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By Kyle Wiggers
December 5, 2023
Rightbot, a startup developing suction-based robots that can unload truck-transported freight in a range of sizes, has raised $6.25 million in a funding round led by Amazon’s Industrial Innovation Fund (IIF) with participation from SOSV and Entrepreneur First. Amazon launched IFF last April to bolster startups addressing challenges across customer fulfillment, logistics and the supply […]
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Slip Robotics snags $28M for its bots that can load a truck in five minutes
Drop by any given loading dock and a buzz of forklifts — loaded up with goods — can be spotted maneuvering in and out of truck trailers. This logistical dance can take up to an hour to fill a trailer, leaving truck drivers in idle limbo. The founders of Atlanta-based Slip Robotics say they’ve developed a robot that cuts that time down to five minutes. Their design inspiration: the floor. Slip Robotics, which was founded in 2020 by Chris Smith, Dennis Siedlak, and John Jakomin, has developed an
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Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. It’s no surprise, of course. Logistics and automation go hand in hand these days. In the decade since Amazon absorbed Kiva, same- and next-day delivery have become an industry standard. Retailers who can’t match those once impossible speeds are destined to fall behind — and […]
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This week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling
This week brought in good news for the robotics space in the form of new investment for nascent companies, but two established players within the space hit a snag. Amazon’s potential $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which had previously been approved by the U.K.’s antitrust regulators, is now getting an extensive review by the European […]
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Amazon-backed Glacier gets $16M to expand its robot recycling fleet
Amazon-backed Glacier has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round to expand its robot recycling fleet.
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