Researchers at UT Austin received a $3.6 million grant to do a five-year study focusing on how humans interact with robots in public.

ISEE, the Cambridge, Mass.-based developer of self-driving yard truck solutions, announced that it raised $40 million in Series B funding.

The Army and DIU have selected Applied Intuition to deliver an end-to-end autonomy software development and testing platform.

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.

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

Amazon already has more than half a million robots working in its fulfillment centers every day, and it’s looking to add more.

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.

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

Conference sessions at RoboBusiness are designed to give technical professionals the information they need to successfully develop, deploy and manage commercial robots.

NVIDIA released Jetson Orin Nano system-on-modules, updated its Nova Orin reference platform for autonomous mobile robots and announced cloud-based availability for its Isaac Sim technology.

The committee will initially develop standards for the performance of grasping-type end effectors, mobile manipulators and robotic assembly systems.

Agility Robotics co-founders Jonathan Hurst and Damion Shelton will discuss how they’re developing Digit to perform real-world tasks.

Amazon said preliminary tests show a prototype pinch-grasping robot achieved a 10-fold reduction in damage on items such as books and boxes.

Peter Hartwell, CTO of Invensense, breaks down the various sensors used to improve the navigation and cleaning capabilities of robot vacuums.

Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman are joined by Dan Kara to preview RoboBusiness 2022.

This week’s podcast reviews the latest developments in UAVs and a deep dive into product management with Kishore Boyalakuntla.

Anthony Jules to deliver farsighted keynote at RoboBusiness called “Designing the Robot Future We Want to Live In.”

The new tool can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object.

This week’s podcast discusses situations in which AI and machine learning still come up short for robotics systems and how a human-in-the-loop system can help solve edge cases in real-time.

The Germany-based research group’s O3dyn platform uses NVIDIA simulation technologies to create robots with a rich feature set for logistics, manufacturing and more.

John Enright, principal engineer at Amazon Robotics, explains how the company developed precision autonomy for its new Proteus autonomous mobile robot.