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Softbank: How Large Companies Approach Robotics, with Brady Watkins

Brady Watkins gives insights into how a large company like Softbank Robotics approaches the Robotics market

03 August 2022, by Abate De Mey

#ICRA2022 Science Communication Awards

Are you a motivated roboticist/science communicator keen on helping us cover ICRA 2022? Apply by 22 April for a Science Communication Award covering travel and accommodation (up to 2k) + registration.

19 April 2022, by IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Digital Innovation Hubs: €1.5 billion network to support green and digital transformation starts to take shape

A two-day discussion on the future of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) took place last month, as over 2000 stakeholders and policy-makers gathered online for the first time to take stock of the...

28 February 2021, by the European Commission

IROS Workshop: Best practices in designing roadmaps for robotics innovation

Join us at the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) for a full day workshop that will bring together international stakeholders in robotics to examine ...

16 July 2017, by Hallie Siegel and AJung Moon

24 research reports that dissect the robotics industry

After reading the press releases for this batch of 24 research reports, although they vary widely in their forecasts, they almost all agree that most segments of the robotics industry are expected to...

05 May 2017, by Frank Tobe

As DJI dominates camera and commercial drone sales, drone funding falls

According to AgFunder's 2016 AgTech Investing Report (supported by The Robot Report's own research), 2016 drone funding fell 64% from 2015 levels. Also, the type of companies getting funded were sens...

03 May 2017, by Frank Tobe

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Kickstart Accelerator, with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni

In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni about Kickstart Accelerator, a Swiss Startup Accelerator. Siegwart leads the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich and is on...

17 April 2017, by Audrow Nash

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CUBE Tech Fair, with Torsten Oelke

In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Torsten Oelkes, Executive Chairman of CUBE, about the CUBE Tech Fair. The CUBE Tech Fair is a conference that takes place in Berlin in May that seeks to facili...

02 April 2017, by Audrow Nash

MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance

The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will serve as the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at bridging the gap between the ...

10 January 2017, by MIT News

$18.867 billion paid to acquire 50 robotics companies in 2016

2016 was a banner year for acquisitions of companies involved in robotics and automation: 50 sold; 11 for amounts over $500 million; five were over a billion. 30 of the 50 companies disclosed trans...

06 January 2017, by Frank Tobe

2016: the best year yet for funding robotics startups

2016 was a busy and abundant year for seed, crowd, series A,B,C,D and VC funding of robotics-related startups. 128 companies got funded, some multiple times. $1.95 billion, 50% more than 2015 whic...

02 January 2017, by Frank Tobe

China takes long view in funding robotics, innovation

With the rapid economic development of the last twenty years resulting in the accumulation of great wealth, China urgently feels the need to move from a manufacturing-driven economy to an innovati...

17 July 2013, by CHEN Fei

Visions of transformative research: Risk-reward, variation-selection, hot trends, exploration of the wild

Over the last 20 years or so, a sense that science has become conservative or incrementalist has developed, and calls for change in the approaches to public funding of research have been heard from va...

08 July 2013, by Juan Rogers

Funding high risk proposals at the National Science Foundation: A brief history

National Science Foundation (NSF) efforts to develop a mechanism to fund research proposals that had a high risk of failure, but which also had the potential for high return, began in 1980. In that ye...

03 July 2013, by Marc Rothenberg

Bolt closes funding round and opens applications

Bolt, Ben Einstein's hardware and robotics accelerator in Boston, today announced the close of their first funding round and the opening of the first round of applications for 2013 hardware startups. ...

20 February 2013, by Andra Keay

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