Eugene Demaitre

Listen to this article A ‘humanoid for hospitals,’ Moxi has an arm for opening doors and operating elevators. Source: Diligent Robotics As development continues on humanoid robots, one mobile robot is already at work in hospitals. Diligent Robotics Inc. today announced that its Moxi robot has completed 110,000 autonomous elevator rides at health systems across the U.S. The mobile manipulator has a single arm for opening doors and pushing buttons to operate elevators. Moxi’s achievement

Listen to this article CaseFlow orchestrates case-picking robots and workers, noted new CEO Karl Iagnemma. Source: Vecna robotics Vecna Robotics today announced that it has closed $14.5 million in additional funding from existing investors and brought on Karl Iagnemma as CEO. The Waltham, Mass.-based company provides mobile robots for materials handling. Iagnemma has been a robotics researcher and an entrepreneur. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he authored publications on robotics and artificial intelligence that have been

Listen to this article The New York Robotics Network is building a community in the metro area and worldwide. Credit: Adobe Stock As robots spread from factories and warehouses around the world, robotics clusters are popping up wherever there’s a critical mass of industrial need, skilled workers, and innovative entrepreneurs. Since 2021, the New York Robotics Network has been growing and organizing events to help startups, engineers, investors, and end users connect. The organization said

Listen to this article Fulcrum can ensure that Cantilever has high-quality infrastructure data to analyze. Source: Gecko Robotics Robotic maintenance of large structures and critical infrastructure is only as useful as the data it yields. Gecko Robotics Inc. has announced its Fulcrum software for data acquisition and quality. Its first public use was this week. The Pittsburgh-based company, best known for its robots that can climb and maintain tanks, has also developed drones and software.

Listen to this article Standard Bots will use READY Robotics APIs to make its AI control software usable with multiple robot models. Source: Standard Bots Standard Bots Co. today said that it has acquired all of the intellectual property, or IP, of READY Robotics, which had developed the ForgeOS robot-agnostic operating system. Standard Bots said the acquisition of READY Robotics’ software, patents, and trademarks will enable its own software to work across robot brands. The

Listen to this article Physical Intelligence demonstrates the application of foundation models to training robots for tasks such as assembling boxes and folding laundry. Source: Physical Intelligence Foundation models promise to give robots the ability to generalize actions from fewer examples than traditional artificial intelligence approaches. Physical Intelligence today announced that it has raised $400 million to continue its development of AI for a range of robots. “What we’re doing is not just a brain

Listen to this article The UR AI Accelerator toolkit includes reference hardware and software. Source: Universal Robots The latest advances in artificial intelligence promise to improve robot capabilities, but engineers need to bring the technologies together. Universal Robots A/S last week announced its UR AI Accelerator, a hardware and software toolkit to enable the development of AI-powered collaborative robot applications. The UR AI Accelerator is an extensible platform for developers to build commercial and research

Listen to this article Micromobility trials in Vancouver International Airport could lead to wider deployments. Source: A&K Robotics Demand for mobility assistance in spaces such as airports is increasing as populations age and more people travel. Robots and autonomous vehicles can help meet that demand amid persistent labor shortages, according to A&K Robotics Inc. Since 2016, the Vancouver, B.C.-based company has been developing electric micromobility platforms and self-driving robotic pods to help improve quality of

Listen to this article Robotic Crew founders at RoboBusiness 2023. Source: Ricardo Petrazzini While U.S. companies have outsourced technology work overseas for more than 20 years, quality and political concerns have brought back design, programming, and other engineering tasks back closer to home. Robotic Crew offers staffing in Latin America for robot development, as well as operations and fleet management.  “About two years ago, we spun out of WeDevelop, a company that was providing software

Listen to this article The past year has been eventful for robotics developments, with economic headwinds, new applications, and excitement around humanoids and AI. John Bubnikovich, president of ABB’s Robotics Division in the U.S., will be among the panelists discussing the future of robotics innovation at RoboBusiness in California next week. In that keynote panel, Bubnikovich will join NVIDIA’s Amit Goel, DHL’s Joan-Wilhelm Schwarze, and Teradyne Ventures’ Eric Truebenbach in analyzing the drivers of innovation