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Nextuple Inc. Raises $1.5M Seed Round to Continue Investing in AI-Based Post-Purchase Experience Products
Nextuple Inc., an omni-channel and consumer brand technology firm, based out of Andover, MA, announced that it has closed a $1.5M seed funding round to build new Machine Learning based products and expand its global team. The firm was founded in early 2018 by Darpan Seth, Laxman Mandayam, and Das... - October 29, 2018 - Nextuple
Supahands Releases New Website to Match Growing Demand in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Supahands, a training data provider for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, announces its newly designed and updated website (https://www.supahands.com). This decision is in tandem with the surge of implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning within key sectors such as... - October 29, 2018 - Supahands
Brave New World Pioneers Robots with Personality with Support from Government of Canada
“The characters we have loved from our favorite film or shows are coming to life. When you watch your favourite sci-fi film, the robots, the computers, even some of the doors can talk to people and make their own decisions based on those conversations,” says CEO Mike Rizkalla. - October 27, 2018 - Brave New World
Principled Technologies Finds Toshiba RM5 Series Value SAS SSDs Can Support Better Oracle Database I/O Performance Than Samsung Enterprise SATA SSDs
Principled Technologies (PT) measured Oracle database IOPS on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server with first Samsung Enterprise SATA SSDS, then Toshiba RM5 Series Value SAS SSDs. - October 22, 2018 - Principled Technologies, Inc.
AlpStories - Embracing a New Model for the Creation of Skincare Products
AlpStories is reshaping how the beauty consumer will shop in the future, demanding the ability to personalize products to their own skincare needs while using ingredients that are organic and pure. - October 14, 2018 - AlpStories Inc.
Tier3D Phone and Watch Have Radical New Design for Artificial Intelligence & Mixed Reality
Tier3D, a Silicon Valley company, has created a radical new design for a phone, watch, and Mixed Reality glass to enable crowdsourced Artificial Intelligence & Mixed Reality. Srini Srinivasan, a founder of Tier3D (and veteran Silicon Valley executive & investor/advisor with companies like... - October 12, 2018 - Tier3D
Apellix™ Gets Patent for Tethered Aerial Robots, Drones and Base Stations
Apellix the safety partner for the technological revolution, is proud to announce that has been granted its third full patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) with a dispensing tool, an autonomous (moveable) base station, and an umbilical /... - October 11, 2018 - Apellix
NEXT Future Transportation Joins Public Finance Thought Leadership Discussion – Contributes Perspective on the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles
NEXT Future Transportation Inc. ("NEXT"), the world’s leading modular-electric vehicle company, is pleased to join municipal finance leaders – from public sector issuers to investors, investment bankers, municipal advisors, rating agencies, buyers and bond counsels to discuss... - October 04, 2018 - NEXT Future Transportation
GSPANN Announces Its Participation at SAP TechEd to Showcase Robotic Process Automation for SAP Solutions
GSPANN, an SAP partner, today announced that it will participate at SAP TechEd being held October 2–5, 2018 in Las Vegas in booth [637]. GSPANN is showcasing the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies to create automated test cases for SAP ERP that accelerate migration to SAP... - October 01, 2018 - GSPANN Technologies, Inc.
