Melonee Wise

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...

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...

Unbounded robotics closes down

Frank Tobe 15 Sep 2014

For confusing reasons, Unbounded Robotics has shut down. Their $35,000 UBR-1 single-armed mobile robot that was shown late last year with great fanfare is no longer offered for sale. "Why?" is the...

Unbounded Robotics launch affordable, all-purpose UBR-1

Andra Keay 21 Oct 2013

Unbounded Robotics today launched UBR-1, a robot that has many of us very excited. UBR is the first robot with intelligence, manipulation and mobility for below $50k. While UBR definitely resembles a ...

Interview with TurtleBot inventors | IEEE Spectrum

Hallie Siegel 27 Mar 2013

We sat down with Melonee Wise and Tully Foote last week and talked to them about where the idea for TurtleBot came from, how it went from a fun side project to thousands of robots in production, and w...