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Between Boston Dynamics’ lawsuit in opposition to Ghost Robotics, layoffs reported at main firms and huge funding rounds, there was no scarcity of issues to cowl in November. 

Listed here are the ten hottest robotics tales on The Robotic Report in November. Subscribe to The Robotic Report E-newsletter to remain up to date on the robotics tales it is advisable learn about.

10. Meet Sparrow: Amazon’s new item-picking robotic

Amazon has unveiled the newest addition to its assortment of warehouse robots. Meet Sparrow, a robotic arm able to selecting particular person merchandise earlier than they get packaged. Not like Amazon’s Robin and Cardinal robots, which decide and set up packages to be despatched out for supply, Sparrow can deal with particular person merchandise. This isn’t a easy job in a spot like an Amazon warehouse, the place over 100 million completely different gadgets may must be processed. Sparrow can decide 65% of them, based on the corporate. Learn Extra

9. Pickle Robotic’s unloading robots usher in $26M

Pickle Robotic Firm introduced that it closed a $26 million Collection A funding spherical and it has dwell pilot implementations unloading tens of hundreds of packages a month at buyer websites within the better LA space. Pickle Robotic creates synthetic intelligence (AI)-enabled robotic automation techniques that may unload vehicles. The corporate plans to make use of the newest spherical of funding to speed up go-to-market actions and strengthen deployment capabilities. Learn Extra

8. Nuro lays off 20% of employees

Nuro, an autonomous automobile supply firm with deployments in California and Texas, laid off about 300 staff, or 20% of its employees, on Friday, based on reporting from Tech Crunch. The corporate’s co-founders, Jiajun Zhu and Dave Ferguson, despatched an e-mail to staff Friday morning informing them of the layoffs and saying they might obtain one other replace informing them if they might be impacted. Learn Extra

7. Sarcos demonstrates robots for shipyard operations to the US Navy

Sarcos Know-how and Robotics Company introduced that the corporate has made vital strides in creating robotic applied sciences to usher in a brand new period of improved employee security and productiveness for shipyard operations. Sarcos robotic techniques are designed to hold out upkeep, inspection, and restore actions, on and round ships underway and pier aspect, creating safer and more practical shipyard operations and enhancing the effectivity of sailors and shipyard employees. Learn Extra

6. Hesai Know-how broadcasts totally solid-state LiDAR

Hesai Know-how formally unveiled the FT120, a totally solid-state, near-range blind spot LiDAR designed for ADAS sequence manufacturing autos. FT120 is a totally solid-state LiDAR with no shifting components inside. It’s designed for near-range blind spots and has a 100° x 75° ultra-wide discipline of view (FOV). FT120 has gained over a million items of anticipated quantity from main OEMs. All of the merchandise are anticipated to be delivered within the second half of 2023. Learn Extra

5. LEGO discontinues Mindstorms product line

The information that LEGO has discontinued the Mindstorms product line is bittersweet for me. I purchased my daughter a LEGO Mindstorms package for Christmas in 2000 when she was solely three years previous. My aunt, who was on the town for the vacations, accused me of shopping for it for myself. Responsible. Learn Extra

4. AMP Robotics’ recycling robots usher in $91M

AMP Robotics, an organization creating robots that may set up recycling, introduced in $91 million in company fairness in a Collection C funding spherical. This brings the corporate’s whole raised funding to this point to about $165.5 million. AMP Cortex, AMP Robotics’ robotic system, can automate the identification and sorting course of for recyclables from combined materials streams. Learn Extra

3. Reviews of layoffs at Iron Ox

There are stories of serious layoffs at Iron Ox, an agriculture know-how firm that makes use of robotics to customise take care of vegetation. Many now-former staff have posted on social media in regards to the layoffs. Whereas it’s unclear precisely what number of staff have been laid off, quite a few posts point out Iron Ox let go of roughly half of its staff. Iron Ox additionally laid off a smaller variety of staff a couple of months in the past, based on different posts from former staff. Learn Extra

2. Boston Dynamics suing Ghost Robotics over quadruped design

Boston Dynamics is suing competitor Ghost Robotics for patent infringement. Boston Dynamics claims Ghost Robotics infringed on seven patents associated to its Spot quadruped robotic. Based on the criticism (PDF) filed in Delaware federal court docket, Boston Dynamics mentioned Ghost Robotics’ Imaginative and prescient 60 and Spirit 40 quadrupeds each include infringing capabilities. Learn Extra

1. Ghost Robotics responds to Boston Dynamics lawsuit

Ghost Robotics has responded to the patent infringement lawsuit not too long ago filed by Boston Dynamics. Earlier this week, we realized that Boston Dynamics is suing competitor Ghost Robotics for allegedly infringing on seven patents associated to the previous’s Spot quadruped robotic. Filed in Delaware Federal court docket on November 11, 2022, Boston Dynamics takes problem with each Ghost Robotics’ Imaginative and prescient 60 and Dash 40 quadrupeds. Learn Extra