NEXT Future Transportation Announces Autonomous Parcel Delivery Solution - Introduces the World’s First Modular Mobile Parcel Locker
Silicon Valley autonomous transportation startup identifies final-mile parcel delivery as an opportunity to enhance the customer experience, while creating significant supply chain improvements to traditional operating models. - September 27, 2018 - NEXT Future Transportation
HCA/HealthONE’s Swedish Medical Center Performs First Robotic Assisted Lobectomy
Dr. Sanjay Tripathi performs advanced procedure at Swedish Medical Center, an acute care hospital located in Englewood, Colorado. - September 13, 2018 - Swedish Medical Center
Physician at HCA/HealthONE’s Swedish Medical Center Performs 1,500th Robotic-Assisted Surgery
Kevin Davis, MD, gynecologic oncology specialist, recently hit a new milestone in robotic surgery at Swedish Medical Center, a 408 bed level 1 trauma center located in Englewood, CO. - September 08, 2018 - Swedish Medical Center
Hotellobot: The World’s First Personal Hotel Concierge Robot
Hotellobot is an ingenious guest information service software that can be paired with Hotellobot Robot Hardware to make the world’s first and only personal hotel concierge robot. Hotellobot Software can be used in conjunction with Amazon Dot Voice Hardware, Amazon Spot Screen Hardware or... - September 07, 2018 - Hotellobot
Danish Robot Equipment Flagship Company OnRobot Acquires Purple Robotics
Purple Robotics, which has just developed an innovative vacuum gripper within just one year—the world’s first gripper specifically for cobots—has now been acquired by OnRobot. The acquisition takes place a mere two months after the OnRobot merger of three robotics companies from... - September 02, 2018 - OnRobot
PINC’s CEO, Matt Yearling, Accepted Into Forbes San Francisco Business Council
Forbes San Francisco Business Council is an Invitation-Only Community for Business Leaders. - August 29, 2018 - PINC
2021.AI, the AI Technology Provider Unleashes Global Ambitions and Opens Offices in the UK and Sweden, and Engages Sales Partners in the US and Austria
2021.AI, the enterprise AI technology provider, today announced the opening of new offices and engaging sales partners in London, New York, Linz, and Lund. With this international expansion 2021.AI shows commitment to deliver its mission: “To bring Machine Learning to every corner of any organization across the globe,” 2021.AI helps its clients to unleash their AI ambitions to gain new insights and harvest new business value. - August 29, 2018 - 2021.AI
The Spry is the First Waterproof Drone That Submerges Under Water, Floats Like a Boat, and Flies in the Air
SwellPro USA, the company the develops waterproof drones, announces the Spry: The first ever waterproof drone that submerges, floats, flies in the air at over 43mph. The drone comes with the first ever waterproof remote control. The Spry Drone is crossing the line between science fiction and reality by being able to briefly submerge, float and fly. The Spry is available on Kickstarter and starts shipping in late November, 2018. - August 28, 2018 - Urban Drones
Swedish Medical Center Physicians Demonstrate Telestroke Program for U.S. Senator Cory Gardner
Swedish Medical Center, a level 1 trauma center located in Englewood, Colorado, has access to over 50 telemedicine robots across the Rocky Mountain Region and Great Plains. - August 17, 2018 - Swedish Medical Center
FORCAM to Showcase Starship Robotics Team, a Member of First Robotics at IMTS 2018; FORCAM to Showcase Manufacturing Leaders of the Future - Kids of Starship Robotics
FIRST Robotics team will demonstrate their award-winning skills and lead discussion of STEM education. The future of manufacturing is in the hands and minds of today’s students, and FORCAM will celebrate that future at two events in Chicago in the fall of 2018. FORCAM will host the Starship Robotics team from Eleanor Roosevelt High School of Eastvale, at both Hannover Messe USA, part of IMTS 2018 from Sept. 10-15 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. - August 15, 2018 - FORCAM Inc.
Swift020 VTOL Drone Works with Forestry Officials in Japan
The Swift020 UAS successfully flew over densely forested areas within the Ishikawa prefecture in Japan. Working with members of the Ishikawa Prefecture Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry, the local forest cooperative association and key forestry industry leaders, the flights were held... - August 13, 2018 - Swift Engineering Inc.
Witlingo and Walrus Partner to Launch Sophie Sprout on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant
Voice First startup, Witlingo and award winning creative agency Walrus, today announced the availability of Sophie Sprout by Sprout Foods on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. - August 08, 2018 - Witlingo
Apellix™ Granted USTPO Patent for Its Umbilical Cabling and Tethering (UCAT) Systems for Aerial Robots and Drones
Apellix receives its second US patent. The patent is for a Mobile base station and umbilical cabling and tethering (UCAT) assist system. - July 12, 2018 - Apellix
New Guidance from Intertronics – How to Specify a Dispensing Robot to Increase Quality and Cut Costs
As selection of a dispensing robot is sometimes a daunting task, Intertronics, a specialist adhesives and dispensing company, has compiled a short piece of guidance on how to specify a dispensing robot. - July 05, 2018 - Intertronics
OnRobot Launches Innovative New Collaborative Grippers and Force-Torque Sensor Upgrades
Newly formed OnRobot launches innovative collaborative robotics grippers and force-torque sensor upgrades at automatica 2018. - June 22, 2018 - OnRobot
Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) Brings Safe and Collaborative Autonomous Mobile Robots to Heavy Industrial Transport
The market leader for collaborative mobile robots satisfies a major industry need with a bigger, stronger and faster version of its popular robots. - June 21, 2018 - MiR
Skynetwest and Navopache Electric Cooperative Partner for Electrical Grid Inspections with UAS
The vast expanse of the United States electrical grid stretches several million miles. A complex network of power generation plants and substations are interspersed between overhead transmission lines. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) like the Falcon 8+ operated by Skynetwest LLC provide a safe and efficient method to survey and inspect the condition of the aging power grid. - May 30, 2018 - Skynetwest
Quirk.ai Achieves SAP Certification as Built on SAP® Cloud Platform
Quirk, Inc. today announced that its Quirk Conversation Platform (QCP) has achieved certification as built on SAP® Cloud Platform. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP® Cloud Platform to enable chatbot functionality. The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has... - May 22, 2018 - Quirk Inc.
