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Podcasts are the new blogs
Frank Tobe
28 Apr 2017
Most of us are familiar with the podcasts about robotics from the Robots Podcast group. For different perspectives, from the funder's point of view, here's a list of podcasts from the VC's that fund r...
Recap: 2016 funding and acquisition updates
Frank Tobe
28 Feb 2017
Although the original articles (2016 was best year ever for funding robotics startup companies) and (Over $19 billion paid to acquire 50 robotic companies) have been updated to reflect the omissions o...
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...
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...
Nailbot: A ‘nail art’ robot that inspires creativity
Casey Schulz and Pree Walia
17 Nov 2015
Launched last week on Indiegogo, the Nailbot prints instant custom art onto your fingernails from your phone. Behind the concept is a new kind of company -- a movement to inspire confidence in girls a...
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...
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...
One year later: Update from Leka, Robot Launch 2014 Grand Winner
Ladislas de Toldi and Leka
02 Jul 2015
Almost one year ago, Leka won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Robot Launch competition for Moti, a robotic toy that helps autistic children learn to regulate their own emotions through play. Leka cofounde...
#RobotLaunch has great prizes for startups, but you can’t win if you don’t enter
Andra Keay
18 Jun 2015
Robot Launch 2015 is bringing together a great pool of prizes and services for robot startups. All startups in the semis or finals are eligible for awards as we search for offers such as “Crowd Pl...
Empowering startups’ global reach
Catherine Simon
18 Feb 2015
Innorobo’s call for start-ups has just closed and 25 semi-finalists from around the world will now be reviewed by a jury of experts to select the five winners. The winners will pitch to investors...
Who will buy your bot? End user opportunities
Adriana Hamacher
16 Jan 2015
Unless robotics is just a hobby, commercial and funding opportunities should be at the forefront of every developer's mind and at the root of these are the end users and their needs. But who are the e...
A startup perspective on exhibiting at CES
Bill Culley, Empire Robotics
12 Jan 2015
Exhibiting at big events takes both time and money. [tweetquote]Is it worth it for a robotics startup to invest in big expos like CES?[/tweetquote] We asked Bill Culley of Empire Robotics - the comp...
5 tips on how NOT to run your crowd-funding campaign
Open Bionics
11 Dec 2014
Four successful startups and the president of Robohub have some advice for future crowdfunders. They've been there and offered the perk T-shirt, so listen up....
How a bunch of startups are trying to make a business case for robotics in India | TechCircle
Hallie Siegel
29 Oct 2014
Robotics startups have been mushrooming over the last two years. Why? One may ask and be tempted to think that certain natural and man-made calamities forced the entrepreneurs behind these startups to...
Just launched: Fellow Robots’s OSHbot
Andra Keay
28 Oct 2014
Fellow Robots, in partnership with Lowes Hardware, today launched the OSHbot as a customer assistant robot at the Orchard Supply Hardware store in San Jose. Although the robot can only give informatio...
RE.WORK: Meeting the challenges of commercialising robotics
Adriana Hamacher
16 Oct 2014
Robots to install underfloor insulation in draughty homes, bots for edutainment, intelliTables and tiny robust drones flying with real bees wings - tantalising glimpses of a technology on the cusp of ...
Breakout Labs looking for robots that can change the world
Andra Keay
09 Oct 2014
I’m at Breakout Labs 3rd ‘unboxing’ today at the Terra Gallery in San Francisco. Founded by the Thiel Foundation in 2011, Breakout Labs provides seed stage funding of up to $350,000 to early st...
Building a robotics company
Clearpath Robotics
30 Sep 2014
By Ryan Gariepy
As we’ve made more of a name for ourselves within various startup communities, we’re commonly asked how we moved from our beginnings with little resources and no connections to ...
10 best quotes from IROS 2014 Industry Forum
Shima Rayej
18 Sep 2014
How do I get to MVP? How do I take my existing technology to a different market? How do I attract outside funding for my idea? Does IP matter? (The answer to the last question is yes, although researc...
