robotics Archive

By late 2019, the U.S. Army could field up to three manned and unmanned combat vehicles to help determine the future of heavy army fighting vehicles. The US army effort appears focused and appears inspired by the Russian Armata combat …

SenseTime (the “Company”), China’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has successfully raised US$600 million in its Series C round of funding. This gives the company a $4.5 billion valuation. Alibaba Group is taking the lead role for this round of …

The Climb Rob 125 is like a large version of a Roomba vacuum robot. It magnetically moves on the side of large ships and uses water jets to clean off the sides. The 60-kilogram Climb Rob 125 grabs hold of …

Bain Consulting forecasts that the coming phase of automation could eventually eliminate up to 50% of all current jobs. The job activity analysis only suggests the potential of technology to replace humans with hardware and software. It does not take …

Verb Surgical has about $500 million in investment and Alphabet (Google) and Johnson and Johnson are the primary investors. Verb’s goal is to introduce a better, cheaper surgical robot into the market in 2020, plus a bunch of software tools …

IBM’s mission is to help their clients change the way the world works. There’s no better example of that than IBM Research’s annual “5 in 5” technology predictions. Each year, we showcase some of the biggest breakthroughs coming out of …

Uber has been sending self-driving trucks on delivery runs across Arizona since November. . After testing its technology earlier in 2017, Uber began contracting with trucking companies to use its own autonomous Volvo big rigs to take overloads as they …