The past couple of years have gone from a few select companies to seemingly everyone in and around warehouse robotics looking to tackle the problem.
And then there’s TruckBot.
Instead, TruckBot sat atop a conveyer belt.
In fact, TruckBot is actually part conveyer belt.
“TruckBot is a game-changer for warehouses looking to streamline their operations and reduce costs,” the company notes.” The dock door is the largest bottleneck in our supply chain and unloading trailers is back-breaking work.
Agility’s Digit wasn’t the only humanoid holding court at Modex in Atlanta this week.
On the opposite end of the Georgia World Congress Center, Reflex Robotics, a younger and smaller startup, was drawing its own crowd.
Passersby requested something from the Reflex robot, and it spring into action, grabbing the item off the shelf (it didn’t hurt that the company was giving out free food and beverage).
The system has a wheeled base, which is perfectly effective for navigating these kinds of layouts.
He adds that the current timeline involves having 10 to 20 Reflex robots in the world, followed by “hundreds” next year.
The movie later went on to win 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
And this is why it’s so hard to find fulfillment in this current system.
“Which brings me back to AI,” Kwan continued, to a thunder of applause and cheers.
“So imagine what this technology will do within this current system, within this current incentive structure.
“I also want to say, we’re not saying ‘don’t use AI.’ I don’t believe in dogmas.
Naturally, I jumped at the opportunity to take Verve Motion’s SafeLift Exosuit for a spin.
You put it on over your shoulders and then snap yourself in with a pair of chest straps.
Next, another pair of soft straps are stretched around your thighs and Velcro-ed in place.
The thigh straps are connected to a pair of soft fabric cables that retract into the backpack with a bit of a yank.
Verve Motion sells SafeLift as part of a larger system featuring a wall of lockers/cubby holes used to store and charge the exosuits.
MIT professor Mike Stonebreaker has been at the forefront of database technology for over 50 years.
Now 80, he knows a thing or two about database technology and launching companies.
His latest project, DBOS, puts the database at the center of the software stack, reducing the operating system to a small kernel of low level functions.
“The genesis of the project was OLTP (online transaction processing) database systems have gotten a lot faster in the last 15 years.
And so the thesis was that they would be competitive as a new operating system stack,” he told TechCrunch.
The loneliness of the robotic humanoid Humanoid robots are all the rage, but Agility’s Digit was a singular presence at this year’s Modex conferencePerhaps a few years from now, the halls of the Georgia World Congress Center will be peppered with humanoid robots the week of Modex.
A line of the bipedal robots were moving totes to a nearby conveyor belt at select times throughout the week.
This week in Atlanta, a rotating cast of eight Digits are working each day from show opening to close.
Agility is ramping up production volumes, with plans to hit “high double-digit” production of its bipedal robot by end of year.
This week at Modex, the company took the wraps off Agility Arc, deployment and fleet management software for Digit.
Where Loon relied on balloons, however, the newer project utilizes Zephyr solar-powered drones.
“[Loon] got really good customer engagement,” AALTO CEO Samer Halawi told TechCrunch in a sit-down interview last week at Mobile World Congress.
Airbus acquired the technology for the fixed-wing drones from U.K. Ministry of Defence and Space spinoff QinetiQ in 2022.
Every six months or so, the system will land for a battery swap, as these still have a limited shelf life.
Like Loon before it, the company is also exploring temporary deployment for downed cell towers following natural disasters.
Anonymous social apps tend to appeal to younger users and are often used for bad behavior like bullying, harassment, and online abuse.
It seems every few years — and no matter how many times anonymous apps like these fail — someone, somewhere builds yet another anonymous social platform.
Yik Yik, in fact, is on its second life.
No matter how many times this trend is tried, standalone anonymous social apps aimed at consumers rarely lead to a sustainable business.
Yik Yak, Sidechat, Whisper, and Fizz were asked for comment using public email addresses published on their websites and in their terms of service.
Today, the startup emerged from stealth with the Fused platform, and $1 million in pre-seed funding.
It takes data, fed from satellites, sitting in storage repositories and runs it through its platform to make it usable.
The platform is essentially a middleware processing layer that helps turn the geospatial data into something more consumable.
It consists of several open source pieces and a serverless processing engine.
They can then transfer this data to other programs for further analysis or create data visualizations based on the data.
Anamorph, a new filmmaking and technology company, announced its launch today.
Plus, there are certain scenes pinned to the same timeslot in each version, including the scene where Eno discusses generative art.
“We just let the generative platform run wild with Eno’s entire music catalog and all the footage and no rules.
“The platform selects and sequences edited scene files, but it also builds its own pure generative scenes and transitions, creating video and original 5.1 audio elements dynamically.
He also stresses, “This is a generative system, not generative AI.
