Robotics

Autonomous driving technologies are disrupting the business models for the traditional auto industry. Latest research from IDTechEx forecasts that autonomous driving technologies will accelerate the arrival of peak car sales, in 2031.

Echodyne is a Washington-based firm developing radars based on metamaterials. It was established in 2014 and has since raised $64M.

BionicHIVE is a technology from a Israeli company. It is an innovative approach to fiducial-based autonomous robots

Kymeta was established in 2012. It has raised $217M so far. It uses metamaterials in order to electrically scan the antenna.

They are an Irish start up (2014) and have thus far raised 5.3M Euros. It has around 40 staff.

Drone Ag is a British company that produces easy to use software for agricultural drones. In November 2019, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Jack Wrangham, Founder and Director of Drone Ag.

'Origami robots' are state-of-the-art soft and flexible robots that are being tested for use in various applications including drug delivery in human bodies, search and rescue missions in disaster environments and humanoid robotic arms.

Arbe have developed the Phoenix radar, an ultra high-resolution 4D imaging radar.

Uhnder is a Texas-based radar company. It is backed by Magna International and has raised $75M in funding

InVia Robotics is a CA, USA based start-up (2015) with an undisclosed amount of seed funding and around 10 employees. It offers a mobile robotic picker

A swarm of marbles that flows through your intestines in order to detect thickening. It sounds like science fiction, but it's closer to reality than you might think. Engineers have developed sensors that are able to inspect hard-to-reach or even inaccessible environments.

Whiz can record up to 600 cleaning routes, for which staff teach the robot the initial floor cleaning route upon their first use. Subsequently, routes are stored in Whiz so it can repeat the cleaning route autonomously on its own. Through cloud data visualization, cleaning and status reports on Whiz can be gathered and analyzed.

Stretchable skin-like robots that can be rolled up and put in your pocket have been developed using a new way of embedding artificial muscles and electrical adhesion into soft materials.

Imagine holding hands with a loved one on the other side of the world. Or feeling a pat on the back from a teammate in the online game "Fortnite."

The prototype of Airbus Helicopters' VSR700 unmanned aerial system has performed its first flight at a drone test centre near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. The VSR700 performed several take-offs and landings with the longest flight lasting around 10 minutes.

Voyant Photonics was founded by researchers from a nanophotonics group at Columbia University (USA).