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ANYbotics raises $60M to expand inspection robot deployments worldwide
The ANYmal robot is designed to provide real-time, actionable data from difficult environments. Source: ANYbotics Legged robots have found success in industrial facility inspections. ANYbotics AG...
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Simbe Robotics partners with Country Supplier, expands into farm supply stores
Tally collects inventory data for farm supply store intelligence. Source: Simbe Robotics Inventory management robots are expanding their reach into new types of retail. Simbe Robotics Inc. today said...
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Lam Research’s Dextro cobot boosts semiconductor production efficiency
Lam Research Corp. this week introduced Dextro, its first collaborative robot arm designed to optimize critical maintenance tasks on semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment. The Fremont,...
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Brushed DC motors find use in robot applications, humanoid development
Humanoid robots rely on high-performance brushed DC motors to optimize their motion. | Source: Adobe Stock Humanoid robots, some of which are designed to operate in close interaction with humans, rely...
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Vision-guided cobot automates paint process for DENSO
Invent Automation has integrated CapSen vision technology as DENSO automates. Source: Invent Automation Automotive manufacturing has long benefited from the thoughtful deployment of robotics and...
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Eureka Robotics raises $10.5M to scale its vision systems in the U.S.
Eureka automated the lens coating process with precise loading, unloading, and flipping systems. | Source: Eureka Robotics Eureka Robotics last week said it has raised $10.5 million in Series A...
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Jetson Orin Nano Super developer kit available from NVIDIA
NVIDIA released the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit today. The new software release increases generative artificial intelligence workload performance from 40 trillion operations per second, or...
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Eyeonic Trace Laser Line Scanner offers sub-millimeter depth perception
Prototype of the Eyeonic Trace Laser Line Scanner, designed to provide sub–millimeter depth precision for next-generation warehouse automation, robotics, farming, construction and manufacturing...
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2024: The year humanoids woke up
Source: Citi GPS Eight years ago, not even $1 million went into startups focused exclusively on humanoids. Today, the total amount of private capital for the industry has climbed over $1.4 billion....
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Sanctuary AI shows new dexterity with in-hand manipulation skills
Sanctuary AI posted a video demonstrating new capabilities to perform in-hand object manipulation. The video (watch above) shows the company’s 21-degree-of-freedom (DOF) dexterous robotic hand...
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How Waste Robotics, Greyparrot are enhancing sorting robots
Waste Robotics uses FANUC robot arms to enable reliable and precise picking, it said. | Source: Waste Robotics Greyparrot and Waste Robotics partnered earlier this year to enhance Waste Robotics’...
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Pudu Robotics launches PUDU D9 humanoid robot
The PUDU D9 humanoid robot includes he DH11 advanced manipulators. Source: Pudu Robotics Pudu Technology Inc. last week unveiled its first full-sized bipedal humanoid robot, the PUDU D9. The Shenzhen,...
View ArticleOpen Droids develops both single and dual arm mobile manipulators
In March 2024, Abhishek Gupta, Jackson Jesionowski, and Ashish Gupta founded Open Droids around the idea of creating an open-source robot platform. The San Francisco-based company launched the R1D1...
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EngineAI releases PM01 humanoid robot for commercial, educational use
The SE01, left, and the new PM01 humanoid robot. Source: EngineAI Robotics Scarcely a week has passed in 2024 without some company entering the race to commercialize humanoid robots. EngineAI Robotics...
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Zebra Technologies to acquire vision unit from Photoneo Brightpick Group
The founders of Photoneo Brightpick Group, which is separating its vision and robotics units. Source: Photoneo Photoneo Brightpick Group today announced that it has agreed to Zebra Technologies Corp.’s...
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AgiBot releases humanoid manipulation dataset to enable large-scale learning
The AgiBot World humanoid manipulation dataset includes foundational models, standardized benchmarks, and a collaborative framework. | Source: AgiBot Robot training, especially for emerging humanoids...
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STMicroelectronics boosts AI at the edge with NPU-accelerated microcontroller
The STM32N6 offers 600 times more machine-learning performance than a high-end STM32 microcontroller unit today. | Credit: STMicroelectronics The latest generation of microcontroller units, or MCUs,...
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Voyant Photonics launches Carbon FMCW lidar sensor
The Carbon FMCW lidar sensor weighs just 250g. | Source: Voyant Photonics Voyant Photonics this week launched the Carbon FMCW lidar sensor, which it claimed offers effective and affordable lidar on a...
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Samsung increases stake in Rainbow Robotics, establishes Future Robotics Office
The RB-Y1 dual-armed mobile manipulator was announced this year. Source: Rainbow Robotics Samsung Electronics Co. today announced that it is increasing its stake in Rainbow Robotics to 35% to...
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Top 10 robotics stories of December 2024
A series of humanoid robot announcements at the end of the month dominated our top 10 stories in December 2024. In addition, large funding rounds and forward-looking forecasts grabbed our readers’...
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