As projects director, Kristensen will be playing an important part in securing and running projects and partnerships.
Yuanhua Intelligent Technologies announces financing round
Cornerstone Capital, a Chinese private equity investment institution, led the funding round for Yuanhua Intelligent Technologies.
ISS astronaut gets haptic feedback from robot on Earth
The European Space Agency team hopes that their research could be used to perform complex missions on the lunar surface.
How machine vision helps automate lettuce harvesting
The project involves existing leek harvesting machinery being adapted to lift lettuce clear from the ground.
ams OSRAM, Luxonis partner on 3D vision for robots
ams OSRAM’s Belago 1.1 will be providing infrared light for Luxonis’ open source OAK-D Pro spatial AI camera.
STIHL acquires 24% of TinyMobileRobots
STIHL’s robotic lawn mowers share a strong technical kinship with the fully autonomous line-marking robots produced by TinyMobileRobots, which are intended for use in sports fields, road construction, agriculture and more.
2021 sets robot sales record for North America
Robot sales rose 28% in 2021, jumping from 31,044 units in 2020. 58% of those orders came from outside of the automotive industry.
ARM Institute selects 8 new tech projects
The projects respond to pervasive areas of need in U.S. manufacturing and, specifically, address key Department of Defense (DoD) manufacturing-focused modernization priorities.
Güdel forms Güdel Americas to improve customer support
This entity brings together Güdel’s existing entities in the United States and Mexico to better serve customers.
Webinar: robotics investments and business opportunities
Webinar will analyze the 2021 VC and private sector investment into companies producing robots or robotics enabling technologies worldwide.
Autonomous navigation specialist BlueBotics acquired by Zapi Group
The acquisition strengthens Zapi Group’s position in the fast-growing mobile robotics sector.
Cruise opens driverless robotaxi service to SF public
The free service will open up to a small numbers of users and ramp up over time.
RE2 Robotics, JLG Industries partner on system for solar field construction
The system will use computer vision to autonomously retrieve solar panels from a delivery vehicle and precisely place the panels onto a racking system. An onsite human worker then follows to secure the panel.
New Yaskawa robots switch between cobot, industrial mode
Meeting safety standards (ISO 13849-1) and complying to ISO TS15066, each robot offers four modes of collaborative operation and can shift between collaborative speed in power force limiting mode or full speed in industrial mode.
Top 10 robotics stories of January 2022
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robots, 2022 predictions from industry experts and advice for robotics startups captured your attention this month.
Electric Sheep Robotics raises $21.5M for autonomous lawn mowers
It also announced the general availability of its Dexter system that turns existing commercial lawn mowers, both gas and electric, into autonomous mowers.
Odense Robotics opens Aalborg Hub
The Aalborg hub will provide robotics, automation and drone startups, scaleups and SMEs with opportunities for growth and innovation.
Percepto drones receive BVLOS approval at 2 U.S. refineries
Delek uses Percepto’s autonomous drones to maintain remote operations 24/7, automate day-to-day operations in its facilities.
Laurie Leshin named first female director of JPL
Leshin returns to NASA from WPI, where she served at the first woman president of the university since 2014.
Distalmotion, the company behind Dexter, raises $90 million in funding
Distalmotion plans to use the funding to commercialize Dexter globally, and pursue FDA approval for the system.
Starship Technologies raises $56M for delivery robots
Starship plans to use the funding to further R&D and build thousands more robots at the company’s facility in Tallinn, Estonia.
Open-source visualization and debugging for robotics
Adrian Macneil, co-founder and CEO of Foxglove, discusses the company’s spin-out from autonomous driving company Cruise, how its solutions differ from RViz, challenges of robotics development and the keys to running his startup.