Team Extension Renews Commitment to New Technologies and Open Source Initiatives Through Corporate Sponsorships
Team Extension announces corporate sponsorship of open source libraries Aurelia, Vue.js WebPack and babel.js. - May 22, 2018 - Team Extension AG
CADopia Announces the Release of CADopia 18 Software for Engineers and Architects
New release provides perpetual license of a production worthy CAD software to users and frees them from the mandatory annual subscription requirement of other CAD vendors. - May 10, 2018 - CADopia
Teradyne and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) Announce Teradyne's Acquisition of MiR, Leader in Collaborative Autonomous Mobile Industrial Robots
Teradyne, Inc. acquired Mobile Industrial Robots, a leading supplier of collaborative autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for industrial applications. - May 02, 2018 - MiR
Dup-Dup - Pre-Launching Artificial Intelligence Powered Buddy Campaign at Kickstarter
A revolutionary Artificial Intelligence powered Buddy pre-launched its crowdfunding campaign at Kickstarter. - April 23, 2018 - Dup-Dup
BrainChild Innovation Joins NVIDIA Inception Program
Oakland, California startup BrainChild Innovation accepted into NVIDIA Inception Program. Existing Wind Turbine infrastructure inspection solution gets artificial intelligence upgrade saving Energy Industry significant time and engineering expenses. - April 23, 2018 - BrainChild Innovation, LLC
US Nuclear Announces 46.4% Growth in Revenue for 2017
US Nuclear Announces 2017 Annual Revenue is up by 46.4% Over 2016 Revenue - April 19, 2018 - US Nuclear Corp.
First Robot Tutor for Adaptive Learning by aiLearn
aiLearn, an ed-tech startup company set up to leverage Artificial Intelligence power to address the challenges in education, is creating Robot Ani™ - an AI-powered robot-tutor. Robot Ani acts like “Siri for education,” it is the first robot-tutor designed to simulate one-to-one tutoring and replace human teachers. - April 18, 2018 - aiLearn
K2.Inc is Now Bruviti
K2.Inc has undergone a brand name change with a new logo and new identity. - April 13, 2018 - Bruviti
Robotic Lawn Mower Distributor Paradise Robotics Seeks Hollywood Agent
The success of robot lawn mowing in Europe leaves many scratching their heads about why robot mowers have not taken off in the USA. One theory is that Hollywood has done such a great job of demonizing robots that a significant “fear factor” exists in the minds of consumers. Paradise Robotics intends to change this perception by seeking a Hollywood agent for its robotic lawn mower Ambrogio Robot. - April 04, 2018 - Paradise Robotics
South African Machine Learning Specialist DataProphet Secures Knife Capital Funding
Knife Capital’s investment in DataProphet will boost the company’s innovation capabilities and accelerate global expansion. - March 23, 2018 - KNF Ventures
Burning Creative LLC Now Launched in NYC
After a discussion with The New York Times, BurningCreative.com decided to discuss the now before what is neXt. - March 21, 2018 - Burning Creative
Novel Approach to Secure Intellectual Property on the Blockchain: Mindfire Foundation and Bernstein Form New Strategic Partnership
The Mindfire Foundation, a Swiss non-profit which is focused on creating human like artificial intelligence, and Bernstein, a German provider of blockchain-based solutions for protecting and managing intellectual property assets, today announced a strategic partnership to enable a smarter, more collaborative approach to secure newly generated intellectual property during Mindfire Missions. - March 17, 2018 - Mindfire Foundation
Robothon 2018 - Impacting Our Community Through Technology
Robothon is a 30-hour "hackathon," inspired by and focused on the advancement and innovation of collaborative robots (robots designed to work alongside and augment humans, not replace them). Most "hackathons" attract top-technology talent from local universities and the community. Participants compete and learn for the thrive of personal advancement, with the intention of introducing the average person to the capabilities of collaborative robots. - March 15, 2018 - York Exponential
