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DoD Places $27.3M Robot Order
In-depth Analysis
Robot Waiters: No Tipping, Please
Although not quite ready for prime time, robo-waiters are on the rise in Asian restaurants and showing an upside for commercialization.
(March 15, 2012)
Majority Stake in Aldebaran Robotics Sold to Softbank
The roughly $100m deal could help prove to investors that there’s money to be made in consumer and service robotics.
(March 14, 2012)
A Tuned-In Robotic Tutor
Learning software developed by a Notre-Dame led team can detect and react to student emotions, and it could serve as a model interface for robots and other intelligent devices.
(March 13, 2012)
Driving Untethered
California, home to Google and its autonomous cars, is moving to become the second state in the nation to legalize such vehicles.
(March 12, 2012)
AeroVironment Receives $11.1 Million Order for RQ-11B Raven Logistics Support
U.S. armed forces use Raven systems extensively for missions such as base security, route reconnaissance, mission planning and force protection.
(March 12, 2012)
Texas Instruments and iRobot Announce Alliance
The partnership will develop robotic technologies using TI’s smart multicore OMAP platform.
(March 12, 2012)
In-depth Analysis
Seven RBR50 Firms Win Big in VC Deals
RBR50 robotics firms accounted for the top four positions and seven out of fourteen overall in annual Venture Capital sweepstakes for 2011, as reported by Travis Deyle in Hizook. With a total of $164.4 million invested in robotics ventures in 2011, seven of the RBR50 accounted for $117.5—over 70 percent of the total.
(March 10, 2012)
There’s a Lot You Can Do With a Drone
Light, cheap, and easy to operate safely, civilian unmanned aircraft will soon be everywhere.
(March 09, 2012)
In-depth Analysis
Robots Harvesting Hair Follicles from Scalps
Restoration Robotics’ ARTAS System for robotically harvesting hair follicles easily succeeds at three key VC criteria: a unique product that's market ready in a growing market segment where quite possibly an IPO or acquisition is not far off. Other qualifiers include FDA approval, Canadian Medical Device License approval and ready acceptance by hair restoration surgeons, who used the system for two years of clinical trials and found it very surgeon friendly, which translates into a motivated customer base.
(March 08, 2012)
The New iPad: Why Telepresence Device Makers Should be Afraid
Techies may bemoan the $499 entry level price for Apple’s new iPad. But while that’s a goodly sum to pay for a 16-gig tablet, it’s a bargain basement price for a telepresence product.
(March 08, 2012)
The Decommissioning Market
Making money by tearing things down.
(March 07, 2012)
“It’s About the User, Not the Robot”
Apple Computer built its success around simplified but powerful user interfaces; robotics developers should do the same.
(March 06, 2012)
Robo Vendoland
Besides selling a growing list of non-traditional products, new robotic vending machines gather data on buyers and even walk around to entertain.
(March 05, 2012)
Inside Robotics with Dan Kara
Debuting this month Dan Kara (The Kara Report: Inside Robotics). Joins us, daily, weekly and monthly throughout the year for an ongoing, eye-opening journey into the next great epoch of the New Industrial Revolution: Robotics. Take Dan along; he’ll show you every step of the way. You’ll be glad you did.
(March 04, 2012)
Got Big Data?
Robotics owes its development in part to the probes sent by NASA and other space agencies, tasked with collecting vast amounts of scientific information. Now VC investors are seeing the value of doing the same here on earth.
(March 02, 2012)
Robots and the Law
First Contact: A Primer on Robots, the Law and Humans
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