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Baidu loses A.I. star Andrew Ng
Frank Tobe
23 Mar 2017
In a surprise move which shook Baidu's stock, Andrew Ng, Baidu's Chief Scientist and partner with Baidu's founder Robin Li Yanhong in expanding Baidu's AI activities into machine learning, driverless ...
Bosch and Nvidia partner to develop AI for self-driving cars
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2017
Amongst all the activity in autonomously driven vehicle joint ventures, new R&D facilities, strategic acquisitions (such as Mobileye being acquired by Intel) and booming startup fundings, two bi...
Intel to acquire Mobileye for $15.3 billion
Frank Tobe
14 Mar 2017
Intel announced plans to acquire Israel-based Mobileye, a developer of vision technology used in autonomous driving applications, for $15.3 billion. Mobileye share prices jumped from $47 to $61 (the t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
$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...
$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....
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...
Beijing World Robot Conference drew big crowds and notable speakers
Frank Tobe
07 Dec 2016
The Beijing World Robot Conference (WRC), sponsored by Beijing City, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the China Association of Science and Technology, was held October 21-25. ...
Latest release of Multi-Annual Roadmap (MAR) for Horizon 2020 now online
Robohub Editors
07 Dec 2016
Europe’s roadmap for robotics released its latest version on 2 December. The MAR is updated annually as priorities, technologies and strategic developments shape European research development and i...
Self-driving cars, networks, and the companies and people that are stimulating development
Frank Tobe
06 Dec 2016
Intel is establishing an autonomous driving division; hacker George Hotz is open-sourcing his self-driving software in a bid to become a network company; LiDAR and distancing devices are changing. Wh...
ViDi Systems wins the Robot Launch 2016 competition
Andra Keay
01 Dec 2016
Vidi Systems from Switzerland is the overall Grand Winner of the 2016 Robot Launch global startup competition, beating out many US contestants in a field that included sensors, artificial intelligenc...
November fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
Frank Tobe
01 Dec 2016
Seventeen robotics-related companies got funded for a combined total of over $225 million. Four more got acquired. Three went public to raise funds. And one failed....
Robohub is a top 10 brand in robotics
Kassie Perlongo
01 Dec 2016
Yesterday, Onalytica released a report "Robotics: Top 100 Influencers and their Brands" that analysed interactions between robotics influencers and brands on Twitter over a period of 90 ...
Where is robotic vision on the Hype Cycle?
Sue Keay
30 Nov 2016
I was reading Steve Blank's blog on machine learning start-ups yesterday, where he described how technical infrastructure innovations follow a Hype Cycle with characteristics defined by the Gartner G...
Who did Robohub reader’s vote for in Robot Launch 2016?
Andra Keay
24 Nov 2016
We're delighted to announce that UniExo is the winner of the "Robohub Reader's Pick" in the Robot Launch 2016 global startup competition. Are Robohub readers on the same wavelength as our panel of VC...
US auto industry installed 135,000 robots and added 230,000 jobs
Frank Tobe
24 Nov 2016
In the last six years, (2010–2015), according to the IFR (International Federation of Robotics), US industry has installed around 135,000 new industrial robots. The principal driver is automation ...
Let’s hope Trump does what he says regarding robots and robotics
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2016
In President-elect Trump's interview with the NY Times yesterday, when discussing jobs, closed factories and factories that may leave the country, he was asked: "Are you worried that those companies w...
Two robotic stock IPOs coming to market
Frank Tobe
22 Nov 2016
For the last few years, there have been very few stock IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). Promising companies have been acquired instead, eg: Kiva Systems and Universal Robots. But two robotics-relate...
