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DIY Robocars with Autoware August 14th at Circuit Launch

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Ispace Technologies - Series C - $46m

Based in Japan, Ispace Technologies is a space resource exploration company that locates, extracts, and delivers lunar ice to customers in cis-lunar space.

Third Wave Automation - Series B - $40m

Based in Union City CA, Third Wave Automation provides cloud robotics and machine learning technology to material handling automation.

Elroy Air - Series A - $40m

Based in San Francisco, Elroy Air is a logistics company that specializes in the fields of logistics, robotics, and air transportation.

Renu Robotics - Seed - n/a

Based in Texas, Renu Robotics develops autonomous electric vehicles with monitoring through mission control, operating under a software subscription model

Tevel Aerobotics Technologies - Angel - $740,000

Based in Israel, Tevel Aerobotics Technologies is a robotics platform that creates autonomous concept for orchard harvest and management.

Verdant Robotics - Series A - n/a

Based in Hayward, Verdant Robotics manufactures robotics machinery and components.

Miko - Series B - R2B

Based in India, Miko is an advanced robotics startup developing an artificial intelligence-based companion robot to educate and entertain children.

FlyGuys - Series A - $2m

Based in Louisiana, FlyGuys provides Nationwide Drone Services to Companies and Pilots 

Aether Biomedical - Seed - $3.6m

Based in Poland, Aether Biomedical is a rehabiliation robotics startup focused on building bionic limbs for upper limb amputees

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Physical chemist Geri Richmond and soil scientist Asmeret Asefaw Berhe appeared before a Senate committee this week for a hearing on their nominations to assume the top two science jobs in the Department of Energy. Both nominees appear likely to secure Senate confirmation, despite the top committee Republican questioning Berhe’s qualifications.

The UC Berkeley Blum Center for Developing Economies announced today that a wide range of academic programing around food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) designed by and for Native Americans and other underrepresented student groups will expand substantially as a result of a new $10 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Arizona, in collaboration with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and more than 20 additional partners.

The Senate passed a bipartisan $1 trillion spending bill this week and the outline of a larger, Democrat-backed spending package. Together, the bills would provide tens of billions of dollars for R&D, technology demonstration projects, and research infrastructure over a multiyear period.

At a recent House Intelligence Committee hearing, witnesses discussed ways the U.S. can address security and supply-chain vulnerabilities in the microelectronics industry. They also disagreed about the wisdom of the current congressional proposal to provide tens of billions of dollars to fund the manufacturing subsidies that were authorized in the CHIPS for America Act.

John Deere and Bear Flag Robotics discuss what their partnership means for the future of autonomous tractors.

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Unity is supporting ROS 2 due to "significant advancements and support of more hardware drivers, networking modules, communication architecture, and several robot algorithms."

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Highlights in this issue include a conversation with the CEO of Robot Aviation Niklas Nyroth and we look into the operation of the Exotec Skypod. Our dossiers detail the Maritime Robotics Mariner and the HFE International GenPod. The focus articles dive into the subjects of simulation tools and autopilots. Our insight looks at UAV's and our digest articles feature the MRS MR-10, MR-20 and the Aquaai Mazu plus much more...

The Global Robot Cluster co-hosted a virtual event with MassRobotics and Silicon Valley Robotics examining progress in human-robot interaction for healthcare and industrial uses.

So what does it mean for a robot to act ethically within a home environment? Researchers have been thinking about this question from different perspectives for the past couple of decades. Some look at the question from a labor perspective while others focus on the technology’s impact on different stakeholders. Inspired by these lines of […]

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Clean energy startups in the Golden State could receive up to $600,000 in grant funding. The next round of applications will open August 23rd, 2021!

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As fictional inventors make terrible choices on the big screen, real-world tech innovators can learn from their example how not to make the same kinds of ethical mistakes.

The physicist envisioned robots replacing human workers

TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."