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Between Boston Dynamics’ lawsuit in opposition to Ghost Robotics, layoffs reported at main firms and enormous funding rounds, there was no scarcity of issues to cowl in November.
Here are the ten hottest robotics tales on The Robot Report in November. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter to remain up to date on the robotics tales it’s essential find out about.
10. Meet Sparrow: Amazon’s new item-picking robotic
Amazon has unveiled the most recent addition to its assortment of warehouse robots. Meet Sparrow, a robotic arm able to selecting particular person merchandise earlier than they get packaged. Unlike Amazon’s Robin and Cardinal robots, which choose and arrange packages to be despatched out for supply, Sparrow can deal with particular person merchandise. This isn’t a easy job in a spot like an Amazon warehouse, the place over 100 million completely different gadgets might have to be processed. Sparrow can choose 65% of them, based on the corporate. Read More
9. Pickle Robot’s unloading robots herald $26M
Pickle Robot Company introduced that it closed a $26 million Series A funding spherical and it has reside pilot implementations unloading tens of 1000’s of packages a month at buyer websites within the higher LA space. Pickle Robot creates synthetic intelligence (AI)-enabled robotic automation programs that may unload vans. The firm plans to make use of the most recent spherical of funding to speed up go-to-market actions and strengthen deployment capabilities. Read More
8. Nuro lays off 20% of employees
Nuro, an autonomous automobile supply firm with deployments in California and Texas, laid off about 300 staff, or 20% of its employees, on Friday, based on reporting from Tech Crunch. The firm’s co-founders, Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, despatched an e mail to staff Friday morning informing them of the layoffs and saying they’d obtain one other replace informing them if they’d be impacted. Read More
7. Sarcos demonstrates robots for shipyard operations to the US Navy
Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation introduced that the corporate has made vital strides in growing robotic applied sciences to usher in a brand new period of improved employee security and productiveness for shipyard operations. Sarcos robotic programs are designed to hold out upkeep, inspection, and restore actions, on and round ships underway and pier facet, creating safer and more practical shipyard operations and enhancing the effectivity of sailors and shipyard staff. Read More
6. Hesai Technology pronounces totally solid-state LiDAR
Hesai Technology formally unveiled the FT120, a totally solid-state, near-range blind spot LiDAR designed for ADAS collection manufacturing autos. FT120 is a totally solid-state LiDAR with no shifting elements inside. It is designed for near-range blind spots and has a 100° x 75° ultra-wide area of view (FOV). FT120 has received over a million models of anticipated quantity from main OEMs. All the merchandise are anticipated to be delivered within the second half of 2023. Read More
5. LEGO discontinues Mindstorms product line
The information that LEGO has discontinued the Mindstorms product line is bittersweet for me. I purchased my daughter a LEGO Mindstorms package for Christmas in 2000 when she was solely three years outdated. My aunt, who was on the town for the vacations, accused me of shopping for it for myself. Guilty. Read More
4. AMP Robotics’ recycling robots herald $91M
AMP Robotics, an organization creating robots that may arrange recycling, introduced in $91 million in company fairness in a Series C funding spherical. This brings the corporate’s whole raised funding thus far to about $165.5 million. AMP Cortex, AMP Robotics’ robotic system, can automate the identification and sorting course of for recyclables from blended materials streams. Read More
3. Reports of layoffs at Iron Ox
There are stories of great layoffs at Iron Ox, an agriculture expertise firm that makes use of robotics to customise look after crops. Many now-former staff have posted on social media in regards to the layoffs. While it’s unclear precisely what number of staff have been laid off, quite a few posts point out Iron Ox let go of roughly half of its staff. Iron Ox additionally laid off a smaller variety of staff a number of months in the past, based on different posts from former staff. Read More
2. Boston Dynamics suing Ghost Robotics over quadruped design
Boston Dynamics is suing competitor Ghost Robotics for patent infringement. Boston Dynamics claims Ghost Robotics infringed on seven patents associated to its Spot quadruped robotic. According to the criticism (PDF) filed in Delaware federal courtroom, Boston Dynamics stated Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 and Spirit 40 quadrupeds each comprise infringing capabilities. Read More
1. Ghost Robotics responds to Boston Dynamics lawsuit
Ghost Robotics has responded to the patent infringement lawsuit not too long ago filed by Boston Dynamics. Earlier this week, we realized that Boston Dynamics is suing competitor Ghost Robotics for allegedly infringing on seven patents associated to the previous’s Spot quadruped robotic. Filed in Delaware Federal courtroom on November 11, 2022, Boston Dynamics takes subject with each Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 and Sprint 40 quadrupeds. Read More