The real humanoid robots to watch.

Ok, there was an Optimus robot, so well done team! But it's a perpetual betabot and it's been interesting seeing so many in the robotics community give Elon the gift of constructive criticism. If you want more humanoids, there's a selection below and the ANA …

More interesting things in robotics in 2022! - Issue #83

Waiting for TeslaNoBot today?

Gary Marcus and many many AI/Robotics people are very sceptical. And we know Musk has been hiring a great team but unless he's leveraging some other company's hard work, there's no way for an Optimus today. (srsly, my money's on Agility Robotics)

IMTS, RoboBusiness, big announcements, fundings, even robot SPACs are back

IMTS 2022 just finished and we're all super pleased with how the US Alliance of Robotics Clusters pavilion was received, with 15 robotics startups from Silicon Valley Robotics, San Antonio Texas Roboticx and Mass Robotics. Look for invitations to participate …

Join me at IMTS, FIRA, RoboBusiness, Bots&Beer, Women in Robotics and new Bots&Soju event

Robotics companies from Korea will be at Silicon Valley Robotics on Monday Sept 26, where they'll be introducing themselves and providing everything we need for a very fun Bots&Soju. This weekend I'll put up the full list of visiting companies so you can …

€150k prize for deep tech or robotics startups!

We're still seeking promising early-stage deep tech startups, across all industries and technologies, for our Global Challenge!We know you have some of the best ones, so we'd really appreciate your help in sharing our call with the startups/spin-offs in your …

Viewing party for ARTEMIS 1 & Bots&Beer with SRI Robotics

Silicon Valley Robotics is putting on a great showing at IMTS in Chicago with 4 startups showcasing alongside startups from MassRobotics and San Antonio. Thank you Picknik Robotics, RIOS, FLX Solutions and Seismic!(I may also be wearing my own Seismic Powered…

More interesting things in robotics in 2022! - Issue #77

Time for some investment stats! And a lot of great weekend reading.Surprisingly, July saw almost $1Billion in robotics venture in only 73 deals, so largely in Series A to D companies and almost all of them were Chinese. August is almost as heady, but that's l…

Why the US is 'robot resistant' according to research!

IMTS is coming up in Chicago Sep 12-17. Silicon Valley Robotics will be there, along with 424+ robotics exhibitors. I'm moderating a robotics panel and hosting a startup booth with other robotics clusters as the US Alliance of Robotics Clusters. Three SVR sta…

(oops forgot to add this piece!) - Supply chains and sentience!

Back to funding figures shortly. Here's a couple of items blowing up on twitter and reddit in the AI/ML/Robotics/Ethics community.

More interesting things in robotics in 2022 - Supply chains and sentience!

Back to funding figures shortly. Here's a couple of items blowing up on twitter in the AI/ML/Robotics/Ethics community.

Can't believe it's August already! Robots just keep getting funding.

From Exponential View #384: OooberUber surprised a lot of us and turned cash flow positive in the second quarter. The beat – $308m vs expectations of $109m – is remarkable. So too are other numbers: 1.87bn trips in the quarter, up 22%. This might mean that ma…

And some more robotics investment news

We're getting back on track! 84 robotics companies received funding in June 2022, and so far in July there are another 49. If you want to take a closer look, here's an online copy of the list. 2021 was a bumper year for robotics funding (although that's no c…

Naval inspection opportunity worth $500k, FIRA demo days etc.

Too much news and some great opportunities for inspection robots! See the NSIN prize below for Naval tank inspection. And the SBIR awards. Oh, and FIRA. But wait there's more, if you're looking for jobs in robotics too!

More interesting things in robotics in 2022! (startups from VivaTech)

Here are some very interesting documents, from Formant's guide to Robotics as a Service (including how to raise money if you're a RAAS startup), to the Pittsburgh Robotics Network recent cluster mapping. And as promised here's some more details from the robot…

News from Cruise and new robots from Amazon and Robust.ai

 I have some good news, and some bad news. Let's start with the bad:Close to 400 car crashes in the past 10 months in the US involved driver-assist systems, about 70% of them involving Teslas. (Although not clear whether this is higher than average or not, gi…

Robotics funding reaches new highs in 2022!

Robotics funding had a problem at the start of the pandemic, when many companies failed to make their runway stretch over a period of investor malaise. Sadly this resulted in many companies in very early stage (and a couple of much larger ones) going out of b…

News from Automate 2022 and more

Just a short news round up this week. Where tech startups are suffering in the investment downtown, robotics startups that historically have always had a tougher time are doing quite nicely thank you.

More interesting things in robotics in 2022! - Issue #66

Some extra fun(d) news. Later this week I'll do a funding recap for April and May.Ally Robotics is crowdsourcing their new robot arm - as deployed by Miso Robotics' Flippy! *this is not a 'kickstarter' type of crowdfunding but a $5m raise, where you invest &g…

Bots&Beer in person on Wednesday! Plus SO much news I nearly broke the newsletter

So much news! So little time :( I'm going to send another newsletter this week just to catch up! Where's Andra?If I'm not at SVR's HQ at Circuit Launch in Oakland then I'm attending...TC Sessions: Mobility May 18 San MateoICRA 2022 May 22 - 28 PennsylvaniaARS…