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#Autonomous System | Development


#Run:ai Dev (run.ai) | Accelerating AI development with comprehensive life cycle support from concept to deployment | Connecting to preferred IDE tools | Tracking results using preferred experiment management tool | Mounting dataset to workspace | Storing outputs and artifacts in traceable storage volumes | Launching pre-configured environments | Iterating AI midels faster | Running more AI jobs | Scaling up AI training to multiple nodes | Firing up prioritized batch jobs to pre-defined queues | Scaling training workloads to GPU nodes in single command line | Picking Python training frameworks Ray, Pytorch Lightning and DeepSpeed | Deploying, managing, and monitoring AI models


#Seasam | Notiloplus | Underwater drone


#ChcNav | Object Analysis | Object Detection | Autonomous Vehicle | Integrated IMU RTK technology | GNSS RTK engine | Calibration free high end IMU sensor | Advanced GNSS tracking capabilities | High end connectivity modules: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, NFC, 4G, and UHF radio modem | Base to rover surveying up to 5 km | Embedded 624-channel GNSS technology for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou signals


#NetApp | AI Data Management | Securing data required for AI data workflows


#Vella Development Kit | Velodyne Lidar | High level perception outputs for indoor environments | 3D object list | Free space and obstacle detection | 3D occupancy grid | Lidar odometry | Extrinsic calibration | Automated ground vehicles | Surround Lidar Sensors


#Wartsila | Marine autonomy solutions


#DTN | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles


#Neste | Process Industry Artificial Intelligence


#Cpower | Energy Management


#Safety4sea | Safety


#AutoMarineSys | Autonmous Marine Systems


#Anybotics | Manipulation payload | Autonomous maintenance tasks | Powerful and torque-controlled arm | Flexible sensor integration | Open software architecture | Access to low-level joint control for developers | System equipped with NVIDIA Jetson GPU | Onboard execution of AI models and real-time perception algorithms | Integrated platform enables advanced mobile manipulation, such as agile tool use, object handling, and real-time interaction in unstructured environments | Human–robot collaboration | Heavy payload handling | Complex tasks | Intelligent, autonomous legged robotics | Legged robotics research package | Collaboration with Duatic, an ETH Zurich spin-off | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection


#Carbon Robotics | Autonomous LaserWeeder Robot | Deep Learning | Laser | Lidar Sensor | Nvidia | Cumming


#Waypoint Robotics | Autonomous mobile robot | AMR


#SailDrone | Ocean Data Solutions with Autonomous Surface Vehicles


#NREL | National Renewable Energy Laboratory


#Alstom | Integrated sustainable systems


#Continental Automotive | Passenger Car Solutions


#Renault Group | Vans | Passenger Cars


#Waymo | Google self driving car


#OXTS | GNSS aided inertial navigation systems | Oxford Technical Solutions


#Sensible4 | Autonomous driving software


#Amazon | Amazon Web Services (AWS)


#RenuRobotics | Automating operations and maintenance for the solar industry


#GapWaves | Millimeter wave waveguide applications


#Sbskills | Construction skill training


#Fregata Space | Satellite images into high resolution information | Machine learning


#Bauma | Construction machinery trade fair


#Aspentech | Enterprise asset performance management


#Unikie | Real Time Process Software


#Autonomous Machines | Jetson | Nvidia


#Containerized storage system | System determines the pod having the container with the product to be picked | Amazon


#Universal Scene Description | USD | Metaverse | Digital Twins | Simulating scenes, roads and factories | Autonomous Vehicles | Robots | Large virtual worlds | Pixar | Adobe | Ubisoft | Nvidia


#Autodesk 3ds Max | Autodesk


#Synthetic data generation | Computer simulation | Algorithm | Statistical modeling | Autonomous vehicles | Information injected into AI models | Creating digital twins | Testing AI systems for bias | Simulating the future, alternate futures or the metaverse | Datagen | MostlyAI | Synthesis AI


#Mtech | AgGateway | Gaia X data


#NVIDIA | MLPerf | Measuring time to train neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentatione | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning | NVIDIA benchmarking suite | MLPerf Training | MLPerf Inference | MLPerf HPC | NVIDIA Platform


