of New England-based workers.
China launches data-sharing initiative for humanoid builders
China has launched a data-sharing initiative for home humanoid firms to speed up innovation. The undertaking is being spearheaded by the Nationwide Native Joint Humanoid Robotic Innovation Middle (NLJIC) and numerous Chinese language humanoid firms.
The NLJIC, China’s first public platform devoted to any such robotic, can also be constructing a coaching floor for producers to gather high-quality knowledge and promote industry-wide requirements.
Xu Bin, normal supervisor of the state-backed middle, advised Chinese language media outlet Yicai International that like autonomous automobiles, “humanoid robots require massive volumes of high-quality knowledge for improvement, and superior fashions demand even stricter knowledge requirements.”
Bear Robotics expands from eating places to warehouses with Carti AMRs
Bear Robotics Inc., which has beforehand created robots for the hospitality, healthcare, and retail sectors, introduced its foray into logistics. The corporate unveiled the Carti 100 robotic for materials dealing with duties in warehouses and distribution facilities.
Bear Robotics stated it constructed the Carti 100 to handleup to 220 lb. (99.79 kg). It stated this ensures automated effectivity and precision whereas decreasing extra time.
The AMR’s options embrace multi-robot orchestration and an adaptable design appropriate for a variety of environments, together with brownfield and greenfield websites, multi-level areas, and mezzanines. The customizable robotic consists of adjustable cabinets, good conveyor belts, and superior lighting to fulfill operational wants.
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