ICE is planning to procure Boston Dynamics Spot robots for inspection and hazard assessment. The decisive test is not mobility…
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SoftBank Robotics and Flagship Facility Services report more than 200 cleaning robots across 25 airports. The real product is increasingly…
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RoboSense reports 282,600 LiDAR units for robotics and other applications as it expands into sensing and actuation components.
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Microduck combines a $399 price with an open reinforcement-learning and sim-to-real stack for physical AI developers.
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Generalist reportedly expanded its Series B to $600 million shortly after presenting a one-shot learning model for robots.
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Seoul National University is building a ten-year research program for distributed, modular and bio-inspired robotics.
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MicroVision reports orders for thousands of IRIS sensors across industrial, logistics and robotics applications.
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Ropedia’s HOMIE Gen2 aims to capture synchronized human activity as training data for robots.
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Qualcomm is opening a robotics center in Japan, targeting the platform layer between sensors, AI and machines.
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Corvus Robotics has raised US$20 million to expand autonomous inventory systems for warehouses and distribution centres. Its most revealing product…
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