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Veo Robotics, a startup offering intelligent safeguarding for industrial robots, announced today that it has newly closed funding from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Safar Partners, and Yamaha Motor Ventures for a total of $14 million. The full investment round including earlier closings totals $29 million. This funding will accelerate Veo’s strategy of working with selected corporate partners to deploy…
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Unlike current collaborative robots, which are limited in size, speed, and power, robots using Veo Robotics Inc.'s proprietary safety technology can combine industrial capabilities with human-in-the-loop efficiency. The company today announced that it has closed a $14 million funding round, bringing its latest investment to a total of $29 million. “With the increased need for efficiency improvement in industrial environments,…
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Among the first announcements at LogiMAT 2023 in Stuttgart, Germany, was OTTO Motors' formal expansion into the European market. The unit of Kitchener, Ontario-based Clearpath Robotics Inc. said it is already a leading provider of autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, in North America. “OTTO Motors leads the material handling automation industry in North America with the world’s most comprehensive AMR…
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ABB announced last week that it is supporting automobile manufacturer Renault Group by providing robots at the company's electric vehicle manufacturing facilities in Cléon and Douai France. ABB claimed its robotic automation solutions will help increase Renault Group's capacity. In the past 24 months, ABB has delivered most of the 160 units Renault Group has ordered. At the company’s Douai…
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OTTO Motors and Kollmorgen today announced a strategic technical collaboration that they described as “a major milestone for the autonomous material handling industry.” The companies said they share a goal of delvering “exceptional” self-driving vehicle applications to original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators across industries globally. “As the autonomous material handling market matures, customers will expect all vehicles in their…
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ChatGPT is a popular topic of discussion, but how can such technology help manufacturers and other robotics users? Groundlight last week announced the launch of its visual understanding service based on natural language instructions. The Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup claimed that its service enables any developer to understand images programmatically using simple English-language instructions and just a few lines of…
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Building on a successful pilot of autonomous deliveries in Miami, Florida, Uber Technologies, Inc. and Cartken, an AI-powered robotics company, on Thursday announced an expansion of their partnership to include food deliveries via automated robots in Fairfax, Virginia. Uber Eats consumers at Mosaic District will have the opportunity to have orders delivered by Cartken’s self-driving robot. Uber and Cartken will…
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OpenAI’s recently announced GPT-4 version of its ChatGPT text-generating artificial intelligence program is reportedly capable of “human-level performance” on many professional tests, beating 90% of human test-takers. According to the company, GPT-4 reached the 90th percentile on a simulated bar exam, the 93rd percentile on an SAT reading exam, and the 89th percentile on the SAT Math exam. Thanks to…
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John Lewis Partnerships has chosen Logistex to provide the technology stack for its new e-commerce distribution center in Fenny Lock, Milton Keynes. To start, Logistex will deploy Reflex, its warehouse execution system at the center to facilitate orchestrate the picking of orders across multiple zones and provide full integration with conveyors, robots and automated bagging machines. Logistex to outfit facility…
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The Netherlands is home to a large number of robotics companies developing new technologies aimed at making a wide range of industries more productive. They include farming and milking robots for Dutch agriculture, mobile robots for warehouses, drones for surveillance, and countless other applications. HowToRobot.com recently published a study of the nation's 350 robotics and automation suppliers in collaboration with…
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SVT Robotics announced yesterday that it has worked with supply chain management software company Tecsys to develop and launch a pre-built connector between the Tecsys WMS and SVT's SOFTBOT Platform. The companies said the integration will provide Tecsys Elite customers much faster deployment and lower complexity without the need for custom code development often involved in multi-system automation and robotics…
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At Hannover Messe yesterday, J&M Manufacturing, a U.S. maker of grain-handling equipment, won the Gold manus award from igus GmbH for its innovative use of plastic bearings in an assembly that applies liquid fertilizer. J&M Manufacturing won the Gold award for its use of igus bearings in its Para-Linkage coulter. The Fort Recovery, Ohio-based company uses them in its J&M…
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ABB earlier this month announced that it was investing approximately $170 million in several new U.S. projects designed to bolster its manufacturing, innovation, and distribution operations. The company added that the projects will help create new high-skilled job opportunities. The U.S. is ABB's largest market, making up 24% of its annual revenue, according to the Zürich, Switzerland-based company. “The United…
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SVT Robotics, a leader in enterprise software for the rapid deployment of industrial robotics, today announced a new SOFTBOT Platform Connector for Tecsys Inc., an industry-leading supply chain management software company. SVT and Tecsys worked together to develop and launch the pre-built connector between the Tecsys WMS and SVT's SOFTBOT Platform. The integration will provide Tecsys Elite™ customers much faster…
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Nauticus Robotics, Inc., a developer of autonomous robots using artificial intelligence for data collection and intervention services for the ocean economies, yesterday announced it has successfully completed the competitive first phase of its Amphibious Autonomous Response Vehicle with the Defense Innovation Unit, or DIU. Nauticus' robotic systems and services are sold to commercial and government-facing customers through a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS)…
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