#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal


#MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware


#Ouster | High-resolution lidar sensors for long, mid, and short range applications | Smart infrastructure | Autonomous machines | Robotics applications | Digital lidar architecture | Digital device powered by a fully custom silicon CMOS chip


#JAKA Robotics | Graphic Programming | Set and adjust positions and tasks with ease | Drag Teaching | Moving the cobot to any position, and it will memorize it instantly | JAKA APP | Teaching the robot | Remote Monitoring | Monitor robot tasks and set alerts


#Structural color | Chameleon like, color shifting materials | Stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message | Checking an arm band color to gauge muscle mass | Sporting a swimsuit that changes hue as one does laps | Elastic materials that when stretched can transform their color | Printed films revealing the imprint of objects | Structural color arising as a consequence of a material microscopic structure | Robotic skin that has a human like sense of touch | Devices for things like virtual augmented reality or medical training | University of Cambridge | The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation at the Brigham | Women Hospital | National Science Foundation | MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation | Samsung | MIT ME MathWorks seed fund | MIT


#MassRobotics | Ori | Ikea | Boston Seaport District | Amazon | Google | Mitsubishi Electric | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT | Cybernetix Ventures


#VARTA | Application Specific Batteries (ASB) | Energy Solutions


#GAM | Robotic and servo gear | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Precision Rack & Pinion | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots


#AiFi | Autonomous retail | Cashierless AI powered retail solution | AiFi app | Computer vision | AI learning about scenarios | Simulated environments to train the AI algorithms and the models | Calibration algorithms allowing to recreate the shopping environment in 3D | Cameras tracking customers throughout their shopping journey


#Carling Technologies | Electronic switching | Electromechanical controls | Electromechanical switches


#Boston Dynamics AI Institute | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Robotics | Intelligent machines | Cognitive AI | Athletic AI | Organic hardware design ,| Ultrasonic inspections of rotating equipment with Fluke SV600 | Early detection of bearing failures before they lead to costly breakdowns | Operators can capture critical data without the need for additional inline sensors or manual inspections | Leica BLK ARC payload | Autonomous routines | Repeatable laser scans | Precise 3D data for tasks like factory design, equipment installation, and change management | Spot can identify and avoid obstacles requiring additional caution in dynamic environments, including carts, wires, and ladders | Spot Hardware Updates | Tablet Controller Pro | Ergonomic joysticks, longer battery life, and HDMI pass-through | Spot robit operates in temperatures up to 55°C | Core I/O antenna upgrade enhances range and reliability | AI Institute | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Robotics | Intelligent machines | Cognitive AI | Athletic AI | Organic hardware design


#Jetson Orin Nano | Nova Orin reference platform for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) | 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance | NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU | Arm based CPU | Deep learning and vision accelerators | ultimodal sensor support


#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)


#Harmonic Drive | Precision servo actuators | Gearheads | Gear component sets


#QC Conveyors | Automation Series Conveyors


#Robotics Engineering | Intelligent Sensing for Object Recognition, Manipulation and Control | Design, Development and Simulation Tools for Robotics Development | Developing Intelligent Robots - Machine Learning on Edge, Cloud and Hybrid Architectures | Advanced Motion Control Solutions for Robotics Systems | Intelligent Vision and Sensing Solutions for Autonomous Mapping and Navigation | Motion Control for Healthcare Robotics Applications: Functional Requirements, Critical Capabilities


#NVIDIA | Mission Client | Isaac ROS GitHub | ROS 2 Humble | Nav2 navigation stack | OTTO Motors | InOrbit | VDA5050 Connector | MQTT | OASIS standard messaging protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) applications | Open Robotics


#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems


#MIT | White graphene nanotubes | Stronger, heat resistant composites | Membranes for renewable energy | Hollow aligned fibers, or nanotubes, made from hexagonal boron nitride | Hexagonal boron nitride ( hBN) | Fabricating aligned boron nitride nanotubes in bulk | hBN is transparent and electrically insulating | hBN to electrically insulate sensors within electronic devices | Blue energy, electricity produced from the ionic filtering of salt water into fresh water | Nanotube engineering | Hypersonic and space applications


