Over the last several years, the investment environment has been tough for robotics startups. Capital deployment has fallen and companies have closed as the general downturn in tech investment that started in 2022 hit the resource-intensive robotics particularly hard. We have tracked that decline — and identified green shoots of recovery — in our annual […]
Pipedream Labs Inc. announced the launch of its robotic food-delivery system at a leading quick-service restaurant, or QSR. The system delivers food orders from the kitchen to the customer in under 15 seconds, “transforming fast food into instant food,” it said. The post Pipedream Labs deploys underground robotic delivery system in Texas drive thru appeared […]
Eight years ago, not even $1 million went into startups focused exclusively on humanoids. Today, the total amount of private capital for the industry has climbed over $1.4 billion. Just this month, Citi’s leading investment analysts published “The Rise of AI Robots: Physical AI is Coming for You.” The post 2024: The year humanoids woke […]
It’s time to stop doubting quantum information technology. Are we there yet? No. Not by a long shot. But the progress on a number of key challenges, the sheer number of organizations fighting to succeed (and make a buck), the no-turning-back public investment, and nasty international rivalry are all good guarantors. The post Quantum Computing […]
The perceived labor vs. automation debate is one of a few trends that will dominate the robotics industry in 2025. Next year, we’ll also hear much about the importance of human-robot collaboration, market consolidation and the fate of robotics foundation models (RFMs). The post The state of AI, robotics heading into 2025 appeared first on […]
A series of humanoid robot announcements at the end of the month dominated our top 10 stories in December 2024. In addition, large funding rounds and forward-looking forecasts grabbed our readers’ attention. Here are the 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in the past month. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter and listen to The Robot Report Podcast to stay […]
A joint research team from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Korea University College of Medicine last week announced comparative results of single-port robotic thymectomy using a single-port robotic system. The post Korea University Medicine shares single-port robotic thymectomy comparative results appeared first on The Robot Report.
Researchers are exploring new ways that quantum computers will be able to reveal the secrets of complex quantum systems. Source: The Incredible Power of Quantum Memory | WIRED
A recent collaboration among researchers from HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with industry collaborators SandboxAQ and Nvidia, has achieved unprecedented speed and performance in efforts to model complex metal-containing molecules. The collaboration resulted in 2.5 times the performance improvement over previous […]
Lately, not a week goes by without some announcement around humanoid robotics. However, developers should invest time and money into pilot studies now to identify the best tasks and commercial applications for their systems, according to Silicon Foundry. The post Humanoid robots need pilot studies to demonstrate utility, says Silicon Foundry appeared first on The […]
