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purchased Sarcos, seeking to expand its business into robotics research and production. From 2007 until 2015, Sarcos operated as the robotics division of Raytheon under the name "Raytheon Sarcos." At the time of the purchase by Raytheon, the exoskeleton designed under the DARPA grant had been slated
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In March 2024, the company announced that Sarcos would change its name to Palladyne AI, and its ticker symbol would change in April 2024 from STRC to PDYN. The company news release about this name change states, " reflects the company's narrowed focus on commercializing the artificial intelligence
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In the months after the July 2023 layoff, insufficient cash flow continued to be a problem for the company. While expectations published by Sarcos in November 2021 had estimated that the company would be shipping as many as 300 to 500 robotic units per year, by October 2023 only two such units had
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elected in November 2023 to cut the company's losses by shutting down all hardware development and production activities. As part of this decision, a second layoff eliminated jobs for over 150 workers, including the remaining original RE2 employees. At the same time, Sarcos management announced
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began participating in a series of investment rounds with the goal of providing Sarcos with the necessary capital for commercializing a suite of robotic exoskeletons and manipulators, all to be marketed under the product-line name "Guardian." In September 2021, Sarcos Corp. merged with Rotor
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In April 2022, Sarcos acquired Pittsburgh-based robotics company RE2, Inc. Before its purchase by Sarcos, RE2 developed and produced autonomous and teleoperated mobile robots for a variety of industries; after the purchase, these robots became part of Sarcos's Guardian line of products.
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Not long after the acquisition by Raytheon, Jacobsen left Sarcos in 2009 to start a new company, Sterling Technologies (now defunct). Upon Jacobsen's departure, longtime Sarcos employee and manager Fraser Smith assumed the role of President of Raytheon Sarcos.
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ever been shipped (the two units were Guardian "Sea Class" robots that had been developed primarily at RE2 prior to its acquisition by Sarcos). On the other hand, in September 2023 Sarcos was awarded a four-year 13.8-million-dollar (
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In May 2023, Laura Peterson, a former Boeing Vice President and executive, replaced Kiva Allgood as "interim" CEO of Sarcos (Peterson was later made "permanent" CEO in October of that year).
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suitable for military applications. DARPA accepted the Sarcos design in 2006, and in that same year the firm began developing prototypes of the exoskeleton based on this design.
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research institution. By 1990, Jacobsen had expanded the company's attention to include commercial interests in areas as diverse as theme-park robots, animatronic
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In January 2024, former CEO Ben Wolff was once again appointed CEO of Sarcos, taking over the duties of chief executive officer from Laura Peterson.
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to increase its share price in accordance with Nasdaq's $ 1.00 minimum-bid-price rule. This measure was followed in July 2023 by a
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that was then renamed Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation. As a consequence of this merger, Sarcos began being listed under
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In December 2021, Kiva Allgood, an executive with experience in the commercial development of technology, was named CEO of Sarcos.
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strategist Ben Wolff led a consortium that acquired the business from Raytheon, with Smith as the newly acquired company's
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that the company had pivoted to become solely a developer of AI software for use in robotic systems.
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systems. Sarcos's work was found in a wide variety of applications, including entertainment
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in Las Vegas, NV), NASA space-suit-testing equipment, motorized prosthetic limbs, and even
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Almost from the onset of its listing on Nasdaq, Sarcos consistently underperformed as a
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Less than two months after the company received the SBIR contract, Sarcos's
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and machine learning software that it has been developing since 2020."
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Business losses and subsequent conversion to a software company
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In 2001, Sarcos was awarded a multi-phase research grant from
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software specific to the Sarcos line of Guardian robots.
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Index

Sarcos
Public
Traded as
Nasdaq
PDYN
Nasdaq
Stephen Jacobsen
Salt Lake City
Robotics
palladyneai.com
artificial-intelligence
software
University of Utah
Stephen Jacobsen
bioengineering
film props
prostheses
drug-delivery
miniaturized
catheters
robotic
animatronics
Jurassic Park: The Ride
Universal Studios Hollywood
Bellagio Hotel
MEMS
DARPA
United States Department of Defense
powered exoskeleton
Raytheon

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