Sentences with phrase «of robotics companies»

When it bought a string of robotics companies in 2013, for example, it did its best to distance itself from the firm's ongoing DARPA contracts.

Developing robots that are capable of taking care of seniors is the goal of an increasing number of robotics companies.

Tessa Lau, co-founder of robotics company Savioke, said 3D printing has allowed her company to develop prototypes in days as opposed to months.

Although the search giant said that all existing contracts of the robotics company will be honored, it has no plans of becoming a government contractor on its own.

Not exact matches

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

He met Mike Peasgood and Steffen Lindner, both U of W alumni, during early work stints at local technology companies, and they decided to start a robotics business.

The CEO pointed out that none of the four biggest robotics manufacturers are American companies — two are based in Japan, one in Germany, and one in Sweden.

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.

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.

If you really want to understand where robotics is heading, the following three themes — and the companies working on them, which generally are not well known outside their niches — can serve as a good introduction to the broader applications of this industry that are still yet to come.

By 2020 the government wants more than 50 percent of the total robotics sales volume to be filled by robots made in China by Chinese companies.

While Yang admits this is a sign of a shift from quantity and toward quality, he also said that Chinese robotics companies «can't buy their way into industry leadership.

«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.

Noteworthy tech startups include Gnip, which was one of few companies given access to Twitter's massive data streams, Orbotix, an $ 11 million - funded robotics mobile device innovator, and SendGrid, a cloud - based email infrastructure that has delivered 58 billion emails to date.

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.

«They are at the leading edge of robotics in their plants, and they ensure that the company stays on the leading edge productivity-wise.

Tony Hsieh was the mastermind behind an incredible shaping of culture, turning what could have been one of the dullest and most robotic of companies into a shining example of employee engagement and customer service.

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

«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.

Berlin is also very worried about China's buying spree in the heartland of its top technologies — a recent allegedly stealthy purchase of a 9.7 percent stake in Daimler (which owns the Mercedes Benz brand of cars), an 8.8 percent ownership of the Deutsche Bank, the purchase of the robotics firm KUKA and the energy management company Ista.

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

Toyota has been investing in robotic technology over the years in an effort to aid the elderly, especially in the company's home country of Japan.

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.»

Musk and more than 100 leaders of AI and robotics companies warned that lethal autonomous weapons could usher in the «third revolution in warfare.»

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.

These companies are rapidly buying startups specializing in software, robotics, AI, mapping, cameras, and a host of other fields to forge entirely new alliances that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago.

Political risk consulting company Eurasia Group says that other measures the Trump administration may soon roll out could include blocking Chinese cloud services companies from establishing data centres in the U.S.; a renewed emphasis on restricting sales of Chinese telecommunications equipment to major U.S. operators; and prohibiting Chinese acquisitions of U.S. firms in sectors such as artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, semiconductors and biotechnology.

Instead of purchasing off - the - shelf robotic applications that competitors also have access to, some forward - looking companies are investing in bespoke sensor and control - system technologies specifically tailored to their operations.

Ripcord, a company that aims to do away with the piles of paper enterprises keep around, has raised a $ 25 million round led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to fuel its robotic - assisted paper digitization business.

This has included Chinese takeovers of companies in robotics, semiconductors, machine - tools, telecoms, agribusiness, food, as well as infrastructures such as ports, airports, railways and energy utilities.

«We're at the beginning stages of becoming a robotics company,» Uber C.E.O. Travis Kalanick said at * Vanity Fair» * s New Establishment Summit this fall.

SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications company, announced late last week a subsidiary of SoftBank has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire robotics...

China's tech giant Tencent is going into robotics with the establishment of the Robotics X laboratory in Shenzhen, the company announced on Thursday.

Two 2016 candidates lost out on the list this year: Shenzhen's iCarbonX, a biotech company started by the co-founder of China's genomics giant BGI, and Hangzhou's robotics startup Rokid.

«Most startups in AI and robotics have technical depth, but are often lacking in the other aspects of what it takes to build a company that ships complex electromechanical devices in a heavily regulated industry,» the company said in a statement.

In September, Peter Rander, an engineering lead who specializes in the commercialization of robotics, also left the company.

The cellular company shares its efforts to build the first 5G network in order to make robotic - assisted surgeries possible from thousands of miles away.

Within months of the company acquiring Levandowki's startup, a wave of the group's top engineers — many of whom had been poached from Carnegie Mellon University's famed robotics institute — left.

The business model of NowRx is driven by the fully automated end - to - end robotic dispensing system and a very low cost overhead associated with its «virtual pharmacies», which creates room in the company's gross margin to enable free delivery.

Volvo is collaborating with the Chalmers University of Technology, Mälardalen University in Sweden, Penn State University and waste - recycling company Renova to develop a robotic trash worker, one which can take direction from a refuse truck driver, collect and empty the trash.

The Trump administration contends that if it does not challenge Beijing now, the Chinese government will heavily subsidize its companies to become dominant producers of cutting - edge industries from robotics to electric cars.

The company is also collaborating with NASA to build the Archinaut, a prototype 3D printer combined with robotic arms that will perform in outer space, outside of any space station, which will enable additive manufacturing at a low cost and without the risk of having astronauts assemble the pieces.

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 company was founded by a group of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, PhDs from top universities, and robot experts from robotic companies.

ZeroUI and its smart interaction robotic kit «Ziro» received top honors at the recent TiE50 Silicon Valley awards program that named just 50 companies as «most innovative tech startups» from a pool of more than 7,000 nominees from 28 countries.

Two years ago, the company invested $ 1.2 million into robotic packing at its facility and increased the capacity of one of its molding lines by 40 percent.

JLS Automation, a supplier of robotic packaging solutions to the food industry, recently welcomed more than one hundred guests at its facility in York, PA to help the company celebrate its 60th Anniversary.

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.