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Industrial robotics company Soft Robotics has raised $20 million in what it says was “an oversubscribed funding round”.
The new investors include Scale Venture Partners, Calibrate Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, Yamaha Motor, with Hyperplane Venture Capital leading the round.
Existing investors include Material Impact, ABB Technology Ventures, Taylor Farms Ventures and Haiyin Capital. [Read more…] about Soft Robotics raises $20 million in ‘oversubscribed’ funding round
Today at the Collision Conference, Misty Robotics, the personal robot company spun out from Sphero, the creators of the best-selling BB-8 toy robot, announced its newest personal robot, the Misty II, and the launch of a limited-time crowdfunding campaign to purchase the robot at a 50 per cent discount.
People interested will have 30 days, from May 2 through May 31, to order the Misty II.
Misty Robotics is offering 1,500 Misty II robots at a 50 per cent discount off MSRP for the price of $1,599, which will begin shipping by December 4, 2018. [Read more…] about Misty Robotics launches new Misty II personal robot
By Andrew Dyer, investment manager at Baird Capital
Industry 4.0, the catch-all phrase to describe industry’s embrace of Big Data, the internet of things and robotics, tends to inspire equal feelings of excitement and anxiety.
Excitement for the manufacturers who dream of lower costs, greater efficiencies and faster and greater outputs, anxiety for the millions of workers around the world who fear that the robotic revolution will leave them without a job.
A new study by the OECD suggests, however, that they needn’t be too worried. Whereas previously pundits warned that close to 50 per cent of American jobs would soon be lost to automation, the OECD now predicts just 14 per cent of jobs in OECD countries could now be lost to robots. [Read more…] about The collaborative robotics revolution: A panacea for low productivity and an ageing work force?
Apple has revealed a new robot which can disassemble nine different iPhone models to recover valuable materials within the devices.
The company called the robot “Daisy” and says that traditional recyclers cannot perform the intricate functions that Daisy can.
The robot looks to be a follow-up to a similar machine the company revealed a couple of years ago – called “Liam”. [Read more…] about Apple unveils ‘Daisy’, the robot that can disassemble iPhones to reclaim precious metals
Parts of the shipbuilding sector has for many years used robots for tasks such as welding and blasting, things that industrial robotic arms are particularly good at.
There has also been a type of exoskeleton developed for shipbuilding work which is worn by workers to help with heavy lifting to reduce the physical stress of what can be a demanding job.
But shipbuilding remains a human labour-intensive sector, and companies are looking to increase their utilisation of robotics and automation technologies. [Read more…] about Shipbuilders set to increase use of robotics and automation technologies
Bühler says it will unveil “ground-breaking digital technologies” that include minimizing toxic contamination, reducing food waste and increasing end-product quality across the whole food value chain as part of a new partnership with Microsoft.
The new digital solutions and services will be presented at the Microsoft booth at Hannover Messe in Germany.
“Today’s food value chains are facing tremendous challenges,” says Ian Roberts, CTO at the Bühler Group. [Read more…] about Bühler partners with Microsoft to launch new digital solutions for the food processing industry
The EPHJ-EPMT-SMT Trade Show, taking place in Geneva, Switzerland next week, brings together expertise in watchmaking, microtechnology and medical technology under one roof.
It is one of the very few shows of its kind in the world, possibly the only one, and taps into Swiss watchmaking traditions and industry.
And this year, the event’s organisers plan to go even further by joining forces with the Inartis Foundation to launch the first competition for the development of ideas – the “Watch Medtech Innovation Challenge”, or “Watch Medtech”. [Read more…] about EPHJ partners with Inartis Foundation to launch microtechnology challenge
Nebbiolo Technologies, a provider of fog computing platforms for industrial companies, will showcase what it claims is a “comprehensive software fog/edge computing infrastructure” at Hannover Messe next week.
Fog computing, also known as fog networking or fogging, is a decentralized computing infrastructure in which data, compute, storage and applications are distributed in the most logical, efficient place between the data source and the cloud.
Edge computing refers to devices which can perform a lot of the computing required without needing to send the data to the cloud. [Read more…] about Nebbiolo Technologies to showcase its latest fog and edge computing platform at Hannover Messe
Electronics manufacturer Tempo Automation has closed a $20 million Series B round to increase its manufacturing capacity and double its team in key roles in software engineering, sales, and manufacturing.
Tempo says the move is “driven by high demand”. The company plans to increase manufacturing capacity with a new connected factory and company headquarters in the heart of San Francisco.
Paired with its factory software, this increases its overall capacity by 10 times over the next couple years. [Read more…] about Tempo raises $20 million to build new factory in San Francisco for electronics manufacturing
The Philippines is a large, archipelagic country located approximately 3,000 kilometres from China.
Its population numbers more than 100 million and its main two ethnic groups are Visayan and Tagalog, each of which accounts for around 30 per cent of the population.
The other eight or so sizeable ethnic groups go from around 10 per cent to 1 per cent of the population. [Read more…] about Country insight: Philippines economy ‘entering golden age’
