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Finance & Investment Resource Center
Diving into ABB’s Discrete Automation Division
Rock solid sales satisfy investors, but is a heavy emphasis on automotive a drag on long-term innovation? Read more.
King Explorer likes the speed and vision guided tracking found in Adept's Quattro s650 View Adept Technology Receives $1.1M Order from China’s Top Explosives Manufacturer


Finance & Investment News
New Pittsburgh Accelerator Targets Robotics Startups
Alpha Lab Gear now accepting applications from entrepreneurs developing hardware, robots and other physical technologies

Need Cash? Come Back in Four Years
Fresh outlook from new $100M fund that rejects standard VC investment philosophy

KUKA Acquires Utica Enterprises, Inc.
KUKA AG now holds a near 40 percent market share of robotics systems in North America

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

AeroVironment Lands $13.8 Million Army Contract
Third order received since May 2012 for total of $46.1 million against projected $65.5 million contract action

An American in Genoa: RoboBusiness Europe 2013
The long-awaited big bang in robotics might well be an all-EU event

Analyst Outlook
Diving into ABB’s Discrete Automation Division
Rock solid sales satisfy investors, but is a heavy emphasis on automotive a drag on long-term innovation?

Adept Technology Receives $1.1M Order from China’s Top Explosives Manufacturer
King Explorer likes the speed and vision guided tracking found in Adept's Quattro s650

Grishin Robotics Invests in Bolt
Boston-based incubator set to foster 25 hardware startups

Robotics Business Review’s RBR50 List for 2013 Announced
50 companies representing today's game-changing technologies

iRobot Stock Spikes as Company Reaches New Milestones
FDA clearance and a powerful new patent keeps this robotics company in the limelight

Industrial Perception, Inc. Debuts Next-Level Robotics for the Supply Chain
A smart start-up with vision guided technology poised to disrupt robotic norms

Research Report
Outlook for Next-Gen, New-Gen Industrial Co-Worker Robotics
The cultural trends, companies and technologies contributing to the co-worker robot revolution

CSIP Ltd. on the Hunt for a Buyer
The UK robotics company specializes in autonomous underwater vehicles featuring manipulator arms

Lockheed Martin Acquires Chandler/May
UAS developer becomes part of Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems & Sensors business.



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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