16 posts tagged ‘Robotics’
What CES 2024 told us about the home robot
TechCrunch,
Few tech demos can match the spectacle of robotics. Even as the field grows increasingly prevalent in a broad range of industrial workplaces, mechatronics doing impressive things will never cease to amaze. For many, the mere presence of a robot is shorthand for the future, and for big electronics firms, it’s a quick and simple […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Should auld acquaintance be robot
This is always a strange week for us. Save for the occasional disastrous patent dispute, things are (thankfully) almost uncannily quiet in the week separating Christmas and New Year’s Day. You see a lot of reflective posts go up during this time, not only because the calendar year is coming to a close, but also because […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt Resigns After Vehicles Deemed Public Safety Hazard
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The co-founder of Cruise, Kyle Vogt, resigned from his duties as CEO, CTO, and President on Sunday night, following a month of turbulence for General Motors’ self-driving car subsidiary. Vogt exits the startup he launched in his garage 10 years ago, just weeks after Cruise recalled 950 robotaxis after one of them dragg… Read more...
Robotics Q&A with Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson This week, we’ve got a two-fer. Toyota Research Institute’s Russ Tedrake and Max Bajracharya split the job. Tedrake is TRI’s vice president of Robotics […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company
Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company. Let's dive in to this and other news from startup land. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Amazon brings its home robot to businesses
In an acknowledgement that cracking the home robotics market is hard, Amazon is bringing its Astro robot to a decidedly more corporate audience. The company today announced Astro for Business, which repurposes Astro as a security robot for small- and medium-sized business customers. Astro for Business adds several new capabilities to Astro, including the ability […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Robotics Q&A: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson
[A version of this Q&A first appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Over the next few weeks, TechCrunch will be running a series of Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. I’ve spoken with Matthew Johnson-Roberson several times since he was named the director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
AI robotics’ ‘GPT moment’ is near
Building AI-powered robots that can learn how to interact with the physical world will enhance all forms of repetitive work © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.