The rapid development of artificial intelligence and robotics industry to more and more people are concerned about, as the spokesman of Silicon Valley, Elon Musk who last year claimed that artificial intelligence is "summon demons"-the study of artificial intelligence will be the future of humanity's greatest enemy. (Read: the Economist Feature article: the awakening of the machine)
Soon after, Musk, and Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, who jointly issued an open letter, wrote in a letter:
It is because of the enormous potential of artificial intelligence, those devoted to how to enjoy the well-being of mankind, and avoid potentially dangerous research is valuable.
Again and again, "warned" comes from a basic premise: artificial intelligence it had from the laboratory into factories, what is more, is artificial intelligence "arm's robots into human society. Next, machine heart exclusive comb for you is most likely "threat" to human robot startups.
Industry overview
Most robot startups, such as etch Robotics, Gamma 2 Robotics at this stage as well as GreyOrange Robotics, focuses on industrial process automation;
Represented by the Bossa Nova Robotics "personal robot", and human and physical interaction with other objects, and the environment;
Jibo is a social robot can learn habits and better service to the users;
10 startups in big soldier Rethink Robotics
The company mainly produces industrial robots and a robot Intera Platform performance management platform.
The last financing: April 2015 d round of financing for the second time, $ 13.4 million
Total financing amount: $ 100 million
Major investors: Amazon founder Bezos, Expeditions, and CRV, GE Ventures, MTV, Goldman Sachs, Two Sigma Ventures,, Wellington Management
GreyOrange Robotics
Provides automated sorting robot for warehouse company.
The last financing: August 2015 b round of funding, $ 30 million
Total financing amount: $ 39 million
Major investors: BITS Spark Angels, and Blume Ventures and the Hatch Group, and Tiger Global Management
Jibo
Consumer-oriented social robots, with vision, hearing, and can help users from multiple angles.
The last financing: July 2015, a round of financing of $ 11 million
Total financing amount: 38.58 million dollars
Major investors: CRV, and Formation 8, RRE Ventures, and Samsung Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures
Harvest Automation
Production, automated robot, capable of team work, suitable for materials processing and agricultural production.
The last financing: October 2013 c round of funding, $ 11.8 million
Total financing amount: $ 33.51 million
Major investors: Cultivation Capital, and Entree Capital, and Founder Collective, and Life Sciences Partners
Fetch Robotics
Production for the warehouse automation robots. City mobile phone conversion do satellites will
The last financing: June 2015, a round of financing of $ 20 million
Total financing amount: $ 23 million
Major investors: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, and Shasta Ventures, and Softbank Capital
Bossa Nova Robotics
Have a mObi spherical robot platform, aimed at the consumer market.
Last round financing in August 2015, a round of financing, $ 9.11 million
Total financing amount: $ 9.11 million
Major investors: Innovation Works, and Riverwood Capital
Gamma 2 Robotics
Mainly producing robots for automated safety system: G2R Cybernetic Brain, using this system, the robot can manuals make decisions such as the booklet.
The last financing: April 2014, a round of financing, $ 3.55 million
Total financing amount: $ 3.55 million
Major investors: Foxlink Group
RoboCV
Main warehouse robot autonomous vehicle technology.
The last financing: seed round February 2015, $ 3 million
Total financing amount: $ 3 million
Major investors: Almaz Capital Partners, and Columbus Nova Technology Partners, and I2BF Global Ventures
Savioke
Main Relay robot, which can be passed between people is a robot, are focusing in the field of medicine.
The last financing: seed round April 2014, $ 2 million
Total funding amount: $ 2 million
Major investors: AME Cloud Ventures, and Felicis Ventures, and Google Ventures, and Morado Venture Partners
Empire Robotics
Versaball main production system for robotic arm to provide "the catch," technical support.
The last financing: July 2014 convertible bonds (Convertible Bond,CB) $ 460,000
Total financing amount: $ 990,000
Major investors: Buffalo Angel Network and the SoundBoard Angel Fund
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