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.

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.

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

This special video podcast episode features an American Sign Language translated edition of The Robot Report Podcast episode 98, an interview with Tatum Robotics founder Samantha Johnson.

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

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.

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.

Flexiv announced that it is partnering with Sycodal to bring adaptive robotic technology to the Canadian market.

Techman Robot announced its TM AI Cobot series, which combines a precise robot arm with a native AI inferencing engine and vision system. 

Autonomous vehicles have major challenges. But declaring the technology dead after Argo AI’s shutdown is foolish.

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.