AMD’s Kria KR260 robotics starter kit is scalable and out-of-the-box development platform for robotics with native ROS 2 support.
Vention brings in $95M for automation platform
Vention plans to use the funding to grow its go-to-market and accelerate the development of its hardware and software platform.
Qualcomm unveils RB6 platform and RB5 AMR reference design
Qualcomm’s Robotics RB6 Platform is made up of both hardware and software development tools and can make robotics development faster.
SLAMcore closes Series A to develop spatial understanding for robots
SLAMcore uses deep learning to help robots and drones identify physical space, objects and people around them to autonomously navigate the world.
MIT CSAIL develops soft, pneumatic actuator
Soft, pneumatic actuators can provide high response rates and power to input ratios, but creating them can be tedious.
Orbbec releases Persee+ 3D camera
With a hardware accelerator for AI and machine learning applications, the Persee+ helps users achieve a new level of uses for 3D imaging.
Touchlab brings in over $4.5M to make robots feel like humans
Octopus Ventures, a European venture firm that invests in early-stage companies, led Touchlab’s funding round.
Kollmorgen introduces TBM2G frameless servo motors
Kollmorgen’s TBM2G series of frameless servo motors offers high-performance torque in a compact electromagnetics package.
How Amazon trained its robot Robin to sort packages
Robin picks packages from a conveyor belt, scans them and then places them on a drive robot that routes it to the correct loading dock.
Gibson Engineering to offer Kassow Robots’ 7-axis cobots
With Kassow Robots’ 7-axis cobots, Gibson will be able to serve customers in the medical, semiconductor and electronics industries.
MIT CSAIL develops robotic gripper that can feel what it grabs
CSAIL’s Perceptual Science Group created touch sensors for their gripper, allowing it to feel with the same sensitivity as human skin.
Toposens introduces processing unit for 3D collision avoidance
The Toposens Processing Unit DK makes it easier to integrate the Toposens ultrasonic sensing technology into a customer’s existing platform.
Meet Denmark’s robotics companies of the year
Odense Robotics’ 300 members, made up of robot, automation and drone companies, nominated and voted for the winners.
Lanner, MOV.AI partner to expedite mobile robot development
Collaborative solution to provide both the machine vision computing and software platform developers need to build and deploy mobile robots.
FORT’s NSC sends commands to robots wirelessly
With FORT’s NSC embedded, users are able to send commands through the company’s patented technology for safety and data integrity.
iRobot launches Create 3 educational robot
Now with ROS 2 and Python support, Create 3 is iRobot’s smartest developer platform to date.
ROS 2 now available on Clearpath Robotics’ Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics’ Husky UGV is an all-terrain mobile robot that weighs in at 110 lbs, and has a payload capacity of 165 lbs.
Researchers enable robot to manipulate dough
A new technique could enable a robot to manipulate squishy objects like pizza dough or soft materials like clothing.
Open Robotics emphasizing interoperability at Robotics Summit
Brian Gerkey, co-founder and CEO of Open Robotics, will discuss how companies are addressing interoperability and what options are available to vendors, end users, and integrators.
Stanford engineers enable simple cameras to see in 3D
Researchers devised a high-frequency, low-power, compact optical device that allows virtually any digital camera to perceive depth.
Delta Line releases BLDC motors for robot joints
The Delta Line size 115 frameless BLDC motors were developed to meet the space and performance requirements of robot joints.
Toshiba unveils new palm-sized LiDAR
Toshiba created its palm-sized LiDAR by using multiple small projector units as its laser beam source, instead of one strong laser.