#Catepillar | Cat Command for Excavating | Remote control system | Cat Command station | Non line of sight remote control | Improving machine productivity | Fast restart of operations | Virtual cab with familiar controls and machine displays | Up to five different machines controlled by one user | Access to machine setting just like in the machine | Solution to workforce shortages | Training advantages for newer operators | Opportunities to those with physical limitations | Attracts a new generation of workers | Increases the longevity of experienced operators


#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT


#Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit | NVIDIA | 275 Trillion Operations per Second (TOPS) | Multiple concurrent AI inference pipelines | High speed interface support for multiple sensors


#NATO | Innovation Fund | Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) | Dual use emerging technologies of priority to NATO | Artificial intelligence | Quantum enabled technologies | Autonomy | Biotechnology |Novel materials | Energy | Propulsion | Space


#Optimax Systems | Robot polishing platform | Optics prototypes | PickNik | Robot Operating System (ROS) | ABB robot arm | ROS 2 Control library | ABB StateMachine | ABB


#Ocean Autonomy Cluster | Hub for expertise on ocean autonomy


#ROS | Robot Operating System | Open source software development kit for robotics applications | Standard software platform to robotic application developers | Research | Prototyping | Deployment | Production


#Intel | Kapoho Point Board | Four Loihi 2 chips on its top side | Four on its underside | Up to a million neurons | Up to a billion synapses | Up to 8 million variables | Up to 1000× better energy efficiency than a state of the art CPU solver | Stackable up to eight boards | Expansion port on the board | Four boards getting up to 32 million neurons | Drones | Robotics | Gesture recognition | Scene understanding | Smell identification | Solving optimization problems | Research


#Croq | AI inference technology | Language Processing Unit (LPU) | CLI utility bringing natural language power understanding to your command line | Shell-AI leverages LangChain for LLM use and builds on InquirerPy for interactive CLI


#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service


#Milrem Robotics | Edge Group | Intelligent unmanned ground vehicles | Robotic warfare solutions | Concept of Operations (CONOPS) | Doctrine level warfare analysis


#Fieldin | AgTech | Smart farm operation platform | Autonomous driving | Farm management


#Natilus | Autonomous global air freight system


#outsight | Lidar SDK for robotics | Simultaneous Localization & Mapping | Allowing machines to see their surroundings in real time | Point Wise Classification | Object Detection & Tracking | 3D LiDAR Situation Awareness to Vehicles | 3D Super resolution live map | Augmented LiDAR Box | Fully Automated Trucks | Last mile Robotic Delivery | Material Handling Automation | Nuclear power plants | Airports |Off road vehicles | Real time mapping | Autonomous aircraft | Forest monitoring | Aerial inspection | Smart machines | Robotics | Drones | Linux | Windows systems | ROS | SLAM | REST API | 3D related JS libraries | SQL database and Docker deployment | HTTP/HTTPS | VLAN | Javascript | Python | English and French


#Encoder | Automated material handling systems | Conveying, warehousing, heavy lifting | Rotary encoders | Encoder feedback to monitor belt speed and direction | Monitoring the position of objects on conveyor


#Trimble | Autonomy: Agriculture, Construction, Automotive,


#LUCID | Arena software development kit | SDK provides easy access to the latest industry standards and software technology | SDK supports Windows, Linux 64bit and Linux ARM operating systems, and C, C++, C# and Python | LUCID cameras conform to the GigE Vision 2.0 and GenICam3 standards


#Encoder Products Company | Motion feedback devices manufacturer | Machine vision by VAIA


#Boeing | Autonomous certification


#Soul Machines | Digital DNA Studio | Suite of AI creative tools to create, customize and deploy ALIVE, autonomously animated digital people | Digital Celebrities | Engaging fans 1:1, 24 hours a day, in multiple languages | Autonomous Animation | Endless digitally alive engagement | Digital People Enhanced Listening Behavior incorporates facial expressions and head motions for added acknowledgement | Supporting Microsoft Speech-to-Text (STT)


#Avikus | Developing autonomous navigation solutions for vessels | HiNAS for large merchant ships | Displaying detected ships and navigation information in AR images | Sensor fusion technology | NeuBoat for boats | NAS, Navigation Assistant System | BAS, Berthing Assistant System | DAS, Docking Assistant System


#US Department of Defense (DOD) | Autonomous aerial weaponry | Artificial intelligence (AI)


