Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Source: Rethink Robotics Six years after closing its doors, Rethink Robotics Inc. “I am honored to be in the position to lead a team that will challenge the status quo, help manufacturers solve challenges through automation, and empower our business partners for sustainable growth.” She previously worked in the U.S.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Source: Voyant Photonics Voyant Photonics this week launched the Carbon FMCW lidar sensor, which it claimed offers effective and affordable lidar on a chip with solid-state beam steering. Founded in 2018 by researchers from Cornell and Columbia universities, Voyant has raised over $20 million in funding to date.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Source: Adobe Stock While headlines often spotlight U.S. ABB (Switzerland), a global leader in electrification and automation, is based in Zurich and has more than 105,000 employees worldwide. With over 140 years of experience, the company integrates software and engineering to optimize manufacturing, energy, and automation processes.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 9, 2025

Source: Ainos Not only are robots getting smarter, but they are also becoming more perceptive, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and new sensors. AI Nose-integrated robots could provide continuous, automated surveillance in sites ranging from airports to factories, said the companies. 15, 2024. .”

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Source: Duality AI Duality AI yesterday launched an EDU license and subscription for its Falcon simulation platform. Falcon generates accurate data for modeling, training Founded in 2018, Duality AI said its multidisciplinary team includes engineers, simulation specialists, AI and machine learning experts, and technical artists.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Source: Adobe Stock Interact Analysis reduced its forecast for the global mobile robot market by 18% in 2027 due to a series of macroeconomic factors it said are impacting demand. Source: Interact Analysis What’s holding back mobile robots? For example, Rockwell Automation acquired Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 12, 2025

Source: NEXCOM At GTC Paris this week, NEXCOM Group announced that its NexCOBOT Co. ” Spun off from NEXCOM’s IoT Automation Solutions business unit in 2018, NexCOBOT specializes in safe robot controls. . NEXCOM is working with NVIDIA on functional safety for humanoid and AI robots.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 22, 2024

This automated robotic cell at MetalQuest frees employees from repetitive, manual tasks. Source: MetalQuest From the earliest days of automation at IMTS featuring a robot hand moving parts, there has been a massive evolution in technology. “What is the definition of automation?” “Here’s an analogy.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Source: Imagry Autonomous vehicles often rely heavily on prior information about their routes, but new technology promises to improve real-time situational awareness for vehicles including buses. ” Imagry has joined Partners for Automated Vehicle Education ( PAVE ) and will be exhibiting at CES in January 2025. and Haifa, Israel.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Source: IFR World Robotics The International Federation of Robotics’ latest World Robotics report recorded 4,281,585 units operating in factories worldwide in 2023. The new World Robotics statistics show an all-time high in the number of industrial robots automating production around the world,” stated Marina Bill, president of the IFR.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Source: Ambi Robotics The month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the busiest time of year by far for logistics providers, and this year, its even shorter than most peak seasons. With Thanksgiving falling just a week later than usual, automation providers such as Ambi Robotics Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 9, 2024

Source: Techman Robotics Techman Robot launched its TM30S collaborative robot arm for palletizing this week. The cobot leverages AI to provide highly automated production efficiency in smart manufacturing. This partnership unveiled at Automate 2024 “cognitive robots” for manufacturing. in) across six joints.

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NCMS

MAY 19, 2025

Technology Title ReqCity++: A GenAI Powered City of Requirements for Aircraft System Requirements Integration and Verification for conformance to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148:2018 Tech Focus Area Aircraft Data Integration Abstract Problem Statement: Aerospace systems rely on massive, complex technical specifications written in natural language (NL).

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 14, 2024

Source: Teradyne Two leading automation suppliers have moved in together. which acquired Universal Robots (UR) for $285 million in 2015 and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) for $272 million in 2018. At Automate in Chicago last week, Universal Robots’ collaborative robot arms were part of more than 50 exhibits on the show floor.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Prototype of the Eyeonic Trace Laser Line Scanner, designed to provide submillimeter depth precision for next-generation warehouse automation, robotics, farming, construction and manufacturing applications. Silicon photonics industry veterans founded SiLC Technologies in 2018. SiLC Techologies Inc. The Monrovia, Calif.-based

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 10, 2024

Source: OnRobot CHICAGO — As collaborative robots get bigger for tasks such as palletizing, the end effectors needs to keep up. OnRobot A/S showed two new, heavy-duty grippers at Automate this week. “As The Odense, Denmark-based company also acquired Purple Robotics in 2018 and Blue Workforce in 2019.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Source: FarmDroid Farmers today face challenges including the need to reduce chemical inputs, decrease reliance on manual labour, and cut operational costs, noted FarmDroid ApS. He learned firsthand how much manual work goes into this process and set out to find a way to automate it. million investment, around $11.37 million U.S.). .

