by Tom Kaiser | Mar 3, 2022 | Automation, Briefs, News, Top Stories
Starship Technologies is on a triumphant roll as the delivery robot provider announces raising $100 million in the last 30 days, including its most recent $42 million Series B funding round. Together, these funds will help Starship further scale its autonomous drone...
by Nicholas Upton | Jul 8, 2021 | Automation, News
Amazon is expanding its work on Amazon Scout, the company’s land-based delivery robot. The delivery giant is hiring a team of engineers and developing new software to help simulate real-world conditions its robots will face out on the streets. With these...
by Nicholas Upton | Oct 24, 2019 | Automation, Briefs
Stuck because a robot won’t move out of the way might sound like a dumb episode of “Black Mirror,” but that was the reality for a doctoral student on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Emily Ackerman, a chemical engineering student who uses a wheelchair, said she...