Under the five-year contract, US Lighting Group, a major producer of LED bulbs, gains the exclusive rights (for $600,000) to sell Promobot’s friendly, talking promotional robots in the U.S., and has put down an advance order for more than 2,000 robots, worth $56 million. “This is one of the biggest deals in the history of …
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Last week Sberbank, Russia’s national savings bank, announced the launch of a three-month “intelligent robotics acceleration program” in partnership with the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian), Russia’s biggest fund for early-stage startups. The selected startups will benefit from Sberbank’s infrastructure and resources, including its client base, as well as from the …
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Grishin Robotics, an international venture fund with Russian roots, was among the investors in Ring, a global manufacturer of home security products which has just been acquired by Amazon at a $1 billion valuation. The Ring devices, which provide “smart security at every corner,” can integrate with Amazon’s voice-controlled assistant Alexa — and there’s a potential …
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Russian startup Stafory announced Wednesday that it has won the Unleash (HR Tech World) startup competition held in Amsterdam for its recruiting robot called ‘Vera‘ (‘faith’ in Russian). The startup was awarded with €10,000. Vera goes along the recruitment chain, from search and selection of potential employees across the largest recruitment sites, to calls and invitation of suitable applicants, …
An enormous mechanical arm enclosed inside a glass cube dips a brush into a set of paints, and like a real artist, depicts the surrounding landscape. The people who pass by also end up on the canvas. As soon as a new person appears in the robot’s field of view several new dabs of the brush are …
Last week Rusnano Sistema Sicar, a Russian private equity fund, announced that it will invest $6 million in Apis Cor, a startup originated from Siberia which has designed a 3D printing technology for the construction industry. The Apis Cor 3D printer is a mobile robot is a mobile robot capable of constructing buildings using fine-grained fibre concrete with special additives. It can build …
On June 27-28 DELIVER, an invite-only event dedicated to international e-commerce logistics and European policy making, will hold its second edition in Berlin’s Funkhaus. This even will gather prominent retailers from all continents with a focus on Europe’s largest e-commerce markets (UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Benelux, Nordics). The organizers expect some 800 delegates from 50 …
Students at the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) are working on a robot that will be able to fill up holes in the roadbed, TPU has announced. To identify and address a problem, the robot will be expected to “see” with a machine vision system which will help it recognize the key elements on any road, whether …
Metrosha the robot first made an appearance at the end of last year at the Luzhniki station of the Moscow Central Ring rail line, where he wished passengers a happy new year. Now he will appear from time to time in the city’s metro stations to meet and greet passengers on public holidays, the Moscow …
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Forty friendly Russian robots made by Promobot are to head to Turkey, after a sales agreement was signed with the Turkish company LUXRA TR. The promotional robots, which are designed to provide members of the public with helpful information in busy places and which are already hard at work in Russia, China, the U.K. and …
While no country currently has a law to regulate the rise of robots, a resolution passed yesterday by the European parliament calls for EU-wide legislation in this field. According to the resolution, such legislation should encompass, in particular, liability for the actions of robots including self-driving cars, and an ethical framework for robot development and deployment. However, European lawmakers rejected …
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Marvelmind Robotics, a Russian startup developing an indoor GPS technology, has won the first prize of 5 million yuan ($740,000) at the Slush Shanghai contest for the best seed-stage companies. The startup is a resident of the space cluster of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The startup’s high-precision navigation technology is intended for use …
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