Robotics in July 2021

July 2021

• 22 July 2021MilestoneSelf-driving

  Super Cruise General Motors · Cleared or mass market

  GM said an upgraded Super Cruise that can change lanes on its own would come to six more vehicles in 2022, including the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups. It worked on more than 200,000 miles of US roads.

  TechCrunch, 22 July 2021Company-reported

• 15 July 2021MilestoneMedical

  ExcelsiusGPS Globus Medical · Cleared or mass market

  Globus said surgeons had done more than 20,000 spine operations with ExcelsiusGPS.

  Globus Medical press release, 15 July 2021Company-reported

• 9 July 2021MilestoneAging at home

  Patient transfer robots FUJI (Hug), RIKEN with Sumitomo Riko (RIBA, ROBEAR research) · Paying customers

  FUJI said it had sold 1,300 Hug units in total, through care-product dealers across Japan.

  Dempa Shimbun (AEI), 9 Jul 2021Company-reported

• July 2021MilestoneWarehouse

  Berkshire Grey robotic picking and sorting Berkshire Grey · Paying customers

  Berkshire Grey went public on the Nasdaq stock market by merging with a SPAC (a listed shell company).

  Boston Globe, 24 Mar 2023

• July 2021SetbackFarm

  Fruit-picking robots Dogtooth, Tevel, FFRobotics, Agrobot, Oishii (Tortuga) · Paying customers

  Abundant Robotics, a California apple-picking robot startup founded in 2016, shut down.

  The Robot Report, 6 July 2021

• July 2021MilestoneWarehouse

  HaiPick ACR robots Hai Robotics · Paying customers

  Online bookseller Booktopia put HaiPick robots to work at its warehouse in Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia. Its CEO said capacity doubled.

  Automated Warehouse, 23 July 2021

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