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Latest Finance & Investment News
New Pittsburgh Accelerator Targets Robotics Startups
Pittsburgh-based Innovation Works spins out yet another startup accelerator, this time with hardware in mind. (May 16, 2013)

Need Cash? Come Back in Four Years
Genesis Angels plans to be involved primarily in early stage seed funding, in the fields of robotics, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. (April 26, 2013)

KUKA Acquires Utica Enterprises, Inc.
KUKA's acquisition of Utica Enterprises further expands the robotics' companies foothold among automotive manufacturers. (April 22, 2013)

Honeybee Robotics Selected for 2 NASA SBIR Awards Totaling $250K
Awards will fund development of spacecraft systems for drilling, sampling from a variety of heavenly bodies (April 11, 2013)

AeroVironment Lands $13.8 Million Army Contract
Procurement represents continued progress toward U.S. Army’s acquisition objective for Raven systems (April 11, 2013)

An American in Genoa: RoboBusiness Europe 2013
Everyone yearns for a new Europe where a breakout of high-tech innovation might deliver great products for commercialization that, in turn, might reinvigorate the local job scene and better society. (April 10, 2013)

Analyst Outlook
Diving into ABB’s Discrete Automation Division
Analyst Jim Nash profiles ABB's Robotics division. (April 02, 2013)

Adept Technology Receives $1.1M Order from China’s Top Explosives Manufacturer
China's largest explosives manufacturer looks to robots to increase production and traceability on over 100 production lines. (March 11, 2013)

Grishin Robotics Invests in Bolt
Boston-based incubator, Bolt, set to foster 25 hardware startups (February 20, 2013)

Robotics Business Review’s RBR50 List for 2013 Announced
The final votes are in! The top 50 robotics companies announced for 2013. (February 11, 2013)

iRobot Stock Spikes as Company Reaches New Milestones
iRobot's RP-VITA receives FDA clearance, new 3-D printing patent in the works (January 25, 2013)

Industrial Perception, Inc. Debuts Next-Level Robotics for the Supply Chain
Industrial Perception, Inc. to demonstrate next-level vision guided technology in bin picking, truck unloading and parts feeding at Automate. (January 14, 2013)

Research Report
Outlook for Next-Gen, New-Gen Industrial Co-Worker Robotics
Download this in-depth report covering the cultural trends, companies and technologies contributing to the co-worker robot revolution (January 11, 2013)

CSIP Ltd. on the Hunt for a Buyer
The UK robotics company specializes in autonomous underwater vehicles and manipulator arms (December 18, 2012)

Lockheed Martin Acquires Chandler/May
The UAS developer to become part of Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems & Sensors business. (November 15, 2012)



Special Focus: Top Transactions
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!


Medrobotics Closes on $10M in Financing

Robotics’ Top Transactions 2012

Finally, UK Funds Big Boost in Robotics: $55M

Persimmon Technologies Closes Series B Funding with $5.8M

Medrobotics Completes $33.6M in Series D Financing
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