Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 30, 2024

Remember the cute and ground-breaking collaborative robots that pioneered the space—Baxter and Sawyer? I wrote about Rethink Robotics in March and November of 2015. The company closed in 2018 0r 2019 and many employees wound up at Universal Robotics. The company’s assets wound up in Germany at the HAHN group.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Neura Robotics offers robots for a variety of applications and industries. NEURA Robotics GmbH today said it has raised 120 million ($123.3 Cognitive robotics is expected to become bigger than the smartphone,” stated David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics. to bring cognitive robotics to manufacturing.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From left: HAI Co-Director James Landay and Stanford Robotics Lab Director Oussama Khatib. Source: Madeleine Wright The Stanford Robotics Center and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence last week launched a partnership to identify responsible uses for AI. ” Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 5, 2025

Amazon’s warehouse robots include Sparrow, which sorts individual items for employees to package; Cardinal, which lifts packages and puts them in carts; and Robin, which lifts and sorts packages before they’re brought to the outbound dock. Parness brings robotics, AI expertise to Amazon Parness received his Ph.D.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The CLX robotic vision stack was inspired by human eyesight. Gokul NA and Nikhil Ramaswamy founded CynLr in 2019. The Bengaluru, India-based company specializes in “visual object sentience,” robotics, and cybernetics. It was an exhibitor at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston. million.

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Design World

AUGUST 4, 2022

FANUC America , a supplier of CNCs, robotics and ROBOMACHINEs, announces a West Campus expansion that will push its operational space in Oakland County, Michigan, to nearly two million square feet. Cooley Law School Campus, which will provide future growth in the education of the next generation of robotics and automation workers.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Rural communities face the sharpest edge of this predicament: 136 rural hospitals closed between 2010 and 2021, leaving 60% of non-metro counties lacking adequate surgical care in 2019. Proprio is among the companies addressing this shortage with robotics. Whats your take? Jones : Technology should complement, not replace, surgeons.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 9, 2025

The Robot Report Podcast Safety and Efficiency in Robotics Design In Episode 195 of The Robot Report Podcast, our guest is Giovanni Campanella, the industrial automation and robotics general manager at Texas Instruments. He explained the importance of touch and force sensing to the future of robotics at Amazon.

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Robotics Automation News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There’s a new sidewalk-savvy robot in the robot world, and it’s delivering coffee, grub and a taste of fun. The company, founded in 2019, has rapidly deployed robots for a handful of customer applications, including for Starbucks and Grubhub deliveries. Cartken CEO Chris Bersch says […].

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Robotics Automation News

JUNE 20, 2024

A new partnership between an industrial parts manufacturer and a virtual reality robotics company is proving that high levels of variability are no obstacle to achieving rapid automation of production.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Researchers at Michigan State University’s College of Engineering are integrating photoelastic gel for vision-based, tactile gel-robots. The goal is to help assistive robots be better at grasping various items. Researchers have been designing robots with “soft” hands and computer vision systems for years.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A number of robotics companies shut down in 2023. There are many reasons robotics companies fail. From an ill-conceived idea to poor execution, tough economic headwinds or the inability to raise funding, building and running a sustainable robotics company is challenging. Here are some of the robotics companies we lost in 2023.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2024

Symbotic, a leading developer of logistics automation, has acquired “substantially all of the assets” of Veo Robotics for an undisclosed amount. Symbotic confirmed the deal via email to The Robot Report. FreeMove essentially turns large, high-speed industrial robots into collaborative robots.

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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 28, 2024

Robotics news seems to present itself all the time. The guy at the table behind me is quoting a robotic packaging system to a client. This is ABB’s third global robotics factory expansion in three years across China, Europe and the Americas and is part of its efforts to further strengthen its local-for-local footprint.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 10, 2024

The West Campus facility is part of FANUC’s plan to support robotics in North America. The company ‘s new facility includes advanced product manufacturing and customized automation, as well as warehouse space for more than 6,000 quick-delivery robots and tens of thousands of parts. Source: FANUC America FANUC America Corp.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

million to date since it was founded in 2019, including its Series A funding round in June 2022. Teleo delivers supervised autonomy Teleo’s autonomy retrofit kit transforms various types of heavy equipment, including bulldozers, wheel loaders, and excavators, into semi-autonomous and remotely-operated robots.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Launched in 2019, Vention Marketplace features 25 product categories. In June, it partnered with NVIDIA to bring industrial automation to smaller manufacturers using NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence and accelerated computing to advance cloud robotics. Register today to save 40% on conference passes!

