Robotics reading: the good, the bad and the everything in between.

And where is the robotics community going to be in May?

A good article in SFGate by Joshua Bote with enough depth to really explore the good and the bad side of artificial companions. (Biased? well I am one of the article sources)

Here’s a really bad article in Robotics 24/7 about the humanoid robotic market by a guest writer from a market analytics firm. This is long on numbers and correlation but hasn’t got an ounce of causation or common sense.

And I really hope that the lesson you learned from the Silicon Valley Bank failure was not to diversify with First Republic Bank. That would be making the same mistake twice and the writing was already on the wall.

Quick Reads:

Demand for robot vision system is anticipated to reach $7 billion by 2033 - MARK ALLINSON at Robotics and Automation News.

Darpa Urban Challenge Commercialization - Road to Autonomy

David Rodriguez's "High-Driving" Delivery Bots Are Here to Stay - Jonah Bliss at OttOmate

$90 billion invested in robotics startups in past five years, according to new report - MARK ALLINSON at Robotics and Automation News.

Robotic solar pile driver three times faster than humans - JOHN FITZGERALD WEAVER at PV Magazine

GM's EV Sound Signature: From Didgeridoos to The Sun; Why Legacy OEMs Got The Software Defined Car Wrong - The Industry with John McElroy

Mobility and automotive software company Apex.AI launches full-scale business expansion in the Japanese market, expanding its international footprint to Asia -APEX.AI

Absolute EMS, OLogic Welcome Brazilian Robotics Team to Silicon Valley - smt.iconnect007

Tiny yeast-filled robots help brew beer quickly and more efficiently - Karmela Padavic-Callaghan at News Scientist

Fruit-Picking Robots Powered by Kubernetes on the Edge - Jennifer Riggins at The News Stack

How autonomous inventory robots could save retailers billions -Shawn Baldwin, Jeniece Pettit, Andrew Evers at CNCB.com

Someone Put ChatGPT Inside Of A Robot Dog, Which Can't Possibly End Badly - Darryn Bonthuys at Gamespot.com

ChatGPT integration brings speech to Spot the robot dog - Rob Thubron at Techspot

Robots Trailer: Shailene Woodley & Jack Whitehall Lead Sci-Fi Rom-Com - MAGGIE DELA PAZ at ComingSoon.Net

Robots are coming — for real this time, Eliot Horowitz says by Holly Quinn at Technical.ly

Robot dogs deployed in New York building collapse revive surveillance fears - Gloria Oladipo in New York

Polybot: AI and robotics unite to revolutionize polymer electronics research - Can Emir at Interesting Engineering

Baz Luhrmann Teases He 'Wouldn't Count' a Science-Fiction Movie Out: 'Robots the Musical!' (Exclusive) - Nigel Smith and Jen Juneau at People

Ostrich-Inspired Robot Gives Its Neck a Stretch RobOstrich mimicks the musculoskeletal structure of ostriches for high flexibility - Michelle Hampson at IEEE Spectrum

Ravenox and OhmniLabs Unite: Bringing American-Made Disinfection Robots to Hospitals - Laura Guy at OhmniLabs

AI ART SITES CENSOR PROMPTS ABOUT ABORTION - Debbie Nathan at The Intercept

Hyundai, GM partner with Korean battery makers to build US plants - Rebecca Bellan at TechCrunch

Rockwell Automation and Doosan Robotics Unite to Integrate the Companies’ Robots and Controllers - CRAIG RESNICK at ARCWEB

Don’t go it alone: Incubators and accelerators help build lifelong relationships - Ron Miller at TechCrunch

Bosch to acquire TSI Semiconductors to boost US chip production - Rebecca Bellan at TechCrunch

Veo Robotics closes $29M funding round - Brianna Wessling at The Robot Report

Cruise expanding 24/7 robotaxi service in SF - Brianna Wessling at The Robot Report

CISC-y RISC-ness - Ernie Smith at Tedium

ABB transforms AMR performance with launch of Visual SLAM technology - Mike Oitzman at The Robot Report

Colorado’s new right-to-repair law ensures tractor and wheelchair owners get the parts they need - Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch

Luup raises $30M ahead of Japan’s new micromobility rules - Kate Park at TechCrunch

Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias - SAYASH KAPOOR AND ARVIND NARAYANAN at Al Snake Oil Substack

