Autonomous Vehicles

Robot restaurants, aerial analytics, and awesome exoskeleton firms also score big this week.

Chinese AI startups are an indicator of the nation's ambitions to beat the U.S. Also, should the U.N. ban autonomous weapons, or could such systems help smaller countries defend themselves?

To reap the benefits of robotics, IoT, and AI development, you need the right tools, notes NVIDIA Vice President Deepu Talla. He'll share case studies and breakthroughs at RoboBusiness 2018.

Recent funding transactions include offerings for unmanned systems and analytics for infrastructure inspection, as well as military applications.

Summer may be relatively slow for automation transactions, but don't tell these machine vision and drone startups, which successfully raised funding.

Autonomous investments include self-driving funding in trucking, support systems, and snow-removal vehicles

Basic income, along with taxes, ethics rules, and outright bans are among the government responses to the perceived threats of automation. Plus, which countries are pursuing autonomous weapons?

Debate around reshoring, companies tackling e-commerce fulfillment with mobile robots, and colleges turning to drone simulation software topped the RBR news cycle in July 2018.

Continued investments in machine vision firms and computer vision startups dominated the week, but we also saw continued investment in AI-related companies and autonomous vehicle technologies.

Driving the summer investments in recent weeks includes money for self-driving car companies, commercial aerial drones, and new venture funds looking for more startup companies.