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Software Companies
Energid Technologies
Energid Technologies is a Private company with a focus on Software robotics. It is located at One Mifflin Place, Suite 400, Cambridge MA in the United States.
Founded in 2001, Energid provides software and support to government and commercial customers in the space, military, manufacturing, and energy markets. It provides engineering products and services for robotics, machine-vision, training, virtual reality, and simulation applications in those markets. Energid is an employee-owned company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More about Energid Technologies.
Microsoft Robotics
Microsoft Robotics is a Public company with a focus on Software robotics. It is located at One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA in the United States.
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company by revenue, sells consumers and corporate customers everything from Windows operating systems to Xbox game consoles to Microsoft Office applications. Microsoft Corp. develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products and services for various computing devices. More about Microsoft Robotics.
Willow Garage
Willow Garage is a Private company with a focus on Mobile & Software robotics. It is located at 68 Willow Road, Menlo Park CA in the United States.
Willow Garage, Inc. develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. It offers the PR2, a robotics research and development platform; TurtleBot, a mobile platform for developing robot applications; and Texai, a remote presence system prototype. More about Willow Garage.
Software News
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Software diagnostic research debugs robotic surgical systems

Lone Star State Robotics
Texas has long been a hotbed of robotics innovation. You just…

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Latest Transactions
$10.7M Series A to Airware for Universal OS and Platform for Drones
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Top Transactions

All of the robotics industry’s top reported orders, sales, investments, mergers & acquisitions and financial events of 2012 now available in one downloadable doc!


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Medrobotics Completes $33.6M in Series D Financing
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