Levita Magnetics designed the MARS system for high-volume abdominal surgeries such as laparoscopic bariatric surgeries.
Terra AI provides 4D perception for robot navigation, manipulation
Terra AI is part of Stereolabs’ vision technology stack intended to provide more accurate perception to autonomous systems.
Gecko Robotics raises $100M Series C extension, adds board members to intensify defense focus
Gecko Robotics, which provides climbing robots and AI to inspect critical infrastructure, has obtained funding and added board members with defense expertise.
Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence looks at prospects for AI and robotics
The Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s director shares his perspectives on AI policy, generative AI, and machine learning and legged robots.
Robotic Print and Apply Palletizer applies Dexterity AI to case labeling
Dexterity said its Robotic Print and Apply Palletizer system can depalletize, print and apply labels, and repalletize up to 300 cases per hour.
Techman Robot presents TM AI Cobot TM25S at iREX 2023
Techman said its TM25S, the latest entry in its TM AI Series S cobots, is suitable for heavier payloads in palletizing and welding.
Toyota Research Institute emphasizes safety of AI-assisted driving
Toyota Research Institute demonstrated how it is developing AI and autonomous vehicles to interact with human drivers for safety.
New York Drones & Robotics AI Summit heralds growing automation industry
Speakers at the Drones & Robotics AI Summit in New York discussed state and federal support of tech startups, as well as opportunities
Brown researchers simplify human-to-robot communication with large language models
Researchers at Brown University’s Humans to Robots Laboratory have developed software that helps robots understand plain-worded instructions.
5 takeaways from Universal Robots’ open house
Universal Robots had strong attendance at its U.S. headquarters open house, which featured presentations, demonstrations, and networking.
Boston Dynamics turns Spot into a tour guide with ChatGPT
Boston Dynamics integrated Spot with ChatGPT and other AI models as a proof of concept for the potential robotics applications of foundational models.
Microsoft, Rockwell Automation to bring Gen AI to robotics development
The companies will add Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service into FactoryTalk Design Studio to accelerate time-to-market for their customers.
Neura Robotics brings in another $16M
Neura Robotics is currently on track to bringing a multi-purpose humanoid robot to the market.
How TRI is using Generative AI to teach robots
TRI said new approach is a step towards building Large Behavior Models (LBMs) for robots, analogous to Large Language Models (LLMs) for conversational AI.
RoboBusiness: NVIDIA to discuss role of Generative AI in robotics
NVIDIA will be reviewing the latest trends, research, and impact of Generative AI on robotics.
MIT framework allows robots to learn faster in new environments
MIT researchers developed a framework that helps robots learn faster in new environments without needing a user to have technical knowledge.
Sereact’s PickGPT lets users instruct robots with natural language
Sereact has announced PickGPT, a robotics transformer that combines large language models with the company’s computer vision technology.
RoboCat AI model teaches itself to perform new tasks
Google said RoboCat can learn a new task with as few as 100 demonstrations because it draws from a large and diverse dataset.
Researchers use ChatGPT to make a tomato picking robot
A team of researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university EPFL used ChatGPT to help them develop a tomato-picking robot.
Wayve.AI on how generative AI can advance AVs
Alex Kendall, Wayve.AI’s co-founder and CEO, gave insight in a recent blog post about how generative AI models can aid the autonomous vehicle industry.
John Deere 2023 Tech Summit recap
A select number of journalists, thought leaders and social media influencers were invited to attend the John Deere Technology Summit.
Microsoft, Siemens to drive industrial productivity with generative AI
Azure OpenAI Service powered assistant can augment the creation, optimization and debugging of code in software for factory automation.