Following liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Robotic Mission Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-backed Robotic Geosynchronous Satellite Servicing (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to service spacecraft. RSGS leverages NASA’s space robotics expertise, aligned with the
One of the most important things happening on Earth today is the increase in solar energy. Around the world, companies and countries are rushing to deploy solar power and batteries to achieve energy independence and limit the effects of climate change. However, that construction runs into a challenge in the labor market, with a limited
Agility Robotics has a new center in Silicon Valley, where it will attract more world-class engineers to join the humanoid maker. Just don’t expect the startup to get into a spending war for talent. Jonathan Hurst, Agility’s co-founder and chief robot officer, told Business Insider that his company has no interest in joining the growing
Agility Robotics is opening a 60,000-square-foot facility to train its humanoid robots in Fremont, California, just down the road from the factory where Tesla is expected to begin manufacturing its Optimus robots this year. Tesla has increasingly bet on Optimus. Elon Musk recently said he hopes it will be “the biggest product ever created” once
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
A former Formula One engineer has left the world’s fastest racing cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories. Now, his Munich-based startup microagi has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global
