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Smart grasping demonstrated at Automate and ProMat trade shows
Tactile sensing and force feedback are - and have been - problem areas for robot grasping. Humans could see, select and pick so much faster. Yet to handle the millions of different everyday items in o...
18 April 2017, by
Frank Tobe
CBS News outlines jobs and robotics debate; IFR fills in gaps
CBS News, and reporter David Pogue, displayed some new technologies threatening jobs, while the International Federation of Robotics suggested that deploying robots actually increases jobs. Are either...
13 April 2017, by
Frank Tobe
March 2017 fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
March 2017 had 29 robotics-related startups get funding totaling over $222 million - another solid month for 2017 and $658 million year-to-date. Acquisitions also continued to be substantial with ...
10 April 2017, by
Frank Tobe
The robot industry is hiring. Do you have the skills?
A new white paper by the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) says that as many as 2 million US manufacturing jobs will go unfilled in the next ten years due to a lack of skilled workers. According t...
10 April 2017, by
Hallie Siegel
Billion $dollar acquisitions continue: ABB acquires B&R
ABB, one of the Big Four global robot makers, has acquired Austrian industrial automation integrator and components manufacturer B&R (Bernecker & Rainer) Automation for an undisclosed amount b...
04 April 2017, by
Frank Tobe
42 companies empowering robots and humans to work side-by-side
There is growing demand for more flexibility in factories and shops. Collaborative robotics, a sub-set of service robotics in labs, manufacturing and material handling, is where the action is today...
31 March 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Baidu loses A.I. star Andrew Ng
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 ...
23 March 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Bosch and Nvidia partner to develop AI for self-driving cars
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...
17 March 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Intel to acquire Mobileye for $15.3 billion
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...
14 March 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Reactions from experts: Robotics and tech to receive funding boost from UK government
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...
09 March 2017, by
Kassie Perlongo
Yves Behar designs a security robot for Cobalt Robotics
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...
02 March 2017, by
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
February 2017 fundings, acquisitions and IPOs
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...
02 March 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Recap: 2016 funding and acquisition updates
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...
28 February 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Robotic cleaning market growing exponentially
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...
13 February 2017, by
Frank Tobe
CleverPet is a robot that humans (and dogs) love
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...
08 February 2017, by
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
January fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
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...
03 February 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Call for startups at Automate
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...
01 February 2017, by
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
When being a woman in robotics gives you the edge
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 ...
31 January 2017, by
Andra Keay
Factory move to U.S. creates jobs with help from robot workforce
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...
25 January 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Robotics, artificial intelligence, connected devices in ‘Forbes 30 under 30’
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...
24 January 2017, by
Kassie Perlongo
$250 million awarded to new Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Innovation Hub
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...
18 January 2017, by
Frank Tobe
21 research reports forecast double-digit growth for robotics industry
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...
16 January 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Rethink Robotics raises another $18 million
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 ...
12 January 2017, by
Frank Tobe
HAX takes robotics to market in 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...
12 January 2017, by
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
$18.867 billion paid to acquire 50 robotics companies in 2016
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...
06 January 2017, by
Frank Tobe
2016: the best year yet for funding robotics startups
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...
02 January 2017, by
Frank Tobe
Looking towards service robotics in 2017
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...
30 December 2016, by
Silicon Valley Robotics
White House report: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the economy
The White House released a new report on the ways that artificial intelligence will transform the US economy over the coming years and decades....
22 December 2016, by
Robohub Editors
Teledyne Technologies acquires British imaging sensor maker E2V Technologies
Teledyne Technologies, which specializes in deepwater gas and oil exploration and production, oceanographic research, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and developmen...
15 December 2016, by
Frank Tobe
Robots may save the global economy
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...
13 December 2016, by
Frank Tobe