Joby Aviation accelerates path to market with $55M DoD contract - Rebecca Bellan at TechCrunch

How generative models could go wrong - The Economist

Why Researchers Turned This Goldfish Into a Cyborg - The New York Times

What Are Transformer Models and How Do They Work? - Luis Serrano at Cohere

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans - MELANIE MITCHELL at AI Guide Substack

Aviation & Robotics Summit wraps up - here's what's coming next - Nate Doughty - Reporter at BizJournals

Berkeley researcher deploys robots and AI to increase pace of research by 100 times - Ameya Paleja at Interesting Engineering

AI-driven robots start hunting for novel materials without help from humans - ROBERT F. SERVICE at Science

ARM Institute opens call to help manufacturers adopt robotics - Brianna Wessling at The Robot Report

Ros 2 robotics software now on iWave single-board computers running Ubuntu 20.04 - Steve Bust at Electronics Weekly

Fraunhofer Demonstrates Flexible Manufacturing Robots, Hannover Highlights - Scarlett Evans at IOT World Today

Carrier Transicold Global Container Refrigeration moves toward Industry 5.0 through innovative collaboration with robots - AJOT

A radical new idea for regulating AI - DEREK ROBERTSON at POLITICO

Shape-Shifting Structures: The Future of Robotic Innovation - Scitech Daily

Purdue builds on-campus smart factory with Addverb robots and software - DCVelocity

How A.I.-powered robots are changing retail - Shawn Baldwin at CNBC

From making parts with A.I. to digitally cloning cars: What factories will look like in the future - Ryan Browne at CNBC

Avidbots releases first floorscrubbing robot built for industrial spaces - Mark Allinson at Robotics and Automation

Building the microelectronics manufacturing blueprint -TJ Triolo at ASU NEWS

American Manufacturing Resurgence: Reshoring Accelerates Significantly And Manufacturing Becomes A Digital-First Industry As CEOs Invest In Emerging Technologies Like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics And More - Globe News Wire

Fun New Robots:

Introducing the OpenMV Cam RT - OpenMV

Familiar Robotics Guide to Vision Processing Devices - Github

Robotics Events:

May 1-3 Robotics Automation and AI Investment Summit - Cascadia Capital

May 3 - Bots&Beer at 219 Design in San Francisco - Silicon Valley Robotics

May 9-11 - Xponential in Denver - AUVSI

May 10-11 - Robotics Summit and Expo in Boston - The Robot Report

discount code - SVR25

May 19 2-5pm - Robotics Technical Network in SF - Silicon Valley Robotics

May 19 6-8pm - Founders & Funders Network in SF - Silicon Valley Robotics

May 22-24 - Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara - Embedded Vision Alliance

including: May 23 Women in Vision Reception - Embedded Vision alliance

discount code - SUMMIT23-SVRWIR

May 22-24 - Automate in Detroit - A3

May 29th- June 2nd - ICRA in London - IEEE RAS

June 5-6 - IEEE Conference on AI in Santa Clara - IEEE CS

June 7-8 - Robotics Investment Summit in Boston - Cybernetix Ventures

June 14-17 - VivaTech in Paris - VivaTechnology

June 19-22 - TechConnect World in Washington DC - TechConnect Org

June 20-22 - FITMA in Mexico City - Feria Internationale

June 20-22 - Sensors Converge in Santa Clara - Sensors Converge

June 26-29 - Collision in Toronto - Web Summit

June 27-30 - Automatica in Munich - VDMA

June 27 - coming soon The Future with Robots at the Commonwealth Club SF

Oct 1-5 - IROS in Detroit - IEEE RAS

Deep Reads:

Berkeley EECS - event channel on youtube

• Yann LeCun: From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence

• Eli Yablonovitch: Physics does Constrained Optimization (for Free); A New Approach Toward Computation

• Antonio Torralba: Learning to See Without Real Images

• John Schulman: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Progress and Challenges

• Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium BEARS 2023 - Fireside Chat with Founding Team of Databricks

OLogic’s Ted Larson advises robot makers - Mike Oitzman in The Robot Report

Investing In Investors Vesting Invested Vests - Kyle Harrison in Investing 101

Wayback Machine:

1984 - 2023 Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club - recognize anyone?