Regal Rexnord Corporation will feature an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) concept controlled by Kollmorgen that is equipped with ModSort technology at Pittsburgh Robotics Discovery Day, Booth 224. The show will take place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on November 16, 2023. Visitors to the company’s booth can view the operational concept AGV, which…

Greg Smith, president of the Industrial Automation Group at Teradyne, is giving a keynote presentation at the Robotics Summit & Expo. The international event is focused on the technical issues involved with the design, development, manufacture, and delivery of commercial robots. The Robotics Summit & Expo takes place May 10-11 in Boston at the Boston…

The radar sitting in your car’s bumper isn’t the same as the units vectoring planes in for a landing. Here are the most important differences. Leland Teschler | Executive Editor The last time you found yourself on an airplane, it’s likely that air traffic controllers kept track of you via radar sets operating at about…

Tokyo-based Softbank Robotics is bringing its Whiz commercial cleaning robot to Hong Kong and Macau on trial and subscription basis. These are the first two markets outside of Japan that Whiz has been made available. Softbank named Intelligent Cleaning Equipment (ICE) the exclusive Whiz distributor for Hong Kong and Macau. Whiz leverages the autonomous navigation…

Cambridge, U.K.-based CMR Surgical raised a $240 million Series C round for its Versius surgical robot. CMR Surgical said it will use the funding to launch the Versius surgical robot “imminently” in Europe and Asia, with “further international expansion expected thereafter.” The Series C round included existing backers LGT Lightstone, Escala Capital Investments, Cambridge Innovation…

FarmWise, which is developing robots to precisely care for crops, has raised Series A funding and plans to grow its engineering and operations teams.

Universal Robots added the UR16e collaborative robot to its e-Series line-up that was first introduced in June 2018. The UR16e features a 16 kg (35 lbs) payload, which is the company’s strongest cobot ever. The UR16e also has a 900 mm reach and ± 0.05 mm repeatability. The UR3e, UR5e and UR10e, the other cobots in UR’s e-Series,…

Takeoff Technologies, a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of automated grocery fulfillment solutions, raised $25 million in Series C funding. The round, led by Forrestal Capital, was for 5 percent of the company at a $500 million valuation. Takeoff Technologies has now raised $86 million in funding since it was founded in 2016. Takeoff, which licenses its…

In the Democratic race for U.S. president, Bill de Blasio has proposed robot taxes, while Andrew Yang offers universal basic income. Did uncertainty around automation and jobs contribute to Donald Trump’s election?

Last week, Shopify announced the intent to acquire 6 River Systems, a Boston-based automation firm that provides solutions for e-commerce fulfillment. While the $450M deal is not yet done, this will be the first major acquisition that has happened in this space since Amazon purchased Kiva Systems in 2012. In the broader collaborative robotics industry, two of the three major…

A dynamic gripper that uses magnets to adjust how tight two robotic fingers grasp is on its way to commercialization.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a soft technology inspired by octopuses that can sense, compute, and respond without centralized processing.

Russia’s Skybot F-850 robot highlighted the ambitions and shortcomings around humanoid robots in space and for other applications.

DHL this week opened its 28,000-square-foot Americas Innovation Center in Rosemont, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. This is DHL’s third innovation center, joining the initial center in Cologne, Germany and another in Singapore. DHL’s U.S.-based Innovation Center showcases the latest in logistics technology, including robotics. DHL has been using robotics to enhance its logistics operations,…

Rather than wait for fully autonomous vehicles to hit the roads today, Voyage Auto is developing self-driving shuttles for retirement communities.

Applied Intuition, which is developing products for autonomous vehicle development, including a simulation platform based on Microsoft Azure, has raised $40 million.

Toyota AI Ventures has invested in Cartica AI, which is developing a perception platform for autonomous vehicles, and Moodify, which applies scents to affect drivers’ moods.

Simbe Robotics has raised Series A funding and made a deal with SoftBank Robotics for the manufacture of more Tally retail inventory robots.

Seven MiR100 robots are working three shifts a day at Visteon, helping to improve productivity at the automotive manufacturing supplier.

Blue Workforce is a Danish startup that wants to make open software development for industrial robotics easier.

Nevada’s Team Cerberus advanced in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, along with 10 other teams from around the world.

OnRobot has announced a unified electrical and mechanical interface across all of its gripper products, intended to make it easier for manufacturers to benefit from collaborative robots.

XAIN is applying FedML, or federated machine learning, to its ANDY system for protecting privacy while analyzing data from vehicles including self-driving cars.

Dematic will serve as an integrator and solutions provider for OPEX’s Sure Sort system to the e-commerce order-fulfillment market.

6 River Systems, a Waltham, Mass.-based warehouse automation startup best known for its Chuck autonomous mobile robot (AMR), was acquired by Shopify for $450 million. Shopify, the Canadian e-commerce giant, paid 60% in cash and 40% in shares for the deal, which is slated to close in Q4 2019. Shopify launched in June 2019 its…