Leveraging experience developing space robots for NASA, Nauticus Robotics is developing underwater robots to perform inspection and maintenance tasks.

Locus Robotics has now raised $422 million since it was founded in 2014.

This week, we talk to the founders of Robotics Operations Group (ROG) about the organization’s growth and the delivery of “RobOpsCon” earlier this week.

Ghost Robotics said “Boston Dynamics is drawing on their considerably larger resources to litigate instead of innovate.”

The funding will be invested directly into at least 30 startups over the next six years.

Autonomous vehicles have major challenges. But declaring the technology dead after Argo AI’s shutdown is foolish.

Boston Dynamics claims Ghost Robotics infringed on seven patents related to Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robot.

Tatum Robotics won the RoboBusiness Pitchfire robotics startup competition. It’s building an anthropomorphic hand that signs tactile sign languages for people with deafblindness who can’t hear or see.

The program provides opportunities for diverse high school girls in Massachusetts to learn about careers in robotics, expose them to technical skills and develop their professional networks.

Robotics Engineering Week’s sessions are focused on critical topics for robotics and automation professionals.

On the podcast this week, we discuss the dissolution of Argo AI, the state of autonomous driving, and we learn about the new RaaS performance contract for Covariant.AI

The robotics industry’s must-attend technical design and development event returns to Boston in May 2023 with deepened coverage, an expanded expo floor and more.

Ambi is enabling warehouses to pull items from bulk inventory by using vision to guide robotic arms to grasp and then sort items.

Clearpath Robotics’ new OutdoorNav technology provides GPS-based navigation for Clearpath’s outdoor mobile robots and third-party vehicles.

This week, we discuss the news of Amazon ending the use of delivery robots and talk to Viam CEO Eliot Horowitz about its new robotics platform beta.

The IRB 1010 has a reach of 370 mm (14.5 inches), repeatability of 0.01 mm and can handle payloads up to 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).

A breakdown of some of the new features in the OTTO Motors’ 2.26 software release.

During limited field testing, Amazon learned certain aspects of the program weren’t meeting customers’ needs.

Meet the contestants of the Pitchfire startup competition, an opening day staple of RoboBusiness for 10 years.

Walmart began working with Alert Innovation in 2016 to build custom technology for its micro-fulfillment centers.

Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Boston Dynamics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics and Unitree pledged not to support the weaponization of their products and are calling for others in the industry to do the same.

This week, we discuss the recent demo of the Tesla Optimus bipedal robot and talk to Swisslog President Markus Schmidt about high throughput material handling.