Matternet cleared to fly blood samples in delivery drones over Swiss cities

 The Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA) has granted Matternet a certification allowing their delivery…

Roboteam is building a 10,000-strong robot army for your home

 At this very moment, there’s someone working away in a factory somewhere in Shenzhen or at…

New tech can spot small faces in the crowd

 Spotting faces in a scene is easy when the punims are nice and close to the…

Toyota Research Institute puts $35M into AI-powered materials research

 Toyota’s dedicated research organization, Toyota Research Institute (TRI), is investing $35 million into collaborative research efforts…

6 River Systems unveils warehouse robots that show workers the way

 When Amazon acquired Kiva Systems in 2012, other retailers and third-party fulfillment centers panicked. The e-commerce giants took…

GE invests $2 million in Alchemist Accelerator to back industrial IoT startups

 Alchemist Accelerator has raised $2 million from GE Digital to start a new program for industrial…

Domino’s and Starship Technologies will deliver pizza by robot in Europe this summer

 We’ve said it once, we’ll say it again– the food delivery robots are coming! This time, they’ll…

Between robots’ ‘safe’ and ‘unsafe’ zones, a sort of robot friend zone proposed

 It goes without saying that working with robots and heavy machinery is more than a little…