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MassRobotics, a robotics innovation organization, announced its inaugural Robotics Medal and Rising Star recipients. The Robotics Medal was created to recognize the wide-ranging impact of female researchers focusing on the … Read More
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Does your robot know where it is right now? Does it? Are you sure? … Read More
Between big events like the Robotics Summit & Expo and Automate, acquisition news, and big funding announcements, there was no shortage of exciting robotics news to cover in May. Here … Read More
Titan Medical recently announced it entered into a licensing agreement with Intuitive Surgical and that the company’s CEO is resigning. Under the agreement, robotic-assisted surgery company Titan Medical has granted … Read More
GITAI, a space robotics company based in Japan, has brought in 4 billion yen, around $28.5 million, in a Series B extension round of funding. GITAI plans to use the … Read More
Robotics investments totaled $1.63 billion in April 2023 as a result of 47 investments (see Table 1 below or download Table 1 HERE). The April investments bring the 2023 robotics … Read More
Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery company, has given more insight into the scope of its partnership with Uber Technologies, which was announced in November 2021. Serve and Uber’s commercial … Read More
NVIDIA’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a number of new projects from the company in his first in-person keynote in almost four years. NVIDIA’s latest innovations aim to ride … Read More
I love plants. I am not great with plants. I have accepted this fact and have therefore entrusted the lives of all of the plants in my care to robots. … Read More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
Calling all robot fanatics! We are the creators of the Robots Guide, IEEE’s interactive site about robotics, and we need your help. Today, we’re expanding our massive catalog to nearly … Read More
Lite 3: new technology for increased strength, agility, mobility, speed, navigation, and endurance DEEP Robotics Co., a global pioneer in the development and industrial application of quadrupedal robots, has announced … Read More
Figure, a Calif.-based company building general-purpose humanoids, has closed $70 million in Series A funding. The company, founded by Brett Adcock, will use the funding to develop its Figure 01 … Read More
Open Robotics today, on World Turtle Day, announced the ninth release of ROS 2 called Iron Irwini. Open Robotics said this was a notable release of the Robot Operating System … Read More
Waymo robotaxis are coming to Uber’s ride-hailing platform. The companies announced a multi-year partnership that will make the Waymo Driver available on Uber starting in Phoenix. The companies plan to … Read More
Associated Food Stores (AFS), a provider of groceries and other goods and services to independent retailers in nine Intermountain states, and Symbotic Inc., a leader in A.I.-enabled robotics technology for … Read More
Hesai Technology’s QT128 LiDAR. | Source: Hesai Technology Hesai Technology, a provider of LiDAR systems, and CRATUS, a software system integrator of LiDAR systems, announced they’ve entered into a strategic … Read More
PBC Linear and Universal Robots’ Applied Cobotics Cobot Feeder. | Source: Universal Robots PBC Linear (Pacific Bearing Company), a producer in linear motion systems, has announced that its Applied Cobotics … Read More
Noah Medical announced that its Galaxy System, an integrated system for navigated robotic bronchoscopy, was used for the first time in the United States at the University of Chicago Medicine … Read More
After selling Fetch Robotics to Zebra Technologies in 2021 for $290 million, many have wondered what Melonee Wise would do next. Sure, she had been serving as Zebra’s VP & … Read More
A rendering of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander that will be part of NASA’s Artemis program. | Source: Blue Origin NASA has awarded Blue Origin, the sub-orbital spaceflight company founded … Read More
e-con Systems, a US-based provider of embedded vision systems, has brought in $13 million in funding from GR 2022 Holdings. The company plans to use the funding to expand its … Read More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
ASTM International’s F45 Committee on Robotics, Automation and Autonomous Systems recently approved the creation of a new subcommittee for legged robots. The F45.06 Subcommittee on Legged Robot Systems will focus … Read More
Skyline Robotics leverages industrial robotics arms to autonomously wash skyscraper windows. | Credit: Skyline Robotics Skyline Robotics, developers of OZMO, the world’s first high-rise window-cleaning robot, today announced the company … Read More
NVIDIA Metropolis provides a virtual environment for simulated and validating robotic solutions. | Credit: NVIDIA Numurus LLC, a provider of NEPI, a fully-featured operating system (OS) for industrial edge AI … Read More
XTEND, the developer of XOS, an operating system that serves as a human extension to help users that have no flight experience operate drones, has acquired Performance Rotors, a Singapore-based … Read More
Netrush, a US-based provider of integrated retail capabilities including logistics and data science, is deploying Brightpick’s robots in several processing facilities across North America. Brightpick’s autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) will … Read More
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) tracks the number of robots sold to North American companies each quarter. | Source: A3 North American robot orders have slowed in the first … Read More
Wiferion has announced the release of the etaLINK 1000, the latest and smallest edition of its line of robot charging systems. When integrated into a robot, the charging unit measures … Read More
