Teleo, a company building autonomous technology for heavy equipment, announced it has raised $16.2 million in Series A extension funds in addition to its previously announced Series A funding round. The company will primarily use the funds to scale customer deployments and continue its expansion in new industries that use heavy machinery, such as wheel loaders, terminal tractors, excavators and more. Teleo will also use the funds to enhance its AI capabilities, including advancing autonomous features; integrating large language models (LLMs) to unlock operator efficiency further; and collecting real-world data to continue training AI models. Since its inception in 2019,…
Universal Robots, the Danish collaborative robot (cobot) company, has unveiled its UR AI Accelerator, which the company says is a ready-to-use hardware and software toolkit created to further enable the development of AI-powered cobot applications. Designed for commercial and research applications, the UR AI Accelerator provides developers with an extensible platform to build applications, accelerate research and reduce the time to market of AI products. AI Accelerator powered by NVIDIA Isaac The toolkit brings AI acceleration to Universal Robots' PolyScope X software program and is powered by NVIDIA Isaac accelerated libraries and AI models, running on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX…
ProGlove, a global developer of wearable scanner offerings to increase human-centered productivity, recently launched a new, on-demand rental program for its MARK wearable scanner. This program offers short-term rentals of ProGlove's MARK range of smart scanners. The goal is to give logistics and warehouse operators the flexibility to scale operations to meet demand during peak periods without the long-term financial commitment that comes with traditional expansion methods. MARK looks to increase human scanning in busy warehouses Warehouses are facing mounting pressure to adapt to fluctuating demands and supply chain disruptions, especially with the holiday season. Companies often cannot predict demand…
NVIDIA announced at AWS re:Invent that Isaac Sim now runs on Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) G6e instances accelerated by NVIDIA L40S GPUs. And with the NVIDIA OSMO cloud-native orchestration platform, developers can manage their complex robotics workflows across their AWS computing infrastructure. Smoother development options through EC2 Field AI is building robot brains that enable robots to autonomously manage a wide range of industrial processes. Vention creates pre-trained skills to ease the development of robotic tasks. And Cobot offers Proxie, its AI-powered cobot, designed to handle material movement and adapt to dynamic environments, working seamlessly alongside humans. These robotics…
Once dispersed in labs across campus, Stanford University’s robotics researchers now have a unified, state-of-the-art space for groundbreaking research, education and collaboration. The basement beneath the Packard Electrical Engineering Building, once a hallway with researchers working behind closed doors, is now a bustling hub for collaboration. After many years of planning, fundraising and development, the all-new Stanford Robotics Center officially opened its doors with a reception in November 2024. New Center harmonizes decades of robotics research The new facility is a bright, open, and vibrant space with many research bays arranged side-by-side. In one corner, a dancer pirouettes as her…
Flexiv, a global provider of general-purpose robotics offerings, announced the launch of Elements Series 3, the latest evolution of its adaptive robot control system that makes programming faster, easier and more capable than ever before. Flexiv’s engineers have reimagined the user experience from the ground up, according to the company, focusing on human-centered design and advanced, semi-automated features. New Teach Pendant, redesigned Motion Bar With a new rugged Teach Pendant, and intuitive software, robotic programmers of any skill level can easily create and manage robotic applications regardless of their location. Another update to the offering is the ability to create…
Algorized, a Berkeley, Calif.-based AI-powered platform for advanced people-sensing and positioning software, announced it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding to drive innovation in people sensing and support safer human-machine interaction. The investment round was led by Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, with participation from Acrobator Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, CoreNest Capital, Shucker Ventures and other strategic investors. Safe collaboration between humans and robots With the adoption of robotics and automation across industries, ensuring the safe collaboration of people and machines is an important challenge. Human detection remains a key area of development, particularly for robots that need to distinguish…
AutoStore and systems integrator Bastian Solutions have once again partnered with global sports brand PUMA. The companies recently announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration by implementing the AutoStore system at a new distribution center in Phoenix, Ariz. With this new facility, PUMA aims to increase daily order fulfillment from 100,000 to 200,000, enhancing speed, efficiency, and accuracy across the entire retail supply chain. PUMA partnership with AutoStore, Bastian Solutions dates back to 2015 AutoStore’s cubic storage and retrieval system has been the default automated fulfillment offering integrated with PUMA’s warehouse operations since 2015, serving distribution facilities in Indiana and…
Several mobile robotics technologies for supply chains will mature within the next two to five years, creating an accelerating market for increasingly capable mobile robots and drones, according to Gartner. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Mobile Robots and Drones is a graphical depiction of a common pattern that arises with each new technology or other innovation through five phases of maturity and adoption. Chief supply chain officers can use this research to find robotic offerings that meet their needs. Expanded use of automation, AI-enabled systems Technologies that have passed the “Trough of Disillusionment” and are progressing on the “Slope of Enlightenment”…
Brightpick, a provider of warehouse automation offerings for order fulfillment, announced it has raised an additional $12 million in a mix of equity and debt. The round saw participation from new investor EBRD Venture Capital, alongside existing investors Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera (founders of Avast), Miroslav Trnka (founder of ESET), Maximilian Kolowrat-Krakowsky and Juraj Duriš. New funds will accelerate deployment of Brightpick robots Founded in 2021 as a spin-off of Photoneo, a provider of 3D robotic vision sensors and intelligence software, Brightpick now has over 200 employees and 300 AI robots deployed across the US and Europe. Its customers…
