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AMP Robotics raises $91M to accelerate deployment of recycling systems

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Source: AMP Robotics AMP Robotics Corp. based company plans to use its latest funding to accelerate deployment of its AMP ONE systems, which uses artificial intelligence and robotics to sort municipal solid waste, or MSW. Last month, AMP Robotics entered into an agreement with Waste Connections Inc. The Louisville, Colo.-based

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Kassow Robots’ new cobots designed for mobile manipulation

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Kassow Robots has introduced a new line of compact collaborative robot arms (cobots) designed to integrate with mobile robots. The new cobots feature a direct DC connection from battery power, enabling them to operate while mounted to a mobile robot. Kassow Robots exited stealth mode at Automatica 2018.

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Robotic delivery company Starship Technologies raises $90 million in new funding

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Starship Technologies, the company making science fiction a reality by putting delivery robots on streets in the US and Europe, has raised $90 million in new funding, co-led by Plural and Iconical. The fresh investment, which brings the total raised by Starship to $230 million since its creation in 2014, will be used to expand […]

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Starship raises $90M for outdoor delivery robots

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Starship’s delivery robots travel 4 MPH to deliver goods over short distances. Source: Starship Technologies Starship Technologies raised $90 million in funding for its delivery robots. million since it started in 2014, per Crunchbase. Some of those companies include Cartken , Ottonomy , and Serve Robotics , to name a few.

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GXO begins operational testing of Reflex Robotics humanoid

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this week announced a new agreement with Reflex Robotics to pilot Reflex’s “general-purpose” robot for deployment into live operations. Adrian Stoch , chief automation officer of GXO, told The Robot Report that the company is currently in the early stages of trials and pilots with the Reflex robots.

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HEBI developing modular robotic building blocks for NASA

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T-Series actuators from HEBI Robotics. HEBI Robotics was awarded a $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by NASA to develop smart robotic actuation hardware and building blocks that can be used in space. The new products will be compatible with HEBI’s current platform for robot development.

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Factory Visit: Investment bankers tour client’s robot-filled machine shop

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Investment and automation specialists John Slater and Jorge Maceyras, of Focus Investment Banking, make a factory visit to a client of theirs, and find that robotics is integral to the operation. Do you have any robots? When we posed that somewhat naĂŻve question to the CEO of an extreme high precision machine shop in 2014, […]

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