The lawsuit from Surgical Instrument Service centered around Intuitive Surgical’s programmed usage limits for its EndoWrist instruments.
Judge says J&J must pay Auris shareholders $1B in damages
The judge deemed that J&J had declined to put resources toward advancing iPlatform and instead pitted it against its own Verb device.
EU says Amazon, iRobot merger ‘may restrict competition’
The EU informed Amazon that its preliminary view is that the acquisition may restrict competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners.
Velodyne sues 2 Chinese rivals for lidar patent infringement
Velodyne, the world’s largest lidar developer, has filed patent infringement complaints against Hesai and Suteng (also known as RoboSense). The complaints were filed Aug. 13 to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The majority of autonomous vehicle companies rely on lidar, and the San Jose-based company said the two Chinese…
Anki sued for patent infringement
StretchTech is suing shuttered consumer robot maker Anki for allegedly infringing on three of its patents.
A Frank Review of the movie ‘Robot & Frank’
By Frank Tobe, Editor and Publisher, The Robot Report My friends have been kidding me for months about the movie Robot & Frank (because my name is Frank, I’ve got gray hair, and I’m way into robots — I research, edit and publish The Robot Report and this blog). I have a Photoshop’d poster with…