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These Companies are Revolutionizing Robotics and Hiring Now

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Robotics companies are hiring to make driving and flying safer and more convenient by taking human hands off the wheel.

Autonomous vehicles are a hot trend in robotics and AI. The sector is predicted to see a rise in strategic partnerships for technology development, and customer demand for offloading driving is strong.

Menlo Park, Calif.,-based Zoox aims to provide a fleet of autonomous vehicles that will allow users to travel in dense urban environments. Zoox handles the driving, charging, and maintenance, while riders simply pay for the service. The project caught Amazon’s attention, and in 2020 the companies partnered to work on building the future of autonomous vehicles.

San Francisco-based Cruise is another competitor in the driverless car sector. Their fleet of autonomous vehicles is driving passengers around San Francisco, and they’ve partnered with Walmart to begin delivering groceries in Phoenix.

For the places that roads don’t go, San Francisco-based Zipline is designing and manufacturing small drones to deliver essential medical products. The company is powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Zipline is enabling healthcare providers to reach homes in the U.S. and they have ambitions of disrupting retail supply chains as they too are working with Walmart.

Redwood City, Calif.-based Skydio is also looking to the sky for public safety, enterprise inspections, and defence solutions. They’ve created an AI expert pilot to help fly anywhere you might need eyes.

Dallas and San Diego-based Shield AI is also building an AI “Top Gun” pilot for aviation. Shield AI’s Navy SEAL co-founder, Brandon Tseng, believes the future of the military includes AI pilots powering every military craft.

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