Brianna Wessling

Mark Joppru, the former vice president of ABB USA’s Consumer Segments and Service Robotics division, has joined the MiR team.

Pudu Robotics offers a line of commercial service robots that do a variety of tasks, including Flashbot, Kettybot, PuduBot and BellaBot.

Simbe’s Tally autonomously navigates stores and collects shelf data to help prevent out of stock items and incorrect prices.

Industry events, like MODEX and IREX, made their return, and with them came a slew of new product announcements and deployments.

Oceaneering introduced the UniMover D 100, UniMover O 600 and MaxMover CB D 2000 at MODEX 2022 earlier this week.

GXO Logistics deployed 65 autonomous mobile robots from Locus Robotics at its order fulfillment centers.

Since its founding in 2015, TinyMobileRobots said it has saved customers 1.6 million hours of painting and $102.5 million.

Infinity joins OPEX’s two other robotic systems, Sure Sort, a sorting system, and Perfect Pick, a goods-to-person picking robot.

Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot can handle up to 50 lbs and is available for installations in 2023 and 2024.

Waypoint Robotics’ AMRs are being rebranded to join the mobile robot portfolio of Locus Robotics.

High information navigation mapping strikes a balance between learning based and traditional methods of navigation.

Students and employees at the university can order from the Starship Food Delivery app and get their food delivered anywhere on campus.

The 430,000 square foot facility will be equipped with GreyOrange’s robotic technology, which is expected to speed up order fulfillment.

The biggest market for mobile robots is China, which made up 40% of worldwide shipments in 2021, followed by the U.S.

TERAKI and Foodora plan to begin deliveries in the coming months, after they receive approval from Stockholm authorities.

From new partnerships, to the World Agricultural Expo, to more robots being deployed in the field, there was no shortage of things to cover.  

Coco aims to expand to Dallas, Houston and Miami in the coming months. It has been operating in Los Angeles, where it’s based, since 2021. 

Manned explorations weren’t possible after the Lhoist North American limestone mine collapsed in 2021, so the team turned to robots instead.

Reeco is a specialist in cobot applications. The companies will create solutions for manufacturing and warehousing challenges. 

LG’s CLOi ServeBot, Robotnik’s RB-THERON and NVIDIA’s Isaac AMR platform all grabbed your attention this month.

Delek uses Percepto’s autonomous drones to maintain remote operations 24/7, automate day-to-day operations in its facilities.

The financing has been facilitated through a venture loan and is supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI).

The partnership is new ground for Mitsubishi, who has never partnered with an autonomous delivery company like Carken before.

Serve Robotics’ achievement comes a few months after the company announced its partnership with Uber Eats.

Like R1 and R2, Nuro is completely passengerless and made for deliveries, but its 500 lb capacity is double what R2 can carry.