
SoftBank and Robotics Investments
SoftBank recently reported a massive $23bn quarterly loss in 1Q22 (source: FT.com) and announced ...
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Amazon to acquire iRobot for $1.7bn
Amazon recently announced they would acquire iRobot, the company behind the consumer robot vacuum...
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Proteus by Amazon: STIQs view
Kiva Systems Acquisition
In 2012, Amazon acquired Kiva Systems, a warehouse robotics company, for...
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Why pay for expensive market research when you can get it for free?
STIQ are aware that our free reports are copied and referenced widely in startup funding decks an...
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#2 Robotics Networking Event, July 19th by STIQ & TLA Robotics
TLA Robotics networking event #2
STIQ organised a 2nd Robotics Networking event in London via the...
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Fabric lays off 40% and shifts business model
Fabric cuts 40% of staff
Fabric recently announced it was laying off 40% of its staff and changin...
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2022 HIKRobot IPO
THE GREAT EXIT QUEUE
The list of G2P vendors exploring exits is increasing by the day. Pandemic-i...
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Trade show report: Shoptalk Europe 2022
Trade show report: Shoptalk Europe, London, UK June 6-8, 2022
STIQ visited Shoptalk Europe 2022 ...
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Trade Show Report: LogiMAT 2022
A review of LogiMAT 2022 by STIQ Ltd including images and videos.
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Conference Report: Robotics Summit, Boston MA (USA)
Robotics Summit (https://www.roboticssummit.com/, Massachusetts, US) is a three year old show. Th...
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Autonomous Store Visit (Aldi + AiFi)
Amazon Go was announced in 2015 and in 2022 Amazon started selling the technology (renamed to "Ju...
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Trade Show Report: AWS Summit, London 2022
AWS Summit is not your standard trade show. It is a huge event to celebrate all the aspects of Am...
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Trade Show Report: Retail Technology Show 2022
Hoisted as the "New flagship event for retail technology", this event certainly set our expectati...
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Amazon's new $1bn Industrial Innovation Fund
Amazon $1bn Industrial Innovation Fund announcement
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Trade Show Report: SiTL
SiTL 2022 Review
SiTL [link] is the largest intralogistics trade show in France and STIQ had not ...
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Trade Show Report: Modex 2022
MODEX 2022 Review
If you are involved in warehouse automation and material handling, Modex [websi...
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Modex 2022 Most Talked About: Opex Infinity
Modex - "Most Talked About" Prize
STIQ's "Most Talked About" at Modex prize went to Opex for thei...
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#1 Robotics Networking Event, March 23rd by STIQ & TLA Robotics
#1 ROBOTICS NETWORKING EVENT
STIQ Ltd organised the first ever In-Person robotics networking even...
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Trade Show Report: Retail Supply Chain + Logistics
A review of Retail Supply Chain + Logistics Expo
We visited: 2 March, 2022
We have visited a few ...
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More Warehouse Automation funding: RightHand Robotics picks up $66m
Warehouse Automation investments exploding
Hot on the heels of Exotec's massive $335m fundraising...
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AutoStore Q4 results; Rocketing results symptomatic of the sector
AUTOSTORE: ROCKET RESULTS!
AutoStore (website) announced their 4th quarter results on Feb 17th, 2...
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Ocado Re:imagined - STIQs view
This blog post outlines STIQs view of the new product releases in Ocado's January 2022 Re:imagine...
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NRF 2022, Day 3 (final day)
Final day. We did a walkthrough 360 video from the Innovation Lab and the Startup Zone on the low...
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NRF 2022, Day 2
The Monday is often considered the business day, when the larger budget buyers come out to play. ...
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NRF 2022, Day 1
Day 1 at NRF Big Show kicked off with a keynote featuring Target's CEO Brian Cornell and Matthew ...
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NRF 2022, Day 0
Recent news about the high prevalence of Covid in New York appears to have influenced a few compa...
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AWS RoboMaker - What's Amazon up to in robotics?
Amazon (via AWS) has begun offering a number of SaaS packages for robotics vendors and recently ...
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Trade Shows Restarted... Yeah! A review of Advanced Engineering & Saltex
Trade Shows have finally sprung back to life and whilst we will only visit national (UK) shows th...
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A review of PPMA trade show, September 2021
Finally, a real trade show with real people!
We visited PPMA at the National Exhibition Centre (...
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A review of DELIVER (online) June 2021
Virtual events have taken over since the pandemic hit and it has become difficult to write a revi...
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How will automation fare post-Covid 19?
The view of all vendors is that automation will become more important as a result of Covid-19. Wh...
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Trade Show update: Logimat cancelled
Logimat cancelled :(
It was expected since we had received a few meeting cancellations from the k...
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A review of Retail Without Borders 2020
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RWB remains the number one event for cross border trading on marketplaces despite the understan...
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STIQ @ Trade Shows and Conferences in 2020
A list of the trade shows and conferences STIQ will attend in 2020
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A review of NRF Big Show, New York, January 2020
NRF Big Show is simply best in class for retail technology vendors.
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This was our third visit to...
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NRF2020: The calm before the storm and assorted problems... solved
NRF2020, New York, USRetail Technology trade showWebsite
While the climate at NRF2019 was very wa...
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