Constellation Brands is purchasing the first six units of Monarch Tractors’ Founder Series MK-V with Nvidia AI at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Livermore, CA, with contract manufacturing to come at Foxconn’s Lordstown, OH, facility in 2023.
Machine Control & Robotics
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Canatu partners with Covestro for better lidar deicing
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostAt CES 2023, carbon nanomaterial developer Canatu and Covestro will showcase a joint lidar heater demonstrator using flexible transparent film heaters, thermoplastic polymers, and film insert molding processing.
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AgricultureMachine Control & Robotics
John Deere wins two CES 2023 awards for 8R autonomous tractor
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe Innovation Awards in Robotics and Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility Categories are for the company’s tractor that integrates technology such as cameras, artificial intelligence, other sensors, and ultra-fast GPU processors to navigate through a field without an operator in the cab.
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Parallel Domain accelerates AI ‘super training’ with synthetic data
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe company is on a mission to reimagine how AI learns by using synthetic data critical for scaling an autonomous future more quickly.
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TriEye pitches short-wave infrared as low-cost sensing option
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe company’s proprietary SEDAR platform uses SWIR to offer 2D imaging and 3D determinative depth sensing at what it says is a fraction of the cost and complexity of other sensor systems such as lidar.
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Driverless CarsFleets and TrucksMachine Control & RoboticsOn RoadPublic Transportation
Ouster and Velodyne announce proposed merger
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe proposed merger of equals aims to accelerate lidar adoption and strengthen the companies’ financial position in a slowing economy.
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Fleets and TrucksMachine Control & RoboticsOff RoadSelf-Driving Trucks
Scania and Rio Tinto Partner on Autonomous Mining Trucks
by Charles Choiby Charles ChoiSwedish truckmaker Scania is teaming up with mining corporation Rio Tinto to develop autonomous haul…
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ConstructionMachine Control & RoboticsOff Road
Topnet Live, a key enabler for machine control
by IAV Staffby IAV StaffTopcon is delivering its state-of-the-art, Topnet Live RTK correction services to a wide array of customers in precision machine control.
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Driverless CarsFleets and TrucksMachine Control & RoboticsOff RoadOn Road
Ouster’s new REV7 lidar sensors have double the range
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostPowered by a breakthrough L3 digital lidar chip with back-side illumination, its OS range comes with precision and reliability advances and a new OSDome hemispheric view model for industrial automation, crowd analytics, and security applications.
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AgricultureConstructionMachine Control & RoboticsMining
Teleo aims to transform off-road equipment operations with Supervised Autonomy
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostFormer Lyft autonomy execs started the company by retrofitting any piece of construction equipment into a semi-autonomous robot for greater performance, efficiency, and insight as it builds incrementally towards full autonomy.