News from Cruise and new robots from Amazon and Robust.ai

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Neato Robotics is developing technology at the forefront of robotics & artificial intelligence. Our products are designed to free people from household chores and will change how we all look at housekeeping tasks.  Our products, the award-winning Neato family of autonomous robotic vacuums, have set new standards for intelligence, ease of use and cleaning effectiveness.  […]

Neato Robotics is developing technology at the forefront of robotics & artificial intelligence. Our products are designed to free people from household chores and will change how we all look at housekeeping tasks.  Our products, the award-winning Neato family of autonomous robotic vacuums, have set new standards for intelligence, ease of use and cleaning effectiveness.  […]

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Robust.AI, the company transforming how robots work for people, has unveiled its first software suite product, Grace, as well as a hardware product co

Engineers trained the Mayflower 400’s “AI Captain” on petabytes of data, and it's able to refine its knowledge through experience.

The Austin-based company expects to double its 52-person team in the next year.

/PRNewswire/ -- Tailos today announced Melonee Wise, founder of Fetch Robotics, has been elected to Tailos' board of directors. Wise will bring decades of...

Accessbility@ICRA2022 and OhmniLabs provided three OhmniBots for the conference, allowing students, faculty and interested industry members to attend the expo and poster sessions. The deployment of telepresence robots was greatly appreciated by everyone, from people with medical conditions or visa issues preventing them from attending, to people who were able to sample a little bit of the conference as an introduction, including future conference organizers. 

Telepresence robots are a great solution for conferences and virtual events. Let’s take a look at how they were recently used at ICRA 2022.

From Kiva to fully autonomous mobile robots and other robots in between, see how technology has helped Amazon improve the employee and customer experience.

You can’t discuss fulfillment robots without mentioning Amazon. Over the past decade, the retail juggernaut has become the 800-pound gorilla in the category, courtesy of several key acquisitions and seemingly endless resources. And while warehouse robotics and automation have been accelerated amid the pandemic and resulting employment crunch, Amazon Robotics has been driving these categories […]

Collaborative Robotics aims to build a six-degree-of-freedom robotic art that’s collaborative, works with humans and can meet a wide variety of use cases.

Amazon today announced that Lockeford, California will be “among the first” locations in the U.S. getting access to the company’s burgeoning drone delivery, Prime Air. Lockeford is a small, census-designation place of about 3,500, located roughly half an hour from Stockton. It’s also, fittingly, the one-time home of aviation pioneer Weldon B. Cooke. The company […]

Ariel Wolf, general counsel for the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA), discusses why it's so important to make the distinction...

The auto industry is changing its terminology to clarify the difference between AVs and driver-assist programs.

First mention must go to Mike Dooley and Labrador Robotics, winner of the inaugural Engelberger Foundation Grant and one of the only commercially viable home robots for the ‘aging in place’ demographic that exists. As you can see from the picture, the Labrador ‘Retriever’ is an affordable autonomous mobile robot capable of lifting and lowering table/shelf height and of retrieving pallets of drinks or medications or other things from countertops and even refrigerators. I’ve been a big fan since I first met the team and they are going from strength to strength.

The open source MBZIRC Maritime Grand Challenge simulator is provided by Open Robotics, the global leader in software for robotics simulation and application development.

Robot sales are up across North America, reported A3, and there was plenty of activity around industrial automation, mobile robots, and the connecting software during Automate 2022.

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We love writing about mobility - from buses to ebikes and eVTOLs. Here's some of our favorite stories we worked on in 2021.

At first glance, A-UGVs (autonomous unmanned ground vehicles) may not seem to have much in common with other 21st century technologies like additive manufacturing (AM) and smart infrastructure. Look closer, however, and you begin to see common threads: use of machine-learning concepts, reliance on automated systems, and digital interconnectivity, to namea few.As of fall 2021,

Computer-vision systems use shapes, colors, and even labels to identify materials at superhuman speeds

Sales of industrial robots have reached a strong recovery: A new record of 486,800 units were shipped globally – an increase of 27% compared to the previous year. Asia/Australia saw the largest growth in demand: installations were up 33% reaching 354,500 units. The Americas increased by 27% with 49,400 units sold. Europe saw double digit growth of 15% with 78,000 units installed. These preliminary results for 2021 have been published by the International Federation of Robotics.