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Ocado evaluating robotic manipulation for online shopping orders
Ocado, the world’s largest online-only supermarket, has been evaluating the feasibility of robotic picking and packing of shopping orders in its highly-automated warehouses through the SoMa project,...
21 February 2017, by
Graham Deacon
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226
podcast
Toru Robots, with Dr. Moritz Tenorth
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley spoke to Dr Moritz Tenorth, head of software development at Magazino, a Munich-based startup developing mobile pick-and-place robots for item-specific logistics. They d...
21 January 2017, by
Ron Vanderkley
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
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223
podcast
Actuation for Robotic Fingers, with Edward Neff
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Edward Neff, founder of SMAC Corporation. Mr. Neff discusses how breakthroughs in his company have allowed them to develop linear actuators compact enough to b...
11 December 2016, by
Abate De Mey
Care-O-bot 4 celebrates its premiere as a shopping assistant
In January 2015, Fraunhofer IPA presented a prototype of the “Care-O-bot 4” service robot. The charming helper is now proving its worth in the real world. “Paul” the robot has been greeting cu...
14 November 2016, by
Fraunhofer IPA
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212
podcast
Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...
09 July 2016, by
Audrow Nash
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211
podcast
ICRA 2016 Exhibition (Part 2 of 2), with Greg Burman, Dave Rollinson, Tony Prescott and Xavier Carpentier
This is the second of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society...
25 June 2016, by
Audrow Nash
How to hire women
It’s super hard to find skilled people willing to work for robotics companies in Silicon Valley. Even though robotics is awesome and going to change the world. Because big companies with big payche...
18 April 2016, by
Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay
Raffaello D’Andrea at TED2016: Novel flying machines and swarms of tiny flying robots
Last week Raffaello D'Andrea, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and founder of Verity Studios, demonstrated a whole series of novel flying machines live on stage at T...
22 February 2016, by
Robohub Editors
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184
podcast
CyPhy LVL 1 Drone, with Helen Griener
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Helen Greiner, CEO and founder of CyPhy Works and co-founder of iRobot, about CyPhy Work’s LVL 1 photography drone. The LVL 1 drone has six propellers that a...
12 June 2015, by
Audrow Nash
Shadow Robot’s Dexterous Hand can do more than cook up a storm
The Shadow Robot Company has been perfecting its robot hands for almost two decades, but it took just a short demo by the world’s first robot chef last month to propel this small, London-based start...
07 May 2015, by
Adriana Hamacher
Launching RoboJobs: The new dedicated jobs board for the global robotics community
RoboJobs is a new dedicated jobs board for the global robotics community that connects both seasoned robotics experts and recent top graduates with entrepreneurs and established businesses seeking the...
22 April 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
NAO Next Gen now available for a wider audience
As of yesterday, you can get the adorable and versatile humanoid robot NAO from Aldebaran Robotics for yourself, even if you are not an academic or a hardcore developer. According to Génération R...
13 March 2014, by
AJung Moon
UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014
Did you know that the world’s population is set to increase from seven billion people to more than nine billion in the next 40 years? In order to meet this growing demand, agricultural producers wil...
12 November 2013, by
Ernest Earon
From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact
The popular conception of farming as low-tech is woefully out of date. Modern farmers are high-tech operators: They use GIS software to plan their fields, GPS to guide field operations, and auto-steer...
11 November 2013, by
Jeremy H. Brown
ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit
... Grabit, a 2012 SRI International spin-off, secures $3 million in Series A funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Nike and Formation 8, a tech VC in Silicon Valley....
08 October 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Co-robots really ARE a BIG thing
UPDATED: October 6, 2013
Small and medium shops and factories (SMEs) are an untapped marketplace for robotics but direly in need of automation to remain competitive in this global economy. Two ne...
05 October 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Orbotix introduces Sphero 2.0
http://youtu.be/5Bg88VkWGOQ
There's not much more about Sphero 2.0 on the Orbotix website other than this two-minute video, but Evan Ackerman of Automaton has a little more information. The followi...
15 August 2013, by
John Payne
SUSBEXPO: The first unmanned systems business conference
SUSBEXPO is the first conference about unmanned systems to really focus on the growing commercial opportunities of this market. AUVSI put on a spectacular annual show, but it is predominantly militar...
27 July 2013, by
Andra Keay
Intuitive Surgical stock sinks
... After months of negative news about poorly trained surgeons, class action suits claiming poor communications with shareholders, an FDA review, an article saying that procedure costs were too high,...
10 July 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Boston is actually living up to the hype this year!
The definitive list of private funding in robotics--or at least the most widely cited is the Hizook VC Funding for Robotics list. The list for 2012 is out. Please help make it complete by adding...
11 June 2013, by
Robert Morris
iRobot unveils new AVA 500 mobile robot for professionals
New iRobot AVA 500, planned for 2014 delivery, navigates autonomously and can be sent from point A to B using an iPad....
11 June 2013, by
Frank Tobe
A flurry of bad publicity for Intuitive Surgical
UPDATED 5-14-2013: Scroll to bottom of article to see updates.
One of robotics' biggest stars, Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG), and their da Vinci robotic surgical systems, is receiving a lot of...
14 May 2013, by
Frank Tobe
A conversation with Henri Seydoux
A growing business within Parrot S.A., (PARRO:EUROLIST B) is their AR.Drone line of products, parts and software. Their first quadcopter product was developed internally by (1) observing the $1 billio...
03 May 2013, by
Frank Tobe
iRobot stock jumps 15% on Q1 earnings and 2013 projections
iRobot’s stock (ISRG:NASDAQ) jumped 15% today on yesterday’s earnings report which exceeded analysts’ expectations for both the quarterly earnings and the annual projections....
24 April 2013, by
Frank Tobe
VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces
Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...
26 March 2013, by
Robert Morris
Foxconn Foxbot update
Ilian Bonev, a robotics prof at the ÉTS in Quebec, blogged “The truth about Foxconns Foxbot industrial robots,” and included a 2008 Foxbot brochure which shows the specs for their entire robotics...
08 March 2013, by
Frank Tobe
2013 robotic gimmicks, gadgets and toys
Toys often precede more serious inventions. So, putting judgement aside, and withholding laughs and other "tells", here are some new robotic toys and gadgets hitting the market this year....
26 February 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Management shakeup at Adept Technology
... Rob Cain replaces John Dulchinos as CEO of Adept Technology. Cain has worked with Adept for the past few months as an advisor and representative of Hale Capital Partners and crafted a restructurin...
25 February 2013, by
Frank Tobe
ExOne IPO Successful: Shareholders Contribute Random Passers-by
Before I start bashing bankers, I’d like to congratulate the ExOne Company on a successful initial public offering (IPO). I haven’t seen much about ExOne [NASDAQ:XONE] on the robotics sites, b...
21 February 2013, by
Robert Morris
