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Eight lessons for robotics startups from NRI PI workshop
Silicon Valley Robotics
14 Mar 2021
Research is all about being the first, but commercialization is all about repeatability, not just many times but every single time. This was one of the key takeaways from the Transitioning Research Fr...
Introducing Eliza Kosoy; E-liza Dolls
Silicon Valley Robotics and Women In Robotics
18 Feb 2021
Eliza Kosoy is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph....
What does Innovation look like in robotics? See the SVR 2020 Industry Award winners
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
18 Dec 2020
Self-driving vehicles would not be possible without sensors and so it’s not surprising to see two small new sensors in the 2020 Silicon Valley Robotics ‘Good Robot’ Innovation Awards, the Velabi...
Meet the robotics community champions in the SVR Good Robot Industry Awards
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Dec 2020
If robotics is the technology of the 21st century, rather than biotech, then we have some serious work to do. This week marks the ‘beginning of the end’ of the coronavirus pandemic as a vaccine i...
Robohub wins Champion Award in SVR ‘Good Robot’ Industry Awards
Silicon Valley Robotics
16 Dec 2020
President: Sabine Haeurt
Founded: 2012
HQ: Switzerland
Robohub is an online platform and non-profit that brings together leading communicators in robotics research, start-ups...
Celebrating the good robots!
Andra Keay
15 Dec 2020
OAKLAND, California, Dec. 14, 2020 /Press Release/ -- Silicon Valley Robotics, the world’s largest cluster of innovation in robotics, announces the inaugural ‘Good Robot’ Industry Awards, celebr...
Can robots make food service safer for workers?
Silicon Valley Robotics
20 Apr 2020
Health care workers are not the only unwilling essential services frontline workers at increased risk of COVID-19. According to the Washington Post on April 12, “At least 41 grocery workers have die...
Call for startups at Automate
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
01 Feb 2017
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...
When being a woman in robotics gives you the edge
Andra Keay
31 Jan 2017
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 ...
Catalia Health uses social robots to improve health outcomes
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
17 Jan 2017
Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather th...
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...
Who are the most active robotics investors?
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
19 Oct 2016
You may be surprised, but I’m not. These are the people I see regularly both in Silicon Valley and overseas interacting with the robotics community. That makes them the smart money (most of the time...
Welcoming new global partners
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
10 Oct 2016
Silicon Valley Robotics held an innovation tour for some of our global partners ahead of the RoboBusiness conference in San Jose. Representatives from Odense Robotics Cluster, Invest in Denmark and De...
Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now?
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
21 Jul 2016
Catch up with past winners: CleverPet (2015), Preemadonna/Nailbot (2015 runner-up), and Leka (2014).
Will you be our next Robot Launch winner? There's 25 days left to register! You can register by...
SVR Case Studies: Adept’s versatile mobile service platform
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 Mar 2016
Interview with Michael Oitzman, Sr. Product Line Manager, Adept Mobile Robots
courtesy of Tanya Anandan, for A3 Association for Advancing Automation
(edited for clarity)
What are the current ...
SVR Case Studies: Hardware may be hard, but strategic investing can make it smart
Silicon Valley Robotics
15 Mar 2016
by Ekta Sahasi, Vice President at Konica Minolta Business Innovation Center
and Greg Lok, Business Strategy Lead at Konica Minolta Business Innovation Center
After years of flying under the ventur...
SVR Case Studies: Lessons for robotics from enterprise computing
Michael Harries and Silicon Valley Robotics
03 Mar 2016
Many advances in our technologies occur through borrowing capabilities from one field to progress another. Our technological universe is built from a web of interrelated advances that push one another...
Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups
Per Sjöborg and Robots in Depth
10 Nov 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, Andra Keay, directo...
