SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Reuters) – Self-driving trucking startup Gatik will double its workforce by year end, a top executive said, after it announced a deal on Wednesday with grocer Kroger Co (KR.N) to transport goods within its Dallas, Texas network. Gatik, which operates traditional mid-sized trucks fitted with its autonomous technology, aimed to expand to 15 […]
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ivanti Wavelink, the supply chain business unit of Ivanti, and Zebra Technologies Corporation, an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, today announced it will integrate Ivanti Wavelink and Zebra autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in warehouse and manufacturing facilities. The combined solution will increase […]
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nimble, an autonomous logistics and AI robotics company, announced today that it has raised $65 million in a Series B financing round led by Cedar Pine, with participation from existing investors DNS Capital, GSR Ventures, and Breyer Capital, among others. The additional funds bring total capital raised to $115 million. “Our robust due diligence process showed that […]
ZURICH, March 15 (Reuters) – ABB (ABBN.S) is expanding its main US robot factory as its customers there in the automotive, packaging and machinery industries confront a tight labour market as they bring production back home. The Swiss engineering company, which competes with Japan’s FANUC (6954.T) and Germany’s Kuka (KUKAF.PK), is spending $20 million boosting capacity at its Auburn Hills […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and GREENEVILLE, Tenn., March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Kodiak Robotics, Inc., a leading self-driving trucking company, today announced a dedicated agreement with Forward Air Corporation (NASDAQ: FWRD) (“Forward”), a leading asset-light provider of transportation services across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Through this agreement, Kodiak and Forward are operating autonomous freight service 24 hours per day, six days per week (24/6) […]
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zipline today unveiled its new platform that provides quiet, fast and precise autonomous delivery directly to homes in cities and suburbs. The company’s next generation home delivery platform is practically silent (designed to sound like wind rustling leaves), and is expected to deliver up to 7 times as fast as traditional automobile […]
LAS VEGAS, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Polymath Robotics and HARD-LINE are proud to announce their collaboration on a solution for autonomous dozing. In line with this collaboration, HARD-LINE has been added to Polymath’s network of hardware integration partners, and Polymath has joined HARD-LINE’s software integration ecosystem. HARD-LINE is a leading supplier of automation, teleoperation, and remote-control […]
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ouster, Inc. (NYSE: OUST), a leading provider of high-performance lidar sensors, and Fieldin, a leading AgTech company with a smart farming platform and autonomous technology, announced the largest known deployment of retrofit autonomy kits for autonomous tractors in the agricultural industry1 following the signing of their multi-year supply agreement. Fieldin has already deployed dozens of kits […]
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BJ’s Wholesale Club (NYSE: BJ), a leading operator of membership warehouse clubs, announced today its partnership with Simbe to roll out the company’s business intelligence solution, Tally, to all club locations across the company’s footprint. Incorporating Simbe’s AI-powered solution into chainwide operations will provide greater visibility into club conditions and deeper business insights, […]
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Machina Labs today announced that the United States Air Force (USAF) has awarded Machina Labs $1.6M to advance and accelerate the development of its robotic technology for manufacturing of metal tooling for high-rate production of composites. “We are pleased to advance our work with USAF in order to advance composite tooling for a […]
MILWAUKEE (March 2, 2023) – Rockwell Automation, Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, announced today a strategic investment in READY Robotics, a pioneering company in software-defined automation and a Rockwell Technology Partner. READY Robotics’ ForgeOS platform enables operators to control and program the most popular brands of robots from […]
SCHAAN, Liechtenstein–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hilti announces a strategic partnership with Canvas, a construction robotics company that has developed a robotic drywalling solution aiming to empower people to build in bold new ways. “It’s extremely validating that the demand for our drywall finishing robot quickly outstretched our capacity to produce this year” Tweet this The partnership marks the beginning […]
Thanks to our new partnership with AMT, the Association for Manufacturing Technology, another (much larger) 501c6 industry association, we can afford to keep membership in Silicon Valley Robotics very low compared to the value we offer. We also scale membership costs so that startups and small companies can afford it. Since our foundation in 2010 […]
The IERA Award highlights and honors the achievements of inventors with value creating ideas and entrepreneurs who propel those ideas into world-class products. This is a key element to the continuing success of robotics and automation today. Active infusion of innovation and entrepreneurship into technological advancement is regarded critical at this juncture to strengthen a healthy […]
McLean, Va. and Stuttgart, Germany (January 19, 2023) – Two of the global manufacturing industry’s premier organizations, AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology and Mesago, a subsidiary of Messe Frankfurt Group, today announced a collaboration to create the Automation Sector at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show in 2024, and SPS – Smart […]
Dusty FieldPrinter is five times faster than a human and accurate to within one-sixteenth of an inch to spec (image courtesy of Dusty Robotics). Innovations in power conversion technology are enabling a transformation in robotics design. Today’s integrated power modules are addressing the demanding size, weight, power budgets and cost efficiencies required to move robots […]
Just in time for holiday shopping: Black in Robotics have just launched the BiR Store whose funds support our outreach activities https://blackinrobotics.org/store And we have two new funding opportunities for students, these are listed under BiR Resources on the homepage (https://blackinrobotics.org/) along with the resume book (signup code: BiRSignUp2022) and reading list. As new resources […]
Accelerating the robotics revolution by Adrian MacNeil I’m happy to announce our $15M Series A funding led by Eclipse Ventures. It’s an exciting time for Foxglove – thousands of robotics engineers use our software, and our user base has grown by over 8x in the past 12 months alone! But before we jump into details, I […]
THE IMTS ROBOTICS PAVILLION WILL HOST DELEGATIONS FROM SILICON VALLEY ROBOTICS, MASS ROBOTICS AND SATX ROBOTIX AND WILL FEATURE THE LATEST INNOVATIONS OF THE US ROBOTICS INDUSTRY WHO / WHAT IMTS 2022 marks the first time that three of the largest robotics clusters from around the nation will exhibit together as part of […]
The Robots of CES 2023
Robots were on the main expo floor at CES this year, and these weren’t just cool robots for marketing purposes. I’ve been tracking robots at CES for more than 10 years, watching the transition from robot toys to real robots. Increasing prominence has been given to self-driving cars, LiDARs and eVTOL drones, but, in my […]