Brianna Wessling

Listen to this article During the 2023 peak season, Ambi Robotics’ robots sorted 7.4 million packages at 410 sorts per hour. This year, they can sort up to 500 packages per hour. | Source: Ambi Robotics The month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the busiest time of year by far for logistics providers, and this year, it’s even shorter than most peak seasons. With Thanksgiving falling just a week later than usual, automation providers such

Listen to this article At the height of its success, Cruise was running robotaxi services in San Francisco, Austin, Houston, and Phoenix. | Source: Cruise General Motors Co. today announced that it will no longer fund Cruise LLC’s robotaxi deployment work. It cited long development times, high costs, and an increasingly competitive robotaxi market as the reasons behind its decision.  Since acquiring the self-driving startup in 2016, GM has poured more than $10 billion of

Listen to this article Waymo is outsourcing its fleet operations, facilities, and charging infrastructure to its new partner Moove. | Source: Waymo Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Miami. In early 2025, the self-driving unit of Alphabet said it will begin testing its all-electric Jaguar I-PACEs on Miami’s streets. Through its new fleet partnership with Moove, Waymo said its Waymo One robotaxi service will be open to riders in Miami in 2026. Waymo has previously

Listen to this article Sperm whales spend, on average, 10 minutes of every hour on the surface, presenting challenges for researchers studying them. | Source: Project CETI In the chilly waters off the New England coast, researchers from the Cetacean Translation Initiative, Project CETI, can spend hours searching and waiting for an elusive sperm whale to surface. During the minutes the whales spend above water, the researchers need to gather as much information as possible

Listen to this article The start of the holiday season hasn’t slowed down the robotics industry. In November 2024, stories about the future of robotics, big robot milestones, and new product unveilings grabbed our reader’s attention.  Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in the past month. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter and listen to The Robot Report Podcast to stay up to date on the robotics developments you need to know about.

Listen to this article Pipedream’s shuttle robots run on unpowered rails through the company’s pipe system to deliver food. | Source: Pipedream Pipedream Labs Inc. announced the launch of its robotic food-delivery system at a leading quick-service restaurant, or QSR. The system delivers food orders from the kitchen to the customer in under 15 seconds, “transforming fast food into instant food,” it said. The Austin, Texas-based company uses underground robots to facilitate high-speed delivery for

Listen to this article October was another busy month for the robotics industry. It included many new developments and the return of exciting events, like RoboBusiness, which took in Santa Clara, Calif. Large funding rounds, new AI product developments, and, of course, humanoids were just a few of the things that drew our readers’ attention this month.   Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in October 2024. Subscribe to The Robot

Listen to this article [embedded content] Last month, EDAP TMS SA and Avenda Health said they will jointly offer personalized prostate cancer care using Avenda’s Unfold AI technology. Their stated goal is to launch the Focal One robot using an artificial intelligence for high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU, procedures. Avenda Health’s Unfold AI is a multimodal AI decision-support platform cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It can build 3D patient-specific cancer maps

Listen to this article Opteran has been working with Airbus Defence and Space since it was founded in 2020. Now, the company will implement its autonomy system into Airbus’ rover. | Source: Opteran Opteran’s general-purpose neuromorphic software could be heading to Mars in the coming years. The company today announced that Airbus Defence and Space, with support from European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency, will test the Opteran Mind in Airbus space rovers. 

Listen to this article From left to right: Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder at MassRobotics, Cynthia Breazeal, a professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, and Ingmar Posner, a professor of engineering science at Oxford. | Source: MassRobotics MassRobotics, a robotics innovation organization, recently announced Dr. Cynthia Breazeal as the 2024 recipient of its Robotics Medal. The organization said Breazeal won for her significant contributions to the field of robotics, notably for her work in the