Is San Francisco the center of the emerging robotics universe?

Aquaai's robotic fish ahead of deployment in Norway

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Next events:

• Society, Robots and Us: Funding Inclusive Robotics Tuesday August 24th at 6pm

• Construction Robotics Forum Members: Pittsburgh Robotics Network is hosting a panel on "How Robotics is Transforming the Construction Industry" on August 25th at 12pm EDT or 9am PDT

Eventbrite - UC CITRIS CPAR and SVR presents Society, Robots and Us: Inclusive Investment - Tuesday, August 24, 2021 - Find event and ticket information.

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In the News:

• For Robot Trucks, Navigating Highways Is Just One Bump in the Road

• Intel RealSense camera business being shut down

• Rapid Robotics raises another $36.7M – TechCrunch

• Robots are the new farmhands

• True Level 5 Autonomy Isn’t Possible, & Nobody Really Even Wants That

• Automated trucking, a technical milestone that could disrupt hundreds of thousands of jobs, hits the road - 60 Minutes

• Robots are infiltrating restaurants to... help?

• The Station: micromobility in North America, Joby Aviation makes its debut and a sidewalk bot invasion

• Exploring the $75 Million Ford Robotics Building | RoboticsTomorrow

• When robots screw up, how can they regain human trust?

• Elephant Robotics Expands Lightweight Robot Arm Product Line

• John Deere acquires robotics startup to accelerate autonomous advancement

• Here’s what the inevitable friendly neighborhood robot invasion looks like

• Autonomous Trucks Must Pair With Supply Chain Automation

• How Google's self-driving car project accidentally spawned its robotic delivery rival

• Why regulators love Nuro's self-driving delivery vehicles

• Advances in End-of-Arm Tooling for Packaging Robots

• Q&A: The Future of Restaurant Delivery Bots, According to Serve Robotics' Ali Kashani

• Privacy fears weigh on future car tech for billing road use

• Rubble-roving robots use hands and feet to navigate treacherous terrain

• Driverless? No, But How About the Car as Co-Pilot?

• Intel's Mobileye Announces Plan for Driverless Delivery Service, Tests Self-driving Cars in NYC

• Bags of innovation: inside automated baggage handling systems

• Atlas Shows Most Impressive Parkour Skills We've Ever Seen

• Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

• Tiny Robots Could Clean Up Microplastic Pollution

• Omron AMRs at the heart of hotel room service delivery

• How Is Robotic Automation Revolutionizing Construction?

• Perrone Robotics and Tropos Technologies Announce Partnership to Develop Fully Autonomous Electric Compact Utility Vehicles

• Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Crush a New Parkour Course

• Plus Demos Level 4 Autonomous Trucking Capabilities

• Robots could do your manicure, but TikTokers and Youtubers are divided

• Submersible robots help us better understand ocean health and carbon flows

• Robotics company develops autonomous mowers

• For Robot Trucks, Navigating Highways Is Just One Bump in the Road

• Meet the collaborative robots that will revolutionize testing

• When You Think About Food Robots, Consider the Remote Mining Facility

• Robots Grab New Capabilities

• Want Uncanny Valley? This Soft Robotic Hand can Play Nintendo

• Meet the aquatic robots studying our oceans

• Taking robots from the lab to the real world - Create

• Lucas Systems and Fetch Robotics partner to optimize robot-and-worker collaboration in warehouses

• New Zealand could take a global lead in controlling the development of 'killer robots' — so why isn't it?

• Founder Institute, NASA Ames and MassRobotics partner to launch AI and robotics accelerator in Boston

• Vale sends in the robots for maintenance assistance at its copper and iron ore operations in Brazil

• Waymo's Driver self-driving AI is seeing more clearly than ever

• How AI and soft robotics are making robots more human

• Starship, Kiwibot robots invade campuses

• Walt Disney Imagineers Continue to Develop Advanced Robots Plus Giant Exoskeletons for Future Character Appearances

• Have driverless cars stalled?

• Next generation of moon rovers

• Forget autonomy: Here's how driving becomes safer

• Drone powered by solar energy

• More Food Robots Enroll at College

• Fish fins are teaching us the secret to flexible robots and new shape-changing materials

• A new era of accelerated intralogistics automation

• Video Friday: Constant Gardener

• Rescue robots get a speed upgrade for rough terrain

• Eleven Oklahoma moms rescue members of all Afghan girl robotics teams

• The First Step Toward Protecting Everyone Else From Teslas

• Aurora offers an open book test for self-driving cars

• Ohio State Rolls Out Autonomous Food Delivery Robots

• Disinfection robots and thermal body cameras: welcome to the Covid-free office

• Quadriplegic man first in Chicago to participate in research for robotic prosthetic limbs

• Are Teslas self-driving? No, here's an autonomous car explainer

• How China is Militarizing Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology

• Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Does Parkour | Atlas

• Patient Simulators: From CPR Dummies to Mixed Reality High-Fidelity Robots

• Waymo Is 99% of the way to self-driving cars. The last 1% is the hardest

• How 3D robots can aid hotels amid labor shortages

• Baidu CEO unveils vision for future mobility at annual technology conference

• Inside Boston Dynamics’ project to create humanoid robots

• Tesla could offer self-driving technology to rival brands

• Robots Continue to Drive Innovation in Modern Transportation | RoboticsTomorrow

• Autonomous car insurance drives new opportunities

• Diamond Age raises $8M to advance robotic 3D printing for affordable homes

• On The Rancorous Controversy Over Dedicating Freeway Lanes Expressly For Autonomous Vehicles Such As AI Self-Driving Cars

• Elon Musk's Tesla Bot is a tease. These other robots are real

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What I'm looking forward to!

• The Built Worlds Summit in Sept 

• Avatar XPrize Semifinals in Sept

• WeRobot Conference in Sept

• DARPA SubT Challenge Finals in Sept

• IROS 2021 in Sept/Oct

• The ARM Dev Summit in Oct

• AAAI's AI for HRI in Nov

• AMT's MFG Meeting and MTForecast Conference in Nov

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CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic, industry, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT.