New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics NSF named three new Science and Technology Centers on August 26. One goes to UT Austin to study what happens when assistive robots move into nursing homes, rehab hospitals, dorms and cafés. The new thing is not the money. It is the opt-out.
Robotics Universal Robots' parent filed patent infringement against JAKA's German subsidiary at the UPC's Copenhagen division on August 27, targeting a broad range of cobot models sold in the EU. Four months ago the same playbook won an injunction in Hamburg.
Robotics Under the draft, when full autonomy is switched on, the manufacturer handles the violation. The seat stops needing someone qualified to receive it.
Robotics Waymo's Advice Letter No. 4 sat at the California Public Utilities Commission for nearly seven months before clearing on August 14. It covers 12 Northern California counties and six in the south, with Sacramento and San Diego as new markets. The union that would represent those drivers cleared its own threshold a week earlier.