Asensus Surgical CEO Anthony Fernando extrapolates from current trends, and provides insights into the future of robotics-assisted surgery, digitized surgery and telesurgery.

Voyant’s tiny, high performance, chip-based FMCW LiDAR provides a cost-effective 3D sensing solution for many use cases, including applications in vertical market segments characterized by high production volumes and equally high levels of cost-sensitivity.

Tactile sensing technologies allow collaborative robots to ‘feel’ many classes of objects – hard, soft, rigid, flexible, etc. As EU Automation’s Claudia Jarrett notes, this capability allows cobots to perform increasingly complex tasks while working in a collaborative manner with humans.

Tactile data and virtual sensing company raises additional funding round to expand into new market segments and accelerate growth.

Photoneo implements Parallel Structured Light technology in a 3D camera – MotionCam-3D – which allows the capture of objects moving up to 140 km/h, delivering a point cloud resolution of 0.9 Mpx (and 2Mpx in the static mode).

Ottonomy’s robots make outdoor last-mile deliveries, but the systems also convey items indoors, including within airport terminals.

Accerion’s Triton sensing technology for mobile robots and automated guided vehicles delivers sub-millimeter localization accuracy within operating environments, but the system does not require navigation infrastructure such as QR markers, tape, magnets laser reflectors or extra Lidar features.

RBR’s offers hot takes on ONRobot’s sanding solution, Brain Corporation’s new CTO, the US DoD seeking sensing solutions, and the Dive Technologies / Virginia Tech partnership.

Industrial Robot’s Joanne Pransky interviews Tessa Lau, CEO at Dusty Robotics about Dusty’s autonomous mobile robots that print layout plans onto the floors of job sites using information from building information models (BIM) as a guide.

The “Automated with Velodyne” cooperative business network will benefit Velodyne and its partners immediately, but exponential growth in LiDAR sensor deployments is a second order benefit for Velodyne and their program participants.

The solid-state LiDAR market remains hot, impelled by innovation, continuing sector investment and value delivery for automotive Tier 1 automotive suppliers and OEMs.

Dell Technology Ventures leads funding round, as SiLC develops integrated FMCW lidar for autonomous vehicles, machine vision, and augmented reality.

Cepton Technologies, which said its approach to lidar is unique, has received funding led by Tier 1 automotive supplier Koito Manufacturing.

Sensor startup looks to aid self-driving and driver-assist vehicles with better mapping and localization features.

Inertial navigation and sensors work with robots, drones, autos and marine vehicles.

System provides safer human interaction between humans, industrial robots.

Latest time-of-flight camera offers up to 40 meters in performance-grade range.

Time-of-flight camera ideal for measuring location, position, volume, and obstacle detection use cases.

Different methods help robotics understand objects, shapes, and where they’re located.

New unit combines motion sensing with full AHRS capabilities as alternative to heavier gyro-based devices.

Demonstration uses special light sources and sensors to reconstruct shapes of unseen objects.

The Office of Naval Research provided the funding for the development of an underwater robotic hand equipped with a variety of sensors.

Autonomous vehicles, sensors, and virtual reality offered ways for distribution centers to optimize operations.

Following this announcement and other successful trials, AD Navigation places a production order for the MEMS gyro.