Topic: Hospitality

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IFR World Report Found Service Robot Sales Increased 37% in 2021

October 31, 2022 · Following the publication of its World Robotics report, the IFR has shed further details on the state of the service robotics market and the trends influencing its growth.

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Gausium and SoftBank Robotics America to Expand Service Robot Deployments Across U.S. Market

October 10, 2022 · Gausium's X1 performs automated food service, while the Scrubber 50 Pro works alongside commercial cleaning teams scrubbing, sweeping, dust mopping, and sanitizing.

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InOrbit Launches Developer Edition, Expands Mobile Robot Orchestration Capabilities

October 10, 2022 · InOrbit announced at A3's mobile robot and logistics event the launch of a Developer Edition of its RobOps software, streamlined Connect certification, and more interoperability.

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10 Humanoid Robotic Companies to Look Out For

October 9, 2022 · Humanoid robots may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but these companies are making them a reality.

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Avidbots Cleans Up With $70M in Series C Funding to Bring Autonomous Robots to Market

September 28, 2022 · Avidbots, whose Neo cleaning robot works with the Avidbots Autonomy software and the Avidbots Command Center, is expanding R&D and staff in Canada and sales worldwide.

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Autonomous Pods Designed to Help Passengers Navigate Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

August 29, 2022 · While autonomous vehicles are being used on the street and in warehouses, A&K Robotics has designed one to assist people in traversing an airport.

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Ottonomy Closes Seed Round and Launches Ottobot 2.0 Autonomous Delivery Robot

August 2, 2022 · Ottonomy has raised $3 million to scale its Ottobot 2.0 for fully autonomous deliveries both indoors and outdoors. The modular robots are designed for the retail, hospitality, and food industries.

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Chipotle Cultivate Next Fund Invests in Hyphen, Developer of Makeline Kitchen Robotics

July 22, 2022 · Chipotle's $50 million Cultivate Next venture fund has invested in its first cohort of companies, including Hyphen, whose Makeline automation assembles digital restaurant orders.

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Pudu Robotics Rolls Out PuduBot 2 Universal Delivery Robot

July 19, 2022 · Five years after introducing its first PudoBot, Pudu Robotics has released the PudoBot 2, which it said has more battery life, increased stability, and greater navigation capabilities.

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Robotics Company Setbacks Belie Industry Strength, Say Experts

July 15, 2022 · Robotics companies recently announced layoffs, but they reflect misaligned expectations, noted industry observers, who said they're still bullish on technologies that solve real problems.

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Abuelo’s Mexican Restaurant Test-Drives Servi Hospitality Robot From Bear Robotics

June 24, 2022 · Abeulo's Mexican Restaurant said it wanted to capitalize on the benefits of Bear Robotics' mobile service robots to improve worker productivity and customer satisfaction.

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Drone Detection System Locates and Tracks Drones Before They Become Threats

June 20, 2022 · Drone detection is becoming critical as more applications arise, and AeroDefense and CoastIPC have collaborated on AirWarden, which uses ruggedized sensors and an RF antenna.

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EV Safe Charge Previews ZiGGY Mobile Robot for Charging Electric Vehicles

June 14, 2022 · EV Safe Charge said its ZiGGY robot can charge electric vehicles in commercial and residential parking lots and structures while displaying ads without additional infrastructure.

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Collaborative Robotics, Led by Former Amazon Robotics VP and Scale AI CTO Brad Porter, Launches With $10M

June 14, 2022 · Collaborative Robotics, a new startup founded by former Amazon engineer Brad Porter, is developing a mobility system that it says is designed to work both indoors and outdoors.

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Brain Corp Moves Robot Fleet Management to Google Cloud

June 8, 2022 · Brain Corp has updated its fleet management system to run on Google Cloud, a change the company said that has made its operations nimbler and more feature-rich.

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Doosan Displays Diverse Cobot Applications at Automate 2022

June 7, 2022 · Doosan Robotics demonstrated how its collaborative robots can perform tasks for household, commercial, and industrial use cases. It also showed software and fleet advances.

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AWS RoboMaker Lets Miso Robotics Run Hundreds of Simulations to Ensure Software Stability

June 7, 2022 · AWS RoboMaker will allow Miso Robotics to test configurations of its Flippy 2 and Flippy Lite robots for commercial kitchens with up to 50 simulations at once.

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Robot Sales Continue to Surge in North America in Q1 2022, Says A3

May 31, 2022 · Robot orders in North America continued to grow in the first quarter of 2022, setting new records and being the seventh out of the past nine quarters when non-automotive orders led, said A3.

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NVIDIA Improves Perception Performance for ROS 2 Applications

May 24, 2022 · NVIDIA has partnered with Open Robotics on type adaptation and type negotiation, features to improve compute performance for robot perception. It's also presenting at ICRA.

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Ally Robotics Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Affordable Robot Arms for Restaurants, Other Industries

May 20, 2022 · Ally Robotics is raising up to $8.5 million in seed capital and said Miso Robotics plans to use its low-cost, no-code robot arms for its Flippy frying system.

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