Miko is an Indian robot that has been entertaining and educating children in Asia. Now it wants to befriend American kids. Its Mumbai-based creator Emotix announced series A funding round of $7.5 million in August. Butler is a warehouse robot from Gurugram. Its maker GreyOrange has clients from Japan to…
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200 million francs to celebrate its 200th anniversary: The Swiss bank Credit Suisse announced on the anniversary of its founding father Alfred Escher that it will invest more in venture capital than before. Instead of the currently estimated 130 million francs, future 200 million francs will flow into various fields…
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After the first investment announcements of startup300, capital300 or the aws Gründerfonds, the focus fund Speedinvest i (short for “Industry”) is starting the new year with a round of financing. Together with “strategic partners” a million sum will be pumped into the Stuttgart startup drag & bot. The spin-off of…
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The sales figures for industrial robots are rising. According to the new World Robotics Report, annual sales increased by 114 percent between 2013 and 2017. In 2017 alone, more than 381,000 factory robots were sold for a total of $ 16.2 billion. By contrast, the market for household robots is…
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Scientists, technologists and businessmen will meet at: MARS, an event organized by Amazon, on artificial intelligence focused on robotics, machine learning and space. This meeting, in which there will be conferences, workshops and work tables, will be held on June 4 and 7, 2019, in Las Vegas. Artificial Intelligence, one…
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The Stuttgart start-up was born out of a Fraunhofer Institute. A first investment should help on the way tothe industry. Faster start for the automated helpers: In order to simplify the commissioning of robots in the industry, Stuttgart-based startup drag & bot is developing software. Now the founders receive seven-digit…
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The researcher has already worked for Microsoft in a virtual teleportation system. Who is he? The young professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Alicante (UA) Sergio Orts has just landed in San Francisco to join the February 1 as a researcher at the headquarters of…
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The newspaper written by robots Would you read a newspaper in which you worked an algorithm? Yes, the question is a bit tricky by two points: first, algorithms are already used in almost all newspapers to optimize traffic (although few at the level of writing); and, secondly, “work” may not…
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