RSS 2020 – all the papers and videos!
RSS 2020 was held virtually this year, from the RSS Pioneers Workshop on July 11 to the Paper Awards and Farewell on […]
Category: California Robotics News
Including Commentary, Events, Seminars, White Papers and Media Releases
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Fetch Robotics and Piedmont National Partner with PURO Lighting to Launch the SmartGuardUV Autonomous Disinfecting Robot
Leveraging Next Generation Pulsed Xenon UV technology from Violet Defense, the SmartGuardUV robot neutralizes harmful viruses and bacteria in high-traffic areas and […]
Enter the SVR Industry Awards 2020!
Silicon Valley Robotics is celebrating the best of innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies in 2020, by announcing the 2020 Silicon Valley […]
Conversation on Racism and Robotics
Talking about racism and its impact on robotics and roboticists was the first conversation in our new monthly online discussion series “Society, […]
Why robotics startups fail!
What are the main reasons that robotics companies and startups fail? Is it the technology or is it the business? Fresh Consulting […]
Handshake: an exploration of robot interaction
In times of physical distancing, when touching becomes unreachable; “Handshake” is a platform on which strangers can interact with each other, virtually […]
SLAMcore raises $5 million to meet growing demand for robotics
London, 17 JUNE 2020: SLAMcore,a UK company developing spatial AI algorithms for robots and drones,has secured$5million in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures and MMC […]
Silicon Valley Robotics wins RBR50 Innovation Award
California’s Silicon Valley Bay Area is the quintessential business cluster for so ftware, hardware, high-tech services innovation and now as a business cluster […]
How does robotics research funding compare globally?
The Corona crisis highlights the important contribution that robots make to industry and to society. Research funding programs (R&D) are vital to […]
Venture Deals Study Group
We’re hosting a STUDY GROUP for robotics/hardware and frontier tech startups who are working through the free “Venture Deals” course from Kauffman […]
Society, Robots and Us: the conversations we need to have (next Oct 6)
On October 6 at 6pm PDT we’ll be discussing the economics of Open Source Robotics in Society, Robots and Us. Free and […]
Silicon Valley Bank reports on ‘The Future of Robotics’
You know robotics has ‘made it’ when Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is reporting on it. Just five years ago, SVB barely had […]
ICRA 2020 launches with plenary panel ‘COVID-19: How Roboticists Can Help’
ICRA is the largest robotics meeting in the world and is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. It is thus […]
RAC ‘Emerging Trends in Retail Robotics’ report released
Robots are increasingly being deployed in retail environments. The reasons for this include: to relieve staff from the performance of repetitive and […]
Open Problems for Robots in Surgery and Healthcare
Online Mini-Symposium, Free and open to the public.Tues 19 May, 2020, 9:30-1:30pm PT, via Zoom All videos are here online ! The […]
12 startups in computer vision or visual AI
Vote for Audience Choice Award of best vision startup! On May 15 2020, these 12 semifinalist startups will be further narrowed down […]
SLAM and Spatial AI
You can watch this seminar here at 1PM EST (10AM PST) on May 15th. Andrew Davison (Imperial College London) Abstract: To enable the next […]
SLAMcore a finalist in Embedded Vision Summit showcase
SLAMcore debuts full-stack spatial AI SDK in industry competition The three most challenging questions in autonomous robotics are: where am I? how […]
Audience Choice HRI 2020 Demo
Welcome to the voting for the Audience Choice Demo from HRI 2020 (closed May 14). Each of these demos showcases an aspect […]
Where are the robots when you need them!
That’s a question we’re trying to answer in our weekly discussions about ‘COVID-19, robots and us’, but it was repeated with urgency […]