#ASTM International | Terrestrial manufacturing for space | Manufacturing of hypersonic components and structures


#SYPAQ | Autonomous systems | CORVO platform | UAS | CORVO Common Ground Control Station


#UiPath | Robotic Process Automation (RPA)


#Sony | IMX462 CMOS image sensor


#e-con Systems | RouteCAM_CU20 - Sony IMX462 Full HD GigE Camera | Image and power over Ethernet camera | Sony IMX462 CMOS image sensor | Ultra low light sensitivity | High Dynamic Range (HDR) | NVIDIA Jetson Platform | Unique ID for each camera | Over The Air (OTA) upgrade | Linux Socket Application for extended Camera


#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia


#Trusted Autonomous Systems | Australia Defence Cooperative Research Centre | Autonomous, robotic, smart-machine technologies


#Honda | Boston Dynamics | Development of advanced robots for applications in autonomous vehicles, urban air mobility (UAM), and smart factories | Creating robotics value chain ranging from robot component manufacturing to smart logistics solutions


#Sanctuary AI | General-purpose robot | Autonomous control system built-in | High degree of freedom (DOF) Motion Planning | Reinforcement Learning | Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) | Cognitive Services | Simulation Software | Vancouver, Canada


#BrainChip | Neuromorphic processor | Analyzing only essential sensor inputs at edge | Customizable event-based AI neural processor | Supporting up to 256 nodes connected over mesh network | Every node consists of four Neural Network Layer Engines (NPE) | Each NPE has scalable and configurable SRAM | Lower power compared to conventional neural network accelerators | Supporting incremental learning | On-Chip Learning | Leveraging trained model as feature extractor and adding new classes to final layer | Extending device capabilities | Multi-Pass Processing | Intelligence for multi-sensor environments


#Untether AI | Accelerating AI inference | PCI-Express form factor and power envelope | Over 2 PetaOps per card | Accelerator card | AI chip | Intel backef | Toronto, Canada


#Pinecone | Serverless vector database architecture | Vector clustering | Vector search | Indexing and retrieval algorithms | On-demand retrieval | gen AI applications


#Notion | Pinecone


#Blackstone | Pinecone


#Canva | Pinecone


#Domo | Pinecone


#Gong | Pinecone


#Figure AI | BMW Manufacturing | General purpose robots into automotive production | Humanoid robots | Manufacturing facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina | Integrating AI and robotics into the automotive industry


#Telco | Precision-engineered motion control and air-moving solutions | Electronically Commutated Motors


#Hugging Face | AI Development


#Flyability | Drones for industrial inspection and analysis | Confined space inspection | Collision and crash resistant inspection drone | 3D mapping | Volumetric measurement | Inspections of cargo ships, bridges, ports, steel mills cement factories, liquid gas tanks, nuclear facilities, city wide underground sewage systems | Ouster lidar


#HEBI Robotics | Robot development platform | Smart robotic actuation hardware and building blocks | Streamlininh the process of developing robots | Space-rated hardware deployed for missions in space | NASA: SBIR


#Google DeepMind Technologies Limited | Creating advanced AI models and applications | Artificial intelligence systems ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart | Helping robots perform complex tasks that require dexterous movement | Two-armed manipulation tasks | Simulations to improve real-world performance on multi-fingered robotic hand | Helping robots learn from human demonstrations | Translating images to action | High level of dexterity in bi-arm manipulation | Robot has two hands that can be teleoperated for training and data-collection | Allowing robots to learn how to perform new tasks with fewer demonstrations | Collectung demonstration data by remotely operating robot behavior | Applying diffusion method | Predicting robot actions from random noise | Helpung robot learn from data | Collaborating with DemoStart | DemoStart is helping new robots acquire dexterous behaviors in simulation | Google collaborating with Shadow Robot


#Movu Robotics | Robotics | Automated pallet storage solution | Accessible cold storage automation | Temperature-controlled food and pharmaceutical industry | Space optimisation in storage | Streamlined materials handling process | Energy efficiency for cold storage | Robotics for low temperatures with icy and slippery surfaces | Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) | Automating picking | Fleet management software


