Brain Corp announced the third generation of its autonomy platform for commercial robots, BrainOS.

Pinn succeeds Eugene Izhikevich, the founder of the Brain Corp. Izhikevich will continue as the company’s executive chairman.

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.

Whiz Connect centralizes SoftBank’s Whiz automation portfolio in a single dashboard and is intended to improve operational efficiency.

The Robot Operations Group is an industry-driven organization dedicated to developing best practices for scaling up commercial fleets of robots and helping adoption.

Demand for cleaning robots in retail will likely continue beyond coronavirus closures, said Brain Corp executives. They also noted the importance of understanding one’s customers, gathering valuable data, and the evolving technology stack.

In April 2020, the reality of the COVID-19 shutdowns rippled across industries, slowing investment across the board. However, some sectors, such as logistics and healthcare, continued to receive funding.

As interest in autonomous mobile robots grows for applications ranging from logistics and retail to healthcare, so too have the fortunes of AMR enablers such as Brain Corp.

Even as demand for mobile service robots rises during the COVID-19 pandemic, robotics developers should remember use cases and ROI, say two experienced executives.

Brain Corp announced its accomplishments from the past year, as well as an increase in demand from retailers for mobile service robots and its autonomy software.

San Diego-based Brain Corp, the Softbank-backed developer of autonomous navigation systems, has opened its European headquarters in Amsterdam. The reason for the expansion is two-fold: it helps Brain better support partners who do business in Europe, and it helps Brain find additional engineering talent. “Amsterdam is a fantastic gateway to Europe and has one of…

Here is just a sampling of keynotes, sessions, and panels at next month’s Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston that robotics developers and innovators won’t want to miss.

Attendees and speakers at a food robotics event in San Francisco discussed the biggest challenges facing developers and users of robots and AI for cooking, delivery, and tracking.

Brain Corp, a San Diego-based provider of autonomous navigation systems, continues to expand its footprint in the robotic floor cleaning market. Brain today announced a partnership with Nilfisk, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based cleaning solutions provider that has been around for 110-plus years. Nilfisk will license the BrainOS AI platform for the production, deployment, and support of…

CLEVELAND and BOSTON — Business-to-business publisher WTWH Media has announced a series of keynotes, sessions, and workshops at this year’s Robotics Summit & Expo dedicated to educating the robotics engineering community about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are making commercial and cognitive robots smarter and more useful. Topics include decision making, object identification, vision…

Growing demand for rapid e-commerce order fulfillment is a major driver for the development and adoption for mobile robots. However, the market and the technologies that serve it are changing rapidly. The Robot Report asked the following five experts in mobile robotics about their observations (their responses have been edited for length): Tom Galluzzo, founder…

Walmart has been testing Brain Corp.’s BrainOS-powered autonomous floor cleaners for more than a year. Now it looks like the two companies are ready to take their relationship to the next level. By the end of Walmart’s fiscal year, January 31, 2019, the world’s largest retailer will have 360 BrainOS-powered machines cleaning its floors across…

Increasing the level of navigation autonomy in mobile robots creates tangible business benefits to those companies employing them. But designing an autonomous navigation system is no easy task. San Diego-based Brain Corporation seems to have figured it out, however. The company raised $114 million in mid-2017, led by the Softbank Vision Fund, to continue development…

Brain Corp, an AI company specializing in the development of self-driving technology for robots, will lead a presentation on the specific steps required to move autonomous roboticss from the lab to live, real-world environments along with other relevant topics at the upcoming Robotics Summit & Showcase in Boston. Taking place May 23-24, 2018 and organized…

San Diego-based Brain Corp., which in July 2017 raised $114 million in a Series C round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund, has partnered with Tennant Company, a developer of commercial cleaning solutions. The companies will collaborate on autonomous floor cleaners that operate in commercial and industrial environments. Tennant’s first autonomous floor cleaner, the T7 Micro-Rider, is…