One can’t accuse Bonsai Robotics of lacking focus. The Bay Area-based firm is starting with trees — specifically nut trees. Like most labor-intensive sectors these days, farms have suffered from a profound lack of available workers, so the startup began striking deals with OEMs to outfit heavy farming equipment with its vision-based autonomy. This morning,…
October 3, 2023 Larry Jasinski, CEO, ReWalk Robotics Ltd.(NASDAQ:RWLK) ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (NASDAQ:RWLK) and its new acquisition Alter G are technologies that permit stroke, accident and warfare victims new hope for regaining mobility. Larry Jasinski has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the ReWalk Robotics Ltd. board since February 2012. From 2005…
Photo provided Smith Elementary’s Sonic Cyborgs pose for a photo at the VEX Robotics World Championship competition in Dallas. A local employer is providing $16,000 to support the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.’s elementary and middle school robotics teams. The school board voted Monday to approve a grant agreement with Cummins, Inc. According to Davida Harden,…
[Image from the Galen Robotics website] Galen Robotics announced today that the FDA granted it de novo classification for its Galen ES robotic surgery system. The de novo nod authorizes the use of Galen ES in rigid microlaryngeal procedures. Baltimore-based Galen Robotics designed the system as a cooperatively powered surgical assistant for ear, nose and…
“The aim of Intrinsic is to democratize the access to robotics,” Wendy Tan White, CEO of Intrinsic, told me at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, where she appeared alongside Brian Gerkey, director of Open Robotics, which was recently acquired by Intrinsic. The acquisition of OSRC – the commercial arm of Open Robotics – received a mixed…
Dr. Myriam Curet has been instrumental to Intuitive’s success in recent years. [Photo courtesy of Intuitive Surgical] Intuitive Surgical has pioneered robotic surgery since the 1990s, continuously driving innovation and collaboration through data to advance patient care. Teamwork between surgeons and engineers has been a crucial factor behind Intuitive developing effective surgical platforms that solve…
Starpath Robotics has emerged from stealth with an ambitious plan to design, launch and operate machines to mine and refine water for rocket propellant using resources on the moon and Mars. In-situ resource utilization of water for the purposes of making rocket propellant is not a new idea. Rocket propellant is a mix of liquid…
Me and 32,000 of my closest friends just attended a mighty energizing PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2023—the biggest ever, by the way. Needless to say, there was no shortage of advanced technology to dazzle us. But I also had an encouraging conversation on the subject of workforce development with FANUC engineering manager Jessica Juhasz (pictured…