#Neptune Labs | neptune.ai | Tracking foundation model training | Model training | Reproducing experiments | Rolling back to the last working stage of model | Transferring models across domains and teams | Monitoring parallel training jobs | Tracking jobs operating on different compute clusters | Rapidly identifying and resolving model training issues | Workflow set up to handle the most common model training scenarios | Tool to organize deep learning experiments


#AI33 | AI News


#Linux Foundation | LF AI & Data | Fostering open source innovation in artificial intelligence and data | Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) | Creating flexible, scalable Generative AI systems | Promoting sustainable ecosystem for open source AI solutions | Simplifying the deployment of generative AI (GenAI) systems | Standardization of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | Supporting Linux development and open-source software projects | Linux kernel | Linus Torvalds


#Stability AI | Generative AI | Chatbot with text and image generation | Text-to-image technology | Multi-subject prompts | Model available via API | Generative AI video model | Music and sound effects generation with audio diffusion technology | 3D object generation from single images | Lenovo Creator Zone | Amazon Bedrock service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Stable Diffusion 3.5 | Multiple customizable variants | Run on consumer hardware


#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard


#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington


#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier


#Bishop-Wisecarver | 8th Axis vertical extendibility solutions for to increase reach for small robots and cobots | Vertical movement with travel lengths up to 4 meters | Expanding working envelope for large-scale tasks like painting, sandblasting, and pressure washing | Single robot in place of several larger robots | Actuated linear guide system | Rotary motion guides | Rotary actuators | Customized rotary motion solutions to follow virtually any path | DualVee Motion Technology | DualVee-Single-Edge-Track | DualVee-Journals | Guide wheel components | Linear guide wheel | Track lubricator assemblies | HepcoMotion aluminum profile sections | HDRT track systems combine ring segments and straight slides to follow virtually any path | HepcoMotion PRT2 (Precision Ring and Track), DTS (Driven Track System), and HDRT (Heavy Duty Ring and Track) product lines | HDS2 Heavy Duty Slide System | Precision linear guide components utilizing guide wheel and roller wheel technology


#LangChain | Platform helps teams deploy, scale, and manage AI agents | Native GitHub integration | Debugging and iterating faster visualizing agent trajectories and experimenting on the fly with LangGraph Studio, the agent IDE | Managing agents across teams | Generative AI ecosystem | Comparison View | Hotkeys in Annotation Queue | Tools to evaluate response quality: correctness | Pinecone | Specialized agents work better than bloated generalists | Shift toward multi-agent ecosystems designed for specific workflows


#Weebit Nano | Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology | onsemi signed licensing deal | Treo platform to provide embedded non-volatile memory | ReRAM integration into Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process | Potential alternative to flash memory | Demand for faster, more efficient, and scalable memory solutions increasing | Lower power consumption | Less vulnerable to common hacking tactics | ReRAM can be integrated easily into chip designs without interfering with power analog components


#Flow Robitics | Pipetting robot | Designed to simplify and automate repetitive manual pipetting tasks


#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C


#Caterpillar | Cat 775 | Off-highway truck | MineStar Command for hauling | 360-degree surround cameras with object detection | Cat Detect radar system | Frame design reducing empty weight delivering | Redesigned suspension for lower centre of gravity | Electronic powertrain controls | Automatically detecting hazards within critical areas around truck | Ability to access and analyse accurate real-time data from truck | Access to the latest software updates | Truck software updates scheduled and executed at a time that does not interrupt the production schedule | Remote Troubleshoot enabling dealer to perform diagnostics remotely while truck is still in operation


#Hugging Face | SmolVLM | Vision Language Model (VLMs) | Natural language processing (NLP) | Transformers Library | Model and Dataset Hub | Spaces | Community and Open Science | Rapid prototyping | Enterprise Solutions | Funding: Amazon, Google, and Nvidia | Acquired: Gradio (for ML app development), Pollen Robotics (for open-source AI robotics) | BLOOM: large multilingual language model | Partnered with Meta and UNESCO for global language translation tools


#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware


#Google Cloud | Vertex AI platform


#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity development for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision


#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping


#Automate | Robotics and automation event | AI and robotics | Automation trends


#Apparel Robotics | Apparel industry | Enabling onshoring capabilities | Robotic cells using our Airbender Series Grippers, adaptive end-of-arm-tooling Iris RM, and custom vision system | All built from the ground up to work with fabric-like materials | Handling deformable objects with robots | Mass Robotics | Autodesk Foundation | Massachutes Collaborative | ARM Institute


