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Robotics & Drones
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The White House signed off on a Section 232 order on August 13 that puts a 100% tariff on the biggest, most capable imported drones, a 25% rate on smaller models, and lower bands of 15% and 10% for allied producers. The move caps a…
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Robotics & Drones
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LG and Nvidia signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday that pulls the two companies into a much deeper partnership on robots, AI factories and self-driving cars. The headline piece is a bipedal humanoid robot LG wants to show the…
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Robotics & Drones
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British Defense Drone Startup Cambridge Aerospace Raises $300 Million as Cheap UAVs Redraw Air Defense Economics LONDON — A British startup building low-cost interceptors to shoot down drones and cruise missiles has raised $300 million in…
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Robotics & Drones
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Warehouse management remains one of the major bottlenecks in modern supply chains. While robots have successfully automated the movement of goods from place to place, maintaining an accurate, real-time map of inventory remains a manual…
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Robotics & Drones
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Unitree Robotics has stepped onto the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market, becoming the first humanoid robot manufacturer to trade on China's mainland exchanges. The Hangzhou-based company priced its initial public offering at 150.80…
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Robotics & Drones
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Ondas Holdings has completed its acquisition of Cyberhawk, the Scottish drone-inspection specialist, in a deal the company says turns it into one of the largest players in the booming market for aerial checks of power grids, oil and gas…
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Robotics & Drones
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HII Puts Up to $900 Million Behind Welding Robots to Build Navy Warships Faster America's largest military shipbuilder is betting big on robots it believes can take on the hardest jobs in a shipyard. HII said on August 6 that it signed…
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Robotics & Drones
1,292 words 6 min read
The day after Washington banned new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots, Beijing's trade officials did not flinch. On August 5, China's Commerce Ministry tightened export controls on drones and drone parts bound for the United States…
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Robotics & Drones
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Tampa General Hospital and Hillsborough County Fire Rescue announced on August 3 that they are standing up what they call the nation's first EMS-driven drone delivery program for pre-hospital whole blood, with drones based at two fire…
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Robotics & Drones
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A drone packed with plastic explosives was found on the tarmac at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Tuesday night, parked within feet of two Ukrainian cargo planes, and German prosecutors say a faulty detonator is all that stopped a mass-casualty…
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Robotics & Drones
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A young San Francisco startup called Avatar Robotics has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to push forward with an idea it calls the "unlimited workforce": humanoid robots that run in warehouses and factories, steered by remote human…
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Robotics & Drones
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Figure AI has been preaching the same sermon for two years: the human world is built for human bodies, so the machines that work in it ought to look like one. On August 1st, founder and CEO Brett Adcock posted a video he hopes settles the…