Two autonomous minivans from May Mobility will drive select residents of Sun City around a 4.5-mile area of the retirement community.
ARM Institute introduces Hazelwood welding scholarship
The ARM Institute is funding a welding scholarship with the Industrial Arts Workshop in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
MIT designs robotic heart chamber
The realistic model could aid the development of better heart implants and shed light on understudied heart disorders.
Northeastern students develop robotic boat to attack invasive plants
Northeastern University researchers have developed the Hydrilla Hunter, a robot designed to detect invasive plants in rivers.
USC helping robots quickly learn new tricks
RoboCLIP algorithm has been pre-trained on large amounts of video and textual demonstrations.
EndoQuest raises $42M for surgical robotics system
The company expects the new capital to drive key initiatives, such as R&D, regulatory milestones and commercialization.
MassRobotics opens applications for Form and Function Challenge at Robotics Summit
MassRobotics second Form and Function Challenge is seeking university teams to create innovative and useful robotics.
Verve Motion raises $20M for soft exoskeletons
The funding will help Verve scale its SafeLift soft exoskeleton, which was originally developed at Harvard University.
RoboBusiness Pitchfire winner Glidance helping sight-impaired individuals regain independence
An in-depth conversation with Amos Miller, CEO and cofounder of Glidance, the 2023 RoboBusiness Pitchfire winner.
Trimble provides real-time, centimeter-level accuracy for Sabanto autonomous tractors
Sabanto has integrated GNSS receivers and corrections service from Trimble into its systems to make positioning more precise.
XtalPi and ABB Robotics to automate laboratory workstations with GoFa cobots
XtalPi has used more than 100 ABB collaborative robots to build automated workstations for accelerating chemical and life sciences R&D.
Cruise lays off 900 employees, 24% of robotaxi workforce
Cruise said in the email that these layoffs would primarily be affecting commercial operations and related corporate functions.
Retail robots are slowly paving the way for industry disruption
Retail robots can collect data in near real time and are gradually scaling in deployment, writes consultant Georges Mirza.
Nanotec releases compact wheel drive for mobile robots
The short drive unit consists of a brushless DC motor, planetary gearbox, magnetic encoder, and exchangeable wheel.
German Bionic raises $16.3M for powered exoskeletons
New funding is part of German Bionic’s plan to intensify its relationship with its industrialization partner, Mubea, a German automotive supplier.
Electric Sheep Robotics acquires 2 more landscaping businesses
Electric Sheep Robotics has now acquired four landscaping businesses in recent months.
Rightbot picks up $6.25M from Amazon and other investors for unloading robots
Rightbot said its robot can address a longstanding challenge for the logistics sector: the unloading of trucks, trailers, and containers.
Tesla demonstrates Optimus Gen 2 dexterity, recalls 2M vehicles
Tesla released a video showing the improving capabilities of its Optimus humanoid robot, but it faces safety scrutiny over Autopilot.
NVIDIA Isaac Sim on AWS to ease robotics development
NVIDIA said roboticists will have improved access to preconfigured virtual machines to run Isaac Sim workloads.
Mujin finalizes Series C extension for logistics robot controllers
Mujin, which has raised a total of $178 million, plans to make its MujinController more accessible to developers.
binder’s overmolded cable components meet UL 2238
binder’s new components provide reliable power transmission to field devices, such as sensors, wireless transmitters, and Fieldbus devices.
SRI International designs XRGo to protect pharmaceutical workers through teleoperation
SRI International says its XRGo teleoperation capability could help ensure pharmaceutical quality and open up jobs to a wider range of candidates.