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Today, Addverb Technologies announced a new partnership with mobile storage and warehouse automation provider McMurray Stern. Combining McMurray Stern's fully integrated storage options with Addverb's fixed and flexible solutions will enable new and existing customers to customize and optimize their picking, packing, storage, and other systems, the companies said. The combined integrations, the companies said, will deliver innovative systems for…
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Loading docks are a new frontier for robots. Pickle Robot Co. today announced that its pilot implementations are live, unloading tens of thousands of packages per month at customer sites in the greater Los Angeles area. The startup also said it has raised $26 million in Series A funding and added industry veterans to its leadership team as it brings…
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At the Formnext event yesterday in Frankfurt, Germany, Markforged Inc. announced the release of new Simulation features for its additive manufacturing software. Simulation is available as a free trial until April 2023 and as a paid subscription thereafter, said the company. As both 3D printing and simulation software move from prototype to production, the complementary technologies promise to save manufacturers…
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Pickle Robot Company, a provider of AI-enabled robotic automation systems that unload trucks, today announced it has live pilot implementations unloading tens-of-thousands of packages per month at customer sites in the greater Los Angeles area, and has raised $26 million in series A funding led by Ranpak, JS Capital, Schusterman Family Investments, Catapult Ventures, and Soros Capital. Additionally, Pickle Robot…
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ReWalk Robotics Ltd. last week welcomed BARMER’s decision to accept the prior ruling from the state court that exoskeletons are considered as direct disability compensation and withdraw the pending case at the federal level shortly before the hearing. This outcome means that an eligible insured person with spinal cord injury (SCI) has a legal basis for the supply of an…
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Mobile robots are rolling from factories and warehouses to offices. Piaggio Fast Forward Inc. today announced that it will offer the PFF pro fleet-management software for the business versions of its pro gitamini and gitaplus robots. The company said the cloud-based tool is designed to optimize and augment the working relationship between people and their robotic colleagues. “Gita robots are…
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Kodiak Robotics has demonstrated that its autonomous trucking technology can continue working even when one of the freight truck’s tires gets blown out. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company last week released a video that showed a Kodiak Driver autonomous truck rolling over a test rig that punctures the front driver-side tire of a Kodiak Class 8 tractor. Even after the…
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More automation doesn’t necessarily mean better automation. That’s why a deployment with an impressive number of autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, in a mobile robot fleet isn’t necessarily more effective than one with just a handful. While it’s common for mobile robot deployments to start small and get bigger, success with AMRs takes more than growing the fleet. You need…
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Just as cameras using film and cellular phones have evolved into today's digital cameras and smartphones, so too have drones gained utility with lidar and other sensors. The same pattern of technology improvement lets us get instant output from different cameras and mobile platforms. Aerial imaging and remote inspection were made possible by the development of lidar drones. But what…
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The news of Argo.AI's closure late last month hit the robotics world hard. The Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle company, which was backed by both Ford and Volkswagen, wasn't meeting expectations for several factors, including the economic downturn and a lack of funding from new investors, reported Pittsburgh Inno. The remains of the company will be absorbed by Ford and VW. Argo's…
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During its “Delivering the Future” event at its robotics manufacturing facility yesterday in Westborough, Mass., Amazon.com Inc. announced Sparrow, its new robotic arm designed to complete product-handling tasks. “Sparrow is the first robotic system in our warehouses that can detect, select, and handle individual products in our inventory,” the company said in a blog post. “Sparrow represents a major advancement…
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Environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity can affect additive manufacturing, so process monitoring can help standardize production. Handddle and Markforged yesterday said they are integrating Handddle's “micro-factories” platform and other management tools with the Markforged Digital Forge software. “Handddle is thrilled to collaborate with Markforged to extend API integrations for Handddle and Markforged users looking to achieve industrial efficiencies…
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Additive manufacturing and robotic material removal systems are coming together. Optomec Inc. and Acme Manufacturing yesterday said they have partnered to produce an automated workcell initially optimized for repairing aviation compressor blades made of titanium. The companies have collaborated for two years with input from commercial maintenance, repair, and overhaul, or MRO, and U.S. Department of Defense repair centers for…
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Universal Robots, the largest company in a fast-growing Danish robotics hub, has become the cluster’s first organization to reach 1,000 employees – one of only a few Danish companies founded in this millennium to hit this milestone. Since its first collaborative robot (cobot) was launched in 2008, Universal Robots has grown to be a global market leader in cobots with…
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The U.K.'s departure from the EU, or the so-called Brexit, might have been a setback for international trade, but fewer regulations and more free investment could help British robotics startups. Britbots and Sapphire Capital Partners last week announced the launch of the British Robotics Start-Up Fund, which they said takes advantage of the new Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. Over the…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse components that will be on the…
