Bright Machines

Bright Machines | October 23, 2018

Robotics has had a role in manufacturing since the 1970s, but even today they are aren’t often driven by the latest software. Bright Machines, a San Francisco startup wants to change that and it got a whopping $179 million Series A today to get this thing going. While it was at it, it also officially launched the company. The startup wants to bring a software-driven approach to robotics, one that would let you take dumb robotics and program it in a more automated fashion to perform ...

Bright Machines | June 28, 2019

Bright Machines has began delivering its vision of integrating software and artificial intelligence into every phase of the manufacturing cycle with the introduction of Bright Machines Microfactories. The new Bright Machines Microfactories combine software, machine learning, computer vision, and adaptive robotics into an automation platform that improves the way products are assembled and inspected, as those are the most manual phases of today’s production lines. Microfactories take advant...

Bright Machines | June 26, 2019

Bright Machines, a startup founded by a group of software and manufacturing executives, on Wednesday released its latest microfactories designed to automate the assembly of electronics. While automation has taken hold in factories for cars and other products, the company's chief executive, Amar Hanspal, said machines have eluded electronics assemblers because they can take months to program and electronics designs change too quickly. The microfactories consist of pods about the size of a lar...

Keppel Offshore & Marine, Lloyd's Register | January 14, 2020

Keppel Offshore & Marine has received Lloyd’s Register LR Certification to additively manufacture offshore grade steel with a 3D printing technology from Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology SIMTech. The certification was granted after assessing Keppel O&M’s production processes, from design to post-processing and testing. Partnering with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore NTU Singapore and SIMTech’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research A*STAR...