Machine Control & Robotics

This week during a Cascadia Connect RAAI Conference-related tour the industry will get an inside look at where the Pittsburgh-based spinoff will develop the next generation of the technology behind the Nilfisk’s Liberty SC50 autonomous scrubber and Big Joe Forklifts Pallet Mover.

Recent technologies like ExactShot, See & Spray Ultimate, and 8R autonomous tractor are just elements of Deere’s ambitious vision for agriculture as it works toward a goal of full machine autonomy for tilling, planting, applying herbicides/nutrients, and harvesting by the end of the decade.

The precision measurement and workflow solutions provider has strengthened its positioning, data services, and software offerings by expanding MC-X platform with a new GNSS option for compact construction equipment and acquiring Digital Construction Works.

The autonomous tech supplier addresses construction challenges, with new customer deals to identify key use cases and global expansion with a new dealer partner network for its retrofitting of heavy construction equipment to turn them into remote-operated and autonomous robots.

Built on technology designed for highly complex and unpredictable on-road environments, the autonomous vehicle solutions provider founded by CEO Anthony Levandowski is working with Bell Trucks America on an off-road AHS approach as simpler and more cost-effective than the competition.

Honda will showcase the new capabilities of the latest generation of its prototype Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) to improve construction industry and worksite efficiencies at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 in Las Vegas, March 14-18, the company announced March 6.

The new project, aimed at bringing automated terminal tractors to series production, adds to Fernride’s work with HHLA Next for highly automated and electric container logistics, both aimed at using autonomous driving and teleoperated technology within live operations.

The company’s technology will be used at Singapore’s Changi, which expects to be the first airport in the world to operate autonomous luggage trucks, adding to a recent UK grant award for Aurrigo’s Auto-Shuttle in the Sunderland Advanced Mobility Shuttle project.

The Pittsburgh Robotics Network’s partnership with Innovation Works-led Robotics Factory funded by Build Back Better Regional Challenge grants is just the latest of the non-profit’s efforts aimed at boosting the region’s robotics and autonomy technology leadership and new business opportunities.

The software startup’s top execs talked to Inside Autonomous Vehicles about how their new Hammerhead devkit shown at CES enables its customers to rapidly integrate the company’s game-changing stereo-vision technology for autonomous vehicles and other machines.