Teradyne
Canvas Category Hardware : Sensor Systems : Metrology
Teradyne companies deliver manufacturing automation across industries, applications and the world. Together, we solve complex test and automation challenges and enable businesses to achieve higher production volumes, higher quality and higher ROI. Teradyne tests and helps build the world’s most innovative products. Our leading-edge testers make sure that new products work right the first time, every time. And our portfolio of industrial automation solutions helps manufacturers to develop and deliver new products quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Pickle Robot Closes $50 Million Series B Funding and Secures New Orders for 30+ Unload Robots
Pickle Robot Company, a pioneer in Physical AI delivering robotic automation systems that unload trucks, announced it has raised $50 million in series B funding with participation from a strategic customer, Teradyne Robotics Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Ranpak, Third Kind Venture Capital, One Madison Group, Hyperplane, Catapult Ventures, and others.
Additionally, in Q3 2024 six customers placed orders for over 30 production robots to deploy in the first half of 2025. The new orders include pilot conversions, existing customer expansions, and new customer adoption. The funding will be used to accelerate the development of new feature sets and build out the company’s commercial teams to unlock new markets and geographies for global robotic truck unloading customers.
Pickle Robot is laser-focused on applying its Physical AI technology to one of the most labor-intensive, physically demanding, and highest turnover work areas in logistics operations: truck unloading. Pickle’s Physical AI combines a powerful vision system with generative AI foundation models trained on millions of data points from real logistics and warehouse operations that enable Pickle’s robotic hardware platform to perform physical work at human-scale or better.
Teradyne’s Tactics to Tackle Twenty-First Century Test
My interest in Archimedes was spurred by a chat with Eli Roth, who is Product Manager for Smart Manufacturing at Teradyne. Eli was bringing me up to date with the recent launch of Teradyne’s Archimedes Analytics Solution. The Archimedes Analytics Solution employs a Zero-Trust (ZT) model in which data is encrypted throughout. For example, you don’t want anybody to take data off the tester and manipulate it before shipping it out. Thus, Teradyne ensures that all the data coming off the tester is genuine and is essentially “stamped” as being “Teradyne known good”; that is, this is genuine data that came directly off the tester and cannot be manipulated by nefarious scoundrels—it’s data customers can count on.
Two main usage scenarios are depicted below. In the first scenario, data from a Teradyne tester is streamed directly to Teradyne’s edge device in the form of the UltraEdge2000. Featuring the lowest latency, highest performance parallel compute process Teradyne offers, the UltraEdge2000 lives directly in the test cell, thereby providing real-time analytics and real-time actionable data that can be used to make real-time decisions. In addition to Teradyne’s out-of-the-box analytical solutions, customers can employ their own homegrown solutions or solutions from other analytics providers.
proteanTecs and Teradyne Partner to Bring Machine Learning-driven Telemetry to SoC Testing
proteanTecs, a global leader of deep data analytics for advanced electronics, and Teradyne (NASDAQ:TER), a leading supplier of automated test solutions, announced their strategic partnership to enhance semiconductor test and debug processes for advanced system-on-chips (SoCs). By connecting proteanTecs’ on-chip agent data and analytics software with Teradyne’s test programs, customers benefit from a new level of device visibility where they need it most — on the tester, for inline and real-time decisions.
MachineMetrics Announces $20M Series B Funding Round
MachineMetrics, an industrial data startup that elevates manufacturing performance through autonomous machining, announced today it has raised $20 million in Series B financing. The company will use the funding to scale its platform globally and democratize access to the machine insights that power manufacturing operations.
“Manufacturing is on the brink of a digital renaissance. The intersection of software, big data and physical machinery is the next frontier for manufacturing and a proven solution for overcoming the production and labor shortages we are experiencing right now,” said Bill Bither, co-founder and CEO of MachineMetrics. “Today’s industrial machines are inefficient because they require significant human intervention to operate. MachineMetrics makes it easy to harness data from these machines and lays the foundation for the factory of the future where machines operate autonomously and with predictability.”
Teradyne and Universal Robots Announce Agreement for Teradyne to Acquire Universal Robots, Leader in Collaborative Robots
Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) and the shareholders of Universal Robots (UR) today announced they have signed a definitive agreement under which Teradyne will acquire privately held Universal Robots, the Danish pioneer of collaborative robots, for $285 million net of cash acquired plus $65 million if certain performance targets are met extending through 2018. The acquisition has been approved by the Board of Directors of each company and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2015 subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.