Collaborative Robotics Inc., a startup founded by the former head of Amazon.com Inc.’s robotics unit, today disclosed that it has raised $30 million in Series A funding. Sequoia Capital led the round.

The robotics industry is on the cusp of significant transformation, driven by two major trends: human-robot collaboration and the emergence of humanoid robots. Once thought to be a decade away, ...

The next phase of collaborative robots eliminates the need for programming. Applications such as machine tending and palletizing can be deployed in a few simple steps. Robot programming has come a ...