Flexiv closed a Series B+ funding round with an investment of nearly $100 million, making the company a unicorn startup.
MIT CSAIL releases open-source simulator for autonomous vehicles
Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL released an open-source simulation engine that can construct environments to test autonomous vehicles.
Horizon Robotics releases robot development platform
The Horizon Hobot Platform consists of the company’s Sunrise chip, the TogetherROS operating system, Boxs reference algorithm, robot application examples and supporting development tools.
SICK launches Monitoring Box for cloud-based sensor monitoring
SICK has launched a product called Monitoring Box that enables access to sensor data for cloud-based condition monitoring.
ROS 2 driver now available for ABB’s robot arms
PickNik Robotics and Optimax Systems released a ROS 2 driver for ABB manipulators. The package has been tested with an ABB IRB 1200-5/0.9 manipulator.
Why robots need to see
The autonomous vehicle and robotics sectors often employ LiDAR as the primary system navigation sensor. But cameras and vision-based perception will increasingly serve as the technological underpinning for mobile robots going forward.
NVIDIA, Ready Robotics look to simplify automation deployments
Ready Robotics’ Forge/OS 5 universal operating system now works with NVIDIA’s Omniverse Isaac Simulator. NVIDIA also made an undisclosed investment into Ready Robotics.
Data flexibility for robotics companies (with real-world examples)
Watch a live demo of the Spot quadruped and how the captured data can be streamed into Formant’s platform and displayed for custom visualization.
ROS 2 driver now available for UR cobot arms
Developed by Universal Robots, PickNik Robotics and FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, the driver is compatible across the entire line of UR cobots.
MOV.AI and Ouster partner to advance sensing for mobile robots
The partnership enables MOV.AI customers to quickly integrate Ouster LiDAR units into the AMR platform.
AMD launches Kria KR260 robotics starter kit
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.
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.
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.
NVIDIA announces availability of Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit
NVIDIA has over one million developers now deploying on Jetson with John Deere, Medtronic, Hyundai Robotics, Komatsu, Meituan among early adopters
MassRobotics startups get free access to Onshape CAD platform
With Onshape, MassRobotics’ startup community can leverage the latest in cloud product design software for robotics development.
The Modern RTOS – Ready for a Cloud-Native World
Today’s device makers are caught between two opposing trends. On the one hand, legacy code continues to run in deployed systems. On the other hand, development tools — and developers — have continued to evolve. The challenge is how to bridge today’s developers to yesterday’s systems. A key technology in bridging legacy embedded systems with…
Open-source visualization and debugging for robotics
Adrian Macneil, co-founder and CEO of Foxglove, discusses the company’s spin-out from autonomous driving company Cruise, how its solutions differ from RViz, challenges of robotics development and the keys to running his startup.
Cogniteam adds NVIDIA Isaac GEMs to robotics development platform
Cogniteam said more of its customers are moving to NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated technologies that can be developed and deployed through the cloud.
TDK unveils RoboKit1 robotics development platform
The RoboKit1 robotics development platform comes with ROS 1 and ROS 2 compatible drivers and software algorithms.