ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – Part 5

ROSCon is an annual conference focused on ROS, the Robot Operating System. Every year, hundreds of ROS developers of all skill levels and backgrounds, from industry to academia, come together to teach...

09 August 2016, by Open Source Robotics Foundation

SVR Case Studies: OATV investing in early stage service robotics

OATV, or O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, is a seed stage investment firm based in San Francisco with a track record of backing robotics startups in emerging areas. As well as investing in Fetch Robotic...

05 May 2016, by Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics

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ICRA 2015 Company Showcase, with Jens Hurley, Michael Ferguson, Simon DiMaio, François Boucher and Andrew Lewis

Transcript below In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies from the International Conferences on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) showcase. The companies span the following applicatio...

14 November 2015, by Audrow Nash

While Amazon doubles its number of warehouse robots to 30K, competing systems emerge

Amazon announced that at the end of September they had 30,000 Kiva robots at work in 13 fulfillment centers, effectively doubling the number of Kiva bots that it had in 2014. "Our intent is to use...

02 November 2015, by Frank Tobe

Robots in Depth: Melonee Wise on building robots, and robot companies

Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Per talks to Melo...

06 October 2015, by Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth

Robotics and AI prominent in MIT’s annual 35 Innovators Under 35

The MIT Technology Review’s annual list of 35 Innovators Under 35 aims to illustrate the most important emerging technologies of the moment. Released this August, the 2015 list features a number of...

02 September 2015, by Adriana Hamacher

SoftBank invests in Fetch Robotics

Fetch Robotics, which just demo’d their Fetch and Freight robot system at ICRA in May, announced receiving $20 million from SoftBank, O’Reilly AlphaTech and Shasta Ventures....

17 June 2015, by Frank Tobe

Fetch Robotics gets $3 million

Ex-Willow Garage and Unbounded Robotics veterans get $3 million to bring mobile manipulator and mobile platform to market....

10 February 2015, by Frank Tobe

2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market

[tweetquote]Fetch Robotics has just announced $3 million funding from Shasta Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures[/tweetquote], which will be used to bring their new mobile manipulator robots to...

09 February 2015, by Andra Keay

Fetch Robotics: Unbounded core team developing new robots for logistics | IEEE Spectrum

A new robotics startup is building a mobile manipulator to tackle logistics and fulfillmentSource: spectrum.ieee.orgRobotics is blurring the line between light industrial and logistics. See on Sc...