In his keynote talk, Agility co-founder and CTO Jonathan W. Hurst will give an inside look at the process of developing bipedal robots.
Comau develops mobile manipulator
Comau’s Mobile Robotic Arm involves a robotic arm mounted on an autonomous mobile platform and is being used in three EU projects.
Amazon’s ARMBench dataset helps train pick-and-place robots
Dataset of images collected in an industrial setting features more than 190,000 objects to train pick-and-place robots.
Covariant raises $75M for robotic picking technology
Pre-trained on millions of picks from Covariant robots in warehouses around the world, the Covariant Brain enables robots to autonomously pick many SKUs.
Cruise recalls 300 robotaxis in response to crash with bus
Cruise said its robotaxi that rear-ended a bus in San Francisco made an error predicting the movement of the bus.
Gatik to start deliveries with Kroger in Texas
Gatik’s medium-duty autonomous box trucks will be transporting products from a Kroger CFC in Dallas, Texas to multiple retail locations.
MIT researchers create algorithm to stop drones from colliding midair
Robust MADER is able to generate collision-free trajectories for drones even when there is a delay in communications between agents.
Roboto AI raises $4.8M to build data tools for robotics developers
Roboto AI announced that it has emerged from stealth with $4.8 million in Seed funding to build robotics development tools.
How MIT taught a quadruped to play soccer
MIT’s DribbleBot can maneuver soccer balls on landscapes like sand, gravel, mud and snow and get up and recover the ball after falling.
Robotics Summit: How to use simulation for developing robots
Attendees will learn how simulation can test robot applications in photo-realistic, physically accurate digital twin environments.
Top 10 robotics stories of March 2023
Between all of the exciting robotics announcements that came out of ProMat, and big acquisitions, there was no shortage of news in February.
Ocado wins UK patent lawsuit over AutoStore
Both AutoStore and Ocado operate automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS) that operate on similar principles.
Researchers taught a quadruped to use its legs for manipulation
Researchers taught a Unitree Go1 quadruped how to use its front legs to climb walls, press buttons and kick a soccer ball.
Watch Bill Gates take a ride in a Wayve AV
Bill Gates recently had the opportunity to take a ride in downtown London inside a Wayve autonomous vehicle (AV).
German robotics industry to grow 9% in 2023
German robotics and automation experts expect the industry’s gross revenue to grow by 9%, reaching 15.7 billion euros by the end of 2023.
Gecko Robotics expands work with U.S. Navy
Gecko Robotics, a creator of wall-climbing robots for asset inspection, announced that it’s expanding its work with the US Navy.
How Amazon Astro moves through its environment
Amazon counteracts Astro’s lack of computation capabilities with algorithms and software designed to allow the robot to move more gracefully.
Cruise robotaxi, SF bus involved in accident
The Cruise robotaxi was operating autonomously but there were no passengers inside the vehicle.
Intrinsic CEO to keynote Robotics Summit
Wendy Tan White, the CEO of Intrinsic, a robotics software and AI company at Alphabet, will be keynoting the Robotics Summit & Expo.
Editor’s Picks: best robots of ProMat 2023
A roundup of the robots that stole the show at ProMat 2023 in Chicago.
Learn about developing general purpose robots
In this Robotics Summit session, attendees will learn about Apptronik’s approach to developing a platform for general purpose robots.
Built Robotics develops autonomous solar piling robot
Built’s robot combines all steps of the piling process, from surveying to pile distribution, driving and inspection, into one package