Titan Medical announced today that it plans to review and evaluate strategic alternatives to unlock shareholder value.

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to allow the SFPD to use remote-controlled and potentially lethal robots in emergency situations.

Verdant Robotics’ Series A raised $46.5 million. The money will speed up the company’s robotic farm manufacturing and market launch.

Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon business unit will sell CMR’s surgical robotics system to select hospitals in Italy, France, Germany and Brazil.

Through internal R&D and external acquisitions, Amazon continues to be a leader in automating warehouse operations.

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

Japan’s National Policy Agency announced that it would lift a ban preventing SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles from operating on Japanese roads.

Through magnetic propulsion, the company’s Bionauts can navigate the human body and deliver drugs locally.

Cruise recently released its safety report to give the public insights on what the company does to ensure its autonomous vehicles are safe.

Nuro, an autonomous vehicle delivery company with deployments in California and Texas, laid off about 300 employees on Friday. 

Attabotics announced that it brought in $71.7 million in Series C-1 funding. The latest round brings its total funding to $165.1 million. 

Waymo announced that it will soon begin giving autonomous robotaxi rides, with no automation specialists in the vehicles, in San Francisco.

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.

Motional and Lyft announced that the companies are rolling out an autonomous ride-hailing service in Los Angeles.

Soft Robotics brought in $26 million in the first closing of its Series C funding round to expand commercial deployment of its mGripAI.

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

There are now Versius robots in operation across Europe, Asia, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Cruise began offering daytime robotaxi rides to employees in San Francisco. The daytime operating hours could soon be open to the public.

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

OSARO customers gain access to SVT’s SOFTBOT Platform to simplify complex system integration.

Pickle Robot Company announced that it closed a $26 million Series A funding round and it has live pilot implementations in the LA area.

Amazon has unveiled Sparrow, a robotic arm capable of picking individual products before they get packaged.