The use of drones in construction is expected to rise, particularly as surveyors, builders, realtors, and insurers apply new techniques such as AR and VR for gathering and understanding data.
ElliQ Social Companion Robot Aimed at Elders Now Available for Preorder
Intuition Robotics is offering ElliQ, its “sidekick for happy aging,” for presales, and its founder describes how it’s sharing the “Q” AI platform with partners and investors such as Toyota.
CES: 10 Robotics Trends Seen in Eureka Park 2019
Here are some of the most innovative robots, drones, and AI applications seen among the international startups in Eureka Park 2019.
Creator Offers Better Burger Experience With Robot Cooks
As robots move into food preparation, Creator is focusing on quality rather than mass production, explains Martin Buehler.
Q&A: Micropsi Industries CEO Ronnie Vuine
Earlier this week, Micropsi Industries, a Berlin, Germany-based robotics software startup founded in 2014, closed $6.08 million in Series A funding. This brought the company’s funding to a total of $9 million over six rounds. Micropsi, which at press time had 15 employees, said ABB, NVIDIA, OnRobot and Universal Robots are some of its key…
Micropsi Industries raises $6M for robot control software
Micropsi Industries, a robotics software company founded in 2014, closed $6.08 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by Project A, a leading Berlin-based investor with more than €260 million in assets under its management. Previous investors Coparion and Vito Ventures as well as experienced business angels also participated in this round. Micropsi raised…
Robotic Grasping Advances With New NVIDIA Deep Learning
NVIDIA research announced at CoRL this week puts smart picking within robotic grasping range.
Omron to show collaborative robot and flexible manufacturing at PACK EXPO 2018
Visit Booth N-4740 at PACK EXPO 2018 where Omron will be displaying new technologies including sensing, control, safety, vision, motion and robotics that will help manufacturers upgrade their traceability systems and streamline their flexible production lines. This is essential to compete successfully in an industry where high variety and extensive customization is the norm. Flexible…
5 Big Data Management Lessons From Pre-RoboBusiness Workshop
The first step to a big data management and analytics strategy is determining what you want to do with it, said speakers at a workshop before RoboBusiness 2018.
Persistent Drones From CyPhy Works Provide Awareness for Emergencies, New Markets
Not only can persistent drones such as PARC relay communications during emergencies; they are also serving security and commercial needs now, explains CyPhy Works CEO Lance VandenBrook.
Robot Investments Weekly: Machine Vision, Drone Startups Garner Funding
Summer may be relatively slow for automation transactions, but don’t tell these machine vision and drone startups, which successfully raised funding.
Infrastructure robots rise to meet urgent needs
The U.S. needs help with inspecting and repairing its aging pipes, power lines, and other utilities. Providers are turning to infrastructure robots and aerial drones.
Takeaways from Automatica 2018
Automatica 2018 is one of Europe’s largest robotics and automation-related trade shows and a destination for global roboticists and business executives to view new products. It was held June 19-22 in Munich and had 890 exhibitors and 46,000 visitors (up 7% from the previous show). The International Symposium on Robotics (ISR) was held in conjunction…
Robotics Fundings, Acquisitions and IPOs: May 2018
Twenty-seven startups were funded in May for a total of $2.5 billion. The top five were: Cruise Holdings announced a two-phase funding by SoftBank Vision Fund totaling $2.25 billion. $900 million will be funded right away. Future funding of $1.35 billion is contingent on two things: regulatory approval and at the time when Cruise AVs…
Exyn Technologies enabling advanced autonomous navigation
One of the biggest challenges in robotics is developing autonomous systems that can reliably operate in unmapped environments. This is why, for example, leading self-driving car company Waymo only tests in areas it’s spent countless hours at creating detailed 3D maps. Exyn Technologies, a spin-off of the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP lab founded by Vijay Kumar, is making tremendous…
THine and CEL offer Camera Development Kit (CDK) for camera-system development
THine Electronics, Inc. and California Eastern Laboratories, Inc. now offer a Camera Development Kit (CDK) — a design tool for advanced camera system developers. More advanced camera systems require specialized co-dependency of multiple components, resulting in more complicated design challenges. ISP firmware design is one of the hardest challenges, as it depends on (1) CMOS…
Kollmorgen demoing frameless & servo motors at Robotics Summit
Kollmorgen, a leading provider of servo, frameless and stepper motion solutions for a variety of robots, including collaborative robots, industrial articulated robots, medical robots and more, will be displaying its latest products at the Robotics Summit & Showcase. Taking place May 23-24 at the Westin Boston Waterfront, the Robotics Summit is a multifaceted educational event…
Meet cutting-edge robots at the Robotics Summit
The Robotics Summit & Showcase is a multifaceted educational forum and showcase dedicated to addressing the technical issues involved with developing commercial robotics and intelligent systems. The inaugural event takes place May 23-24 in Boston, one of the world’s leading cities for robotics, and is packed with live demos and discussions about cutting-edge robots and intelligent…
Warehousing, Fulfillment and DC Transformation Trends
E-commerce sales for 2017 were $453.5 billion in the U.S. and $1.1 trillion in China, an increase of 16.0% and 32.6% respectively over 2016. This upward trend is projected to continue for the next many years. Consequently flexibility and an ability to handle an ever-increasing number of parcels is of concern to warehousing, fulfillment and…
Robotics Summit early bird registration extended to May 4
Early Bird Registration for the Robotics Summit and Showcase has been extended to May 4, 2018. Register by May 4 to receive a 20% discount to attend the event. There are discounts available for corporate groups and associations. Please email me for details. The Robotics Summit and Showcase differs dramatically from academic, association and industrial and robotics…
How will automation affect the future of work?
Several years ago, Canary Pete’s political cartoon flooded email inboxes and social media pages. The humorous illustration showed a middle-aged executive walking into a typical job interview, with the exception that he had to build his own office chair (since he was applying to work at IKEA). Pete’s satire might be short-lived, as last week…
MODEX 2018: Old and new have never been so far apart
MODEX, ProMat and CeMAT are the biggest global material handling and logistics supply chain tech trade shows. But as I walked the corridors of this year’s MODEX in Atlanta, I was particularly aware of the widening disparity between the old and new. Stats: Material Handling and Logistics The 2018 MHI Annual Industry Report found that…