Episode features conversations with two VC’s and explores robotics and AI investment trends.

With rapidly expanding operations across several cities, Waymo is now taking on a partner to help it better manage its fleet operations.

AWS and NVIDIA said that Isaac Sim on Amazon Web Services can significantly accelerate and scale robot simulation and AI training.

Andrew Clare, CTO of Nuro, discusses the current state of self-driving vehicles and software and the road to Level 5 autonomy.

Imagry has developed hardware-agnostic systems to provide Level 4 autonomy to buses with time to market in mind.

A3 reported declines in North American robot orders in the first nine months of 2024 but said there are reasons for optimism.

In 2023, China surpassed Germany and Japan in robot density, putting it at the third most automated country worldwide.

The FANUC M-950iA has a reach of 2,830 mm, and the range of motion on the robot’s J3 axis allows it to flip over backward.

ANELLO Photonics, which has developed compact navigation and positioning for autonomous systems, has closed its Series B round.

With this expanded deployment of zero-occupant vehicles, the company said Nuro Driver is ready to autonomously transport people and goods.

ABB Robotics is leveraging AI to help make robotics smarter and easier to setup and program across all of the industries served by ABB.

Zenoh is a protocol that ZettaScale says works with DDS and offers data throughput from embedded compute to the cloud.

Europe is more fragmented a market than the U.S. or China, but it hosts numerous innovators, from industrial automation to humanoids.

DeepRoute.ai announced strategic funding led by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor to develop a full self-driving stack.

Arbe Robotics expects to bring in around $15 million in gross proceeds from the IPO, before deducting various offering expenses.

CynLr, which is developing technology to enable robots to manipulate unknown objects, will grow its team and expand its supply chain network.

Formant said the collaboration with the global automotive services company will fuel the development and growth of its cloud robotics management platform

Life Line didn’t have enough staffers to go around making ambulances, so it applied GrayMatter’s Scan&Sand system.

WeRide currently holds autonomous driving licenses in China, the UAE, Singapore, and the U.S., and it has operations in over 30 cities.

New Comau products include those for robotic machining, performance monitoring, programming and optimization, welding, and bin picking.

With Mcity, U-M seeks to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies to enable safer and more efficient transportation.

The companies plan to produce a fleet of IONIQ 5 robotaxis equipped with Waymo’s technology to support Waymo One’s growth.