The Indy Autonomous Challenge set a new autonomous vehicle speed record at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed with the new AV-24 vehicle.

Continental is using AWS cloud services to accelerate innovation in its mobile robot software stack for new markets such as agriculture.

Silicon Foundry associate Lucas Tesler explains why humanoid robotics developers should conduct pilot testing well before commercial rollouts.

Helm.ai says its new VidGen-1 model can cut development time and cost for Level 2 to 4 autonomous vehicles, robots, and drones.

New software will combine Meili Robots’ expertise in fleet management with the WAKU Care robot service platform.

NVIDIA Research plans to show how its simulation research is improving AI models, as well as how such models can help simulation and robotics.

Jacobi Robotics also released its Palletizer software, the first in a series of solutions targeting specific applications.

Skild AI will use the funding to build its model and training datasets for commercial deployment. It’s also hiring across AI, robotics, engineering, operations, and security.

This latest funding round brings Bright Machines total funding since it was founded in 2018 to $400 million.

From exciting deployments and humanoid robotics developments to emerging partnerships, there was no shortage of robotics news to cover in June 2024. 

Realtime Robotics’ Optimization as a service offering has been honored for innovation and commercialization.

Since its previous funding, Formic’s fleet of robotic equipment has completed 100,000 production hours at more than 99% uptime.

RTI Connext provides reliable communications for users of NVIDIA’s Holoscan SDK to speed development of devices such as surgical robots.

GrayMatter Robotics says its AI-based systems can double or quadruple productivity as its customer base grows and hires more staffers.

Manufacturers want more visibility into processes and to reskill staffers to work with automation, found Zebra and Azure Knowledge.

Vecna Robotics has more than doubled its valuation and hired a chief operating officer as it develops a case-picking system.

Wayve says PRISM-1 enables scalable, realistic re-simulations of complex scenes with minimal engineering or labeling input. 

Realtime Robotics is bringing its motion planning for industrial and collaborative robots to market with Mitsubishi Electric.

Waabi, which has been developing self-driving trucks using generative AI, plans to put its systems on Texas roads in 2025.

Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX can generate synthetic data for robotics, says NVIDIA, which is presenting over 50 research papers at CVPR.

Opteran commercialized its vision-based approach to autonomy by releasing Opteran Mind.

As robotics serves more use cases across industries, hardware and software development should be parallel efforts, says Radixweb.