Since its previous funding, Formic’s fleet of robotic equipment has completed 100,000 production hours at more than 99% uptime.
RTI Connext to deliver real-time data connectivity to NVIDIA Holoscan
RTI Connext provides reliable communications for users of NVIDIA’s Holoscan SDK to speed development of devices such as surgical robots.
GrayMatter raises $45M Series B to ease robot programming for manufacturers
GrayMatter Robotics says its AI-based systems can double or quadruple productivity as its customer base grows and hires more staffers.
Only 16% of manufacturers has real-time visibility into production, says Zebra
Manufacturers want more visibility into processes and to reskill staffers to work with automation, found Zebra and Azure Knowledge.
Vecna Robotics raises more than $100M, hires COO to expand warehouse automation
Vecna Robotics has more than doubled its valuation and hired a chief operating officer as it develops a case-picking system.
Wayve launches PRISM-1 4D reconstruction model for autonomous driving
Wayve says PRISM-1 enables scalable, realistic re-simulations of complex scenes with minimal engineering or labeling input.
Realtime Robotics celebrates motion-planning collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric
Realtime Robotics is bringing its motion planning for industrial and collaborative robots to market with Mitsubishi Electric.
Waabi raises $200M from Uber, NVIDIA, and others on the road to self-driving trucks
Waabi, which has been developing self-driving trucks using generative AI, plans to put its systems on Texas roads in 2025.
At CVPR, NVIDIA offers Omniverse microservices, shows advances in visual generative AI
Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX can generate synthetic data for robotics, says NVIDIA, which is presenting over 50 research papers at CVPR.
RBR50 Spotlight: Opteran Mind reverse-engineers natural brain algorithms for mobile robot autonomy
Opteran commercialized its vision-based approach to autonomy by releasing Opteran Mind.
Unleashing potential: The role of software development in advancing robotics
As robotics serves more use cases across industries, hardware and software development should be parallel efforts, says Radixweb.
Investor Dean Drako acquires Cobalt Robotics
Cobalt AI is set to expand the use of its human-verified AI technology in various enterprise security applications.
RGo Robotics integrates NVIDIA Isaac technology into its perception platforms
With RGo Robotics’ perception system and NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, the companies say customers can deploy mobile robots within a few months.
ABB releases OmniCore platform for control across its robotics line
OmniCore now provides a unified control architecture for ABB’s range of robotics hardware and software after a $170M investment.
Adapta Robotics execs explain development strategies for testing and inventory robots
Adapta Robotics grew out of a university competition team, and the Romanian startup identified electronics and retail as markets.
NVIDIA highlights Omniverse, Isaac adoption by robot market leaders
CEO Jenson Huang announced that robotic factories can accelerate industrial digitization with NVIDIA AI and Omniverse.
OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group
OpenAI is creating a new internal robotics research group after pulling back from robotics research in 2021.
Comau changes with robotics market, adds focus on software and new applications
Comau has expanded its product line with compact robot arms, picking software, and exoskeletons for logistics and other markets.
Realtime Robotics gets Series B funding from Mitsubishi Electric
Realtime Robotics will use the investment from its longtime partner to scale its robot optimization and control systems for market.
NVIDIA, ORBIT-Surgical teach surgical robots key skills in simulation
ORBIT-Surgical, developed using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Omniverse, showed how to train robots to move a needle at ICRA.
Stanford researcher discusses UMI gripper and diffusion AI models
Stanford Ph.D. researcher Cheng Chi discusses the development of the UMI gripper and the use of diffusion AI models for robotics.
RBR50 Spotlight: Olive Robotics eases robotics development with EdgeROS
In 2024, Olive Robotics launched a new approach that integrates the power of Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) and Data Distribution Service (DDS) directly into System on Modules (SoMs).