Heartland Robotics is a startup headquarted in Boston, one of the great robotics centers of the world. Heartland was founded by Rodney Brooks, a distinguished researcher from MIT, one of the most influential roboticists of the decade and co-founder of iRobot.
So with those credentials, we expect amazing things from Heartland and apparently, others do as well. The VC investing arm of Amazon's Jeff Bezos (who is also a technology maven of the first order, and according to all accounts, a very nice guy) just announced a $7 million series A investment in Heartland.
This is not only good news for Heartland but for American industry in general. Heartland's stated mission is to revitalize the american manufacturing sector with next-generation, flexible robots that collaborate with human workers.
Congratulations to Heartland Robotics, and we are looking forward some great new advances.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Willow Garage Ramping Up for Production
Willow Garage has been posting pictures of their facility re-build, preparing to begin production of their PR-2 jservice robot.
Here is the building being stripped out.
Here is a bit of production floor tooling.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)