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Slip Robotics picks up $28M for trailer loading/unloading robots

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Source: Slip Robotics For more than a century, truck trailers have been loaded and unloaded in the same way, leading to wasted time for drivers and dangerous bursts of activity for forklift operators. Slip Robotics is driving a level of change in the supply chain industry not seen since the containerization of sea freight.

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Contoro picks up $12M to scale container unloading robots

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States Logistics in California was an early user of Contoros truck-unloading robot. Contoro Robotics today said it has raised $12 million in Series A funding to scale its artificial intelligence-powered robots. Contoro is a spinoff from Harmonic Bionics, he told The Robot Report. after a week.

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Aurora begins driverless commercial trucking in Texas

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Source: Aurora Aurora Innovation Inc. The deployment will provide autonomous freight transportation between Dallas and Houston. The Pittsburgh-based company designed its Aurora Driver to operate with multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles. by the end of the year.

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Wandlebots on the future of robot programming

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Listen to the episode on this link: The Robot Report Episode 187 In Episode 187 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre interview Fabio Gehrlicher, Director of Market Expansion at Wandelbots. These innovations collectively expand the range of real-world tasks that robots can perform.

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Autonomous trucking developer Kodiak Robotics to go public via SPAC

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Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. Source: Kodiak Robotics Kodiak Robotics Inc. Kodiak Robotics marks recent milestones The Kodiak Driver has logged more than 2.6 million autonomous miles in real-world conditions.

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Gatik gets independent safety validation from TUV SUD for autonomous logistics

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Source: Gatik Gatik AI Inc. It claimed that this third-party audit was the first of its kind and that it marks a significant milestone toward commercialization of self-driving freight operations. ” “We made the choice to conduct a rigorous level of evaluation,” he told The Robot Report.

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Nuro brings autonomous vehicle test fleet to Japan for data collection

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Source: Nuro Nuro Inc. ” When combined with its other training data sources, the company said this new effort accelerates its mission to develop a safer, more capable autonomous vehicle ( AV ). Japan’s aging population has resulted in a serious driver shortage, both in passenger transportation and in freight transportation.