International

Immervision, developer of vision systems combining optics, image processing, and sensor fusion technology, will be used by Halodi Robotics to provide their next generation vision system for their humanoid service robot platform, capable of handling both human and computer vision.

This year, it took Denmark less than three months to use our share of the world’s natural resources for 2022, and last year it took the world less than seven months to hit Earth Overshoot Day.

AMD has introduced the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit, an addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) and developer kits. A scalable and out-of-the-box development platform for robotics, the Kria KR260 offers a path to production deployment with the existing Kria K26 adaptive SOMs.

UiPath and airSlate announced a partnership to help individuals and small businesses automate their organizations. Small businesses account for more than 90% of all global companies. There are over 32 million small businesses in the United States alone, representing 99% of all companies. Both UiPath and airSlate believe there is a significant opportunity to remove mundane work and complement workers in small businesses with software robots.

Levatas, developers of AI software for robots and drones at industrial sites, announced that it has raised $5.5 million in a seed round led by Castellan Group. Levatas was founded by CEO Chris Nielsen, along with partners Ryan Gay and Daniel Bruce, who serve as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Product Officer, respectively.

Economic experts at Analysis Group, an international economics consulting firm, released a report suggesting that if metaverse adoption and impact evolves similarly to mobile technology, it could contribute 2.8% to global gross domestic product (GDP) in the 10th year after adoption begins.

Cleveron Mobility, a company developing technology of driverless autonomous vehicles, and the parcel delivery company DPD Eesti are the first in Europe to deliver a package to a customer with a driverless autonomous vehicle. The driverless autonomous vehicle, manufactured by Cleveron Mobility, is developed as a robotic courier with the aim to deliver goods and equipment in a more efficient, flexible  and environmentally friendly way.

Knightscope, developer of security robots, announced it has signed its first Las Vegas casino client. A US-based operator of casinos and gaming facilities with more than three dozen locations across the country subscribed to its first Knightscope Autonomous Security Robot (ASR) to bolster its security and surveillance program.

Autonomous taxi-provider Cruise announced its robots now cover 70 percent of the San Franscisco area. Only last year Cruise was the first to operate a robotaxi-service in California when the California Public Utilities Commission authorized Cruise to participate in California’s first pilot program to provide driverless autonomous vehicle (AV) passenger service to the public. 

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) developed a new approach to model the dynamics of underwater stingray-like robots using Machine Learning. This approach can enable more efficient swimming in complex underwater environments by accurately predicting required flapping motions for a set of given propulsive force targets.