Disney Imagineering’s Project Kiwi is free walking robot that will make you believe in...
The black curtain pulls aside and a character straight out of the movies waves hello. This is not an uncommon occurrence when I’m around...
Attack of the robotic SPACs
Robotics roundup: Dog legs, elephant trunks and a new way to install drywall Brian Heater @bheater...
Expenses startup Pleo preps $100M Series C funding, launches new bill payments service
Late-stage Fintech startup Pleo, which offers expense management tools and ‘smart’ company Mastercards, says it plans to raise a Series C round of funding...
Deep Science: Introspective, detail-oriented and disaster-chasing AIs
Research papers come out far too frequently for anyone to read them all. That’s especially true in the field of machine learning, which now...
UK drone startup sees.ai gets go ahead to trial beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control...
Volvo to supply Chinese ride hailing giant Didi with autonomous driving cars
As the autonomous driving race in China heats up, Didi is rushing to expand its car fleets by picking Swedish automaker Volvo, an old...
Pizza, picking and swimming snakes
Some weeks are slim pickings when it comes to pulling together interesting robotics stories. This is, decidedly, not one of those weeks. In fact,...
MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for its package-picking robot
There’s no doubt this past year has been a major watershed moment for the robotics industry. Warehouse and logistics have been a particular target...
CMU teaches its snake robot to swim
The snake robot has been something of an institution in the Carnegie Mellon robotics labs. Every time I visit the school, the biomimetic robot...
Domino’s, Nuro to begin autonomous pizza deliveries in Houston
Starting this week, some Domino’s customers in Houston can have a pizza delivered without ever interacting with a human.
The pizza delivery giant said Monday...
