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SLAMcore Raises $16 Million To Deliver Low-Cost, Spatial Understanding To Real-Life Robots
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd May 2022
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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Touchlab Raises Investment To Give Robots A Human Touch
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th April 2022
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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Touchlab - the startup giving robots the sense of touch
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th March 2022
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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Cyberselves - teleporting humans into robots
by: Startacus Admin ~ 22nd December 2021
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 - robot revolution in the kitchen
by: Startacus Admin ~ 25th February 2021
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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effie - the automated ironing system
by: Startacus Admin ~ 2nd December 2019Innovation 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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The Mantis - the robotic rotary camera platform
by: Startacus Admin ~ 20th August 2018Selby 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 - the robot with personality
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd September 2017Olly 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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