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October was a busy month for the robotics {industry}. From the RoboBusiness occasion in Santa Clara, to Worldwide Ladies in Robotics Day, to thrilling developments for humanoid robots, there was no scarcity of stories to cowl. 

Listed below are the highest 10 hottest tales on The Robotic Report in September 2023. Subscribe to The Robotic Report E-newsletter or hearken to The Robotic Report Podcast to remain up to date on the robotics tales that you must find out about.

10. Tiny quadruped robots are powered by combustion actuators

Cornell researchers have mixed comfortable microactuators with high-energy-density chemical gas to create an insect-sized quadruped robotic powered by combustion. These tiny robots can outrace, outfit, outflex, and outleap its electric-driven rivals. Learn Extra

9. Celebrating the primary Worldwide Ladies in Robotics Day

At this time, girls make up 48% of the overall workforce, and simply 34% of the STEM workforce, based on the Nationwide Ladies Collaborative Challenge. Relating to engineering and robotics roles, the quantity is even smaller, with girls solely making up about 16% of the workforce. Ladies in Robotics additionally launched its yearly record of fifty girls in robotics that you must know in coordination with the celebration. Learn Extra

8. Neura Robotics brings in one other $16M

Neura Robotics (“NEURA Robotics”), a German-based rising AI and robotics startup, introduced that it introduced in $16 million in funding simply months after closing a $55 million spherical. The newest spherical comes from personal fairness agency InterAlphen Companions. InterAlphen’s funding in Neura will bolster its progress and growth into the US market. Neura is at the moment on observe to bringing a multi-purpose humanoid robotic to the market. Learn Extra

7. Constructing a full-stack robotics firm within the age of enormous AI fashions

In immediately’s fundraising setting with its intense give attention to money flow-positive enterprise fashions, robotics entrepreneurs are left navigating some thorny challenges: excessive CapEx prices, workflow and alter administration, and lengthy enterprise deployment cycles to call just a few. Learn Extra

6. Electrical Sheep acquires 2 conventional landscaping firms

Electrical Sheep, a supplier of autonomous large-scale outside upkeep, is buying two industrial landscaping companies, Phenix Panorama and Full Landscaping. The acquisitions are a part of the corporate’s long-term technique to consolidate the landscaping {industry}. Learn Extra

5. PAL Robotics integrates magnetic encoder know-how into robots to attain steadiness

This case research focuses on REEM-C, PAL Robotics’ full-size biped humanoid robotics analysis platform. It’s one in every of a household of robots which are used for a lot of functions. REEM-C supplies a completely customizable foundation for analysis into thrilling areas corresponding to navigation, machine imaginative and prescient, human-robot interplay, synthetic intelligence, greedy, strolling and speech recognition. Learn Extra

4. UPS unveils robotics improvements at work in its community

UPS has had a protracted historical past of driving improvements that assist propel its enterprise and convey industry-leading methods to logistics. The corporate lately gave insights into methods it’s strengthening its community capabilities and enhancing the worker expertise by means of automation. Learn Extra

3. Humanoids getting their toes moist in logistics

Amazon has began to check a humanoid robotic, Digit, in its warehouses this week, elevating recent questions on how swiftly humanoids might be utilized in logistics. Made by Agility Robotics, the bipedal robotic can grasp and raise objects, and it’ll begin by shifting empty tote bins as Amazon continues to discover new methods of automating its warehouses. Learn Extra

2. How Zoox makes use of simulation to make sure its robotaxis are prepared for the highway

Whereas it turns into second nature for many who have been doing it for years, driving is a fancy job that requires these behind the wheel to all the time be at consideration. Your mind is continually making choices concerning the highway situations, your velocity and place, the velocity and place of the vehicles round you, observing visitors legal guidelines, highway marking, and extra. Learn Extra

1. Determine 01 humanoid takes first public steps

Determine unveiled its Determine 01 humanoid robotic and demonstrated dynamic bipedal strolling publically for the primary time. The corporate has grown to 60 staff over the past yr and contains engineers throughout AI, controls, embedded software program, electrical, mechanical, actuator design, battery, integration and testing. The corporate introduced its $70M spherical in Could 2023 and developed the robotic in just a little over 12 months. Learn Extra