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Robotics firm FBR has tee'd up another financing to jumpstart its new Mantis welding robot and shipbuilding automation work.

FBR, the WA company behind the brick laying robot HadrianX, has unveiled its latest offering – a robot which can weld up to eight times faster than a human.

High Wycombe-based FBR has received its first payment of $US150,000 from Samsung Heavy Industries in relation to phase one of its shipbuilding automation project.

Robotic technology company FBR has looked to the Northern Territory in its bid to advance sales of its Hadrian X building and construction units.

High Wycombe-based FBR has filed documents to secure an engineering service agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries.

The robotic tech company raised $6.3 million amid efforts to cut operational costs by 70 per cent.

FBR shareholders have overwhelmingly endorsed all three resolutions at the company's extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday, following a late push to have it deferred.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Lanie Chopping, Rebecca Brown, Peter Woronzow, Richard Sellers, Prudence Griffin, Jessie Liu-Ernsting, Shannon Robinson, Rhys Waldon, Mark Pivac, Brett Smith, Michael Skead, Jackson Allen and Jackie Donald.

Robotic technology company FBR has announced the appointment of Shannon Robinson as chair.

Today's board moves wrap includes Adrien Wing, Maddison Cramer, Marie Forsyth, Ryan Sebbes, An Chee Sin, Jason Ward, Greg Hoskins, Erlyn Dawson, Glenn Cooper, Lanlan Wang, Huoxin Wang, Jessamyn Lyons, Alex Morrison, Tim Zuo Leanne Heywood, Mark Pivac, Winton Willesee and Timothy Barker.

High Wycombe-based FBR has made a series of cost-cutting changes to its board, including the retirement of chief executive and managing director Mike Pivac.

Mike Pivac-led FBR has announced plans to reduce its annual costs by around 70 per cent, in order meet its present requirements.

Earlier this month while in conversation with Business News, FBR chief executive Mike Pivac said the company’s Hadrian X construction robot was nearing an impressive achievement.

FBR has spent $200 million over 20 years developing robotic technology that could revolutionise the building industry.

Robotic technology company FBR has announced a $20 million capital raising that marks the first major ECM deal for investment bank Jarden in Western Australia.

Robotic bricklaying company FBR has slashed its workforce, saving $10 million per year, and postponed the construction of its first display home, which was due to commence in a matter of days.

A group of 11 academics and entrepreneurs have joined to found the Commercialisation Studies Centre, a member-run, resource centre and events hub designed to aid relationships between academics and entrepreneurs in Western Australia.

EY has named Nick Tana as its Champion of Entrepreneurship at the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Western Region awards, while Jim Fitzgerald, Iris Smit and Daniel Morrison were among the seven other winners in Western Australia.

FBR, formerly known as Fastbrick Robotics, has commenced a 50/50 joint venture with Brickworks, called Fastbrick Australia, to provide a ‘Wall as a Service' offering to the Australian market.

Fastbrick Robotics has announced it will build a second of its commercial prototype Hadrian X bricklaying robots in an effort to improve testing procedures.

Fastbrick Robotics will put its prototype truck-mounted bricklaying robot into the field to build 11 residential houses under a collaboration agreement with Perth-based builder Archistruct Builders & Designers.