Brad Porter, the Amazon vice president leading the company’s robotics initiatives, describes how employees have continued to develop innovative systems while working from home.

Amazon Robotics, which is currently based in North Reading, Mass., is expanding its footprint in the state with an innovation hub in Westborough, Mass.

This week, we discuss the news of Amazon ending the use of delivery robots and talk to Viam CEO Eliot Horowitz about its new robotics platform beta.

Amazon has used Cloostermans products, including robots to package products for customer orders, since 2019.

We discuss the Amazon / iRobot acquisition news and learn how DHL deploys robots in its North American warehouses.

Amazon has built a vast robotics ecosystem through acquisitions, investments, and internally developed products.

Listen to Steve and Mike interview Agility Robotics co-founder and CEO, Damion Shelton. They also discuss the new US Alliance of Robotics Clusters.

The goal is to create an undergraduate curriculum that will lead to both advanced robotics degrees as well as robotics careers within industry.

The primary goals are to ensure the benefits of AI and robotics are shared broadly and to promote participation in research.

Amazon launched SageMaker Reinforcement Learning (RL) Kubeflow Components, an open-source toolkit designed to help manage robotics workflows. SageMaker RL is designed to make it faster to develop machine learning capabilities for everything from perception to controls and optimization. Amazon SageMaker is a service built on Amazon’s two decades of experience developing real-world machine learning applications.…

Welcome to Episode 14 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us every Wednesday for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community. Listeners can subscribe to The Robot Report Podcast on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, Google Play and YouTube. Please…

Private equity giant Blackstone Group recently acquired Colony Capital for $5.9 billion, a deal that encompasses 60 million square feet of warehouse space across 465 facilities. Blackstone reportedly now manages more than $250 billion worth of property worldwide. This latest portfolio of fulfillment centers puts Blackstone in control of more than 440 million square feet…

CLEVELAND and BOSTON — At the Robotics Summit & Expo 2019, experts from leading companies will discuss how the next generation of commercial robots will benefit from enabling technologies such as IoT, 5G, and cloud infrastructure. Keynote presenters from Amazon AWS, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm will also focus on the vital roles of AI and…

Capturing and processing camera and sensor data and recognizing various shapes to determine a set of robotic actions is conceptually easy. Yet Amazon challenged the industry to do a selecting and picking task robotically and 28 teams from around the world rose to the competition. Perception isn’t just about cameras and sensors. Software has to…

By Frank Tobe, Editor and Publisher, The Robot Report There is serious momentum in robotics these days evidenced by recent news from Apple, Amazon and Google: Apple announced that they were investing $10.5 billion in supply chain robots and automation equipment and recently confirmed their acquisition of PrimeSense for $350 million (PrimeSense is the developer…

Roboto AI announced that it has emerged from stealth with $4.8 million in Seed funding to build robotics development tools.

RGo Robotics, a company developing artificial perception technology, announced leadership appointments, new customers and an upcoming product release.

Clearpath Robotics announced Husky Observer, a fully integrated system designed to accelerate inspection solutions.

Relay adds three executives to boost software engineering, product management and industrial design.

Scythe Robotics said the funding will help it meet demand for the more than 7,500 reservations for its all-electric, fully autonomous M.52 mower.

We covered nearly fifty mergers and acquisitions in 2022 worth billions of dollars. These eight stood out from the rest.