Topic: Artificial Intelligence

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General Motors Purchases SoftBank Vision Fund’s Stake in Self Driving Company Cruise for $2.1B

March 21, 2022 · SoftBank Vision Fund has sold its stake in Cruise to General Motors four years after initially investing in the self-driving vehicle developer.

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American Robotics Owner Ondas Acquires Ardenna to Offer Drone Analytics for Rail Inspection

March 21, 2022 · Ondas Holdings, which owns industrial drone provider American Robotics, plans to integrate Ardenna's image-processing capabilities to make inspections easier and railways safer.

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Zebra Technologies to Acquire Matrox Imaging Division

March 21, 2022 · Zebra Technologies and Matrox Imaging cite their shared focus on innovation, as well as Zebra's global footprint, to help accelerate Maxtrox's machine vision strategy.

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ABB Robotics President Predicts Automation and Robotics Trends for 2022

March 19, 2022 · ABB new Robotics Division president notes that electric vehicles, collaborative robots, e-commerce acceleration, and the need for retraining will all be trending this year.

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Secretary Walsh Participates in MassRobotics Panel on the Influence of Robotics on the U.S. Job Market

March 18, 2022 · MassRobotics hosted a panel with government, academic, and industry experts on the future of work coinciding with the release of its five-year impact report.

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Toyota Ventures Opens 2022 Call for Factory of the Future Innovation

March 18, 2022 · Toyota Ventures' third global call of innovation seeks startups that can apply AI, robotics, and other technologies to enable Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing.

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Plus One Robotics to Present and Give Robot Demonstrations at MODEX 2022

March 18, 2022 · Plus One Robotics plans to demonstrate its software for giving vision to picking robots and supervised autonomy for a variety of warehouse tasks in Atlanta later this month.

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Chipotle Tests Chippy Tortilla Robot From Miso Robotics

March 17, 2022 · Chipotle is testing Miso Robotics' Chippy, which uses AI and robotics to cook and season tortilla chips in keeping with the fast-casual restaurant chain's recipe and style.

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MIT Researchers Develop Learning Model to Teach Legged Robot to Run Faster

March 17, 2022 · MIT's mini-cheetah quadruped robot can now run faster than ever, thanks to a new learning model developed by researchers at the university.

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RightHand Robotics Launches Partner Integrator Program With Element Logic as First Member

March 16, 2022 · RightHand Robotics, whose RightPick 3 system automates piece picking, is working with partners such as Element Logic and AutoStore to help customers automate order fulfillment.

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Robot Prices Drop as AI Investments, Ethics Worries Increase, Finds Stanford HAI AI Index 2022 Report

March 16, 2022 · The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence released the "AI Index Report 2022," which studied academic research, job postings, investments, and regulations around AI and robotics.

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RIT Researchers Work to Make Mobile Robots for Warehouses Smarter

March 15, 2022 · RIT faculty and researchers are developing ways for autonomous mobile robots to move more intelligently around warehouses. They have worked with The Raymond Corp. and Simcona Electronics Corp.

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Intuition Robotics Launches ElliQ Companion Robot for Subscription in the U.S.

March 15, 2022 · Intuition Robotics, which has developed ElliQ to be a digital care companion for older adults, said its system is now available on a subscription basis in the U.S. with partner-provided services.

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Qualcomm, BMW, and Arriver Partner to Develop Driverless Vehicle Technology

March 14, 2022 · Qualcomm, BMW, and Arriver are sharing one another's resources to help build a network of processing hardware, autonomous vehicle software, and machine vision systems.

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ENOT Debuts Technology to Optimize Deep Neural Networks for Speed, Compression, and Energy Efficiency

March 14, 2022 · ENOT.ai said its framework optimizes neural network architectures for accuracy and efficiency. The company said its framework, which has a Python API, can help robotics developers.

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KABAM Robotics Merges With Cognicept Systems to Increase Presence in Facilities Management, Security

March 11, 2022 · Thanks to a recent merger, Cognicept Systems and KBAM Robotics will soon be taking advantage of each other’s technology.

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Mobileye Files for IPO in U.S., Will Stay Part of Intel

March 10, 2022 · Mobileye has filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, entering the first phase of the Intel machine vision unit's initial public offering.

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Mujin to Unveil Mixed Case Palletizing System, Other Warehouse Robotics Applications at MODEX 2022

March 9, 2022 · Mujin will demonstrate its technology along with partners including FANUC, Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, and Yaskawa Motoman, as well as products from MHS, Tompkins Robotics, and Universal Robots.

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MedCrypt Wins Cybersecurity Contracts for Three Surgical Robotics Companies

March 9, 2022 · MedCrypt recently announced it has won contracts to work with three robotic surgical companies. It did not disclose which ones.

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Terradepth Launches Absolute Ocean Data as a Service Platform to Map World’s Oceans

March 9, 2022 · Terradepth's new Absolute Ocean platform is a cloud-based way for scientific, government, and industrial users to manage and share undersea data, which is provided as a service.

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