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Pepper robots to roll out at 1,000 per month
SoftBank announced that their little Pepper robot will be available for sale beginning August 1st at the rate of 1,000 per month after selling out their first 1,000 Peppers in one online minute in Jun...
10 July 2015, by
Frank Tobe
What’s propelling China’s industrial robot revolution
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Xi Jinping, China's President, last year called for an “industrial robot revolution.” Since then China has created policies giving value added tax refunds and subsidies to companies m...
03 July 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Series of research reports evaluate robotics industry
Businesses, analysts and investors often need and are willing to pay for more facts than they can gather from their sales and R&D departments; detailed comparative reviews of the landscape of a pa...
23 June 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Forget Google and unicorns, Asian dragons are going to dominate robotics
Yesterday SoftBank, FoxConn and Alibaba cemented a strong robotics initiative. Having acquired a majority stake in Aldebaran in 2012 (just after the Amazon acquisition of Kiva), SoftBank’s interest...
19 June 2015, by
Andra Keay
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
What’s hot in robotics? Four trends to watch
Four diverse trends are having a big effect on the robotics industry worldwide, and the global media and financial gurus are paying attention to the process....
11 June 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Robots and manufacturing: Facts and figures from the Wall Street Journal
A special Wall Street Journal report called Meet the New Robots: Manufacturing, Unleashing Innovation appeared in its own section in the Wall Street Journal this week. Lots of good facts, figures an...
04 June 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Corindus Vascular Robotics goes public
Corindus Vascular Robotics raised $42 million last week by offering 11 million shares at $3.80 and going public on the NYSE MKT exchange, a special market for small-cap growth companies....
01 June 2015, by
Frank Tobe
April equity deals, acquisitions and Chinese funds
Money is flowing to robotics-related startup companies. Q1 saw nineteen equity deals totalling $317 million, and three acquisitions of undetermined amounts, but money also flowed in April....
19 May 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Danish co-bot maker Universal Robots sells for $350 million
Privately held Danish company Universal Robots - the successful producer of the UR line of collaborative robots - has sold to Massachusetts-based Teradyne, a provider of electronic testing equipment....
13 May 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Airware launches new system and gets funded
Airware received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital, which now joins GE Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and a host of other prominent VCs in funding this au...
11 May 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Consumer and B2B drone making is big business
Lobbying for drone special interests rose from $35 million in 2011 to more than $186 million in 2014. But that is dwarfed by investments in drone makers such as DJI and 3DR, who just raised $75M and...
08 May 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Two profitable uses for robots
Industrial robots keep humming along, doing the dull, dirty and dangerous work of factories around the world. Newer applications are less often known but are quickly emerging. Here are two novel ones....
05 May 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Chinese shopping for global robotics ventures
April has seen Chinese VCs acquiring robotic ventures, buying out competitors, seeking funding to scale up production, and shoring up industry gaps....
30 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Commercial drone market projected to grow 109% CAGR
Markets and Markets, a Dallas, TX research firm, in an 189-page $4,650 report, is projecting that the global commercial drones market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 109.3% and ...
27 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Sino-Russian robotics boosted as Skolkovo signs $200M deal with Chinese investment fund
Russia's Skolkovo Foundation and the Chinese Cybernaut Investment Group signed an agreement yesterday in Beijing to create a joint Russian-Chinese business incubator, a robotics accelerator program, ...
22 April 2015, by
Hallie Siegel
Parrot grows both consumer and commercial drone business
Previously known for consumer products for smartphones, tablets and cars, Paris-based Parrot recently branched into both the consumer and commercial drone businesses....
10 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Domino’s April Fools Day spoof not so far-fetched
"Domino's rolls out driverless delivery vehicles" blared the headline on the Dominos UK website on April Fools Day. They even provided a short video clip of the phony vehicle delivering pizz...
08 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
March money flow recap
The first three months of 2015 are doing quite well for robotics-related companies. March fundings and acquisitions to CyPhy Works, Hansen Medical, Clearpath Robotics, DroneDeploy, JR Automation and L...
06 April 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Hansen Medical gets $35M; Clearpath Robotics $11.2M
Two robotics-related companies just got funding. Hansen Medical sold 53,846 shares to get $35M; and Clearpath Robotics got $11.2M for an unusual reason....
21 March 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Takeoff in robotics will power the next productivity surge in manufacturing
BCG research predicts that by 2025, adoption of advanced robots will boost productivity by up to 30 percent in many industries, and lower total labor costs by 18 percent or more in countries such as S...
05 March 2015, by
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
3D Robotics gets $50M series C funding
The $50 million Series C funding, mainly from Qualcomm, provides the basis for a tacit partnership between Qualcomm and 3D Robotics with a goal of leveraging the pace of innovation in the smartphone i...
28 February 2015, by
Frank Tobe
UPDATE Pepper delayed until summer; Aldebaran execs Maisonnier and Baillie leave
UPDATED 2/23/15 Softbank announced a delay in sales of their Pepper robot from February until sometime during the summer. Aldebaran announced that CEO and Founder Bruno Maisonnier and Jean-Christop...
23 February 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Bruno Maisonnier moves on from Aldebaran
Farewell and thank you to Bruno Maisonnier, the founder and CEO of Aldebaran Robotics, which is now 95% owned by Softbank. Softbank had previously acquired a majority stake in the ground breaking Fr...
23 February 2015, by
Andra Keay
Seegrid reorganization plan okayed by judge
A bankruptcy judge cleared the way for Seegrid to exit from Chapter 11 by okaying the reorganization plan and rejecting challenges lodged by the ex-CEO....
13 February 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
Qualcomm acquires KMel Robotics
In Qualcomm's quest to shape the future of robotics, the US-based semi-conductor juggernaut acquired KMel Robotics last week for an undisclosed sum....
09 February 2015, by
Ben Fisher
Recent robotics transactions
New Chinese robotics investment fund; the RIA says 2014 North American robotics set new sales record; marine robotics company gets acquired. These stories and many more … ...
09 February 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Robotics research reports project upward growth
A flurry of robotic research analyses and reports are being sold by a variety of vendors. Most show steady growth rates — and a few project spectacular growth....
09 February 2015, by
Frank Tobe
