We covered nearly fifty mergers and acquisitions in 2022 worth billions of dollars. These eight stood out from the rest.

Some of these moments made us laugh, some made us cringe and many left us astonished by the capabilities of various robots.

Running a successful robotics company is never easy. Unfortunately, these companies found out it’s even harder during a pandemic and supply chain crisis.

Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman recap the top moments and biggest stories that happened in the robotics industry during 2022.

The Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum (May 10-11, 2023 in Boston) addresses engineering challenges faced when designing and developing healthcare robots.

Quanergy went public just 10 months ago via a SPAC with China’s CITIC Capital, at an implied $1.4 billion equity value.

Brian Gerkey said “greater institutional support from Intrinsic and the resources from this transaction allow our team to focus on what we do best and accelerate development of ROS, Gazebo, and Open-RMF in a sustainable way.”

NASA said nearly every Mars rover has experienced dust devils, but this is the first time any such recording has been made.

The challenge calls for teams to create a robot that delivers a compelling form factor specific to its tasks while accomplishing a useful function.

Paul Scharre, who helped the Office of the Secretary of Defense develop policies around autonomous systems and emerging weapons technologies, joins the show to discuss San Francisco’s police department potentially using robots with lethal force.

The funding includes debt financing and equity contributions to help Einride continue to scale its technology.

The issue is being sent back to a committee for further discussion and could be voted on again in the future.

Leveraging experience developing space robots for NASA, Nauticus Robotics is developing underwater robots to perform inspection and maintenance tasks.

Locus Robotics has now raised $422 million since it was founded in 2014.

This week, we talk to the founders of Robotics Operations Group (ROG) about the organization’s growth and the delivery of “RobOpsCon” earlier this week.

Ghost Robotics said “Boston Dynamics is drawing on their considerably larger resources to litigate instead of innovate.”

The funding will be invested directly into at least 30 startups over the next six years.

Autonomous vehicles have major challenges. But declaring the technology dead after Argo AI’s shutdown is foolish.

Boston Dynamics claims Ghost Robotics infringed on seven patents related to Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped robot.

Tatum Robotics won the RoboBusiness Pitchfire robotics startup competition. It’s building an anthropomorphic hand that signs tactile sign languages for people with deafblindness who can’t hear or see.

The program provides opportunities for diverse high school girls in Massachusetts to learn about careers in robotics, expose them to technical skills and develop their professional networks.

Robotics Engineering Week’s sessions are focused on critical topics for robotics and automation professionals.