Caterpillar announces that it acquired the assets and team from autonomous delivery platform provider: Marble Robotics. Caterpillar is looking to invest in autonomous controls for its equipment as the business case for autonomous earth moving equipment become viable.
...Friendly neighborhood robot company, Marble, announced this morning that it has received $10M in a series A funding. Investors include Tencent Holdings (out of China), CF, Maven Ventures and Lemnos Labs. Total funding so far in their three year history is now $15M The Marble mobile robot was designed for neighborhood deliveries and has been tested …