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Agilis Robotics Targeting its Pre-B Round Fund-raising to be Completed by 2022

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HONG KONG, Sep 22, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Agilis Robotics Limited ("Agilis Robotics" or the "Company"), the creator of the first surgical robotic instruments in Hong Kong to target endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and en bloc resection of bladder tumour (ERBT) procedures, has announced its fund-raising status, as well as its latest technological achievements.Agilis Robotics' A Round fund-raising has been completed in 2022, with the Pre-B Round, which involves fund raising for respective applications with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) set to commence. Such efforts will go towards improving the marketisation efficiency of the Company's products in the Mainland China. The Pre-B Round fund raising activity is projected to conclude by the end of 2022, with a fund-raising target set at US$5 million. It is worth noting that Agilis Robotics' has targeted its market value to meet the basic application requirement as stipulated in Chapter 18A pertaining to the listing of biotech companies on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by 2025.In the area of robotics, Agilis Robotics has made further prog...

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China’s Keenon Robotics taps Singapore as launchpad

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SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Shanghai-based Keenon Robotics is turning to Singapore to kick off its international ambitions, with the help of its latest investor, SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, and the Japanese conglomerate's robotics arm. On Tuesday, Keenon entered a partnership with SoftBank Robotics to launch its delivery robot, called the Keenbot, in Singapore and Japan. Following this, the Chinese start-up plans to expand to Europe, the Middle East and the United States, it announced at a press event. "In the next two to three years, Keenon aspires to be a world leader in this field. Also, we are witnessing a milestone in the commercial robotics industry, whereby we will be seeing a lot of such usage in our daily lives," said its founder Tony Li, who spoke at the event over a video call. The announcement comes about a week after Keenon announced that it had raised US$200 million (S$271 million) in Series D funding, led by the SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Founded in 2010, Keenon says that it is one of the largest players in China's mobile robotics market, serving the food and beverage (F&B), hospitality and medical sectors, among others. SoftBank Robotics is integrating its cloud sys...

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Service Robot Industry Summit Held with Launch Ceremony of BooCax Robotics Henan Plant

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Sanmenxia, China, Jun 2, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - On May 28, the Sanmenxia Government, with the Association of Industry Service Robots and BooCax Robotics, a national robotics company, hosted the Service Robot Industry Summit in Sanmenxia, Henan Provence, to discuss the latest developments in service robot technologies and artificial intelligence and automation. The Summit ended with the launch ceremony of the BooCax Robotics plant in Sanmenxia's Economic Development Zone.The Summit was attended by new medias, industry authorities and investors. Experts from the industry, including specialists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIC) and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), expressed opinions on the current AI technologies and discussed the development of mobile service robots, while BooCax Robotics introduced recent products including disinfection robots and cargo-carrying robots. Equipped with an autonomous navigation system, these BooCax robots accomplish delivery or disinfection tasks smoothly. The disinfectant-spraying robots and UV-sterilizing robots contributed to the fight during the Covid-19 pandemic, following the cargo-carrying ro...

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PuduBot Gets a Job at an Australian BBQ Restaurant

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MELBOURNE, Feb 1, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Recently, a famous Korean BBQ restaurant on Elizabeth Street in the CBD of Melbourne, Australia, took in a new member to deliver food in the store. That is PuduBot, the iconic delivery robot from Pudu Robotics.PuduBot has been well received by the locals since its introduction in the restaurant. While waiting for the food to be served, many customers use their mobile phones to take photos or videos of PuduBot hustling and bustling around.Robot waiters are nothing new in the modern world, but people may wonder "How does the robot deliver food to the designated location? How does it avoid people coming and going? Is it reliable? And how can it ensure the food is not spilled or dropped?"Well, it's all a piece of cake for PuduBot!PuduBot is developed by Pudu Robotics, a world-leading provider of commercial robots. The company is headquartered in Shenzhen, the global epicenter of hardware innovation, and has set up R&D centers in Shenzhen, Beijing and Chengdu, and hundreds of offices across the country. Pudu has developed over 400 patents, more than 60% of which are utility patents. Relying on the core technologies of low-speed autonomous dr...

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SIT introduces new degree programme to prepare students for era of automation

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SINGAPORE - A new degree programme will be offered by the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to fulfil the anticipated demand in automation engineering in the future by training students to develop, deploy and maintain field robots. The Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics Systems is a four-year programme offered by SIT and designed in consultation with key partners such as the National Robotics Programme (NRP) and Economic Development Board (EDB), SIT said on Friday (Jan 29). "Robots are no longer just operating in the factory shop floor, but are also required to work for, and alongside humans in various field applications," said Professor Chua Kee Chaing, deputy president (academic) and provost of SIT. Figures by the Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore showed over 4,400 industrial robots were installed in 2017, representing an increase of 72 per cent from 2016. Already widely used in manufacturing, Professor Quek Tong Boon, chief executive of NRP, said there will likely be an even greater adoption of industrial robots in the coming years. "With advances in technology that enable robots to interact more naturally, intelligently and safely with humans in people-centric env...

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Dyson plans $4.9b in investments across Singapore, UK, Philippines

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British technology company Dyson is planning to have a new advanced manufacturing hub in Singapore as part of £2.75 billion (S$4.93 billion) worth of investments in the Republic, the United Kingdom and the Philippines. The investments will double Dyson's portfolio of products and go towards its venture in new fields by 2025, with the hiring of additional engineers in areas such as software, machine learning and robotics, the company said in a statement today. It is putting resources in research areas such as next-generation motor technology, connectivity and material science. Dyson said one of its priorities is the commercialisation of its solid state battery technology that is being developed in Singapore, the UK, the United States and Japan, and is said to provide cleaner and more efficient energy storage than current batteries. The company's new global head office at St James Power Station in Singapore is slated to open next year, and will be accompanied by an expansion of its research and development facilities, as well as research labs in fields such as machine learning and robotics. Dyson has around 1,200 employees in Singapore, of whom 350 are engineers and scientists. Over ...