RoboBusiness

Viam Launchpad: Deploying Robots Day One

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The Physical AI industry is expanding rapidly, yet many robotics startups struggle to progress from prototypes to commercial deployments. Viam addresses this gap with hardware-agnostic infrastructure, engineering support, and fleet-management tools. Its new six-month Launchpad combines technical resources, customer discovery, mentorship, and funding connections to help founders transform concepts into deployed, revenue-generating robotic solutions.

Israeli Robot Startups Prepare for Post-War Valuation Bump

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One could hear in the hallways of RoboBusiness murmurings of shock and disgust with the Hamas terrorist attacks still smoldering. Just eleven days prior, a sunny morning in Israel was marred by bloodshed and the death of thousands of innocents. Consequently, the startup nation’s economy quickly spiraled. Almost overnight some of the world’s most promising … Read more

RoboBusiness 2017: What’s Cooking In Robotics?

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Mike Toscano, the former president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, emphatically declared at the September RobotLab forum that “anyone who claims to know the future of the [robotics] industry is lying, I mean no one could’ve predicted the computing mobile revolution.” These words acted as a guiding principle when walking around RoboBusiness in … Read more

The Roboticist’s Moral Imperative

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It’s time to address the elephant in the room – jobs. First, I must confess that I was wrong to casually dismiss this issue in past posts. More than the technology itself, for automation to be successful, we need it to enhance (not destroy) human society. If one-third of the workforce is displaced then we have failed. … Read more