What else has been happening in robotics?
Agility robotics takes on the state of AI :)
The level of misinformation and hype around AI at the moment is so worrying that I really appreciated Agility’s take on the situation :)
Ramon Roche talks to Camilo Buscaron, Chief Technologist from AWS Robotics - Behind the Tech Episode 13
Meet Digit, Agility Robotics’ human-centric, multi-purpose robot made for logistics work - CNET
Digit tries to get out of work - Agility Robotics
Video shows an FDNY robot dog working at the scene of a parking garage collapse on Tuesday afternoon - ABC NY
FDNY deploys robot dog to search for survivors in NYC garage collapse - Allie Griffin at New York Post
ChatGPQuick Reads:
Robust.AI raises $20M as it scales robot deliveries for pilot customers - Brian Heater at TechCrunch
Misconceptions about cobots and safety in manufacturing, fabrication settings - The Fabricator
Amazon releases largest dataset for training “pick and place” robots - Amazon Science
Robotic Deep Robot Learning at Scale: Sorting Waste and Recyclables with a Fleet of Robots - Sergey Levine and Alexander Herzog - Google Research Brain Team
DHL Supply Chain Facility Deomonstrates How Automation and Humans Can Coexist - Brian Straight at Robotics 24/7
GreyOrange Co-Founder Discusses Trends in Micro-Fulfillment and Mobile Robot Fleet Management - Eugene Demaitre at Robotics 24/7
Uber Eats and Cartken Expand Sidewalk Robot Deliveries to Virginia - Business Wire
How the Urban Robotics Foundation is Creating a Technical Standard for Delivery Robots - Jonah Bliss at OttOmate
Bear Robotics Bets on Elevator Interoperability With a Strategic Investment in M2MTech - Alison Suzuki at Business Wire
The robots are coming to take our jobs, but maybe it’s not a bad thing - Post Independent
Should Robots With Artificial Intelligence Have Moral or Legal Rights? - WSJ
Facing Robot Opponents Puts Table Tennis Players’ Brains on High-Alert - Claudia Lopez Lloreda in Science
Kodiak Robotics will haul freight autonomously for Tyson Foods - Rebecca Bellan at TechCrunch
Look, no hands: Scotland to launch autonomous buses - Independent
To make real improvements in road safety, California needs autonomous trucks - OC Register
Woven by Toyota: Accelerating Toyota’s Evolution into a Mobility Company - James Kuffner
The Elusive Dream of Fully Autonomous Construction Equipment - Wired
Actuator: Interoperability, the robotics investing climate and walking the balance beam -Brian Heater at TechCrunch
Can Space Agencies Boost Autonomous Shipping - John Conrad in qCaptain
Announcing Google DeepMind -Demis at DeepMind
Luminar’s New High Volume Manufacturing Facility Now Online - Luminar
GITAI demonstrates lunar base construction - ERIC BROTHERS at Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
Vitestro: Medical Robotics | Autonomous Blood Drawing
Distalmotion claims $150M to bring hybrid surgery robot to U.S. - Conor Hale at FierceBiotech
Noah Medical inundated with $150M in VC cash for its lung biopsy robot - Conor Hale at Fierce Biotech
Alphatec buys robotic spine navigation system for $55M - MedTech Dive
Liberation Labs Secures $30 Million in Equipment Funding for First Biomanufacturing Facility - Liberation Labs
Flexiv shares details of its robot masseur system - Robotics 24/7
Thinking about autonomous mobile robots for your plant? - Jim Lawton at Zebra
Emerson Electric to buy National Instruments for $8.2 bln to deepen automation push - Reuters
Austin based startup designing humanoid robot for NASA - Kxan News
Bay Area transit startup Glydways demos autonomous vehicle transit system for San Jose - Sonya Herrera at Silicon Valley Business Journal
San Jose pushes forward with $500M robot shuttle project, selects Glydways Inc. to develop pods - Sonya Herrera at Silicon Valley Business Journal
Robot shuttles at San Jose airport? Major transit plan moves forward - GABRIEL GRESCHLER at Bay Area News Group Silicon Valley
Fun New Robots:
Introducing the OpenMV Cam RT - OpenMV
Sparky - this musculoskeletal robot dog is the upgrade that makes your robot pet dream more realistic - Yanko Design
Crowd investment funding open for Ally Robotics - Republic
Democratizing robotics with affordable, extensible, no-code robotic arms
Everything you need to build a robot arm from scratch - ARCTOS
Robotics Events:
April 26-28 - MFG Manufacturing for Growth in Phoenix - AMT
April 27th - The Industry 4.0 Showcase Online - Deep-Tech Showcase
May 3 - Bots&Beer at 219 Design in San Francisco - Silicon Valley Robotics
May 10-11 - Robotics Summit and Expo in Boston - The Robot Report
discount code - SVR25
May 22-24- Embedded Vision summit in Santa Clara - Embedded Vision Alliance
discount code - SUMMIT23-SVRWIR
May 29th- June 2nd - ICRA in London - IEEE RAS
June 5-6 - IEEE Conference on AI in Santa Clara - IEEE CS
June 20-22 - Conference on Innovation Management in LA - IEEE Entrepreneurship
June 27 - coming soon The Future with Robots at the Commonwealth Club SF
Deep Reads:
This Week in Gear News: The NYPD Brings Robot Dogs Back - Wired
ChapGPT is impressive, but it may slow the emergence of AGI - Charles Simon in Tech Talks
Certified benchmark results for processors used in computer vision - BDTI
Tackling labor with robotics - World AgriTech Summit
Autonomous vehicle technology deep dive with John Deere and Zoox - Mike Oitzman in The Robot Report Podcast
The Developing Country Industrialization Series - Noahpinion
Wayback Machine:
21 years ago Evolution Robotics released ERI, The First Ever Personal Robot System
