Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Source: Cruise General Motors Co. Since acquiring the self-driving startup in 2016, GM has poured more than $10 billion of funding into Cruise. At the height of its success, Cruise was running robotaxi services in San Francisco, Austin, Houston, and Phoenix.

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Robotics Robotics Sourcing Manufacturing 98

Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 6, 2025

This is a far cry from its previous facilities, the 5,600-square foot shop Matt Danford wrote about in 2016 and the 1,000-square foot garage-and-basement combination Peter Zelinski wrote about in 2008. All photos by Modern Machine Shop.

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Manufacturing Cycle time Sourcing Aerospace 95

Robotics Business Review

MARCH 17, 2025

Founded in 2016, Flexiv has established offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan, and Singapore. Source: Flexiv Flexiv last week announced the expansion of its operations in Singapore, a key market for the company.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2024

READY Robotics, a Columbus, Ohio-based company founded in 2016, has shut down. Multiple sources told The Robot Report a funding round fell through at the last minute, which caused the company to lay off its staff and close its doors. million Seed round in 2016. So where did things go wrong? and elsewhere.”

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AU Manufacturing

JULY 24, 2022

Wire Additive Manufacturing (WAM) developer AML3D has begun processing its compliance with the AS9100D:2016 quality systems accreditation for its proprietary manufacturing technology. .

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Aerospace Compliance Additive manufacturing Sourcing 85

Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2025

Source: Watch Out Manufacturers face widespread shortages of skilled labor, but more intelligent automation could alleviate the problem, according to Watch Out. ” In 2016, Laporte and Perret launched Watch Out, and Mariette joined them in 2019. Watch Out visualizes a highly automated workcell that can fit into a container.

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Aerospace Artificial Intelligence Robotics Robotics 69

Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Source: ANYbotics Legged robots have found success in industrial facility inspections. Spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016, ANYbotics said its mobile robots can automate real-time data collection in challenging environments, making them suitable for routine inspections , remote operations, or predictive maintenance. .

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 13, 2024

Source: igus The combination of sensing with motion plastics, which eliminate the need for lubricants, promises easier-to-maintain machinery for Industry 4.0. Since 2016, Atronia has supported igus with smart plastic sensors. igus has acquired Atronia, its partner for the iSense EC.W products together.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 11, 2024

Source: Universal Robots Universal Robots reached a new milestone this week. ” UR launched its UR+ ecosystem in 2016 with the ambition of making it an open-source-like platform that would empower developers. The Danish collaborative robot (cobot) developer has now launched over 500 products through its UR+ ecosystem.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Image credit: Airlander Dave Holmes, managing director at BAE Systems Air, said: “The changing character of conflict is driving new and novel approaches across the defence sector, including using new sources of synthetic and sustainable power, new materials and new processes that allow us to harness sustainable tech right from the outset.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2024

Source: DroneUp DroneUp LLC last week announced that it has completed 500 deliveries in a single day. ” Founded in 2016, DroneUp said its proprietary technology integrates with ground infrastructure to provide affordable last-mile delivery services to a growing number of locations across the U.S. .

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Source: Trexo Robotics Trexo Robotics has now helped children walk more than 100 million steps with its robotic brace. The Ontario, Canada-based company was founded in 2016 by CEO Manmeet Maggu and CTO Rahul Udasi to help Maggu’s nephew. Trexo said it customizes the gait of the brace to each user and adjusts this gait over time.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 10, 2025

Source | Getty Images The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Foundation is collaborating with the Plastics Hall of Fame to launch the Plastics Hall of Fame Scholarship, a new scholarship designed to support students pursuing careers in the plastics industry. Since 2016, the foundation has distributed more than $1.4

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Sourcing 52

Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Source: ANYbotics ANYbotics AG recently celebrated the production of its 100th ANYmal quadruped. ” ANYbotics spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016 and sold its first systems in 2017. . ” ANYbotics spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016 and sold its first systems in 2017. The 100th ANYmal passes locomotion testing.

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Gary Mintchell

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

He was part of the leadership team that sold Mtell to Aspen Technology in 2016. The week in Orlando every year always gives me a chance to catch up with Mike Brooks, Global Director of APM Solutions at AspenTech. He always has something interesting to talk about.

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Sourcing Manufacturing 130

Robotics Business Review

MARCH 5, 2025

Source: Uber Waymo robotaxis are now available in Austin exclusively through Uber. In 2016, Uber acquired autonomous trucking startup Otto for $680 million. After once being rivals, Uber and Waymo first partnered in late 2023. Uber riders will be able to opt for a human-driven vehicle if they prefer.

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Robotics Robotics Sourcing Automotive 59

Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Source: Adobe Stock While headlines often spotlight U.S. ANYbotics (Switzerland) emerged from pioneering work at ETH Zurich in 2009 and was officially founded in 2016. Europe is a major center of robotics development and use, according to Humanoid. It has made strides in autonomous robots for industrial applications.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Source: Unitree At its recent Third Plenum, China mapped out the direction of its economic policies. Since 2016, the electrical and electronics industry has replaced the automotive industry as the main customer and growth driver of industrial robots in China. Unitree robots at the World Robotics Conference 2024 in Beijing.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 24, 2025

General Motors acquired Cruise for $1 billion in 2016. The San Francisco-based startup has remained tight-lipped about what its system will look like or what capabilities it will have, but Reuters said sources indicated that it’s working on a non-humanoid robot equipped with a base and grips.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 14, 2024

Source: WTWH Media Kyle Vogt, the co-founder and former CEO of autonomous vehicle developer Cruise LLC, has launched a new startup: The Bot Company. General Motors acquired Cruise in 2016. Kyle Vogt, then president and CTO of Cruise, delivered a Robotics Summit & Expo keynote in 2019. In February 2022, Vogt took over as CEO.

