Tag: ceo
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Associated Food Stores selects Symbotic to implement warehouse automation system
Associated Food Stores (AFS), a provider of groceries and other goods and services to independent retailers in nine Intermountain states, and Symbotic, a developer of AI-enabled robotics technology for the supply chain, have entered into a commercial agreement to implement Symbotic’s robotic warehouse automation technology in AFS’ Utah distribution center. Symbotic says its end-to-end automation…
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XTEND acquires drone inspection specialist Performance Rotors
XTEND, the developer of XOS, a human-guided autonomous operating system, or human-machine interaction system, has acquired Performance Rotors, a Singapore-based drone inspection specialist. XTEND says the move will boost its ability to offer human-guided, remote interactive operations in a range of inspection scenarios, and grow its global business. Financial terms of the transaction were not…
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Google’s industrial robotics business unit Intrinsic chooses Comau as first project partner
Comau, a specialist maker of industrial robotics and automation products and systems, has been unveiled as the first industry partner of Intrinsic, a business unit of Alphabet, which is the stock market name for Google. Intrinsic says it is on a mission to make industrial robotics accessible and usable for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and…
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Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Sony
Sony Semiconductor Solutions and Raspberry Pi have reached an agreement by which SSS is to make a strategic investment in RPL. The minority investment cements the relationship between the two companies, to provide a development platform for SSS’s edge AI devices to the worldwide community of Raspberry Pi users. Terushi Shimizu, p0resident and CEO of…
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Robotize to launch new robot and mobile lift staton at LogiMAT
Robotize, a provider of autonomous mobile robots for internal pallet transport, will be presenting a new robot as well as a new mobile lift station at this year’s LogiMAT exhibition. The new GoPal E22 AMR supports a payload of up to 500 kg and will become the smallest robot in Robotize’s range of AMRs, which…
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Agtonomy selects Fixposition for farm vehicle GPS
Agtonomy, an ag-tech software start-up, has been working with Fixposition to integrate Fixposition’s Vision Fusion Technology to provide an element of its precise global positioning solution in its TeleFarmer solution. Agtonomy’s TeleFarmer solution is comprised of innovative software, a suite of apps, and an electric vehicle reference tractor. By utilizing Fixposition as one of its…
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Apptronik and Terex to jointly develop robots for commercial use
Apptronik, a maker of general-purpose robots, exoskeletons and humanoids, has received an equity investment from Terex Corporation and has reached an agreement with Terex to co-develop “first-of-a-kind robots” to work alongside workers to support safety, productivity, and efficiency of industries that power the economy and are essential to building infrastructure. Robots have long held the…
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Built Robotics acquires Roin Technologies to expand beyond autonomous earthmoving
Built Robotics, a construction autonomy company and inventor of the Exosystem, which “turns any excavator into a robot”, is acquiring Roin Technologies, the maker of the what is claimed to be the “first automated concrete power trowel”. The acquisition will grow the capabilities of Built’s engineering team and accelerate key technological developments to expand automation…
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Autonomous delivery vehicle maker Faction selects Point One navigation tech
Faction, a developer of self-driving micro-logistics and vehicle-on-demand transportation, is partnering with Point One Navigation, a specialist in precise positioning technology, to bring driverless delivery and transportation solutions to the mass market. Faction’s DriveLink platform deeply integrates Point One’s safe positioning technology with reliable centimeter-level absolute accuracy, enabling trustworthy and efficient autonomous operations across the…
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Ottonomy closes $3.3 million seed funding round
Ottonomy has closed its seed funding round of $3.3 million, bringing its total funding to date to $4.9 million. The funding is planned to support the scale of Ottobots for fully autonomous airport, retail and restaurant deliveries with its robots. The funding round is led by Pi Ventures who back deep tech startups. Connetic Ventures…