The second wave of social robots is here
Andra Keay
16 Jul 2014
Cynthia Breazeal’s Jibo launched today and coming on the heels of Pepper, Aldebaran and Softbank’s new social robot, and Jimmy from Intel. It seems like we’re seeing a second wave of social robo...
Science, startups and industry at RSS2014 (Part 2)
Andra Keay
15 Jul 2014
The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference (RSS14) is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16, and we are picking up where we left off yesterday on our coverage of t...
Science and startups at RSS2014 in Berkeley (Part 1)
Andra Keay
14 Jul 2014
The 10th annual Robotics Science and Systems conference is on at the University of California, Berkeley, July 12 to 16. From a small start, the conference now has over 800 attendees, with 28 differe...
Startup Series #6: MIT Entreprise Forum VLAB
Andra Keay
09 Jul 2014
The VLAB Collaborative Robots forum on Thursday May 29 was a masterclass for robot startups. For 90 minutes at the Knight Management Center at Stanford, we heard all about the business of robotics fro...
Game of drones – extreme sports photography
Andra Keay
18 Jun 2014
“Yet another ‘follow me’ drone" says Chris Anderson – after three projects launched this weekend, including his own 3DRobotics’ open source ‘follow me’ feature for android. Extreme sport...
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Russian robotics, with Roman Luchin and Andrew Gryaznov
Sabine Hauert
30 May 2014
In this episode, Sabine speaks with Andrew Gryaznov, co-founder of Cubic Robotics and Roman Luchin, CEO of CyberTech Labs, about robotics in Russia. They provide us with an inside view on robotics edu...
Meet the winners of Robot Launch 2014
Robohub Editors
27 May 2014
In February 2014, Robohub and Silicon Valley Robotics launched the first global startup competition for robotics. More than 75 startups from 19 countries entered the competition, with robotics inn...
Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice round three
Andra Keay
07 May 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...
Robot Launch 2014: Robohub People’s Choice Round Two
Andra Keay
30 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 liv...
#Robots14 event “From Imagination to Market” is itself imaginative
Frank Tobe
22 Apr 2014
An adage in tech funding is "It's not what you know, it's who you know."
Aaron Horowitz (left) and Hannah Chung (in the bear suit on the right) boost that concept - and their visibility - by weari...
Robot Launch 2014: First round favorites
Andra Keay
16 Apr 2014
We had a some amazing entries in Robot Launch 2014 across a wide range of fields, and not all of our favorites made it through to the Top 30. So we’d like to share some highlights of the First Round...
Wise birds enter Robot Launch 2014 early
Andra Keay
26 Feb 2014
We were really excited to see so many entries in the first days of Robot Launch 2014. What most people don’t realize is that you can enter the startup competition immediately but still keep updatin...
Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move
Valery Komissarova and Andra Keay
26 Feb 2014
As part of Robohub’s Big Deals series, startup expert Andra Keay asks Valery Komissarova, Grishin Robotics’ Director of Business Development, about what all the recent robotics acquisitions mean t...
Top ten things I learned at Willow Garage
Steve Cousins
25 Feb 2014
10. Focus Focus Focus. When I started at Willow Garage, we had two projects (an autonomous car and an autonomous boat) and were planning to grow to 60 people, and I thought we needed to “round out ...
Startup Funding, with Jan Westerhues
Per Sjöborg
24 Jan 2014
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In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Jan Westerhues, Investment Partner with Robert Bosch Venture Capital, about how they fund robotics companies. As a stepping st...
Startup Series #5: Rodney Brooks, Steve Cousins & Pioneers Festival
Andra Keay
10 Dec 2013
Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna.
It’s not every day you get to ask pioneering robot startup founders about their journey. The Robolution panel at the Pioneers Festival in Vien...
Cubelets are growing up as Moss
Andra Keay
07 Nov 2013
Three years after their successful Cubelets, Modular Robotics launched a new kickstarter today for Moss. It’s like Cubelets just got clever and maybe a little bit more fashionable too. Moss is a dyn...