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Robotics Robotics Sourcing Automotive 122

Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Source: Flexiv The result of increasingly adaptive robots may soon be no farther than your next meal. Founded in 2016, Flexiv has established offices in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan, and Singapore. A new fish fillet shaping application uses a Rizon 4 adaptive robot to create uniform portions and shapes.

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Robotics Robotics Form Automation 116

Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Source: EndoQuest Robotics EndoQuest Robotics Inc. Founded in 2016, the company said it has collaborated extensively with healthcare providers, researchers, and industry partners to advance the development of its flexible robotic system. Its goal is to improve patient outcomes and redefine a new standard in MIS.

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Robotics Robotics Benchmarking Sourcing 59

Robotics Business Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Source: Vention Vention Inc. The Montreal-based company said MAP draws on a proprietary dataset of several hundred thousand workcell designs created since its founding in 2016. MAP is a cloud-based command center that can design and manage automated manufacturing workcells. yesterday announced a collaboration with NVIDIA Corp.

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Automation Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing Robotics 107

Robotics Business Review

MAY 6, 2024

Source: HEBI Robotics HEBI Robotics last week during the Robotics Summit & Expo expanded its offerings with its new H-Series platform of smart robotic actuators. He became the first full-time employee of HEBI in 2016 as VP of business development. HEBI’s H-Series Actuators are sealed to IP65.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Source: Helm.ai Founded in 2016, Helm.ai VidGen-2 can generate multi-camera views and video up to 30 fps for training self-driving cars. Generative artificial intelligence could soon help self-driving cars with perception. today launched VidGen-2, its next-generation generative AI model for producing realistic driving video sequences.

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Artificial Intelligence Robotics Robotics Automotive 119

Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Source: Omnirobotic Omnirobotic Inc. Omnirobotic adds hardware, restructures Since 2016, Simard and Omnirobotic co-founder Laurier Roy have worked to develop AutonomyOS, a platform to train robots to perform manufacturing processes on never-seen-before parts. AutonomyOS is designed to help automate manufacturing tasks.

Manufacturing 128

Manufacturing Robotics Robotics Automation 128

E&T

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It was approved by the Chinese National Energy Administration in April 2016 as the country’s first national, large-scale chemical energy storage demonstration project. These renewable energy sources will be used to charge the station’s batteries during the grid load valley period.

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Sourcing 85

Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Source: Adobe Stock Horizon Surgical Systems Inc., Later, he served on the Board of AMO’s successor company, Advanced Medical Optics (AMO), which was acquired by Abbott in 2009 and then by Johnson and Johnson in 2016. Horizon Surgical said its technology make ophthalmologic procedures more precise and consistent.

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Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Pharmaceutical 120

Robotics Business Review

MAY 18, 2024

Source: Point One Navigation Calian, a longtime provider of accurate and interference-free data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), has combined its Smart Antenna with Point One Navigation’s Polaris RTK network. Founded in 2016, Point One has over 40,000 active devices per day in 29 countries. the EU, the U.K.,

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 22, 2024

Source: Flexiv Robotics By integrating sensing, robotics, and artificial intelligence, Flexiv Robotics Inc. Founded in 2016, Flexiv produces the Rizon arm with seven degrees of freedom and the Moonlight force-controlled parallel robot. Custom user interface for Flexiv Rizon 4 sanding robot.

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Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Automation 122

AU Manufacturing

AUGUST 8, 2022

Since its inception in 2016, the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) has advocated and demonstrated the potential of Australia to grow the complexity of its exports through co-investing in local manufacturing excellence. A key source of economic growth, this process reallocates economic activity from low to high productivity sectors.

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Manufacturing Advanced manufacturing Benchmarking Form 107

Robotics Business Review

JUNE 6, 2024

Source: Joby Aviation Joby Aviation Inc. Founded in 2016, Xwing has operated autonomous aircraft since 2020 using its Superpilot software. Joby Aviation says it hopes to eventually use Xwing technology for fully autonomous operations. this week announced that it is acquiring the autonomy division of Xwing Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 23, 2024

Source: Apptronik SAN JOSE, Calif. Apptronik iterates humanoid robot design Apptronik spun out of the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (left) with the Apollo humanoid robot. Apptronik Inc. ’s new general-purpose foundation model for robot learning.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 1, 2024

Source: Intuition Robotics While social robots have long promised to address conditions such as loneliness in older adults, there has been little formal proof until recently. Source: Intuition Robotics ElliQ is better than a tablet on CoBot-I-7 scale How are social robots different from, say, a tablet? ” Register now.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

based robotaxi companies, lost major funding sources that could significantly alter their futures. General Motors, which acquired Cruise in 2016, said this week it will cut spending on the robotaxi unit by about $1 billion in 2024. Recently, Cruise and Motional , two leading U.S.-based Let’s start with Cruise.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2024

Source: Pudu Robotics Pudu Technology Co. Pudu Robotics builds for growth Founded in 2016, Pudu Robotics said it has shipped nearly 70,000 units in more than 60 countries. KettyBot Pro is designed for multiple functions. today launched KettyBot Pro, the newest generation of its delivery and reception robot.

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Robotics Robotics Artificial Intelligence Function 125

Robotics Business Review

APRIL 26, 2024

Source: Mushiny WTWH Media has named Mushiny Co. ” Meet Mushiny at the Robotics Summit & Expo Founded in 2016, Mushiny is a leading global provider of intelligent systems for logistics. The 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards have recognized the Mushiny Intelligent 3D Sorter.

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