Robotics News
Alphabot to support applications beyond retail in Alert Innovation, Muratec partnership
Sphero buys littleBits to take the lead in STEAM education
FHA-C mini series actuator from Harmonic Drive includes integrated servo
KUKA develops mobile manipulator robot for cleanroom chip handling
CMU, OSU team wins first event in DARPA Subterranean Challenge
igus adds new clamps for energy chains on cobots
VOXL from ModalAI helps Uber Eats test BVLOS drone delivery of food
Waymo Open Dataset available for autonomous vehicle researchers
Self-folding ‘Rollbot’ paves way for untethered soft robots
DoorDash acquires Scotty Labs for teleoperation of food deliveries
ANYmal C legged robot is optimized for industrial inspection, says ANYbotics
Bring on the storms: Waymo to test sensors in Florida
Sales of industrial robots grow 7.2% in first half of 2019
Starship Technologies raises $40M Series A, expands campus services
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CMU, OSU team wins first event in DARPA Subterranean Challenge
A team from CMU and OSU beat 10 competitors in the Tunnel Circuit stage of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. The robots conducted a mock search-and-rescue scenario.
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Appen updates training data product for AI development
Australia’s Appen has added features to its AI training data product intended to make text annotation and utterance, as well as enterprise analytics, easier to do.
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KUKA develops mobile manipulator robot for cleanroom chip handling
There was no mobile, automated semiconductor production system that enabled component transfer from one step to the next — until KUKA’s new wafer-handling robots.
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Starship Technologies raises $40M Series A, expands campus services
Starship Technologies has closed Series A funding and said that it has completed 100,000 deliveries and will be expanding service to 100 university campuses.
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Waymo Open Dataset available for autonomous vehicle researchers
On the heels of announcing it’s expanding tests into Florida, Waymo has released the Waymo Open Dataset for autonomous vehicle researchers. The Waymo Open Dataset, available for free, covers a wide variety of environments, from dense urban centers to suburban landscapes. It also includes data collected during day and night, at dawn and dusk, in sunshine…
