Every returned item has to be picked up, identified and sorted before it can be sold again, and that work has long resisted automation. “If a system only works on articles it has seen before, it does not work in a returns operation at all,”...
Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with its third-quarter earnings call. Johnson & Johnson’s new OTTAVA table-integrated soft tissue robotic system achieved...
Clara Quakenbush, a medical assistant at Hancock Health’s Sue Ann Wortman Cancer Center in Indiana, used to make 10 to 15 trips a day carrying specimens to the hospital lab, according to an October 2025 news release from autonomous delivery company Arrive AI. She spent...
RobCo, a builder of autonomous industrial robotics, topped a $1 billion valuation in an employee secondary share sale, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. RobCo’s new valuation is double the one it achieved nine months ago, according to the release. At...
October 07, 2025
Watch more: Digital Shift: GridRaster, Dijam Panigrahi The conversation around robotics often swings between two poles: either a utopian vision of fully autonomous machines or a dystopian fear of human workers being displaced. But as the global push toward more automated, efficient and safe industrial environments accelerates, a third option is emerging. One where machines […]
August 20, 2025
Remember the metaverse? Two decades into the 21st century, Big Tech’s largest firms suddenly decided to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and countless hours of technical resources on building...
June 11, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is turning his attention to the next critical enabler of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution: quantum computing. “There’s an inflection point happening in quantum computing,” Huang...
May 09, 2025
Competition comes best in twos. Think Apple and Microsoft, Coke and Pepsi, McDonald’s and Burger King and many other famous pairings. It’s because a dose of healthy competition ultimately benefits...
October 13, 2026
Regulatory approval of a new Johnson & Johnson tool opens a new category in surgical robotics, the MedTech company said in a presentation released Tuesday (Oct. 13) in conjunction with its third-quarter earnings call. Johnson & Johnson’s new OTTAVA table-integrated soft tissue robotic system achieved U.S. Food and Drug Administration market authorization during the quarter. […]
October 05, 2026
RobCo, a builder of autonomous industrial robotics, topped a $1 billion valuation in an employee secondary share sale, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. RobCo’s new...
September 03, 2026
Artificial intelligence cloud company Nscale has signed a major, multi-year agreement with humanoid robotics developer Figure. This deal will see Nscale provide computing resources for Figure and commit at least $3.5 billion —...
August 21, 2026
Dexmal, a Chinese firm developing embodied artificial intelligence to control robots, is seeking a valuation of 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a funding round, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. 21)....
