RIOS has raised $5 million as it emerges from stealth and offers its DX-1 multipurpose robot for complex component assembly and other tasks.

Forcen has developed an award-winning haptic sensor called ForceFilm that can resist extreme heat and cold, is paper-thin, and provides sensitive feedback for devices such as surgical robots.

Third Wave Automation today emerged from stealth with Series A funding and machine learning to help forklifts work with remote operators.

Companies including Rocos are preparing to deploy service robots including humanoids at hotels and other venues around the 2022 Beijiing Winter Olympics.

Wandelbots, which has developed the TracePen tool for manual training of robot motions, has raised $30 million for its global expansion.

Lantronix, which provides edge computing, IoT, and embedded computing systems, helped Misty Robotics build the Misty II educational and open development platform with Qualcomm technologies.

The SecondHands consortium said it has completed development of the ARMAR-6 humanoid robot, which includes advances in machine learning, natural language processing, and robotic manipulation.

6 River Systems CTO Chris Cacioppo shares a blog post in which he describes the measures the mobile robot provider is taking to protect warehouse workers during the novel coronavirus crisis.

The ANA Avatar XPRIZE is offering a total of $10 million to teams that advance the state of the art in avatar telepresence robots. So far, 77 teams have qualified for the semifinals.

Intuition Robotics, which raised funding shortly before global shutdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has reported positive results from beta testing of its ElliQ digital companion in relieving isolation among older people.

Karen Panetta, a Tufts University Professor and IEEE Fellow, discusses why developers of robots, drones, AI, and autonomous vehicles need to remember cybersecurity for adoption past the novel coronavirus crisis.

A new survey has found that Americans have become somewhat more accepting of AI and robots, but developers will still have to take skepticism and job fears into account.

While other social robotics startups have struggled, Embodied has spent the past four years developing Moxie to help children with social interactions.

The new Robot Control Mate add-on for ABB’s RobotStudio allows users to commission and control SCARA robots directly from their personal computers or laptops.

Synthiam, which develops software to ease robot programming, has released Exosphere. It enables humans to help complete tasks and build machine learning data sets.

Olis Robotics, whose Olis Master Controller uses machine learning for more precise controls, is working with remotely operated vehicle maker Aleron Subsea to offer easy ROV upgrades.

Albert Einstein famously postulated that “the only real valuable thing is intuition,” arguably one of the most important keys to understanding intention and communication. But intuitiveness is hard to teach – especially to a machine. Looking to improve this, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up with a method…

PTC says its Vuforia Spatial Toolbox platform can help hardware designers use IIoT and augmented reality for easier development of robot controls and human-machine interfaces.

Miso Robotics’ Flippy is just part of Cali Group’s plan for introducing coronavirus avoidance technologies including robotics, facial recognition, and thermal sensing at CaliBurger restaurants.

Giving and taking objects to and from humans are fundamental capabilities for collaborative robots in a variety of applications. NVIDIA researchers are hoping to improve these human-to-robot handovers by thinking about them as a hand grasp classification problem. In a paper called “Human Grasp Classification for Reactive Human-to-Robot Handovers“, researchers at NVIDIA’s Seattle AI Robotics…

Contrary to popular belief, older people don’t fear humanoid robots, found German psycholgists.

Researchers at Columbia University claimed to be the first to develop and demonstrate a robot finger with a highly precise sense of touch over a complex, multicurved surface.