This week’s podcast highlights the agricultural robotics industry, including an interview with Four Growers CEO Brandon Contino, and a recap of the 2023 FIRA ag robotics event.

This Series A funding round brings Boxbot’s total funding raised to date to $29.5 million for its package handling system. 

CMR Surgical announced today that it raised a funding round worth $165 million (£133 million) and hit a milestone with its surgical robot.

Diligent Robotics plans to use the funding to fuel system-wide expansions of its Moxi robot across hospitals nationwide. 

Virtual Incision announced that it added a $30 million extension to its previous $46 million Series C financing round.

The latest evolution of the Maestro System focuses on manufacturing scalability, together with increased capability and has simplified both usability and training.

Vicarious Surgical Inc. announced it has signed a strategic development agreement with Intermountain Health, a U.S. healthcare system.

Robotics startup launches latest autonomous outdoor security patrolling robot, Ascento Guard, allowing companies to extend security at a reasonable cost.

driveblocks plans to use the funding to further develop its core technology, the Mapless Autonomy Platform. 

Proposed standards will provide a reliable and repeatable means for testing assembly capabilities of robot systems.

A.P. Moller – Maersk is teaming up with Fabric to implement an AI-driven automated fulfillment center for e-commerce.

iRobot Corp has introduced two new models that aim to solve pitfalls faced by competing robots and iRobot OS 7.

Otto Group will deploy Boston Dynamics’ Spot in more than 10 facilities and Stretch in more than 20.

Starting this week, Gatik’s autonomous trucks will operate on predetermined short-haul routes to move products from plant to storage facilities. 

Rockwell Automation said AMRs “are the next frontier in industrial automation and transformation, and this acquisition will supercharge Rockwell’s lead in bringing the connected enterprise to life.”

37% fewer robots were purchased in April through June of 2023 than during the same period of 2022, according to A3’s latest report.

Krone and Lemken use Apex.Grace and Apex.Ida from Apex.AI to further develop the ‘Combined Powers’ project to take on various fieldwork.

German Bionic’s Apogee+ aims to merge cutting-edge robots with research-backed, data-driven insights to better support caregivers. 

OSARO’s AI-driven SightWorks vision and Cognex’s DataMan scanners helped achieve >99% accuracy on Zenni’s high-throughput fulfillment line.

GXO Logistics will highlight at RoboBusiness different types of robots and how they are being strategically integrating to create a state-of-the-art warehouses.

The partnership will involve Oxa’s autonomy software being installed in a variety of vehicle types operated by Beep.

On this episode, Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas details the new Apollo humanoid and take us through the history of bipedal development at the company.