Robotics

Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONDS) has reached agreement to acquire American Robotics, the first drone company to receive Federal Aviation Authority beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) approval. Ondas will pay approximately $70.6 million in a combination of cash and equity securities for American...

Plus One Robotics, a human-robot collaboration software company headquartered in San Antonio, has announced this week $33 million in Series B funding led by McRock Capital and Translink Capital, with participation from BMW i Ventures, Kensington Capital Partners, Perot Jain and Ironspring Ventures...

Vicarious Surgical Inc. announced a SPAC merger on Thursday that will bring the next-gen robotics company to the public markets. The SPAC Deal: Vicarious Surgical is going public via a SPAC merger with D8 Holdings Corp (NYSE: DEH). The SPAC deal assigns an enterprise value of $1.1 billion to...

A pure-play robotics company proving automation solutions is hitting the public markets with a SPAC deal announced Wednesday morning. The SPAC Deal: Berkshire Grey, which uses artificial intelligence for robotics and automation solutions, announced a SPAC merger with Revolution Acceleration...

Third-party restaurant delivery platform DoorDash Inc. (NASDAQ: DASH) has reached an agreement to acquire the robotics startup company Chowbotics, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed people familiar with the deal.  What Happened: Chowbotics is a tech company...

On today's episode, Dooner and The Dude talk about SVT Robotics' warehouse integration, the good and bad of e-commerce for Amazon and USPS, TK7 Products' push toward green initiatives, how to talk to millennials in trucking, FreightWaves' new swag store. and what's On The Radar in SONAR. Plus, Bad...

A PitchBook report documents a surge of investment in the warehouse robotics space. Survey points to renewed investor interest in supply chain tech opportunities Investment in warehouse robotics technology startups clocked in at $381 million in the first quarter of 2020, up 57% from the same...

Consumer concerns about autonomous robots may give way to more favorable impressions as demand for human-free delivery grows during the coronavirus outbreak. Not so long ago, a "techlash" threatened to derail progress on autonomous transportation, and critics talked about corrective actions such...

Fetch Robotics, a cloud robotics and on-demand automation company, announced a new drag-and-drop development toolkit on March 2. The toolkit allows customers to implement flexible automation in existing warehouse facilities – without third-party assistance. "With Workflow Builder, we're making a...

Autonomous trucking startup Starsky Robotics has laid off the majority of its engineers and office personnel after its fundraising efforts and attempts to find a buyer failed, a former executive says. A skeleton crew remains at the company's headquarters in San Francisco as Starsky co-founders...

Logistics plays a significant role in keeping the world economy moving. However, what keeps logistics moving? In 2020, we're seeing new global pressures, opportunities in ecommerce markets and alliances coalescing around new technologies. Here's a look at some of the top logistics trends impacting...

Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics recently celebrated six months of running commercial loads in Texas, marking a milestone for the Mountain View, California, company that was founded in 2018 by industry veterans. With a facilities center in North Texas, the company is making daily...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has won a patent for a multifaceted last-mile autonomous robot the company is calling, prosaically, a "storage compartment vehicle" (SCV), designed to deliver and retrieve items potentially from multiple customers on a single trip. The patent application, published...

Skynet might need a new pizza delivery platform as Zume shuts down its robotic pizza business to better focus on food packaging, production and delivery systems, Restaurant Business reported. Reports of Zume's shift in focus surfaced last week and took effect Monday. The five-year-old startup...