Robotics Archives

[Video Highlights] Our Week with the World Economic Forum

In March 2021, Good Systems hosted a first-of-its-kind event with the World Economic Forum, inviting researchers and industry leaders to talk about government procurement of artificial intelligence, or — simply — how state, local, and federal government agencies buy AI technologies like computer vision, used for everything from autonomous vehicles and facial recognition, and natural language processing for things like virtual assistants or chatbots.

5 Agricultural Robots that are ruling the world

5 days ago2 days ago Analytics Insight

The impact that automation has left on each and every sector is commendable. We have got used to automation so much that getting done with certain tasks manually doesn’t just seem right. Here are the top 5 agricultural robots that are ruling the world

SoftBank leads $15M round for China’s industrial robot maker Youibot

1 week ago6 days ago Rita Liao

SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close to 100 million yuan ($15.47 million) in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the Seoul-based early-stage arm of the global investment behemoth.

Path Robotics raises $56M Series B for automated welding [Video]

2 weeks ago2 weeks ago Brian Heater

Columbus, Ohio-based firm Path Robotics today announced the completion of a $56 million Series B. The round, led by Addition (featuring Drive Capital, Basis Set and Lemnos Lab) brings the robotic welding company’s total funding to $71 million.

The NYPD has terminated its contract with Boston Dynamics, the maker of a “creepy”; robot dog, following a fierce backlash over its use in policing

2 weeks ago2 weeks ago ztayeb@businessinsider.com Zahra Tayeb

NYPD have ended their contract with robot dog creator Boston Dynamics

New York Police Department ends its contract with Boston Dynamics using Digidog

Computational Blurring as resolution for AI Autonomous Car Roving Eye

2 weeks ago2 weeks ago Allison Proffitt

Blurring techniques can potentially offer a level of privacy for those that might be captured on an image or a video.

[Video] Watch: AI to teach Robot Dog to Walk

2 weeks ago1 week ago Durga Prabhu

AI can be used to teach and at the same time is capable of learning by itself. Now, a team of researchers at Google are putting in efforts to find out if AI can be used to teach their robot dog to learn how to walk like a real dog.

6 manufacturing execs discuss how data collection and automation are changing the industry

2 weeks ago2 weeks ago aholmes@businessinsider.com Aaron Holmes

6 manufacturing execs chatted about the benefits of new communication tools, the advantage of artificial intelligence and automation, and how their companies have pushed themselves to focus on sustainability.

Robotic vision startup Plus One raises $33M

2 weeks ago2 weeks ago Brian Heater

San Antonio-based Plus One Robotics today announced a $33 million Series B. The round follows an $8.3 million Series A announced in 2018 and brings the company’s total funding to north of $40 million. The round, led by McRock Capital and TransLink Ventures, features BMWi Ventures, Kensington Capital Partners and Ironspring Ventures, along with existing investors.

Top 10 Robotics Funding in April 2021

3 weeks ago3 weeks ago Disha Ganguli

10 robotics companies funding in April 2021

List of the top 10 robotics companies that have raised funding and investment in April, 2021.

Agents in Artificial Intelligence

3 weeks ago2 weeks ago Ehtisham Raza

Artificial Intelligence study is composed of rational agents. A rational agent could be anything which make decisions, program, machine or a person. Agent carries out the actions which give the best outcome based on past and present percepts. An AI system contains and agent and the environment on which agent perform actions.

Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is a free walking robot that will make you believe in Groot

3 weeks ago3 days ago Matthew Panzarino

Disney Project Kiwi, a small-scale, free-roaming robotic actor, started three years ago to figure out how we can bring smaller characters to life.

Expenses startup Pleo preps $100M Series C funding, launches new bill payments service

3 weeks ago3 weeks ago Mike Butcher

Late-stage Fintech startup Pleo, which offers expense management tools and ‘smart’ company Mastercards, says it plans to raise a Series C round of funding this summer. It’s also launching a B2B bill payments service this week.

Multi-Task Robotic Reinforcement Learning at Scale

4 weeks ago2 weeks ago Google AI

Robotics at Google, both MT-Opt and Actionable Models indicate that it is possible to collect and then learn many distinct tasks from large diverse real-robot datasets within a single model, effectively amortizing the cost of learning across many skills. We see this an important step towards general robot learning systems that can be further scaled up to perform many useful services and serve as a starting point for learning downstream tasks.

Kroger launches its first Ocado-powered ‘shed’, a massive, robot-filled fulfillment center in Ohio

4 weeks ago4 weeks ago Ingrid Lunden

After inking a deal to work together almost three years ago, U.S. supermarket chain Kroger and U.K. online grocer Ocado today took the wraps off the first major product of that deal. Kroger has launched a new Ocado-powered customer fulfillment center in Monroe, Ohio, outside of Cincinnati, a gigantic warehouse covering 375,000 square feet and thousands of products for packing and delivering Kroger orders from online shoppers.

MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for its package-picking robot

4 weeks ago4 weeks ago Brian Heater

MIT spinoff Pickle is one of the latest startups to enter the fray. The company launched with limited funding and a small team, though it’s recently changed one of these, telling TechCrunch this week that it has raised $5.57 million in funding during this hot investment streak.

Domino’s, Nuro to begin autonomous pizza deliveries in Houston

1 month ago1 month ago Rebecca Bellan

Starting this week, some Domino’s customers in Houston can have a pizza delivered without ever interacting with a human. The pizza delivery giant said Monday it has partnered with autonomous delivery vehicle startup Nuro to allow select customers to have their pizzas dropped at their door via Nuro’s R2 robot.

Google Brain, Intel AI Lab & UC Berkeley Reveal the Power of Motion2Vec

1 month ago1 month ago Monomita Chakraborty

It has come to light that, Motion2Vec, an AI model developed by Google Brain, Intel AI Lab, and UC Berkeley has the ability to learn how to do tasks related with robotic surgery such as suturing, needle-passing, needle inserting, and knot binding by watching surgery clips. The model was tested in a lab with a two-armed da Vinci robot moving a needle through cloth.

32 examples of AI in healthcare

1 month ago1 month ago Sam Daley

AI has countless applications in healthcare. Whether it’s being used to discover links between genetic codes, to power surgical robots or even to maximize hospital efficiency, AI has been a boon to the healthcare industry.
Check out these 32 examples of AI in healthcare.

AppHarvest acquires ag robotics and artificial intelligence company Root AI to increase efficiency

1 month ago4 weeks ago Anonymous

AppHarvest, an AgTech company focused on farming more sustainably using 90% less water than open-field agriculture, has acquired Root AI, an artificial intelligence farming startup that creates intelligent robots to help manage high-tech indoor farms.

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