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…As the recent cessation of SoftBank's Pepper service robot line shows, most humanoids are not yet rugged, dexterous, or affordable enough to be commercially viable or useful for multiple tasks. Combining locomotion, a humanoid design, mobile manipulation, and a smooth user interface is a still a tall order. As with the concept of multipurpose household robots, the hardware of humanoids…
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…into the fingertips of a SoftBank Pepper humanoid robot. Sensors on the fingers of each hand can be positioned on a patient's chest to take electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmogram (PPG) readings. Blood pressure is monitored and estimated by combining the sensor data from each hand. Using predetermined algorithms, the signals from the paired sensors can generate a patient's systolic and…
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…the Waltham, Mass.-based company from SoftBank Group Corp. last year. Stretch is a “flexible, easily integrated solution that can work in any warehouse to increase the flow of goods and improve associate safety by taking over physically demanding tasks,” claimed Boston Dynamics. The mobile manipulator has a compact, omni-directional base and a custom-designed lightweight arm, as well as a suction…
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…Pine Venture, SIG, BlueRun Venture, SoftBank, and HAX. TAIHECAP was designated as the exclusive financial advisor. Previous investors included ZhenFund, C&I Capital, INNO, BOLE and XJTU 1896. YouiBot said it plans to focus on precision manufacturing and the energy industry by continuing its advances in production scenarios, planning algorithms, and robotics hardware. The company also said it will “expand its…
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…exclusive strategic financing and the SoftBank Vision Fund. The company achieved successful results and was ranked on the Hurun “global unicorn company” list last year. Meanwhile, Keenon Robotics was named one of the top 10 “best investment cases in advanced manufacturing” by the CVINFO 2021 Annual List. The company has launched with six global business areas: North America, Europe, the…
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…SVF Investment Corp. 3, a SoftBank unit, and plans to be publicly listed on Nasdaq. It filed an S-4 registration statement, a final proxy statement, and an SVF prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 9. Walmart to accelerate materials handling with robots Each week, approximately 220 million customers and members visit approximately 10,500 Walmart stores…
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…Since acquiring Boston Dynamics from SoftBank last year, Hyundai Motor Group has expressed strong interest in commercializing products such as Stretch. What are Hyundai's expectations? “Most people in the Americas think of Hyundai as a car company, but in South Korea, it's a manufacturing company, a logistics company, and a construction company,” Blankespoor said. “They've got a huge number of…
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…that it is partnering with SoftBank on a joint venture called GreenBox to build out a network of automated, multi-tenant DCs running on Symbotic’s technology, we have the concept of “warehouse-as-a-service,” which is more than RaaS in that GreenBox would manage and run these automated DCs for multiple clients as a service. While many vendors see growing momentum for RaaS,…
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…visible and public example is SoftBank’s announcement that it will take Berkshire Grey private, paying $1.40 a share for the shares it does not already own. Remember that BG went public at $10 a share. Privately, I’ve had more than one VC tell me that they are no longer investing in robotics hardware companies, and more than one robotics company…
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…USA Tech: The Future of High-Tech Industries alongside other companies including Softbank Group International, GymPass and A-to-Be. In addition to taking about automation and robotics and the growing move to bring production closer to home, Atiya also noted that the business-friendly environment and level of entrepreneurship in the United States fuels ABB’s own innovation and growth there.
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…Group acquired the company from SoftBank Group Corp. in 2021. Since then, Boston Dynamics has demonstrated Spot in many different environments; offered the Stretch robot for unloading trucks; and continued to work with developers, software and sensor providers, and corporate customers. Last month, CEO Robert Playter joined Kiva Allgood, president and CEO of Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp., at TCs…
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…American workers.” “The Future of High-Tech Industries alongside other companies including Softbank Group International, GymPass and A-to-Be,” Atiya said.“In addition to talking about automation and robotics and the growing move to bring production closer to home, Atiya also noted that the business-friendly environment and level of entrepreneurship in the United States fuels ABB’s own innovation and growth there.
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…Brooks Automation's Semiconductor Solutions Group. SoftBank's $2.8 billion acquisition of 40% of AutoStore is the stuff of legends. Another axis of consolidation to consider is companies that possessed technology that couldn’t stand on its own but is cool. There are some really interesting components, like perception AI to predict traffic flows from camera data. That's abstract enough that very few…
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…at Aldebaran (later acquired by SoftBank) and helped create the humanoid robots Nao and Pepper. With Miroki, Monceaux told Robotics 24/7 he is hoping to combine his years of experience and offer customers a robot that can easily navigate an environment and collaborate smartly with humans. The robots use artificial intelligence to understand prompts such as “Take all these objects…
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…Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney, Australia. The funding was led by Softbank Vision Fund, and co-led by Prosperity7 Ventures, the oversubscribed round also included investments from Tiger Global, and existing investors including Hillhouse, Sequoia China, Shangbay Capital, Uphonest Capital, Sunmed Capital, Lyfe Capital, 1955 Capital, AME cloud ventures, as well as undisclosed strategic investors.
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
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Preview the manufacturing and warehouse robots and software that will be on…
