Seegrid Industrial Robots Profiled in Carnegie Mellon University News

Oct. 3, 2013 - PRLog -- Recently Seegrid, maker of flexible robotic automated guided vehicles (AGVs), was profiled in the Carnegie Mellon University’s newsletter, “Greenlighting Startups.” According to author, Bradley A. Porter, Seegrid manufactures industrial robotics, which are in operation in warehouses and factories across the country. In addition to selling robotics, they are exploring relationships with industrial equipment manufacturers such as Toyota-Raymond. They believe that the sensory technology they have developed—with millions of miles already logged in warehouses and factories—rivals Google’s self-driving cars.”

Porter reported, when the co-founder of Seegrid, “Hans Moravec was four years old, living in Austria, his father bought him a Matador construction set—essentially wooden blocks with holes, pegs, and pulley wheels. By fifth grade, he had graduated to tin cans on wheels powered by batteries. By high school, robot arms programmed with computers. By grad school he was playing with parts left over from NASA and constructing robots capable of navigating obstacle courses via TV camera sensors. And by the time he came to Carnegie Mellon in 1980, running one of the four founding labs of the Robotics Institute, he was already one of the world’s foremost experts at making inanimate objects person-like.”

Fast Company is duly impressed. The international business magazine recently named the Carnegie Mellon spinoff one of “The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Robotics.”

To read the entire article, go to:http://www.carnegiemellontoday.com/article.asp?aid=1411.

About Seegrid

Seegrid Corporation (www.seegrid.com) provides simple, affordable, flexible vision-guided automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to the material handling industry.  Seegrid robotic industrial trucks, flexible AGVs, are revolutionizing the movement of materials in manufacturing and distribution environments.  Seegrid automated pallet trucks and tow tractors optimize workflow processes by increasing productivity and reducing costs, creating economic and operational advantages.  Robotic industrial trucks deliver a rapid return on investment, improve facility safety, and reduce equipment and product damage.  Fast Company magazine named Seegrid as one of the Top 50 World’s Most Innovative Company in 2013 and among the Top 10 World’s Most Innovative Robotics Company in 2013. Follow Seegrid Corporation on Twitter at @Seegrid.

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