Robotics Business Review

MARCH 13, 2024

LG Electronics is making a strategic investment move to expedite the advancement of Bear Robotics capabilities in service robotics, a key new business area of the company. After finalizing the stock purchase, the company will become the largest single shareholder of Bear Robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 5, 2025

Aurora Driver follows the rules of the road Urmson, Sterling Anderson, and Drew Bagnell founded Aurora in 2017. Alongside Aurora, Kodiak Robotics , Gatik , and Torc Robotics are just some of the companies hoping to make autonomous trucking a standard. by the end of the year.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Below are eight robotics acquisitions, in chronological order, that stood out to us in 2023. Its preliminary view is the acquisition may restrict competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners. Berkshire Grey produces a variety of robots that address use cases in retail, eCommerce, grocery, 3PL, and package handling companies.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 29, 2024

Left: Vivian Chu and Andrea Thomaz, the co-founders of Diligent Robotics; right: Kathleen Brandes and Ros Shinkle, the co-founders of Adagy Robotics. Sources: Diligent Robotics, Adagy Robotics Almost half of all startups that began in 2021 were formed by women, according to human resources cloud software company Gusto.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 11, 2024

Source: Fox Robotics The word’s biggest retailers are continuing to add automation. today announced that it has entered into a multiyear agreement with Fox Robotics Inc. In addition to its initial rollout of 19 FoxBot autonomous forklifts, Walmart has invested growth capital for a minority stake in Fox Robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 3, 2024

Adapta has developed robots for specific use cases. Source: Adapta Robotics Starting a robotics company is always challenging, as inventors and entrepreneurs scramble to get access to capital and tap the local talent pool. Adapta’s model includes a one-time robot purchase fee, plus annual license and maintenance fees.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2024

Credit: Eugene Demaitre BOSTON — One measure of success for a robotics cluster is how much funding its member companies obtain. MassRobotics this month announced that resident startups have raised more than $1 billion since its founding in 2017. “Many of them have moved on from our co-working space and continue to grow. .”

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 23, 2025

Similarly, Fury is powered by a well-known, commercial business jet engine that offers proven performance across millions of flight hours, a robust supply chain, global logistics support, and established tooling and services requirements. Fielding robots is a unique challenge, but one that is critical that we get right.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Companies in North America bought 31,159 robots in 2023. And that’s not sitting well with robotics industry veteran Juan Aparicio. “We don’t sell and deploy enough robots in this country. manufacturing and logistics industries to adopt automation. That’s a 30% decrease from 2022.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 17, 2024

which yesterday retired the older version of its humanoid robot after 15 years of development and today showed a preview of its successor. based company showed that its robot could walk, open a door, and maintain its balance while being shoved by a person holding a hockey stick, all without a tether. By 2016, the Waltham, Mass.-based

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 4, 2024

Kiwibot will add intellectual property from AUTO Mobility Solutions to its delivery robot portfolio. Source: Kiwibot Consolidation among mobile robot providers is not limited to warehouses. ” Kiwibot develops delivery robots Berkeley, Calif. . ” Kiwibot develops delivery robots Berkeley, Calif. .

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Daniela Rus, a recent IEEE Medal Recipient, will be keynoting the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston next year. Rus as its Edison Medal recipient for her sustained leadership and pioneering contributions to modern robotics. Her research interests include robotics, mobile computing, and data science.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2024

It certainly highlights the robot’s athletic intelligence, especially seeing Atlas go from standing upright and transitioning into pushup position with remarkable ease. The robot debuted in April after the older version of Atlas was retired after 15 years of development. The aluminum also gave Kengoro a more steady frame.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 15, 2024

Marine Corps’ Aerial Logistics Connection (ACL) program, transporting various types of cargo and serving in casualty evacuation roles, operating in both crewed and uncrewed configurations. When combined with Near Earth’s logistics mission autonomy system, it will be the centerpiece of this program. The post U.S.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 7, 2024

Contactless wireless charging can power robots and electric vehicles. Wireless charging technology enables robots to operate longer, charge faster, and be safer and more reliable. Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more. It can also reduce the overheating chances.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2024

With obstacle detection, the lightweight Corvus One drone safely flies without disrupting workflow or blocking aisles and can ascend to avoid collisions with people, forklifts, or robots. Credit: Corvus Robotics Corvus Robotics Inc. All the robot has to do is locate to the closest tag, and it knows where it is.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2024

When will humanoid robots be ready for household chores? While many robotics experts take a long view on the topic, 1X Technologies AS today unveiled the NEO Beta prototype of its humanoid as it prepares for pilot deployments in select homes later this year. It also has offices in Sunnyvale, Calif.; Irving, Texas; and Oslo, Norway.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2024

The ARM Institute supports workforce development and robotics adoption. Source: Adobe Stock The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute today announced that the continuation of its cooperative agreement with the U.S. manufacturing by funding robotics and workforce development programs. million over 10 years.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 23, 2024

Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson, and Drew Bagnell founded Aurora in 2017. The unit of the Volvo Group offers customers tailored transport as a service (TaaS) with autonomous vehicles, required infrastructure, operational and uptime support, and cloud-based management of logistics flows.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

CaseFlow orchestrates case-picking robots and workers, noted new CEO Karl Iagnemma. Source: Vecna robotics Vecna Robotics today announced that it has closed $14.5 based company provides mobile robots for materials handling. Iagnemma has been a robotics researcher and an entrepreneur. The Waltham, Mass.-based

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E&T

MAY 16, 2023

The co-founder and managing director of Medical Logistics isn’t just talking about the day-to-day frustrations of getting across town by car for anything as routine as a business meeting. Medical Logistics has been instrumental in the first UAV flight-corridor trial in the UK for delivering time-critical medical cargo to an NHS hospital.

