Amazon Robotics Moves Closer to Displacing Human Workers
A recent video published on Amazon’s science blog features a new “pinch-grasping” robot system that has the potential to one day do a lot...
Amazon Looks for Next Generation of Logistics Technology With New Fund
Amazon announced the launch of a new $1 billion fund in April, tasked with investing in companies working in the customer fulfilment,...
VR-Guided Humanoid Robots May Be Used for Building Railways in Japan
In April, JR West, a major railroad transportation company operating out of Japan, revealed plans to use giant robots guided by a human...
International Federation of Robotics (IFR) Released World Robotics 2020 Report
The World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report shows a record of 3 million industrial robots operating in factories around the world,...
Automotive AI Chip Vendor Horizon Robotics Raised $400 million in C2 funding
Horizon Robotics, a Chinese automotive AI chip start-up that is developing specialized chips for autonomous vehicles, has raised another...
Start-up Sarcos Robotics To Commercialise First Full-Body Exoskeleton
Sarcos Robotics, a start-up developing robots for industrial and defence applications raised $40 million in series C equity financing....
GE, COBOD & LafargeHolcim Partner to 3D Print Concrete Wind Turbine Bases
GE Renewable Energy, COBOD (Construction of Buildings on Demand) and LafargeHolcim have announced that they will partner to co-develop...
Obayashi Starts Work on Dam which will be Built Almost Entirely by Robots
Obayashi the Japanese construction company has started to build a dam almost entirely with robots, addressing the industry's labour...
NASA’s Latest Perseverance Rover Represents Advance in Robotics
The Mars 2020 mission was launched by NASA in July 2020, with plans to search for signs of previous life and to gather data for potential...
Navistar and TuSimple To Produce Autonomous Freight Trucks By 2024
International truck maker Navistar and self-driving truck company TuSimple have announced plans to begin producing autonomous trucks by...