Teradyne’s industrial automation group grew its revenue 29% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2022 to $103 million.
Unitree closes Series B round for quadruped robots
Unitree plans to use the funding to increase construction on its mass production lines and strengthen its existing production lines.
Touchlab brings in over $4.5M to make robots feel like humans
Octopus Ventures, a European venture firm that invests in early-stage companies, led Touchlab’s funding round.
Agility Robotics’ Digit brings in $150M
DCVC and Playground Global led the funding round, which also included participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (AIIF).
MHS Global and Fortna combine
The details of the deal were not disclosed, and the transaction is still subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
Intuitive’s profits fall short in first quarter
Compared with Q1 2021, sales were down 14% in the bottom line and 15% growth in sales.
SoftBank Robotics Group invests in Avalon SteriTech for a clean future
The investment strengthens the existing public facility cleaning and disinfection business developed by the two companies.
Swisslog joins Berkshire Grey’s Partner Alliance program
Swisslog offers AutoStore’s modular and flexible automated storage and retrieval system, among other robotic solutions.
Glacier brings in $4.5M for recycling sorting robots
Glacier’s robots are able to sort over 30 different item types, and are 60% less expensive than other sortation robots.
Rapyuta Robotics brings in $51M for pick assist robots
Rapyuta offers a picking assistant AMR that picks and carries orders between worders to reduce the amount of time workers spend walking.
Halma acquires underwater ROV maker Deep Trekker
Deep Trekker creates ROVs that are used for underwater inspection and tasks in a variety of industries, including aquaculture.
RoboCT brings in $15M for robotic exoskeletons
RobotCT’s UGO exoskeleton robot helps patients who experience motor dysfunction in the lower body learn how to walk.
Bosch acquires autonomous vehicle company Five AI
Five’s development and testing platform for software used in AVs will be merged with Bosch’s software engineering environment.
Diligent brings in $30M to put Moxi in hospitals
Diligent plans to use the round of funding to optimize supply chain and design teams for faster deployments of Moxi.
This robotic beehive wants to save the bees
Beewise’s robotics beehive can prevent bees from dying while also increasing honey yields for beekeepers.
Built Robotics digs up $64M for construction vehicle autonomy kits
The Exosystem autonomy kit can be rented as standalone units to be installed onto an existing fleet or customers can lease upgraded excavators.
Sarcos ends Q4 with $34.1M in losses, $1M in revenue
For the full year 2021, Sarcos brought in $5.1 million in revenue, a decrease from the $8.8 million during 2020.
Rugged Robotics raises $9.4M to automate construction layout
The Mark I by Rugged Robotics marks architectural and engineering designs directly onto concrete floors.
Treeswift clears $4.8M for forestry drones
TreeSwift’s drones can collect individual tree metrics with cameras, LiDAR sensors and advanced machine learning algorithms.
Sarcos acquiring RE2 Robotics for $100M
The combined company will offer an extended product portfolio to target a much broader spectrum of customers across the commercial and defense sectors.
Waypoint’s robots officially join Locus with rebrand
Two of Waypoint Robotics’ heavy payload AMRs are being rebranded to join a new line of Locus Robotics’ LocusBots.
Element Logic acquires SDI Industries
Element Logic plans to leverage SDI’s eight U.S. locations and five Latin American locations and make SDI an AutoStore integrator.