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The food and beverage industry has historically faced challenges including high costs and thin profit margins, so the need for creative solutions is not new. Today, businesses face some of their biggest challenges yet in the form of chronic labor shortages, changing consumer preferences, and demands for more variety and faster production. “Both food and beverage, from a distribution and…
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Development of Battery-Free Multi-Rotation Absolute Mechanical Encoder
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Everything You Need to Know About Stepper Motors
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ForwardX Technology Co. today announced that the successful completion of its latest funding round on July 7. The Beijing-based provider of vision-based mobile robot technology raised $30 million, bringing its Series C total to $61 million. Since its founding in 2016, ForwardX Robotics said it has raised about $140 million. It said the funding “will be instrumental in further accelerating…
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Geek+ has implemented its goods-to-person technology at Rhenus Logistics' warehouse in Switzerland. The P800 AMR system is a goods-to-person self-driving shelf system. The AMR robot selects the shelf with the demanded product(s) and drives it to the pick workstations where the employees can take out the items. This first installation in Basel consists of 13,320 shelf spaces. The first two…
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The Robotics Factory, an initiative dedicated to creating, accelerating, and scaling robotics companies in the Pittsburgh region, has announced its new location at the Tech Forge building in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Supported by Innovation Works, the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, and the Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative, the Robotics Factory will serve as a collaborative space, bolstering manufacturing capabilities…
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Knightscope has added automated gun detection to its mobile security robots. The new feature was implemented in direct response to requests from schools, corporations, airports, hotels, and municipalities considering purchasing gunshot detection systems as part of their active threat and emergency response plans, it said. Knightscope’s automated gunshot detection system will be integrated onto new K1 Blue Light Towers or…
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More companies are making strides toward functional humanoid robots. Figure AI Inc. today announced that Intel Capital has made a $9 million equity investment to accelerate the development of its Figure 01 “general-purpose” robot. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Figure said the funding will also strengthen its balance sheet, help it build out a data pipeline for autonomous operations, and enable it to…
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Aerial drones aren't just for outdoor inspection, surveying, and surveillance. Several startups are working to apply drones to inventory management. Verity AG last week announced that it has raised an additional $11 million in its Series B funding round. The company said in a release that it plans to use the capital “to scale the delivery of zero-error warehouses and…
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Robots are moving goods in warehouses, packaging foods, and helping assemble vehicles—when they’re not flipping burgers or serving lattes. How did they get so skilled so fast? Robotics simulation. Making leaps in progress, it’s transforming industries all around us. A robotics simulator places a virtual robot in virtual environments to test the robot’s software without requiring the physical robot. And…
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Chipotle Mexican Grill recently announced Autocado, an avocado processing cobotic prototype that cuts, cores, and peels avocados before they are hand mashed to create the restaurant's famous guacamole. The prototype, developed in collaboration with Vebu, is currently being tested at the Chipotle Cultivate Center in Irvine, Calif. Vebu worked closely with Certified Training Managers from Chipotle's restaurants to analyze the…
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Among the challenges in robotics is researching technologies that can then be developed and applied to commercial challenges. The Raymond Corp. yesterday said that its University Research Program will now review applications twice per year — in the fall and winter semesters. The current request for proposals went out last month with a deadline of October 2023. “The changing economic…
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Gecko Robotics today announced a further expansion of its work with the U.S. Navy under a new $5 million ceiling contract with Huntington Ingalls Industries. The expansion will increase the speed and quality of maintenance cycles for U.S. Navy surface ships, including amphibious assault ships, it said. “We built Gecko Robotics to collect data that has never been accessible before…
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Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp. this week announced that it has laid off about a quarter of its 300-person workforce as part of a restructuring effort to help it reduce costs. The company said it expects the move to help save approximately $14.1 million annually. But it added that a onetime charge of $1.5 million will happen in the third…
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Chang Industrial and Hai Robotics yesterday announced the formation of a strategic partnership targeting North American manufacturers. Chang Industrial has built a consortium of engineering and supply chain partners including Hai Robotics, a leading global provider of automated storage and retrieval systems, or ASRS. The partners said they aim to improve flexibility and sustainability in manufacturing offerings. The collaboration is…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse components that will be on the…
