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Between Boston Dynamics’ lawsuit towards Ghost Robotics, layoffs reported at main firms and enormous funding rounds, there was no scarcity of issues to cowl in November.
Listed here are the ten hottest robotics tales on The Robotic Report in November. Subscribe to The Robotic Report E-newsletter to remain up to date on the robotics tales you have to find out about.
10. Meet Sparrow: Amazon’s new item-picking robotic
Amazon has unveiled the most recent addition to its assortment of warehouse robots. Meet Sparrow, a robotic arm able to choosing particular person merchandise earlier than they get packaged. Not like Amazon’s Robin and Cardinal robots, which decide and arrange packages to be despatched out for supply, Sparrow can deal with particular person merchandise. This isn’t a easy job in a spot like an Amazon warehouse, the place over 100 million totally different gadgets might should be processed. Sparrow can decide 65% of them, in line with the corporate. Learn Extra
9. Pickle Robotic’s unloading robots herald $26M
Pickle Robotic Firm introduced that it closed a $26 million Sequence A funding spherical and it has dwell pilot implementations unloading tens of hundreds of packages a month at buyer websites within the larger LA space. Pickle Robotic creates synthetic intelligence (AI)-enabled robotic automation techniques that may unload vehicles. The corporate plans to make use of the most recent spherical of funding to speed up go-to-market actions and strengthen deployment capabilities. Learn Extra
8. Nuro lays off 20% of workers
Nuro, an autonomous automobile supply firm with deployments in California and Texas, laid off about 300 staff, or 20% of its workers, on Friday, in line with reporting from Tech Crunch. The corporate’s co-founders, Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, despatched an e-mail to staff Friday morning informing them of the layoffs and saying they’d obtain one other replace informing them if they’d be impacted. Learn Extra
7. Sarcos demonstrates robots for shipyard operations to the US Navy
Sarcos Know-how and Robotics Company introduced that the corporate has made vital strides in creating robotic applied sciences to usher in a brand new period of improved employee security and productiveness for shipyard operations. Sarcos robotic techniques are designed to hold out upkeep, inspection, and restore actions, on and round ships underway and pier aspect, creating safer and more practical shipyard operations and bettering the effectivity of sailors and shipyard staff. Learn Extra
6. Hesai Know-how declares totally solid-state LiDAR
Hesai Know-how formally unveiled the FT120, a completely solid-state, near-range blind spot LiDAR designed for ADAS sequence manufacturing autos. FT120 is a completely solid-state LiDAR with no shifting elements inside. It’s designed for near-range blind spots and has a 100° x 75° ultra-wide area of view (FOV). FT120 has received over a million models of anticipated quantity from main OEMs. All of the merchandise are anticipated to be delivered within the second half of 2023. Learn Extra
5. LEGO discontinues Mindstorms product line
The information that LEGO has discontinued the Mindstorms product line is bittersweet for me. I purchased my daughter a LEGO Mindstorms equipment for Christmas in 2000 when she was solely three years previous. My aunt, who was on the town for the vacations, accused me of shopping for it for myself. Responsible. Learn Extra
4. AMP Robotics’ recycling robots herald $91M
AMP Robotics, an organization creating robots that may arrange recycling, introduced in $91 million in company fairness in a Sequence C funding spherical. This brings the corporate’s whole raised funding up to now to about $165.5 million. AMP Cortex, AMP Robotics’ robotic system, can automate the identification and sorting course of for recyclables from combined materials streams. Learn Extra
3. Studies of layoffs at Iron Ox
There are studies of great layoffs at Iron Ox, an agriculture know-how firm that makes use of robotics to customise look after crops. Many now-former staff have posted on social media concerning the layoffs. Whereas it’s unclear precisely what number of staff have been laid off, quite a few posts point out Iron Ox let go of roughly half of its staff. Iron Ox additionally laid off a smaller variety of staff a number of months in the past, in line with different posts from former staff. Learn Extra
2. Boston Dynamics suing Ghost Robotics over quadruped design
Boston Dynamics is suing competitor Ghost Robotics for patent infringement. Boston Dynamics claims Ghost Robotics infringed on seven patents associated to its Spot quadruped robotic. In response to the grievance (PDF) filed in Delaware federal courtroom, Boston Dynamics stated Ghost Robotics’ Imaginative and prescient 60 and Spirit 40 quadrupeds each comprise infringing capabilities. Learn Extra
1. Ghost Robotics responds to Boston Dynamics lawsuit
Ghost Robotics has responded to the patent infringement lawsuit not too long ago filed by Boston Dynamics. Earlier this week, we discovered that Boston Dynamics is suing competitor Ghost Robotics for allegedly infringing on seven patents associated to the previous’s Spot quadruped robotic. Filed in Delaware Federal courtroom on November 11, 2022, Boston Dynamics takes problem with each Ghost Robotics’ Imaginative and prescient 60 and Dash 40 quadrupeds. Learn Extra
