Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)

Scythe Robotics launches a commercial, autonomous mower to help improve productivity of professional landscapers.

The MiR250 Hook can autonomously connect to and tow carts that weigh up to 1100 lbs.

Dusty Robotics, the Maker of FieldPrinter a construction layout printing AMR, announces their Series A funding

Find out what’s happening in the world of robot operations and where you can go to learn how to scale your fleet to thousands of robots.

Gideon Brothers announces it has raised $31 million in Series A investment to expand its AMR product line.

Vecna Robotics founder Daniel Theobald will resume his roles as chief innovation officer and executive chairman of the board.

DHL Supply Chain is expanding its collaboration with Locus Robotics. By 2022, DHL plans to implement up to 2,000 assisted picking robots globally.

ACEINNA announces the general availability of the OpenIMU335RI, a rugged inertial measurement unit with CAN and RS232 interfaces. The device includes three independent 3-Axis accelerometers and 3-Axis Gyros

Once a Jackal or Husky robot navigates to within several centimeters of a charging station, power is automatically delivered through the air.

634AI selects the RTI Connext databus for the real-time communications between AMRs operating under its MAESTRO solution.

Data from VIPER could help NASA map resources at the lunar South Pole that could one day be harvested for long-term human exploration at the Moon.

Joel Johnson, the passenger in the Waymo robotaxi that was confused multiple times by construction cones, discusses what went wrong.

MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Working Group, comprised of AMR vendors, engineers and AMR end-user companies, has published a consortium-built standard to guide robotic automation interoperability.

Funding will be used to mainly to research robotics, expand the product line, explore new usage scenarios and expand their domestic and international market channels.

Softbank invests $15M in Chinese AMR company Youibot, helping the young company to continue to expand its worldwide reach.

ViaBot officially launches the company and its autonomous sweeper after securing $6.1M in funding.

JASCI Software acquires AMR provider NextShift Robotics and forms a new warehouse automation company: JASCI Robotics.

Warehouse management at distribution centers, manufacturing sites and fulfillment centers are chartered with increasing the efficiency of their operations while simultaneously reducing costs. To address these conflicting mandates, forward thinking companies have adopted autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to automate the movement of materials and goods within warehouse environments. Example applications include goods-to-persons picking, robot-to-goods picking,…

Fetch Robotics announces that its product line of AMRs is now compliant with the new ANSI/RIA R15.08 safety standard.

If the first quarter of 2021 is a sign of things to come, it’s going to be a great year for Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) and Universal Robots (UR). Both companies are owned by Teradyne, which saw its industrial automation group earn $80 million in Q1 revenue. This represents a 33% increase year-over-year and 21%…

Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) announces the creation of a new company called T-Hive. The new company is a partnership between Toyota L&F, Bastian Solutions, Toyota Forklifts, Vanderlande, Toyota Material Handling and Raymond. T-Hive B.V. will be based in The Netherlands and be led by Léon Jansen. T-Hive’s main focus will be to provide a seamless control system over all autonomous…

RBR50 company AutoGuide Mobile Robots, which was acquired by Teradyne in 2019, will soon have a new leader. President and CEO Rob Sullivan resigned on March 1, but is staying on until June 1 to help the transition. Tim Moriarty, Teradyne’s president of memory products, will step into Sullivan’s role. Sullivan, 54, led AutoGuide’s spinout…