Robotics in June 2024

June 2024

• 30 June 2024MilestoneAging at home

  Robotic companion pets Ageless Innovation (Joy for All) · Cleared or mass market

  TechCrunch reported that New York's aging office had handed out more than 31,500 robot pets since 2018.

  TechCrunch, 30 June 2024

• 27 June 2024MilestoneHumanoids

  Digit Agility Robotics · Paying customers

  Logistics company GXO signed a multi-year deal to use Digit, paying for the robots as a service. Digit moves totes at a SPANX warehouse.

  GXO press release, 27 June 2024

• 27 June 2024MilestoneDrones

  Matternet M2 Matternet · Paying customers

  Matternet prepared a home drone delivery trial in Mountain View, California, for food, medicine and small parcels, flying within 1.5 miles of its hub.

  DroneXL, 27 June 2024Company-reported

• 21 June 2024MilestoneHumanoids

  Kuavo Leju Robotics · Paying customers

  Kuavo appeared at Huawei's developer conference, described as the first humanoid robot running Huawei's HarmonyOS software.

  CnEVPost, 6 July 2024Company-reported

• 18 June 2024MilestoneSelf-driving

  Waabi Driver Waabi · Pilot

  Waabi raised $200 million, led by Uber and Khosla Ventures.

  Waabi press release, 18 June 2024Company-reported

• 17 June 2024MilestoneFarm

  Element Aigen · Paying customers

  Aigen brought 50 robots to sugar beet fields in Minnesota's Red River Valley, including a field of sugar beet growers' leader Neil Rockstad.

  MPR News, 17 Jun 2024

• 3 June 2024MilestoneConstruction

  FieldPrinter Dusty Robotics · Paying customers

  On Skanska's 31-story Kaye apartment tower in Seattle, a subcontractor used a Dusty robot to print wall locations on the concrete floors.

  GeekWire, 3 June 2024

• 3 June 2024MilestoneAging at home

  Robotic companion pets Ageless Innovation (Joy for All) · Cleared or mass market

  New York launched a sixth round of its pet program with Ageless Innovation, delivering 4,725 more pets and games through the state's aging network.

  NY State Office for the Aging press release, 3 June 2024

• June 2024RegulatorMedical

  ExcelsiusGPS Globus Medical · Cleared or mass market

  The FDA cleared a sister robot, ExcelsiusFlex, for knee replacement and other joint surgery.

  MedTech Dive, 20 June 2024

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