Electronic design made super simple and other events/opportunities

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Australian Cicada Innovations has launched a grain agtech challenge to find innovative deep tech solutions that will help to drive sustainability and

New Mexico LEEP:
New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program.

The DIT's Global Entrepreneur Programme's Global AI Competition is looking to uncover the most innovative AI companies from across the world who will benefit from having their presence in the United Kingdom.

Nominations are now open for companies and groups to apply for the 2022 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. Categories include 1) Business and Management Innovation, 2) Technology, Services, and Research Innovation, or 3) Application and Market Innovation.

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Kittyhawk sees the future of autonomous flight as one that makes you a drone passenger, and former 3D Robotics CEO Chris Anderson is a big part of this vision.

French startup Exotec has raised a $335 million Series D round in a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs’ Growth Equity business.

Even though the only thing the robot can do right now is pull weeds, Aigen is adamant it isn’t building a weed-whacking robot. It claims to be on a mission to terraform the earth, and says it has a path toward making agriculture carbon negative. It must have made a compelling argument, because it just […]

January 25, 2022 – Honeybee Robotics (Honeybee) today announced that it will be acquired by Blue Origin. With major operations in Longmont, Colorado and Altadena, California,  

ROMI is a four-year Europe-funded research project committed to promote a sustainable, local, and human-scale agriculture. It is developing an affordable, multipurpose platform adapted to support organic and polyculture market-garden farms.

Boston Dynamics will deliver a fleet of Stretch robots to multiple DHL warehouses throughout North America over the next three years.

Electric Sheep Robotics Secures Tiger Global-Led Series A Funding to Meet Property Management and Landscape Industry Demands

After months of waiting, Knightscope this week announced a January 27 date for its planned IPO.

Iron Ox, a San Francisco–area company with a Texas-bred CEO, builds greenhouses that use data to yield pretty produce.

Mitsubishi Electric, the automaker’s electronics equipment manufacturing company, is starting a pilot program to explore the value of autonomous robots.

Misty has had a hell of a journey of it. After raising $11.5 million from Foundry and Venrock, then crowdfunding its personal robot, the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. […]

The grocery store and bistro offer over 1,000 locally-sourced, healthy food products, including produce, meats, baked goods, dairy and prepared meals.

Tevel Robotics has come a long way in recent years, going from being an inspiration for science fiction movies to a real support and boost for most industries.

Intel this week highlighted plans to build two chip manufacturing facilities outside of Columbus, Ohio. The announcement is still early stages, involving the eventual allotment of $20 billion to construct the factories designed to tackle the ongoing global chip shortage — or at least address potential future issues. The company sketched a rough timeline for […]

Are you passionate about robotics and have strong hands-on experience? Reach out if you’d like to be part of our small but growing team.

Cana focused on identifying the basic set of ingredients, basically deconstructing beverages to figure out what makes it taste like a certain drink.

Launched in fall 2021 by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS), in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), the CITRIS Aviation Prize challenges student teams across the CITRIS campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz to design and develop a plan for an autonomous flight of at least 115 miles within a circuit of at least 5 miles with a small uncrewed aircraft system (UAV), or drone — in full compliance with Part 107 rules provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 

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As an Autonomy Perception Engineer, you’ll develop algorithms that enable autonomous systems to understand the world and navigate safely. That includes detecting, tracking, and predicting the motion of pedestrians and vehicles, as well as characterizing obstacles and terrain. We’re looking for a primarily hands-on engineer, who’s capable of taking real-world problems, turning them into well-defined […]

The Systems Hardware Engineer is responsible for collaborating with mechanical, software, hardware, and sensor engineers to architect the robot’s electrical and embedded systems.  This includes schematic design, firmware for various systems, wire harness design, and creative thinking for improving hardware performance. This is a very senior level individual contributor position, but with the expectation that […]

Looking to hire a Robot Specialist to join our small team at Hollywood Special Ops in Los Angeles. Since 2009, we have provided high-end specialty cameras for tv, ads, and motion pictures. In February, we will receive a new toy, the MiA Robot Arm, and want to hire someone full-time to be a partner with […]

In this role you will be responsible for working with Autonomy system domain experts to implement designs in software. You will work with Perception, Planning, and Positioning teams to implement software solutions in C++. In addition, you will work on other areas of the system like middleware implementation. Responsibilities • Create C++ software within Autonomy […]

As a simulation engineer, you will develop the tooling and method that enable autonomous system teams to understand the performance of their system. Your responsibilities include designing the proper technical solution, managing the performance metrics, and closing work upon review and confirmation the work meets expectations. We’re looking for a primarily hands-on engineer, who’s capable […]

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When we penned the intro for this piece last year, little did we know that — in many ways — we’d still be deep in it by the time 2021’s feature rolled around. Amid another holiday season marred by a new variant, seemingly the more things change — well, you get the picture. Surprisingly, however, […]

The Festival of Urgent Reinventions was founded by The Great Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization who want to redefine what’s possible and improve the world through action—and INSTRUMENT, a design agency built for change.