Pieter Werner

Robotics provider Mujin has debuted its latest product, QuickBot, a robot cell for case handling. The first application to become available is a depalletizing solution for automating the receiving process in warehouses.

Self-driving company Argo AI, is closing down after Ford and VW announced that the companies would be ending their investments in the self-driving company. “Profitable, fully autonomous vehicles at scale are a long way off,” CEO Jim Farley said in a statement.

Teradyne reported revenue of $827 million for the third quarter of 2022 of which $576 million was in Semiconductor Test, $116 million in System Test, $46 million in Wireless Test and $89 million in Industrial Automation (IA). This last category is the robotics business of Teradyne, and the CEO mentions some challenges for this market in a statement.

Innodisk, provider of industrial storage, has officially announced a new development strategy focusing on the AI market, and also launched the “Innodisk AI” Solution at a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan. Innodisk has amassed more than 1,000 cases worldwide since the business expand to AIoT in 2017. In the coming years Innodisk will continue to extend its ecosystem alliance, and expand its focus on AI development with subsidiaries, as well as its partners Intel, NVIDIA, Microsoft and ASUS IoT.

Oracle and NVIDIA announced a multi-year partnership on AI. The collaboration aims to bring the full NVIDIA accelerated computing stack — from GPUs to systems to software — to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Chinese smart EV company XPeng unveiled a series of technical innovations at its fourth annual 1024 Tech Day in Guangzhou. The event featured next-generation neural network-based perception architecture, closed-loop AI and data management platform, voice and smart cabin technologies, and the latest developments in its mobility ecosystem, including latest robotaxi, flying car and robotics endeavors.

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed a new type of soft, robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects, similar to how jellyfish collect stunned prey.

Celera Motion, a business unit of Novanta, announced the introduction of the world’s smallest and, it claims, fastest servo drive.  The Everest S, the latest addition to the Everest Series, is about 30% smaller than its predecessor, making it the world’s smallest servo drive. It also delivers bus latency reduced to 1 cycle, which according to Celera makes Everest S the fastest servo drive on the market today.  

The United States electric lawn mowers market shipment is expected to reach 3,196.32 thousand units by 2027, according to the report “U.S. Electric Lawn Mowers Market – Comprehensive Study and Strategic Assessment 2022-2027” by ResearchAndMarkets.com.

Knightscope, developer of autonomous security robots, announced it has completed its acquisition of CASE Emergency Systems. This adds a network of 7,000+ blue light towers and emergency call box to the portfolio of Knightscope.