Deep Tech startup advice, CMU's new RI director on the future of robotics

Deep Tech has the potential to provide solutions to some of the most challenging problems the world faces which is why it is also one of the most exciting areas of innovation. Panel discussion with Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics and The Robotics Hub, Nhi Le, WARF Accelerator and Family Fund, Nakia Melecio, Georgia Tech and iCorps Program and G. Nagesh Rao, US State Department.

The $2.5 Million Prize Will Help Enable a Just and Equitable Transition to a Clean Energy Economy

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Sat, Dec 11, 2021, 10:00 AM: Back for the third in-person event with the new track for fully-autonomous racing cars!It's fiendishly hard & crashtastic fun. Combines hairpin curves with an intersection

Join us 12/11/21 at the Sunnyvale Holiday Ice Rink! Followed by Bots&Beer at Off the Rails Brewery.

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The 39th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, USA on 23-27 May 2022. As the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, ICRA will bring together the world's top researchers and most important companies to share ideas and advances in our field. The conference will include plenary sessions, contributed paper sessions, workshops and tutorial sessions, forums, videos, exhibitions, and robot competitions.

SRI International’s Advanced Technology and Systems Division (ATSD) performs research across a wide range of disciplines. SRI specializes in transitioning technology from basic R&D to fieldable prototypes for both US government and commercial customers. ATSD has an opening for a Research Engineer in the Robotics Laboratory. The Robotics Lab has a long history of inventing […]

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Matthew Johnson-Roberson, who earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from CMU in 2005, will return to campus in January as the new director of the Robotics Institute.

TechCrunch IV with Matthew Johnson-Roberson provides some additional insights […]

The ocean is vast and mysterious … but rather less so when you have thousands of little autonomous buoys reporting back interesting info to you every day. That’s just what Sofar Ocean has, and it just raised $39 million to scale up its vision of real-time understanding of the seven seas. The company operates what […]

Nearly two-thirds of robots sold (6,302) in North America during Q3 were for non-automotive applications, according to A3.

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Kodiak said the funding will be used to double its headcount, expand autonomous trucking services from coast-to-coast, and add more vehicles to its fleet.

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Aurora, a developer of autonomous cars and trucks that started trading on Thursday, sees growing awareness among investors that its technology has potential to improve freight-hauling and deliveries and ease a U.S. truck driver shortage that contribute to supply-chain headaches. 

The CIMAT project combines the forces of 11 Belgian and Dutch partners. These companies and knowledge institutions are jointly exploring the possibilities of an autonomous tool platform with modular tools for various tasks. The basis is a self-propelled, electrically powered robot, which will be optimised during the project period. CIMAT aims to offer manufacturers a prototype which can be further developed into a robot they can make commercially available.

Palo Alto, California-based Landing AI, the AI startup led by Andrew Ng — the cofounder of Google Brain, one of Google’s AI research divisions — today announced that it raised $57 million in a series A funding round led by McRock Capital. In addition, Insight Partners, Taiwania Capital, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, Intel Capital, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Far Eastern Group’s DRIVE Catalyst, Walsin Lihwa, and AI Fund participated, bringing Landing AI’s total raised to around $100 million.

According to the results of a study by Pitney Bowes, 55 million parcels are shipped in the U.S. every day. And the latest data from Convey suggests that 17% fail to reach their destination on time, which translates into approximately 9 million parcels per day. That’s a lot of unhappy customers.

The plan is to create a AUS $ 75 million (US $ 57 million) Australian Robotics Ventures Factory – the RoboFactory – that will help Australian robotic companies to grow, design and test their technology. RAG expects this will create a world leading robotics sector.

U.S. delivery orders jumped 66% in the year ending in June, according to NPD, a data and consulting firm. And delivery demand could remain elevated even after the pandemic eases because customers have gotten used to the convenience.

Fast-growing Colorado-based PickNik Robotics developed a platform that makes robots smarter.

Gatik no longer has a human safety driver behind the wheel of two Level 4 autonomous box trucks operating for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas. But the box trucks aren't completely driverless just yet, however.

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Grover is a key component of Iron Ox's broader farming ecosystem, a closed-loop system that optimizes plant yield, reduces growth cycle time and maximizes crop quality. The result is delicious, nutritious, locally sourced fruits and vegetables that currently cost about the same as produce from conventional farms, with substantially lower environmental impacts.

Tokyo space startup Gitai Japan successfully conducted a technology demonstration of its autonomous robotic arm inside the International Space Station last week, a key milestone as the company prepares to provide robotics as a service in space.

Arriving Today is a fine piece of work. It includes impressive sections on how the different stages of the delivery process work. The heart of the book is about how workers in the industry are coping, or not, with the introduction of automation. This is familiar ground. Two recent examples are Andrés Oppenheimer’s The Robots Are Coming and Daniel Susskind’s A World without Work

At the closing (virtual) session of the annual Transportation Research Board self-driving conference (the oldest one in the industry) 3 reporters, including Forbes’ own transportation editor Alan Ohnsman, debated this topic. The surprising common view was that robotaxi did not look like a good business, certainly not the grand business that all those who have invested tens of billions into it believe.

Serve Robotics, a developer of sidewalk delivery robots, is partnering with Uber Technologies, which is said to be the world’s largest food delivery and ridesharing platform.

Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA, discusses the new collaboration between Open Robotics and NVIDIA. The collaboration will improve the way ROS and NVIDIA’s line of products such as Isaac SIM and the Jetson line of embedded boards operate together.

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This is the 1st chapter of the series “Exploring ROS2 with a wheeled robot”In this episode, we setup our first ROS2 simulation using Gazebo 11.From cloning, compiling and creating a package + launch file to start the simulation!   You&...

This is the 1st chapter of the series “Exploring ROS2 with a wheeled robot” In this episode, you’ll learn how to subscribe to a ROS2 topic using ROS2 C++. You’ll learn: How to create a node with ROS2 and C++ How to subscribe to a topic with...

In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Tobias Holmes, Quality Assurance Manager at Blue River Technologies. Blue River uses computer vision and robotics in agriculture and was acquired by John Deere in 2017. Tobias speaks about herbicide resistance, spraying weeds, quality assurance and testing on hardware, and on encouraging kids to learn robotics.   Episode […]