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5 days ago · By Erik Nieves | December 31, 2024. The state of AI, robotics heading into 2025 The labor vs. automation debate, the importance of human-robot collaboration, market consolidation, and the fate of robotics foundation models are some trends to watch in 2025.
Robot dog learns new tricks: Boston Dynamics unleashes Spot v4.1
Sep 24, 2024 · Since its commercial release in 2020, Boston Dynamics Inc.’s Spot robot has evolved to become more capable at facility inspection tasks.In that time, the quadruped robot as achieved greater autonomy and an ever-growing set of sensor payloads. In 2022, Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics won an RBR50 innovation …
IFR World Robotics report says 4M robots are operating in …
Sep 24, 2024 · China is by far the world’s largest market for automation. The 276,288 industrial robots installed in China in 2023 represent 51% of the global installations, said the World Robotics report.This is the second-highest jump in the number of installed robots in a country ever recorded, coming second to China’s 2022 growth of 290,144 robots installed.
2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards open for nominations
Oct 30, 2024 · The Robot Report is seeking nominations for its 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. The RBR50 has recognized the most innovative and influential organizations in robotics for the past dozen years. Here are the winners from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.. Each year, a team of experts selects the most interesting and important robotics …
Top 10 robots seen at CES 2024 - The Robot Report
Jan 13, 2024 · AV24 rolls into the showroom. The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) had an impressive booth in the automotive hall of CES 2024, surrounded by well-known brand names. On display was a fully functional version of the newest AV24 autonomous racecar, showing off the integration of an entirely new autonomy stack in the vehicle.. The IAC has partnered with many of the leading automotive technology ...
Red Cat wins U.S. Army next-gen drone contract over Skydio
Nov 22, 2024 · Skydio brings in $170M in funding. This latest news comes a little over a year after Skydio grounded its consumer drone operations to focus on its enterprise and public-sector customers.. According to the San Mateo, Calif.-based company, its drones are being used to put sensors in dangerous and important places to perform inspections, find missing children, and keep the military safe.
Boston Dynamics debuts electric version of Atlas humanoid robot
Apr 17, 2024 · Atlas ready for rivals in the humanoid race. Over the past two years, the number of humanoid robots in development has rapidly grown.It now includes Agility Robotics‘ Digit, Tesla’s Optimus, and Figure AI‘s Figure 01. In the two past weeks alone, Rainbow Robotics, Sanctuary AI, and Mentee Robotics have all made announcements. Investment has also been flowing to humanoid companies, with ...
Robotics investments near $1B in August - therobotreport.com
Oct 4, 2024 · Fifty producers of robots and robotics enabling technologies received funding in August 2024, pulling in a total of approximately $1 billion. This figure is on par with the $1.2 billion average The Robot Report has tracked each of the previous 12 months. Investment targeted to robotics companies for the first eight months of 2024 equals about $10.86 billion.
How Agility Robotics crosses the Sim2Real gap with NVIDIA Isaac …
Nov 8, 2024 · Reinforcement learning (RL) is a totally different way of solving the same problem. Instead of using the robot and world models onboard in real-time to calculate the motor torques that we think will lead to the physics we want, we simulate worlds to learn a control policy for the robot ahead of time, on off-board computers that are …
Geek+ and Intel launch Vision Only Robot Solution for smart …
Nov 4, 2024 · Geekplus Technology Co. today launched its Vision Only Robot Solution. The system includes Intel Visual Navigation Modules, which Geek+ said will drive the digital transformation of the logistics industry.