Yaskawa Motoman Expands Painting and Dispensing Robot Line with the MPX1150 and MPX2600
The high-speed, six-axis MPX1150 and MPX2600 robots have been added to Yaskawa Motoman’s paint robot line. These models create smooth, consistent finishes for a variety of painting and dispensing applications. - March 08, 2018 - Yaskawa Motoman
Boston Global Forum CEO Tuan Nguyen Calls for World Leaders to Employ Artificial Intelligence to Build Next Generation Democracies at Club de Madrid Roundtable
Club de Madrid membership is made up exclusively of former prime ministers and presidents of the world’s democracies who were briefed by Tuan Nguyen, CEO of the Boston Global Forum and creator of the Artificial Intelligence World Society project. - March 06, 2018 - Boston Global Forum
Yaskawa Motoman Names David Troeter V.P. of Customer Satisfaction
In this position, Troeter will be responsible for the overall performance of Yaskawa Motoman’s Customer Satisfaction Group (CSG) including field service, technical support, training, spare parts, robot refurbishment and repair, retrofits and aftermarket support sales for the Americas. - March 01, 2018 - Yaskawa Motoman
PINC CEO Nominated 2018 Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Leading B2B Publication includes Matt Yearling to its Annual List of the Supply Chain’s Top Professionals. - February 28, 2018 - PINC
French SCS Cluster Joins the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)
SCS, a large leading European ecosystem of industrials and research laboratories, addressing many of the key IoT digital technologies, today announced that it has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™). Gathering more than 120 key players, representing 10 000 jobs and 3... - February 26, 2018 - SCS Cluster
Orderscape Voice Technology Announces Full-Menu Ordering Certification by Amazon
Orderscape, Inc. is among the first voice automation software companies to crack the code on full-menu restaurant voice ordering targeting the global restaurant and hospitality sectors. “We are among the small number of technology companies worldwide to offer full-menu voice ordering solutions for restaurants," said Ted Cohn, CTO and co-founder of Orderscape. - February 20, 2018 - Orderscape, Inc.
NeoGroup Launches the First Ever Real-Time, Curated Alert Offering for Advancements in Automation Called Automation Sentry
Customers of Automation Sentry are on the leading edge of automation usage with exclusive insights into the latest trends, supplier offerings and market adoption. - February 12, 2018 - Neo Group
World Leader in Artificial Intelligence Awards to be Granted by Boston Global Forum at Harvard University in April
Michael Dukakis, former Massachusetts governor, and cofounder and chairman of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) announced the awards for leadership in Artificial Intelligence saying, "Few elements in technology offer both the promise and peril of Artificial Intelligence," adding, "Thus, the World Leader in AI World Society Award series was created to recognize those who foster the development of AI within an ethical framework that aligns with human values." BGF is calling for suggested nominees. - February 12, 2018 - Boston Global Forum
Recon Services Inc Named Recycler of the Year 2018
Plexus Recycling Technologies, ZenRobotics, and Komptech Americas would like to congratulate Walter Biel of Recon Services Inc, Austin TX. Walter has been named Construction Demolition Recycling Association’s Recycler of the year for 2018. He will receive his award at the C&D World Show... - January 31, 2018 - Plexus Recycling Technologies
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and IoT Collide and Convene at the Decentralized AI Summit 2018, February 1, San Francisco
Featuring accomplished thought leaders in applied AI from Google, IBM, and Numerai, the Decentralized AI Summit will serve as a showcase for new technologies, emerging trends and disruptive developments around cryptocurrency, blockchain, and beyond in the industry sectors of: Healthcare/Genetics, Internet of Things, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, VR/AR, Multi-agent Systems, Vision, Drones, Robotics, and Quantified Self. - January 30, 2018 - Synapse.ai