Why robot startups now? Part 2
2. Broader Financial Climate A positive indicator for robotics startups is the improving financial climate. There are signs that the US housing market is stabilizing. Fannie Mae, the government backed...
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Distribution centers: An emerging robotics frontier
Distribution centers (DCs) are massive warehouses that receive, inspect and store goods for later picking, packing and shipping to end-users, re-distributors or retail outlets. Products can be...
View ArticleRobotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our...
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Amazon announces plans for drone delivery service, says safety will be key...
Amazon announced yesterday that it is developing a drone delivery service called Prime Air that will aim to get packages into customer’s hands within 30 minutes. They are planning to launch as soon as...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Air: 5 Predictions About the Retailer’s Delivery Drones | TIME
Assuming Amazon Prime Air eventually launches … there are a handful of predictions about the system itself and delivery-by-drone systems in general… Read more by Doug Aamoth on TIME.com
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Jeff Bezos reaches for tip of UAS iceberg
On Sunday, Charlie Rose from CBS News 60 Minutes, interviewed Jeff Bezos about what is next for Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer with more than 225 million customers. Volume can reach 300...
View ArticleAmid drone talk, Amazon has real robots | Wall Street Journal Blog
Amazon got a lot of ink for its sci-fi drone delivery idea this week, but a more real and immediate robot effort underway in the Seattle retailer’s warehouses could save it as much as $916 million a...
View ArticleDrones on and on and on | The Boston Globe
US needs to join the aviation revolution Last week’s announcement that Amazon is testing the delivery of packages with small drones has created a media storm, and seems to have taken most people by...
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Forget the octocopter, let’s talk about Kiva
Given all the chatter on drones and automation, we thought it would be a good time to dive deeper into the Kiva opportunity and potential impact on leverage/margins. For the sake of our analysis, we...
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Apple, Amazon and now Google: It’s a pretty exciting day for robotics!
There is serious momentum in robotics these days, evidenced by recent news from Apple, Amazon and Google: Apple announced that they were investing $10.5 billion in supply chain robots and automation...
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What do Google, Amazon, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and all the airlines and car...
They want to communicate more accurately, resolve issues faster and with higher levels of satisfaction than at present. They also want to enable more complex communication. And they want to do it...
View ArticleMark Stephen Meadows on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple...
Google, is the wild card for me. With more acquisitions (DeepMind, Boston Dynamics, Redwood Robotics, Industrial Perception, Meka, Schaft, and others) than Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft...
View ArticleAlan Winfield on “What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and...
Judging by the levels of media coverage and frenzied speculation that has followed each acquisition, the short answer to what does it mean is: endless press exposure. I almost wrote ‘priceless...
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Big deals: What it means to have the giants investing in robotics
If the world outside the robotics community didn’t know about Boston Dynamics, Kiva and Nest, they do now. Recent robotics acquisitions and investments by major-league players like Google, Apple and...
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Will companies like Google and Amazon usher in a new era for robotics?
Amazon announced its plans to launch a new drone delivery service this past December. Recent eye-popping acquisitions of robotics technology companies by giants like Google and Amazon might suggest...
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The robots behind your Internet shopping addiction: How your wallet is...
When you’re shopping for the best online deals you’re probably not thinking much about the massive distribution network required to bring that pair of shoes to your doorstep. Is your quest for the...
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Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move
As part of Robohub’s Big Deals series, startup expert Andra Keay asks Valery Komissarova, Grishin Robotics’ Director of Business Development, about what all the recent robotics acquisitions mean to the...
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Brand strength, cultural influence of consumer-facing giants like Google,...
What is one to make of this focus series … Big Deals: What It Means to Have the Giants Investing in Robotics … with the giants being Google, Amazon and Apple (as given in the preamble)? The...
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Commercial drone use legal in USA? Who’s willing to make bail?
Or perhaps the better question is: who’s willing to be the test case? A US federal court judge ruled against the FAA yesterday in their case against Raphael Pirker (the first and only person fined for...
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MODEX: How quickly things change
At previous MODEX events – trade shows exhibiting the latest manufacturing and supply chain equipment and technologies – Kiva had their own boothes. Big boothes with lots of people marveling at their...
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