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i4.0 today

MARCH 30, 2023

The global packaging robots market is valued at US$ 3.8 Packaging robots are adaptable machines designed to complete labor-intensive tasks more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively. Robots are capable of a wide range of tasks related to packaging, including picking and placing, boxing, palletizing, and warehousing.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2024

” Established in 2017, WeRide provides autonomous driving systems ranging from SAE Level 2 to Level 4. It said application scenarios span smart mobility, smart logistics, and smart sanitation. So far, WeRide has conducted road testing for this vehicle, which it claimed can offer a variety of logistics products and services.

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E&T

AUGUST 23, 2022

Overall, the growth rate for the commercial drone market has been estimated at around 41 per cent between 2017 and 2024, with the value of the Chinese drone industry expected to reach £22bn in 2025. .

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 19, 2023

We were grouped together as a team in university around 2017, and we all wanted to influence the growing space industry in Australia,” Uscinski said. The support from the Queensland Government’s Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub has been crucial to the company’s success, according to Uscinski.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 2, 2023

However, for large postal and parcel providers, e-commerce retailers and third-party logistics (3PL) companies, capital investments still need to make good business sense. Owens and Daboub also are working on custom robotics to fill the Singulator’s operator stations. Business continues to boom in the intralogistics industry.

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Dinesh Mishra

APRIL 7, 2023

As a holistic evolutionary transformation process, digitization is having a productive influence on all areas, from strategy to the organization of production and logistics to sales and after-sales services.

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Dinesh Mishra

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This provides a fillip to the e-commerce packaging market which has enjoyed a CAGR of 20% since 2017 and expects to grow further. Automation is increasingly prevalent in warehouses and fulfillment centers with robots playing a significant role in packaging, reducing labor costs and minimizing errors.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2023

The analysis is based on a collection of enterprise 5G deployments, covering the period 2017-2021. The research team created a database of 5G-based enterprise projects publicly launched during the period 2017-2021. As is fitting to a manufacturing market leader, Haier started their digital transformation journey as early as 2017.

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 23, 2023

And these guys were buying robots and they were buying brand new equipment from the US and they needed to make stuff on it, right? So 2015, 2016, 2017, but it was still in the infancy. Using robotics, and using additive and using different methods in a smarter way. Wide-eyed stupid kid. But industry 4.0 is just being smarter.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 25, 2024

Source: Outrider Between the automated warehouse and self-driving long-haul vehicles, there is the opportunity to add robotics to yard management. Outrider ’s patent portfolio covers the numerous inventions, innovations, and technologies our team developed to re-define the logistics yard,” stated Andrew Smith, founder and CEO of Outrider. “In

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E&T

DECEMBER 5, 2022

His target is 10 billion miles, which is about 50 per cent more than the total miles driven worldwide in 2017. Though electrically powered robots will be cleaner than diesel LDVs and become more so as renewables continue to build out, the key to fewer delivery miles may lie less in the last-mile technology but in the logistics management.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 23, 2023

Pavilions at FABTECH are dedicated to 3D/Additive Manufacturing, Forming & Fabricating (Hall A); Welding, Welding Automation, Robotics & Industrial Automation (Hall B); and METALFORM, Finishing, Tube & Pipe (Hall D). Buena Park, CA) will introduce the new EGB 1303 ARse bending robot at Booth A1304. AMADA AMERICA, INC.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2025

Symbotic provides robots and dense storage for warehouse operators and major retailers. ’s Advanced Systems and Robotics business. The supply chain robotics company said the transaction expands its relationship with Walmart with the goal of developing an integrated supply chain. Source: Symbotic Symbotic Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 6, 2025

Source: OSRF The Robot Operating System, or ROS, has matured along with robotics research, development, and commercial use. The Open Source Robotics Foundation made the first public release of ROS 2 more than a decade ago, and ROS 1 is reaching its end of life on May 31, 2025. Intrinsic acquired Open Source Robotics Corp.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Nomagic said it combines “best-in-breed” robotics with advanced AI to automate e-commerce and multichannel fulfillment. Its robotic arms work in picking, packing, and sorting processes. Nowicki, Chief Technology Officer Marek Cygan, and Tristan dOrgeval founded Nomagic in 2017.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2025

Bear Robotics’ portfolio includes its Servi+ robots, pictured above, Servi, Servi mini, and Carti. Source: Bear Robotics LG Electronics USA Inc. today announced that it has secured a majority stake in Bear Robotics Inc., an autonomous service robot developer in Silicon Valley. ” On Jan. ” On Jan.

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