Robust AI offers an autonomous warehouse cart that pairs with its autonomous mobile robot (AMR) software suite.
Groundlight raises $10M for natural language powered computer vision
Groundlight’s $10 million funding round included participation from Madrone, Greycroft Partners and Founders Co-op.
MIT uses liquid neural networks to teach drones navigation skills
A team of researchers from MIT CSAIL introduced a method for drones to master vision-based fly-to-target tasks in unfamiliar environments.
Cartken, Uber Eats begin deliveries in Virginia
The latest deployment builds on Carkten and Uber Eats’ successful pilot of autonomous deliveries in Miami, Florida.
ARM Institute opens call to help manufacturers adopt robotics
The ARM Institute is seeking small and medium-sized businesses in Pennsylvania that are interested in exploring the use of robotics.
Noah Medical brings in $150M for Galaxy System
Noah Medical plans to use the funding to meet the rising demand for its Galaxy System, a system for navigated robotic bronchoscopy.
Watch a quadruped walk along a balance beam
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a system that can make a quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam.
Ingenuity helicopter completes 50th flight on Mars
Ingenuity’s 50th flight was completed on April 13, 2023, when Ingenuity traveled over 1,057 feet (322 meters) in 145.7 seconds.
Agility Robotics’ Jonathan Hurst to keynote Robotics Summit
In his keynote talk, Agility co-founder and CTO Jonathan W. Hurst will give an inside look at the process of developing bipedal robots.
Comau develops mobile manipulator
Comau’s Mobile Robotic Arm involves a robotic arm mounted on an autonomous mobile platform and is being used in three EU projects.
Amazon’s ARMBench dataset helps train pick-and-place robots
Dataset of images collected in an industrial setting features more than 190,000 objects to train pick-and-place robots.
Covariant raises $75M for robotic picking technology
Pre-trained on millions of picks from Covariant robots in warehouses around the world, the Covariant Brain enables robots to autonomously pick many SKUs.
Cruise recalls 300 robotaxis in response to crash with bus
Cruise said its robotaxi that rear-ended a bus in San Francisco made an error predicting the movement of the bus.
Gatik to start deliveries with Kroger in Texas
Gatik’s medium-duty autonomous box trucks will be transporting products from a Kroger CFC in Dallas, Texas to multiple retail locations.
MIT researchers create algorithm to stop drones from colliding midair
Robust MADER is able to generate collision-free trajectories for drones even when there is a delay in communications between agents.
Roboto AI raises $4.8M to build data tools for robotics developers
Roboto AI announced that it has emerged from stealth with $4.8 million in Seed funding to build robotics development tools.
How MIT taught a quadruped to play soccer
MIT’s DribbleBot can maneuver soccer balls on landscapes like sand, gravel, mud and snow and get up and recover the ball after falling.
Robotics Summit: How to use simulation for developing robots
Attendees will learn how simulation can test robot applications in photo-realistic, physically accurate digital twin environments.
Top 10 robotics stories of March 2023
Between all of the exciting robotics announcements that came out of ProMat, and big acquisitions, there was no shortage of news in February.
Ocado wins UK patent lawsuit over AutoStore
Both AutoStore and Ocado operate automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) that operate on similar principles.
Researchers taught a quadruped to use its legs for manipulation
Researchers taught a Unitree Go1 quadruped how to use its front legs to climb walls, press buttons and kick a soccer ball.
Watch Bill Gates take a ride in a Wayve AV
Bill Gates recently had the opportunity to take a ride in downtown London inside a Wayve autonomous vehicle (AV).