Sentences with phrase «robotics companies»

What was their long term plan for acquiring BD along with 6 other robotics companies, and then shuttering the robotics division altogether?

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.

The Bay Area - based venture fund and product studio maintains Rubin's passion for the category by funding a number of key robotics companies that run the gamut, from artificial intelligence to agriculture, delivery and warehouse fulfillment.

At $ 1550, Buddy, the personal robot from Blue Frog Robotics, epitomizes a problem facing robotics companies in 2018.

But two of Google's new rock star robotics companies, Boston Dynamics and Schaft, still have obligations to DARPA — meaning Google and DARPA are entangled in a shotgun marriage, forced to share parental duties for at least a year.

People don't just run out and buy groundbreaking robotics companies from Google for an undisclosed sum without big plans.

In case you are wondering (we were), we have double - checked and these are the only two of Alphabet's robotics companies getting acquired by SoftBank.

Here's a surprise turn of events: SoftBank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world — has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet as part of its own deeper move into the field: it is buying Big Dog developer Boston Dynamics and the secretive bipedal robotics firm Schaft.

SoftBank wants to invest in 1,000 AI and robotics companies in the next decade to the tune of ¥ 100 trillion ($ 880bn).

The issue comes as US President Barack Obama met with representatives from Japanese robotics companies and their robots during his visit to Japan in April 2014.

Aug. 20: During the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Melbourne, Professor Toby Walsh released an open letter demanding a stronger response to concerns over killer robots signed by founders and directors of more than 100 AI and robotics companies.

The campaign urges robotics companies to make a unilateral declaration of support committing not to develop fully autonomous weapons as Canadian firm ClearPath Robotics did in August 2014.

The open letter is the first time that AI and robotics companies have taken a joint stance on the issue.

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

Under her leadership, the company won the MODEX Innovation award for the materials handling industry, as well as being named to RBR 50, a listing of the 50 most innovative robotics companies in the world.

The issue comes as US President Barack Obama met with representatives from Japanese robotics companies and their robots during his visit to Japan -LSB-...]

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.

Dancing With Robots, The Second Machine Age, and The Hammer SongsFifty years ago, long before Google taught cars to drive themselves and started buying up robotics companies, the Ad Hoc Committee on the...

Researchers and robotics companies worldwide are designing prototypes to provide automated assistance to the elderly at home, targeting a market that promises to grow as people live longer.

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.

There's been relatively few promising robotics companies until now, he said, «but people are becoming more commercially disciplined — they're taking it seriously now as a business rather than as a science project.»

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

During the RoboUniverse conference earlier this week, robotics companies strutted their computer - brained friends around the Javits Center.

«I think investors really do want to get exposure to A.I. and robotics companies, as these markets are growing exponentially,» she said.

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.

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.

• Furhat Robotics, a Stockholm - based social robotics company, raised $ 2.5 million in seed funding.

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.

The authors recommend that technologists and healthcare robotic companies marketing their wares be more transparent about what their robots can and can't do, and properly educate medical workers on how to use them.

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

«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.

• PROCEPT BioRobotics, a Redwood Shores, Calif. - based surgical robotics company, raised $ 118 million in financing.

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

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

Mortimer also owns Japanese robotics company Fanuc (fanuy), a big supplier to Chinese factories.

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.

Created by robotics company Savioke, a 3 - feet - tall, 100 - pound robot named Dash delivers room service to guests at the hotel.

He launched a robotics company called Tech - No - Logic in Massachusetts in 2013 and, two years later, pulled in his first several - hundred - thousand - dollar investment.

«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.

A robotics company on a mission to revolutionize the hospitality industry by solving the two biggest issues in housekeeping: time and injuries.

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.

Girls Learning Code alum Lauren Voisin is no ordinary girl — when she's not playing with her sister, she's running a robotics company!

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

Working with robotics company Boston Dynamics, based in Waltham, Mass., the researchers began developing the material as part of the Chemical Robots program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Their desire to realize his futuristic vision led to a five - year - long collaboration that spawned Unimation, the world's first robotics company, and Unimate, the world's first industrial robot.

That's the thinking behind a project at Willow Garage, a robotics company in Palo Alto, California.

This is an Atlas robot, one of seven made by robotics company Boston Dynamics to take part in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Humans are adept at coping with social nuances and subtle cues in communication, says Knight, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of a New York City - based robotics company called Marilyn Monrobot.

Synopsis: During a routine investigation involving robot manipulation, an insurance agent (Antonio Banderas) at a robotics company makes a discovery that has... [MORE]

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.