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Deeptech startup SLAMcore secures major investment to boost the performance and reach of their pioneering spatial mapping technology. SLAMcore, a pioneer in vision-based location and mapping for robots, autonomous machines and consumer electronics products, has raised $16 million in Series A capital that will allow the business to rapidly capitalize on its proven technology which combines AI w...
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Edinburgh-based startup Touchlab secures investment to support further development and commercialization of its innovative skin suits for robots. UK startup Touchlab, a deep tech venture in EIT Digital's Innovation Factory roster, has raised £3.5m (€4.36m) in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures. Touchlab is successfully pursuing an ambitious goal to give robots a human touch. Whi...
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  Edinburgh-based deep tech startup Touchlab is creating skin suits for robots, helping them to sense the world around them, just like us. Robots feature heavily in our future. Whether simply as receptionists or tour guides, as in-house robo-butlers whom we come to respect as more than just a machine, but with rising trepidation realise it’s becoming more than just respect and we fal...
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The lowdown on Cyberselves, the Sheffield-based startup that enables users to see, hear and feel through a robotic surrogate anywhere in the world. The singularity is, among other things, when humans transcend our biological limits, merging with machines to defy our natural abilities, illnesses, and lifetimes to become something else!  Granted, controlling a machine from a distance probab...
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Karakuri is a London-based startup that's using robotics to create innovative solutions for the catering sector The future is now! Well, the future of having breakfast and lunch made for you, anyway.  Have you ever wished that you could order your food without the hassle of having to tell someone what you want with your mouth and having them bring it to you? Have you ever looked at the pe...
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Innovation in household chores thanks to effie - the domestic appliance that dries and irons your clothes for you! Ironing clothes isn’t exactly a difficult task, but it is one that consumes time that could be used for other things. There is something to be said for not spending all of our lives rushing and stressing over what we could be doing instead of the thing that we’re doing, b...
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Selby Cary, CEO of tech startup Casta Spes Technologies, chatted to Startacus about The Mantis - the robotic, remote-control, semi-autonomous, self-stabilising, all-terrain, single-wheel camera platform!    ...
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Olly is Emotech’s answer to Amazon’s Echo, styled as a robot with personality. Born from a London based robotics startup, Olly will respond to questions you ask it by looking them up for you, just like the Echo, and can also be used as a control hub for internet-connected products and smart devices in the home. One of the things that sets Olly apart, however, is its ability to be...
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