#Duatic | Rugged, weatherproof robotic arm | Actuator architecture | Quasi-direct, water-resistant, actively-cooled drive modules with integrated electronics | Maximum Payload: 12 kg | Continuous Payload: 6 kg | Reachability: 1.0 m | Total Weight: 9.2 kg | End Effector Speed: 10 m/s | Pose Repeatability:< 1 mm | Degrees of Freedom: 6 | Power Input: 48 V | Protection: IP66 | Joint Torque Accuracy (all): ± 0.5 Nm


#Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) | Promoting interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description) | Providing written specification for OpenUSD core functionality | Coordinated development of new OpenUSD functionality | Providing repository to house reference implementations | Technology, platform, and ecosystem built to empower 3D creativity and visualization at cinematic scales | Framework and ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaboratively navigating and constructing 3D scenes | Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is being embraced by industries beyond the film industry, including architecture, engineering, construction, automotive, and manufacturing


#Trossen Robotics | Pi Zero (π0) | Open-source vision-language-action model | Designed for general robotic control | Zero-shot learning | Dexterous manipulation | Aloha Kit | Single policy capable of controlling multiple types of robots without retraining | Generalist robotic learning | Pi Zero was trained on diverse robots | Pi Zero was transferred seamlessly to bimanual Aloha platform | Pi Zero executed actions in a zero-shot setting without additional fine-tuning | Pi Zero run on standard computational resources | Hardware: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12950HX | NVIDIA RTX A4500 16G | RAM 64G | OS: Ubuntu 22.04 | Dependencies: PyTorch, CUDA, Docker | PaliGemma | Pre-trained Vision-Language Model (VLM) | PaliGemma allows Pi Zero to understand scenes and follow natural language instructions | Image Encoding: Vision Transformer (ViT) to process robot camera feeds | Text Encoding: Converts natural language commands into numerical representation | Fusion: Aligns image features and text embeddings, helping model determine which objects are relevant to task | Pi Zero learns smooth motion trajectories using Flow Matching | Pi Zero learns a velocity field to model how actions should evolve over time | Pi Zero generates entire sequences of movement | Pi Zero predicts multiple future actions in one go | Pi Zero executes actions in chunks | ROS Robot Arms | Aloha Solo package | Intel RealSense cameras | Compact tripod mount | Tripod overhead camera | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS


#ARM Institute | Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) | Funded by Office of Secretary of Defense | Part of Manufacturing USA Network


#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters


#Weebitnano | AI inference is shifting from cloud to edge devices like phones and cars | Weebit ReRAM shaping up as memory tech that could quietly power billions of them | Artificial intelligence noot just living in cloud, it lives at edge | AI traiking happens in massive data centres, where models learn from huge datasets | AI inference happens on edge devices like smartphones, smartwatches, autonomous cars, drones, factory sensors, and wearables – right where action is | Shift to edge happening because latency, power, privacy, and bandwidth all matter | You can not afford 300-mis delay when your autonomous car needs to spot pedestrian | Edge inference is juggernaut in motion | Flash memory can not scale below 28nm when embedded | Most AI applications already require smaller geometries | Weebit Nano (ASX:WBT) Resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology comes into picture | ReRAM is non-volatile memory (NVM) that stores data faster, uses less power and offers stronger security than Flash | ReRAM can scale to the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes | NVM memory retains data even when power is switched off | ReRAM is less vulnerable to tampering, better suited for storing AI model weights, and easier to embed right onto the same chip as processor | Gesture recognition system developed with EMASS | Weights for detection model are stored in ReRAM for processor | South Korea DB HiTek | US semiconductor company onsemi


#Cummins | Microgrids | Providing flexible autonomous power solutions | Locally-controlled power sources that can integrate multiple energy resources such as diesel, natural gas, wind or solar power | When traditional power grid goes out, microgrid can immediately switch to backup generators and batteries | Resiliency: When one energy source fails, microgrids ensure continuous power | Decarbonization: Microgrids can incorporate renewable energy sources | Greenhouses | Healthcare facilities | Remote communities and islands