robotic startups

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...

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...

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...

Robot Launch Finals

Andra Keay and Robohub Editors 20 May 2014

Watch the live stream from the 2014 Robot Launch Finals, starting today May 20 at 10AM Pacific. From over 60 entries from all around the world, our judges have narrowed it down to six finalists: DoBo...

RobotLaunch startups take note! Sage advice from the experts at Robots2014

Hallie Siegel 16 May 2014

It's just a few days until the RobotLaunch Finals on May 20, where our remaining six teams will battle it out in front of a live panel of judges. So we thought we'd recap some of the expert advice we ...

Robot Launch 2014 Finals May 20 – Vote now for People’s Choice

Andra Keay 14 May 2014

Today we announce the six finalists from Robot Launch who will be presenting their pitches online live to a panel of expert judges on Tuesday May 20 at 10am PDT. Join us then to see who takes home the...

Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice Round One

Andra Keay 23 Apr 2014

For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30 and during our live ...

New venture fund specifically for service robotic startups

Frank Tobe 16 Jun 2012

... “We are at the start of a transformative period for robotics that requires a new breed of risk-taker to drive mass-market adoption,” says Dmitry Grishin, founder of Grishin Robotics. ....