Top Robotic Developments of 2024
The exclusive interviews, videos and analyses that defined a year of rebounding growth
It’s hard to believe that another year is just about in the books. 2024 was a huge one for the robotics and automation industry, with the venture market finally picking back up after two down years. That in turn meant for all sorts of exciting product launches and new startups starting. With the Ottomate team about to head off for a holiday break — see you in January — we’ve rounded up some of our favorite stories, interviews, and exclusive analyses of the past year, below.
Investors & Entrepreneurs Make 2024 Predictions
Which of these predictions from the beginning of the year turned out to be true?
Starship Turns to Nickelytics for Bot-Based Ads
Explore some of the huge announcements shared at Curbivore 2024.
The State of Drone Delivery in 2024
The future of drone delivery is here, “it’s just not evenly distributed,” to borrow the words of William Gibson. Within the next five-plus years, Amazon aims to deliver a half of a billion packages per year by drone. Today, Zipline has already reached a million drone deliveries thanks to its global presence and Google’s Wing subsidiary has hit 350k. Last month, the US House of Representatives passed the
Hyphen’s Makeline Might Just Be the Restaurant of the Future
Step into Hyphen’s rather unadorned office in the back of a San Jose office park and your first thought is: dang, these guys really like hardware. The flotsam and jetsam from 40 years of Bay Area progress adorn the common areas… micro LED displays, a museum of 3D-printed dispensing arms, controller boards aplenty and miles of ethernet cable.
See you in 2025!