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Automation Mag

JULY 12, 2024

“This expansion represents our growth strategy and steadfast commitment to the future of the automation and robotics industry,” says Mike Cicco, president and CEO. The West Campus supports advanced product manufacturing and customized automation systems and includes warehouse space for more than 6,000 robots and tens of thousands of parts.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 5, 2025

CaPow’s Power-in-Motion charging system has a double-boost effect, so when a robot moves over the charging antennas, it both powers the robot and charges its energy source. Engineers Peretz, Dr. Eli Abramov, and Dr. Alon Cervera founded the company in 2019. Source: CaPow CaPow Technologies Ltd.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 16, 2024

The Pik’r ball-picking robot at the 2024 U.S. Open is all about human talent, skill, and composure under competitive pressure, robots are finding their place. As golfers practice their drives on the newly converted Cradle 9-hole course at Pinehurst Resort, the new Pick’r robot from Korechi Innovations Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The Zurich-based company said the unit’s unique golden casing symbolizes its “commitment to the advancement of robotic inspections.” “Inspection robots such as ANYmal are critical in improving worker safety, increasing productivity, and supporting sustainable industrial facilities,” the company said in a release.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Noteworthy robots from Apptronik, Figure, and Boston Dynamics, among others, dominated 2023 robot news. If you’ve been keeping tabs on the robotics industry in 2023, you won’t be surprised to see that six out of our top 10 articles this past year were about humanoid robots. Read more. Read more. Read more.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

Starship Technologies, a provider of autonomous delivery services, and Sodexo, marked a series of milestones and exclusive giveaways to mark five years of autonomous robot deliveries at George Mason University (Mason). Mason was the first university in the US to offer autonomous robot deliveries provided by Starship.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

Dextrous Robotics, a Memphis-based startup that developed a chopstick-like robot to unload boxes from trailers, has shut down. Evan Drumwright and Sam Zapolsky founded Dextrous in 2019, and the company dissolved in late December 2023. From 2019 to 2022, we didn’t hear any concern about the BOM whatsoever.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Medical Microinstruments announced today that it raised $110 million in a Series C financing round to help commercialize its surgical robot. Pisa, Italy-based Medical Microinstruments’ Symani received CE mark in 2019, and the company continues to work on U.S. Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2024

It’s predicted that by 2030, over 1 million mobile robots will be in the field. However, implementation is still complex and the cost of robot downtime is estimated to range from $1,000 to $10,000 per minute. 16 from 2:45 PM to 3:30 PM called “Beyond BoM: Autonomy Challenges in Mobile Robots.” Opteran is a U.K.-based

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 21, 2024

The Denmark-based provider of a global automation market platform said its findings confirm that businesses are seeing robotics and automation as a supplement to human labor, not as a replacement. from 2013 to 2019, according to the U.S. Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more. In the U.S.,

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The robotics industry started 2024 at full speed. Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in January 2024. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter or listen to The Robot Report Podcast to stay updated on the robotics stories you need to know about. Read More 9. Read More 8. Read More 7.

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MARCH 10, 2024

The Robotics Factory is dedicated to creating, accelerating, and scaling Pittsburgh-area startups. Source: Robotics Factory The Robotics Factory has accepted five companies to its Scale Residency program. ESTAT Actuation, KEF Robotics, Thiopoly, Thorne Baby, and Piximo make up the organization ‘s first residency cohort.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Robotics leaders such as MiR and UR will exhibit at R-24. Source: Invest in Odense The Danish city of Odense has 200,000 citizens, but how did it become a world leader in robotics? Back then, Denmark was a fairly anonymous country in the global, innovative robotics market. Thomas Visti is a serial robotics entrepreneur.

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MARCH 28, 2024

ESTAT Actuation, KEF Robotics, Thiopoly, Thorne Baby, and Piximo made up the first resident cohort. Source: Robotics Factory Pittsburgh-area robotics startups can now find more support through the Robotics Factory. Pittsburgh has developed into a technology hub, and robotics is a huge reason why,” he added.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Noah Medical’s Galaxy is a fully integrated surgical robotics system for navigated bronchoscopy. Credit: Noah Medical Medical robotics continues its impressive march forward within mainstream medicine. Market conditions align for growth The practice of robotics in medical procedures has come a long way in a short time.

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JULY 8, 2024

Automated fulfillment promises to help, from mobile robots and picking arms to a growing range of other systems. In 2019, Smith met the Netrush team and decided to join the company as the senior director of supply chain. He is always interested in learning more about robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Source: Mobile Industrial Robots Autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, are among the systems benefitting from the latest advances in artificial intelligence. With numerous other AMRs , autonomous forklifts , and semi-autonomous pallet jacks already on the market, why did Mobile Industrial Robots decide to develop one now?

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Modern Machine Shop

JANUARY 1, 2025

Second, the software streamlines the development of successful automation integrations, both directly through simplification of robot cell control and indirectly through revision control and facilitation of machine tool compensation features. While scripting is possible within MiConnect, Reeves says that the plug-ins are much faster.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2024

Teradyne’s robotics group generated $375 million in revenue in fiscal 2023. based Teradyne owns Energid (motion planning software), Mobile Industrial Robots (autonomous mobile robots) and Universal Robots (collaborative robot arms). Universal Robots (UR) generated $304 million in revenue in 2023.

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