Sentences with phrase «for robotics companies»

Things moved relatively quickly; because of the manufacturing that Sanghavi did for his robotics company in India, he already had a network of contacts for Asian suppliers and factories that he could leverage to find clothing manufacturers.

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• Teradyne acquired MiR, a Denmark - based robotics company, for $ 148 million, with $ 124 million on the table after meeting performance goals.

As you look across the robotics landscape, there are a number of notable names that may come to mind, from the «cute» robots that consumer electronics companies roll out for the holidays to the big acquisitions being made by Silicon Valley companies, including Google.

One such company, Midea, closed a $ 4 billion deal earlier this year to acquire Germany - based Kuka AG, a leading, global robotics supplier for plant and automotive robots with a research and development center in Austin, Texas.

More companies are creating robotics for consumer use.

«To reduce the threshold of innovative entrepreneurship, the government provides appropriate financial subsidies for rent, broadband access and public software for new businesses,» said John Rhee, general manager of the Los Angeles office for UBTECH, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen City that makes humanoid robots for the home.

For example, Acumen Labs, founded in 2009, became one of the first companies to run on Kiva Systems, a robotic fulfillment system that has dramatically increased its efficiency.

By the summer of 2008, Brooks was raising money for his new robotics company.

Brooks explained that he wanted to take robotics to the next stage by bringing out a game - changing robot for manufacturing companies.

«You rarely hear a major tech company cite a dearth of available talent when it comes to hiring for a hot new skill set like virtual reality or robotics.

The company he co-founded in 1990, iRobot, eventually ended up abandoning toys for robotic vacuum cleaners, scoring big with the Roomba's release in 2002.

The orange 320 - pound (145 kg) robots, which scoot around the floor on wheels, show how Amazon has adopted technology developed by Kiva Systems, a robotics company it bought for $ 775 million in 2012.

The company behind the robotic vacuum cleaner is making a major play for the Internet of Things with its next - generation device.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called for companies, bureaucrats and the political class to work more closely together so Japan can win in robotics, batteries, renewable energy and other new and growing markets.

Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

Under the direction of its head of digital service and transformation Wayne Butterfield, the telecom provider turned to software robotics made by my company, Blue Prism, after fully exhausting other methods of reducing costs while increasing efficiency of the back - office transactions it completes for customers.

• Ripcord, a Hayward, Calif. - based robotic digitization company, raised $ 25 million in equity and $ 15 million in debt for a total of $ 40 million in Series B funding.

PS — LAUNCH Festival Sydney has 1,500 founders coming for free for two days on June 19 and 20 and will feature three startup competitions: one for new companies (under a year old), one for crypto startups and one for frontier technologies (i.e., technologies that are not mainstream yet, like robotics, AI and new food technologies).

That means 32 percent more robots were bought this year than at the same time in 2016 — it's the strongest first quarter on record for robots ordered by North American companies, according to the Robotic Industries Association.

Google set up a new robotics group and acquired eight robotics companies last year, including Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Foxconn has been working with former Android executive Andy Rubin since last year to carry out the U.S. company's vision for robotics.

Earlier this year, the company unveiled Prospector X, a tiny robotic spacecraft that'll sit in low Earth orbit testing technologies for future asteroid prospecting missions, including water - powered propulsion and optical navigation systems.

Shenzhen - based AI and humanoid robotic company Ubtech has secured $ 820 million in Some Series C funding round, our sister site TechNode Chinese is reporting (in Chinese), setting a new financing record for the largest investment raised in a single round by an AI company.

Google X's lab is welcoming two new moonshots into the fold: The company's assemblage of futuristic robotics projects and its unit for high - altitude satellite drones.

The bid for Kuka, a high - tech robotics manufacturer, sparked controversy in Germany amid fears that key technologies were falling into foreign hands at a time when China protects its own companies against foreign takeovers.

Tiger Global and Blume Ventures funded GreyOrange, a company that manufactures and deploys advanced robotics systems for automation at warehouses, distribution and fulfilment centres, is all set to serve new verticals like...

The company manufactures a complete line of Robopik Take - out systems, Automatic Deflashers, Ultra Test Leak Testers, Flame Treaters, Dome Spin Trimmers, Robotic Packaging systems (case packers), as well as the Multipak Palletizer Packaging System (for palletizing).

