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Between new purposes for giant language fashions (LLMs) in robotics, to huge acquisitions, there was no scarcity of robotics information to cowl this month.
Here are the highest 10 hottest tales on The Robot Report in June 2023. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter or take heed to The Robot Report Podcast to remain up to date on the robotics tales it’s good to find out about.
10. SoftBank makes provide to amass Balyo shares
Balyo, a robotics firm with practically 18 years of expertise within the trade, may quickly discover itself underneath new possession. SoftBank Group has entered into an settlement to amass a 41.8% stake within the firm for €11.8 million, round $12.9 million. Read More
9. IAM Robotics pivot teaches useful classes
I lately reported on IAM Robotics launching an automatic resolution designed for person-to-goods (P2G) warehouse workflow. The firm is coming into a brand new chapter targeted on the most well liked section of autonomous cell robotic (AMR) purposes and one which has already been confirmed via the efforts of firms like Locus Robotics and 6 River Systems. Read More
8. What does ChatGPT imply for robotics?
Wouldn’t or not it’s good to have a way more pure interplay with robots? Well, possibly now we have now a know-how that may assist us attain that aim. Or at the very least that was my preliminary thought earlier than researching this text. That’s why the constructive part got here first, but it surely’s truly the unfavorable part that throws up essentially the most fascinating points of this new know-how and the potential points it faces, each technically and commercially. Read More
7. Robotics investments prime $1.63B in April 2023
Robotics investments totaled $1.63 billion in April 2023 on account of 47 investments. The April investments deliver the 2023 robotics funding whole to roughly $3.3 billion. Investments totaled $526 million in March 2023, $620 million in February 2023 and $521 million in January 2023. Read More
6. evoBOT completes first exams at Munich Airport
evoBOT, an autonomous cell robotic (AMR) developed on the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, accomplished its first check run on the Munich Airport. With its distinctive design consisting of two wheels and gripper arms, evoBOT retains itself balanced whereas performing a variety of duties. Read More
5. Tertill, maker of dwelling weeding robotic, merges with Harvest Automation
Tertill, the developer of a solar-powered weeding robotic for dwelling gardens, has merged with Harvest Automation, an agrobotics-focused firm finest identified for its plant-moving HV100 robots. The monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed. Read More
4. Tesla buying wi-fi charging developer Wiferion
Tesla has plans to amass Wiferion, a supply who wished to stay nameless instructed The Robot Report. The supply instructed The Robot Report that Tesla is all for Wiferion’s R&D staff and capabilities and that present enterprise at Wiferion will doubtless go on as typical. Read More
3. Food robotics startup Karakuri shutting down
Karakuri, a startup that makes use of robots to assemble prepared meals for meals trade purchasers, is closing down. Founder and CEO Barney Wragg made the announcement in a LinkedIn put up. The firm gives its FRYR household of automated fry traces that management time, temperature, and amount when frying meals. Read More
2. Ukrainian tractor automation firm develops homegrown demining resolution
The Ukrainian Efarm.Pro firm developed an unmanned resolution for demining farm fields forward of the upcoming planting season. Efarm.Pro is a producer and distributor of agricultural tools, precision farming techniques and has been integrating the most recent applied sciences within the agricultural sector since 2014. Read More
1. Researchers use ChatGPT to make a tomato-picking robotic
A staff of researchers on the Technical University in Delft, Netherlands and the Swiss technical college EPFL used ChatGPT to assist them develop a tomato-picking robotic. A research concerning the improvement of the robotic was lately revealed in Nature Machine Intelligence. Read More