National Robotics Week is an annual call to action to inspire students in robotics and STEM-related fields and to share the excitement of robotics with audiences of all ages. MassRobotics enjoyed a week filled with action! From the Governor’s visit to welcoming students from all over Boston and beyond, to an immersive session at the … Read more
MassRobotics exhibited at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL 2024 to highlight several of our resident startups in the drone space and share their technologies. We also hosted a session titled: Emerging Trends in Robotics and Uncrewed Systems. AUVSI – The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International is an organization dedicated to the advancement of unmanned systems and robotics, … Read more
MassRobotics announced the winners of its 2nd Form & Function University Robotics Challenge. Twelve teams from around the globe showcased their robotics and automation projects, competing for cash prizes. The idea of this challenge was deliberately ambiguous, to create a robot that looks good, Form, and works, Function. Components and software donated by partners AMD, … Read more
Our Jumpstart Fellowship Program expansion to Lowell is a collaboration with UMass Lowell and the Mass Tech Collaborative. This is our first year year expanding the program from Boston to Lowell and we’re thrilled that one of the Jumpstart graduates from this cohort will be attending UMass Lowell this fall and is enrolled in the Computer Science … Read more
We celebrated our Jumpstart Fellows accomplishment with families, mentors and sponsors on May 11th, 2024 at MassRobotics headquarters in Boston. The Jumpstart Fellowship Program was founded with the goal to grow a more diverse robotics and tech pipeline, more specifically, the program focuses on high school females. During a five-month Saturday curriculum the fellows learn … Read more
We were excited to be in Washington DC yesterday to support the Congressional Robotics Caucus Briefing on Building toward a National Robotics Strategy. Congressman Jim McGovern spoke about reinvigorating the Caucus, which had been dominant for the past few years, and working to raise the awareness of robots’ role in the US economy and our … Read more
ICRA is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, held this year from May 13th to 17th, 2024, in Yokohama, Japan. The event was filled with Plenary Talks, Keynote talks, Forums, Workshops & Tutorials, Competitions, Awards and Finalists, the Exhibition and more. The exhibition showcased academic research and industries newest commercial … Read more
Manufacturing can benefit from increasingly intelligent robots as much as any other industry. Realtime Robotics today announced that it has secured a strategic investment from Mitsubishi Electric Corp., leading its recently opened Series B round. The company said it plans to use the funding to refine and scale its robot workcell and runtime systems, which … Read more
MassRobotics, in collaboration with Festo, Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Novanta, and MITRE, announces the opening of applications for the fourth cohort of the Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program 2024-25. This initiative aims to accelerate innovation and adoption in the healthcare robotics sector by providing startups with the resources, mentorship, and connections necessary for success. Apply here. … Read more
Source: Eugene Demaitre, The Robot Report BOSTON — As factories and warehouses look to automate more of their operations, they need confidence that multiple robots can conduct complex tasks repeatedly, reliably, and safely. Realtime Robotics has developed hardware-agnostic software to run and coordinate industrial workcells smoothly without error or collision. “The lack of coordination on … Read more
