Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.95
…oversubscribed Series A round along with new major investors Yamaha Motor Ventures, Orbit Venture Partners, and Hypertherm Ventures. Existing investors Valley Capital Partners, Morpheus Ventures, and Grit Ventures also participated. Mike Zimmerman, partner at Main Sequence in Australia, is joining the board of directors of RIOS, and Anish Patel, chief operating officer and managing director at Yamaha Motor Ventures, has joined as a board observer. Main Sequence was set up in 2017 to manage the CSIRO Innovation Fund, founded by the Australian Government and its national science agency. “RIOS' combination of RaaS business model and adaptable end-to-end robotic workcell platform…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.40
…FANUC, Honeywell Ventures, Hyperplane Venture Capital, Material Impact, and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. Companies such as Tyson Foods are betting on adoption of robotic automation to help improve safety and increase production in their facilities to meet the demand for high quality, safe and nutritious protein products, said Soft Robotics. Tyson Foods is a leading producer of chicken, beef, and pork, and it has invested about $500 million in new technology and automation in the past three years. The company is an existing user of Soft Robotics. “At Tyson Ventures, we are continually exploring new areas in automation that can…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 43.08
InOrbit said it is bridging the autonomy gap through a cloud-based robot-agnostic management platform that enables robotics companies and operators to develop, deploy and orchestrate autonomous robots at global scale. The company’s multi-cloud platform is designed to provide secure, real-time analytics and data collection, robot performance monitoring (RPM), incident management, and remote interventions. Key investors of InOrbit include ANIMO Ventures, Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, and Kärcher New Venture.