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Deus Robotics, a Ukraine-based developer of warehouse robotic automation, has successfully closed a $3 million seed funding round led by U.Ventures, with participation from 1991 Ventures, SID Venture Partners, Sigma Software Labs and SD Capital. Following the latest funding round, and another $1.5M in February 2023, Deus Robotics is now valued at $20 million. Funding to be used for product…
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GreyOrange, a global provider in AI-driven technology, announced the deployment of its gStore platform across U.S. PetSmart retail stores. The strategic rollout of this retail SaaS store execution platform looks to enhance PetSmart’s location management, inventory management, digital fulfillment and store operations for improved efficiency across its nearly 1,700 stores. PetSmart turned to gStore to solve operational challenges “The deployment…
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Flexiv, a global provider of general-purpose robotics, announced it has partnered with KURABO, a Japanese developer of high-speed image processing and 3D measurement technology, to develop the KURAVIZON adaptive robot. The KURAVIZION robot integrates Flexiv’s force control technology with KURABO’s 3D vision sensing technology, KURASENSE. The companies announced that KURAVIZON will be available for sale on January 10. Eyes and…
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RealMan Robotics, a global developer in ultra-lightweight humanoid robotics and specialized robotic offerings, unveiled multiple robotic technologies at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. RealMan highlighted a suite of products designed for multiple sectors, from retail and healthcare to industrial and domestic applications at the show. Ultra-lightweight humanoid robotic arms At the RealMan booth, the company showcased its ultra-lightweight robotic arms…
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Unitree Robotics, a China-based global robotics company that develops and sells consumer and industry-level high-performance robots, has updated its humanoid robots with an open-source full-body motion dataset to make them capable of more fluid, natural movement. The Unitree H1, H1-2 and G1 humanoid robot models are able to demonstrate new, smoother movement trajectories to dance, breakdance and drop kick. Data,…
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Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have reached an agreement to resolve their patent litigation in U.S. District Court. The specific terms of the settlement are confidential. Robot dog Spot at center of original lawsuit Boston Dynamics originally sued Ghost Robotics in November 2022, alleging that Ghost’s Vision 60 and Spirit 40 quadruped, unmanned ground vehicles infringed on Boston Dynamics’ patents…
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Autonomous delivery robot provider Ottonomy recently unveiled its Contextual AI 2.0 at CES 2025. This software leverages vision language models (VLMs) on Ambarella's edge hardware. The company’s Ottobot autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can now make more contextually aware decisions and exhibit intelligent behaviors, which Ottonomy said marks a significant step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). “LLMs on edge hardware is…
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At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, NVIDIA made two major announcements geared toward the development of physical and generative AI. NVIDIA announced Cosmos, a platform comprising state-of-the-art generative world foundation models, advanced tokenizers, guardrails and an accelerated video processing pipeline built to advance the development of physical AI systems such as autonomous vehicles (AVs) and robots. The company also announced…
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At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, advanced perception and computer vision developer Ubicept unveiled new technology that it said processes photon-level image data to enable unprecedented machine perception clarity and precision. The company was founded in 2021 by computer vision experts from MIT, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and veterans of Google, Facebook, Skydio and Optimus Ride. At the show, demonstrations show…
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Ambi Robotics, a developer of AI-powered robotic sorting offerings for material handling operations, announced the launch of PRIME-1, the first Robotic Foundation Model to be deployed in real-world commercial warehouse operations. PRIME-1 stands for Production-Ready Industrial Manipulation Expert. It provides a unified transformer backbone that can be fine-tuned for a variety of robot operations including 3D perception, package picking and…
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SIMPPLE Ltd., a Singapore-based technology provider and innovator in the facilities management sector, announced that through its subsidiary, the company had completed the sale and successful deployment of 89 autonomous cleaning robots across Singapore, marking the largest robotic fleet in the land transport sector with rail operator SMRT Trains. Aligned with the broader Singapore Government initiative to push towards greater…
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One Equity Partners (OEP), a middle market private equity firm, recently announced that it has completed a majority investment in Comau, a global technology company specializing in industrial automation and advanced robotics. The investment has made Stellantis an active minority shareholder. Alessandro Nasi, Comau executive chairman, and Pietro Gorlier, Comau CEO, will continue leading the company and its future growth.…
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Piezoelectric and triboelectric tactile sensors, crucial for applications in robotics and wearable devices, face challenges in flexibility and environmental resilience. In a new study, researchers from Chung-Ang University in South Korea have developed manufacturing strategies to enhance sensor performance by optimizing material properties and fabrication techniques. According to the researchers, these advancements are set to drive the creation of highly…
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Palladyne AI, a developer of artificial intelligence software for robotic and unmanned platforms in the industrial and defense sectors, announced that its Pilot AI software platform has achieved a key developmental milestone. The company saw the successful first flight of a third-party small drone that demonstrated the ability to identify and prioritize terrestrial targets of interest and then interface with…
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India-based CynLr, a deep tech robotics startup, raised $10M in a new round of Series A funding led by Pavestone and Athera Venture Partners (formerly Inventus India), bringing its total funding to $15.2M. Existing investors Speciale Invest, Infoedge (Redstart) and others also participated in this round of fundraising. CynLr said it is building the missing layers of fundamental technology that…
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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…
Preview the manufacturing and warehouse robots and software that will be on…