As the demand for mobile robots ramps up, jobs for humans at Clearpath Robotics are growing as well.
The Kitchener-based company got a big boost on Wednesday from a federal financing program to help it more than double the size of its workforce to 140 people over the next two years.
Clearpath, which is getting up to $950,000 in a repayable loan, was one of three companies in the area to share in up to $1.53 million in contributions from the federal government’s FedDev Ontario program.
The other companies are:
In the Chat Communications,which is getting up to $400,000.
Linkett (previously known as WestonExpressions Inc.), which is getting nearly $180,000.
Clearpath, a company started in 2009 by three University of Waterloo students, has become one of the stars of Waterloo Region’s technology sector.
It has shipped about 1,000 of its robots all over the world. It grew this year from about 34 people in February to about 70 people who now occupy part of an industrial building on Strasburg Road in Kitchener.
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