Cozmo, which has sold more than a million and a half units, is an autonomous instructional toy that teaches the basics of robotics, plays games and performs tricks. A maker of educational video games (teaching coding, math, art, and chemistry) based in Pittsburgh, Digital Dream Labs, scooped up Anki’s assets. Anki had $100 million in revenue in 2018, then unexpectedly went out of business. Vector and Cozmo, robotic toys originally developed by the Silicon Valley robotics company Anki, put an incredible amount of artificial intelligence into a very tiny package. Vector, the robot, courtesy of Digital Dream Labs In October, Locomation announced that they will install their technology in at least 1,120 trucks operated by Wilson Logistics - and the pilot program, a route between Idaho and Oregon, was successful. In effect, one driver manages two trucks, while the second driver in the following truck rests. Locomation’s Autonomous Relay Convoying technology allows a driver in the lead truck to have a truck following along autonomously. With the explosion of e-commerce, the company sees incredible opportunities ahead for Swift and Bolt.Īre you sensing a pattern here-? Pittsburgh’s strengths in autonomous vehicles extend to trucking, too. IAM Robotics moved this year from Sewickley to a new 30,000 square foot headquarters in the Strip, and expects to grow. These two robots move about the warehouse floor completely on their own, using computer vision to identify items and grab them from the shelves. Pittsburgh’s booming Robotics Row in the Strip and Lawrenceville has a couple of new residents, Swift and Bolt. According to TechCrunch, Argo is now worth $7.5 billion, and employs more than 1,000 people. They also secured a $2.6 billion deal with Volkswagen last year. The company builds the hardware and software computer platforms, sensors, cameras radar and LIDAR (light detection and ranging radar) needed to make self-driving vehicles function. The city has emerged as one of the world’s few hubs of self-driving vehicle technology, and Argo AI became by some measures Pittsburgh’s first “unicorn” (worth $1 billion), with an investment by Ford in 2017. The future is being driven by Pittsburgh. They’ve received funding of $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health, and Phase 1 trials are beginning in Australia. This immune system overreaction also happens to kill a lot of Covid patients, so it’s especially relevant now. Pre-pandemic, the North Side-based biotech firm was working on a drug, GP1681, to treat the cytokine storm, when the immune system response goes haywire in response to severe influenza. This is one of the many companies that have pivoted to address the central crisis of our time, the Covid pandemic.
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