During his 26 years in charge, he has presided over the organic growth of the company from a # 10 million multihead weigher supplier to a # 120 million integrated packing line equipment business, with a portfolio of machinery which now also includes checkweighers, snacks bagmakers, tray sealers, X-ray inspection systems, seal testers and robotic pick - and - place systems, He also established a manufacturing base for Ishida in the UK, as well as subsidiary offices in France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Middle East, Russia, Czech Republic, Romania and South Africa.

He used nearly $ 500,000 of profit to start Velocity11, a company that designed robotics for the genomics industry.

Convened last week in Sydney by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reality.

This includes funding for the DEKA Research and Development Corporation — a company founded by Segway inventor Dean Kamen — to develop an advanced robotic arm that would allow an upper - limb amputee to «pick up a raisin or a grape,» Kamen recalls.

To develop KidsArm, SickKids partnered with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), the Canadian company that was behind the space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Weeze Airport in Germany, just across the Dutch border near Nijmegen, will serve as the test site for this life - like robotic falcon developed by Clear Flight Solutions, a spin - off company of the University of Twente.

Many of the main entertainment companies have their own in - house robotics engineering teams — Disney, for instance, has its Imagineering Studio — but other studios, such as Universal, contract out their robotics needs.

Indeed, the unique characteristics of plants could become a source of inspiration for new companies that can produce smart and useful plant - like robotic devices.

An unnamed Swiss company has reportedly been paid $ 1.3 m to develop the robotic jockeys, which are sold for around $ 5500 each.

iRobot, the Bedford, Mass., company best known for its Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, says it is in the «early exploratory phase» of considering an elder care product.

An unnamed Swiss company was reportedly paid $ 1.3 m to develop the robotic jockeys, which will be sold for around $ 5500 each.

Stephen Gorevan, chairman of Honeybee Robotics, a Brooklyn - based company best known for the work it's done to equip NASA's Mars rovers with robotic life - detection components, talks about aerospace technology and the future of space exploration.

When a corporate accountant for a major robotics company suspects that someone is stealing from the company she asks Christian to take a look at the books, which may or may not have been cooked for years.

When they are tasked to find out who is killing key scientists working for the top robotic company in town (and the ones who created the Major), a can of worms is opened up for the Major when she starts to uncover details to her mysterious past.

In that sense all analysis of stock market based on historical metrics do nt make much sense since composition of stocks is entirely different in different era and as more capital efficient business model evolve and their time to market cycle shrinks stocks likely to command higher valuations and suddenly lower valuations during short period of time like already happening for many technology companies and as influence of technology on overall cost structure of companies increases (for example: robotics replace many of employees cost etc) valuation matrix of most companies likely to get affected dynamically in short duration of time than in the past.

Ride - sharing company Uber, for one, has been on a hiring spree for robotics researchers.

After graduating from Pyramind's Sound for Picture and Games Program, Ashley Coull began working on staff as Pyramind's Studio Manager before moving on to work as Audio Coordinator at Anki Overdrive, a robotics and virtual reality toy company located in San Francisco.

After being expelled from the Mishima Zaibatsu for reasons unknown, Lee founded Violet Systems, a tech company specializing in development on humanoid robotics, and was quite successful.»

Dok - ing, a Croatian company, produces robotic UGVs (Unmanned Ground Vehicles) for firefighting and mining.

Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise will be sitting with Brian Gerkey and Morgan Quigley of Open Robotics to discuss their company's work to build an open - source operating system for robotics.

And you, dear reader, will have a chance to do exactly that next month, when Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston Dynamics, one of the most interesting robotics companies out there today, speaks at Disrupt, our flagship conference in London taking place December 5 - 6, and brings some of his robots along for the ride.

Boston Dynamics — the intriguing robotics company that was bought, financed, and then put up for sale by Google in the space of just two years — just published what is perhaps its creepiest robot - testing video to date.

Ali Kashani, VP Software at Energy - Aware, a company building an energy sensor and app for the home, says the Nest buy plus Google's documented interest in other elements of robotics validates this concept of a true smart home.