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Beyond 5G: NSF awards $6.1 million to accelerate advanced wireless research

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 10 Mar 2017

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $6.1 million, five-year award to accelerate fundamental research on wireless communication and networking technologies through the foundation's Platfo...

Reactions from experts: Robotics and tech to receive funding boost from UK government

Kassie Perlongo 09 Mar 2017

Yesterday, the UK government announced their budget plans to invest in robotics, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and faster broadband. The spending commitments include: £16m to create...

Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?

Ronald Yu 09 Mar 2017

Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. Examples: Daimler-Benz has tested self-driving trucks on public road...

Yves Behar designs a security robot for Cobalt Robotics

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 02 Mar 2017

Cobalt Robotics has launched their stylish security robot. The robot was designed by Yves Behar and as a fabric covered robot, it’s putting a new spin on soft robotics! Behar’s goal was to creat...

February 2017 fundings, acquisitions and IPOs

Frank Tobe 02 Mar 2017

February fundings for 16 robotics-related startups totaled over $313 million - another solid month for the new year. Acquisitions also continued to be substantial with Ford's acquisition of Argo and M...

Recap: 2016 funding and acquisition updates

Frank Tobe 28 Feb 2017

Although the original articles (2016 was best year ever for funding robotics startup companies) and (Over $19 billion paid to acquire 50 robotic companies) have been updated to reflect the omissions o...

Ocado evaluating robotic manipulation for online shopping orders

Graham Deacon 21 Feb 2017

Ocado, the world’s largest online-only supermarket, has been evaluating the feasibility of robotic picking and packing of shopping orders in its highly-automated warehouses through the SoMa project,...

Robotic cleaning market growing exponentially

Frank Tobe 13 Feb 2017

The International Federation of Robotics forecast that the global market for vacuum cleaning robots, lawn-mowing robots and other household cleaning robots will grow at a compound annual growth rate...

Uber talks of deal with Daimler which shows Uber’s great advantage

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 10 Feb 2017

I generally pay very little attention when companies issue a press release about an “alliance.” It’s usually not a lot more than a press release, unless there are details on what will actually b...

CleverPet is a robot that humans (and dogs) love

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 08 Feb 2017

The largest markets for robots is for when there aren’t any people around. We often call those jobs the dirty, dull and dangerous ones. But then there are devices like CleverPet which play with you...

Why artificial intelligence could be key to future-proofing the grid

Valentin Robu 03 Feb 2017

A recent Conversation piece pointed out that the British electricity mix in 2016 was the cleanest in 60 years, with record capacity from renewable energy, mainly from wind and solar power. But one pro...

January fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures

Frank Tobe 03 Feb 2017

January fundings for robotics-related startups totaled over $123 million - a reasonable start for the new year. For acquisitions, three of the six companies acquired reported that $390.5 million trad...

Call for startups at Automate

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 01 Feb 2017

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has announced a call for startup companies in robotics, machine vision and motion control for its Automate Launch Pad Competition. The competition will be...

When being a woman in robotics gives you the edge

Andra Keay 31 Jan 2017

Robotics isn’t gender neutral, it’s gender blind. And that means that there are a lot of hidden opportunities for savvy investors and entrepreneurs. One of the first robotics companies I followed ...

Factory move to U.S. creates jobs with help from robot workforce

Frank Tobe 25 Jan 2017

By investing $6 million in robots, Bicycle Corporation of America (BCA) was able to take back 10% of their manufacturing from China and place it into a new factory in Manning, South Carolina employin...

Robotics, artificial intelligence, connected devices in ‘Forbes 30 under 30’

Kassie Perlongo 24 Jan 2017

Forbes “30 under 30″ list celebrates the achievements of 30 game changers in 20 different industries -- 600 in total -- of the brightest young entrepreneurs and innovators who are challenging conv...

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Toru Robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth

Ron Vanderkley 21 Jan 2017

In this episode, Ron Vanderkley spoke to Dr Moritz Tenorth, head of software development at Magazino, a Munich-based startup developing mobile pick-and-place robots for item-specific logistics. They d...

$250 million awarded to new Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Innovation Hub

Frank Tobe 18 Jan 2017

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the new institute is made up of governments, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations from across the country. Combined they have contributed $173 million t...

21 research reports forecast double-digit growth for robotics industry

Frank Tobe 16 Jan 2017

After reading all the press releases for this batch of 21 research reports, one can see that although they vary widely in their forecasts they almost all agree that the robotics market is expected to...

Rethink Robotics raises another $18 million

Frank Tobe 12 Jan 2017

Rethink Robotics, the Boston-based maker of the Baxter and Sawyer robots founded by iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks, raised an additional $18 million in an unfinished $33 million Series E round led ...

HAX takes robotics to market in 2017

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 12 Jan 2017

If you attended CES 2017 last week you may have seen more than 70 HAX powered startups in Eureka Park, the ‘playground of innovation’. As service robotics steals the spotlight, we wanted to showca...

MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance

MIT News 10 Jan 2017

The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will serve as the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at bridging the gap between the ...

$18.867 billion paid to acquire 50 robotics companies in 2016

Frank Tobe 06 Jan 2017

2016 was a banner year for acquisitions of companies involved in robotics and automation: 50 sold; 11 for amounts over $500 million; five were over a billion. 30 of the 50 companies disclosed trans...

2016: the best year yet for funding robotics startups

Frank Tobe 02 Jan 2017

2016 was a busy and abundant year for seed, crowd, series A,B,C,D and VC funding of robotics-related startups. 128 companies got funded, some multiple times. $1.95 billion, 50% more than 2015 whic...

Looking towards service robotics in 2017

Silicon Valley Robotics 30 Dec 2016

Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all the building blocks for a veritable “Cambrian explosion” of robotics are there, as Gill Pratt described it wh...

White House report: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the economy

Robohub Editors 22 Dec 2016

The White House released a new report on the ways that artificial intelligence will transform the US economy over the coming years and decades....

The rise of China’s medical robotics sector

Siao Tin Soh 22 Dec 2016

An emerging need China’s once abundant labor force has contributed to the country’s astonishing economic success in recent decades. But in the coming decades, the percentage of retirees relativ...

Teledyne Technologies acquires British imaging sensor maker E2V Technologies

Frank Tobe 15 Dec 2016

Teledyne Technologies, which specializes in deepwater gas and oil exploration and production, oceanographic research, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and developmen...

Robots may save the global economy

Frank Tobe 13 Dec 2016

A recent article in The Washington Post by Morgan Stanley strategist and author of "The Rise and Fall of Nations" Ruchir Sharma, provides a nuanced overview of the issues of jobs, robots, productivi...

Liquid Robotics acquired by Boeing Defense, Space & Security

Frank Tobe 12 Dec 2016

In a move consistent with many other recent acquisitions of stars within the robotics industry, Liquid Robotics announced that they sold their company to Boeing's Autonomous Systems for Defense, Spac...

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