Fetch Robotics

ROSCon 2015 recap and videos – Part 5

Open Source Robotics Foundation 09 Aug 2016

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...

SVR Case Studies: OATV investing in early stage service robotics

Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics 05 May 2016

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...

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

Audrow Nash 14 Nov 2015

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...

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

Frank Tobe 02 Nov 2015

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...

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

Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth 06 Oct 2015

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...

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

Adriana Hamacher 02 Sep 2015

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...

SoftBank invests in Fetch Robotics

Frank Tobe 17 Jun 2015

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....

Fetch Robotics gets $3 million

Frank Tobe 10 Feb 2015

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

2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market

Andra Keay 09 Feb 2015

[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...

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