The task of transporting cars from the end of the assembly line to its final destination is currently a manual and expensive logistics problem. It includes loading and unloading of vehicles from the factory floor to trucks, ships and rail, with interim stops at parking lots. Seoul Robotics aims to change this. The company has just launched Level 5 Control Tower (LV5 CTRL TWR) system which BMW is leveraging to automate last-mile fleet logistics at their manufacturing facility in Munich.
The system uses SENSR™, a proprietary perception software powered by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. SENSR™ works in conjunction with a mesh network of computers and LiDAR sensors located on fixed infrastructure (light poles, roof overhangs, etc) that guides vehicles autonomously through a 5G communications network. Read More
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‘We stand on the shoulders of giants’: How Meta’s Vivek Sharma plans to transform Horizon into a cohesive metaverse platform
This story is part of Digiday’s Masters of Uncertainty series, a look at people and companies at the center of media’s defining storylines. Find the rest here.
Vivek Sharma likes to play video games on company time.
Fortunately, this qualifies as research. Sharma leads Meta’s Horizon team, which is tasked with constructing the company’s place in the metaverse — the persistent, immersive virtual space that Mark Zuckerberg sees succeeding the modern internet.
In spite of its new name, Meta is not trying to become the only metaverse platform in town. Sharma acknowledges that a true metaverse is more likely to take shape as a spread of interconnected platforms, not a single dominant virtual world. As vp of Horizon, the major sub-brand encompassing all of Meta’s VR products, the 43-year-old will have to thread the needle of establishing Horizon’s position as a leading metaverse builder without staking an outsized claim to the metaverse itself. Read More
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