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Auto supplier Gissing enters Chapter 11, owes Tesla $13.3M

Plastics News

The company, a subsidiary of a Chinese automotive supplier, manufactures interior acoustic and cargo management systems for Tesla, GM, Ford Motor Co., HQS Automotive International, Alta Equipment Co., subsidiary was formed in 2016. Gissing supplies acoustic components to automakers, including thermoformed panels.

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Apptronik to integrate Apollo humanoid with NVIDIA general-purpose foundation model

Robotics Business Review

Apptronik iterates humanoid robot design Apptronik spun out of the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Apollo’s modular design allows its humanoid upper body to be deployed on legs, a wheeled base, or a pedestal so it can operate in whichever form is best suited to a given task, said Apptronik.

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Metrology: Automation’s Unsung Hero

Modern Machine Shop

The USMTO data, which is released the second Monday of each month, contains data on orders of metal-cutting and metal-forming equipment; however, participants in the survey also have access to data on other manufacturing technology, which contains products such as robotics, additive, filtration and cleaning equipment, as well as metrology.

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Helm.ai launches VidGen-1 generative video model for autonomous vehicles, robots

Robotics Business Review

bets on unsupervised learning Founded in 2016, Helm.ai ” VidGen-1 could apply to other domains “Tesla may be doing a lot internally on the AI side, but many other automotive OEMs are just ramping up,” said Voroninski. The ability to annotate data doesn’t come into play with VidGen-1.” ” Register now.

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Top 10 robotics stories of February

Robotics Business Review

General Motors, which acquired Cruise in 2016, said this week it will cut spending on the robotaxi unit by about $1 billion in 2024. -based robotaxi companies, lost major funding sources that could significantly alter their futures. Let’s start with Cruise. Read More 8. Read More 5. Read More 1.

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Bringing bending ideas to life

Manufacturer's Monthly

We’ve recently developed a process which forms a similar shape but in a different way, but it’s all about how you create the complex shapes. Following successful preliminary trials in September 2016, FormFlow was born. The world first metal forming process has now been used to create forward-thinking products for the building industry.

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Boston Dynamics debuts electric version of Atlas humanoid robot

Robotics Business Review

By 2016, the Waltham, Mass.-based Roboticists continued to improve Atlas, giving it a smaller form factor and more sensors, training its artificial intelligence, and enabling it to do increasingly impressive feats. Boston Dynamics began with humanoids by sawing one of its pneumatically powered quadrupeds in half back in 2009.

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