Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.13
December 21, 2022
…robotic solutions and new industries embracing robotics, such as restaurants, retail, construction, and even agriculture, have led to record units sold here in North America this year,” stated Jeff Burnstein, president of A3. “Investing in automation is increasingly seen as a necessary step for performing many of the difficult-to-staff tasks that are necessary to compete today, and we see 2022 ending on another record high,” he said. Q3 sales up over 2021, down slightly over Q2 In the third quarter 2022 alone, North American companies ordered 11,901 robots valued at $626 million, up 20% and 22%, respectively, over the third…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.94
September 27, 2021
…software for people with disabilities, young parents, hotel and restaurant owners, nurses and doctors, and more. All of the solutions are integrated on one device, which makes it more effective and easier to operate.” Ra-Ya intended to surpass dancing robots Today, most robots are used in logistics, warehouses, and factories, observed Unlimited Robotics. Humanoid and legged robots continue to garner interest, with Elon Musk recently announcing Tesla plans to release a Tesla Bot. In addition, Hyundai acquired Boston Dynamics, which has begun commercializing its Spot robotic dog, for $1.1 billion. Unlimited Robotics said its team hopes that its open-source platform…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.79
January 09, 2022
…Allied Market Research. Industries including healthcare, defense, food and restaurant, retail, and logistics are increasingly demanding automation. In turn, these industries are accelerating the evolution of robotics and related technologies. These end users are pushing researchers, vendors, and integrators to create and offer best-in-class products. Amazon works to develop new robots Amazon Robotics last year said it has developed “Bert,” a robotic arm for delivering containers to staffers, and “Ernie,” an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) for carrying items. They're intended to reduce the physical strain of workers bending down to move objects and speed up e-commerce order fulfillment. Cloud computing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.77
December 27, 2022
…and will serve clients across various industries, such as restaurants, hotels, and office buildings, including Fortune 500 customers. The revenue streams will include robotic rental, advertising, and technical services across most of the major metropolitan cities in China. Guardforce expected to make $12 million in revenue in 2023 The permanent usage of the existing robotic-related patents and software provides a solid foundation for future RaaS capability, and the parties anticipate a seamless transition for all existing clients. With the assets acquired through this acquisition, along with the robotic companies Guardforce AI acquired in March of 2022, the company’s total robotic-related…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.69
October 07, 2022
…of applications such as quality control and pick-and-place applications in mechanical engineering. However, new areas of applications such as restaurant automation or urban farming are now becoming more frequent, said igus and Commonplace Robotics. Interested parties can learn more and get a live demonstration of the jointly developed innovations at Booth 310 in Hall 4 at SPS (smart production solutions) from Nov. 8 to 10, 2022, in Nuremberg, Germany.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.66
June 14, 2024
…fabrication plants. In addition to its latest materials conveyance robot, PUDU also produces robots for food and beverage retail, restaurant order delivery, as well as cleaning service industry applications. Want to learn more about machine vision? This article was featured in the August 2024 Robotics 24/7 Special Focus Issue titled “Machine vision to increase robot precision.”
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.62
July 14, 2024
…industry, Chef's go-to market is food manufacturing - not restaurants - where the company can partially automate a food operation and add value in production to customers without requiring 100% full autonomy from the get-go. This strategy can enable Chef’s engineers to train ChefOS on real-world data accumulated from robots deployed at customer production sites in six cities across North America. To date, Chef has already completed over 20 million servings in production. With every meal the robots assemble in production facilities, Chef's core AI models for food manipulation improve. The robots act as data ingestion engines to train Chef's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.62
May 19, 2021
…mobile robots for service applications including delivering food in restaurants, monitoring security, and disinfection. PuduTech said it will use its latest funding for technology research, expanding its product line, and developing domestic and foreign markets. The company, which was founded in 2016, noted that half of its 1,000 employees are devoted to research and development and that it has applied for more than 600 patents. “The spirit of the inventor” is the first principle of Pudu's corporate culture, stated founder Zhang Tao. PuduTech focuses on delivery technologies Among the technologies that PuduTech has developed are robot positioning and navigation, motion…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.44
March 17, 2017
…car project. We were having a dinner at a restaurant near the office, and he told me that it would be nice to create a new self-driving car startup and that Uber would be interested in buying the team responsible for the LiDAR we were developing at Google. Recode also reported this week that Levandowski apparently started working for Uber much sooner than anyone previously knew. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, according to Recode, hired Levandowski as a consultant to Uber’s self-driving car project just weeks after he left Waymo to start Otto, which officially formed Feb. 1, 2016. Levandowski was…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.43
July 15, 2022
…has filed a patent around autonomous delivery vehicles, reported Restaurant Dive, it's not yet clear what will happen to Chowbotics' staff or intellectual property. Get Fabric Inc.—New York-based Fabric raised $200 million in Series C funding in October 2021 and opened a micro-fulfillment center in Dallas in April. This week, the company laid off 40% of its 300-person staff and named a new CEO as part of a reorganization to being more of a platform provider than a service provider. “Most of our customers told us they prefer to operate our system on their premises and with their own teams,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.25
April 01, 2022
…to work in the culinary field. The trainees get certified in ServSafe food handling, in partnership with the National Restaurant Association. Sodexo Live! also noted that its leadership team has a total of more than 200 years of industry experience. In addition, the company will donate excess food at the end of the event to local groups like the Second Harvest Food Bank and New Orleans Mission.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.16
January 16, 2022
…our robots have become popular in the food and restaurant market. We've already launched a product with the top fried-chicken chain in the country, which is starting to open shops with our robot. We were also accepted by the Korean army for making meals, since frying is difficult. Our DR. PRESSO robotic cafe was at CES. Lighter, safer, and more energy-efficient robot arms are a prerequisite for mobile manipulation. Do you see Doosan serving such tasks? Kim: Our company is trying to make our robot very familiar to everyone for easy usage. One of our major objectives is making apps…
