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.

Researchers at MIT have created assembling robots that are made up of the same components they use to build structures. 

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.

RoboSense officially launched RS-LiDAR-E1, a flash solid-state LiDAR that sees 360° based on its in-house, custom developed chips.

A quick look at the 2023 CES Innovation award winners in the robotics category covers a broad range of solutions that impact consumers.

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

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.

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.

ASTM’s new standard outlines common objects encountered by AMRs and AGVs. The new standard gives operators and manufacturers a common way to describe these items.

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.

Ghost Robotics said “Boston Dynamics is drawing on their considerably larger resources to litigate instead of innovate.”