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Otsaw wins contract to expand healthcare robotics across US

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Otsaw, a developer of autonomous robotics and operations-technology healthcare solutions, has received a contract from Vizient, the largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company in the United States.

This agreement grants Otsaw expanded access to Vizient’s vast network of US health system clients, including over 65 percent of the nation’s acute care providers, 97 percent of academic medical centers, and a broad range of community, pediatric, and non-acute healthcare facilities.

Otsaw has successfully completed Vizient’s rigorous evaluation and due diligence process, giving healthcare providers confidence in the quality, safety, and value of Otsaw’s autonomous robotics solutions. [Read more…] about Otsaw wins contract to expand healthcare robotics across US

Mitsubishi orders almost 100 autonomous delivery robots from Cartken

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Cartken, an autonomous delivery robot company, and Melco Mobility Solutions are expanding their strategic partnership through a new multi-million dollar agreement focused on industrial logistics.

Melco Mobility Solutions is part of the Mitsubishi Electric and a key distributor of their automotive equipment products and operator of mobility solutions.

As part of this collaboration, Melco Mobility Solutions has placed an order for nearly 100 AI-powered Cartken Hauler robots to be deployed across industrial facilities in Japan within this fiscal year.

This latest initiative builds on a longstanding collaboration between the companies. Since 2022, Mitsubishi Electric and Melco Mobility Solutions have served as Cartken’s distributor and operator in Japan, advancing their strategic initiative to expand autonomous robotics as a solution to the country’s growing labor and logistics challenges. [Read more…] about Mitsubishi orders almost 100 autonomous delivery robots from Cartken

Top 20 autonomous delivery robot companies in 2025

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Back in 2019, when we published a similar report, autonomous delivery robots were a futuristic curiosity – cute, slow-moving boxes trundling along sidewalks, mostly on college campuses or in pilot projects.

Fast-forward to 2025, and the ADR industry has grown up. While some early movers have vanished, others have scaled, raised millions in funding, and secured major partnerships.

From sidewalk robots to street-legal pods and long-range drones, the sector now spans a wide range of technologies and business models.  [Read more…] about Top 20 autonomous delivery robot companies in 2025

US politicians debating rules for autonomous delivery robots

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Autonomous delivery robots are being discussed in the US state of Washington by local politicians who want to draw up regulations for the gray area of mobile machines moving along pavements in the country.

More and more companies are developing autonomous delivery robots and they are finding customers and creating a burgeoning market.

However, while they are currently mostly to be found within one organization’s grounds – such as a university, for example – the prospect of large numbers of autonomous delivery robots on the roads and streets, mingling with pedestrians, is something that is said to be a unclear area in terms of legislation.  [Read more…] about US politicians debating rules for autonomous delivery robots

Insight: How neural networks are powering autonomous delivery

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By Tanel Pärnamaa, deep learning engineer at Starship Technologies

Artificial neural networks are one of the main tools used in machine learning to convert unstructured, low-level data into higher level information. As the ‘neural’ part suggests, they are brain-inspired systems intended to replicate the way that humans learn.

At Starship, we are building a fleet of autonomous delivery robots using trainable units, including mostly neural networks, where code is written by the model itself. The robots are recording and processing large sets of data in order to recognise surroundings and how to react in real time as each situation requires.

To begin with, the robots start by gaining a sense of the world through radars, a multitude of cameras and ultrasonics. However, this poses challenges because most of this knowledge gained is low-level and non-semantic.  [Read more…] about Insight: How neural networks are powering autonomous delivery