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source: SiLC Technologies SiLC Technologies Inc. Our FMCW lidar solutions, at short or long distances, bring superior vision to machines to truly enable the next generation of AI based automation.” This creates a strong foundation for our partnership to grow and address multiple markets, including industrial automation and automotive.”

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 15, 2025

Source: Kodiak Robotics Kodiak Robotics Inc. ” Founded in 2018 by Don Burnette, an industry veteran, Kodiak said it has developed technology to address critical challenges in the transportation industry. Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 25, 2024

Source: Sanctuary AI Sanctuary AI today unveiled the seventh generation of its Phoenix humanoid robot. which was founded in 2018 and does business as Sanctuary AI. Sanctuary’s seventh-generation Phoenix includes both hardware and software improvements.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 25, 2024

Source: ASTM International ASTM International today announced the appointment of Andrew G. Source: LinkedIn In addition, ASTM International noted that Kireta has been an ASTM member since 1998. ASTM offers visibility into global standards development. as its new president, effective May 1, 2024.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Source: Burro Robots for outdoor use pose different design challenges than their indoor cousins. Field robots include a wide range of technologies, from automated lawnmowers to delivery robots, inspection drones, and agricultural vehicles. This experience led him to believe that all tedious outdoor work should be automated.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2024

Source: Window Hero Window Hero, a HomeFront Brands franchise that specializes in a wide range of exterior cleaning services, is launching a drone window-cleaning service. Founded in 2018, Lucid Bots said it is looking to expand into to new markets with its AI-driven software and sensor platform. ” The Charlotte, N.C.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 18, 2024

Credit: Eugene Demaitre BOSTON — As factories and warehouses look to automate more of their operations, they need confidence that multiple robots can conduct complex tasks repeatedly, reliably, and safely. Does Mitsubishi have a timeframe in mind for integrating Realtime’s technology into its controls for factory automation (FA)?

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Source: ABB ABB Robotics has announced its first Flexley Tug T702 autonomous mobile robot (AMR). Sevensense, which spun out of ETH Zurich in 2018, specializes in Visual SLAM technology. The industrial automation provider had added the startup’s VSLAM technology to its AMRs over the past few years.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Rethink Robotics had raised $150 million and developed the well-known Baxter and Sawyer collaborative robots before shutting its doors in 2018. Less than a month after the company shut down, German automation and robotics specialist HAHN Group acquired the IP and trademarks for the Sawyer cobot and Intera software. .

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2024

Source: ABB After a challenging year for autonomous mobile robot, or AMR, providers, industry leaders are continuing to consolidate. The industrial automation provider had added the startup’s VSLAM technology to its AMRs over the past few years, so why acquire it now? Ford and Michelin trialed ABB AMRs using Sevensense VSLAM.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2023

When we automate away the chunks of human intervention, we will do so with great datasets that characterize the problem across many situations and environments. In 2023, however, it made at least two warehouse automation-related acquisitions that appear to be safer bets. Source: 6 River Systems Suffering a $437.3

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Automation Mag

MARCH 15, 2024

“To meet the ever-growing demand and address the labour shortage, in 2018 we invested in more modern equipment to increase our productivity. The Government of Canada shared in a press statement that it recognizes and supports businesses and organizations that are a source of pride in their communities.

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i4.0 today

APRIL 18, 2024

V7 Go uses generative AI to understand how to automate tasks reliably and at scale. By the end of 2024, we expect the number of inference calls on V7 Go to equal that of automated labels on V7 Darwin – a number that previously took us four years to reach. Now available at [link]. Today Magazine.

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Mold Making Technology

APRIL 18, 2024

Source | Delta Mold Inc. Source | Delta Mold Inc. we work hard to stay diversified and agile, to understand the needs and requirements of our customers, and to be their go-to source of injection and compression molds,” Ernie Young, Delta Mold president, explains. Source | Delta Mold Inc. Source | Plex Systems Inc.

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Modern Machine Shop

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Source: All photos provided by Major Tool & Machine. The system is consistently updated and customized to MTM’s operational framework, methodically inserting checkpoints and automation into every step of planning and production. The result? Another result? Here’s why. A Gruppo Parpas XS 20.4,

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Humanoid robots make strides Were it not for ChatGPT – more on that later – humanoid robots would have been the biggest story in robotics, automation, and AI of 2023. While OpenAI first introduced its Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) in 2018, it wouldn’t reach wide use until GPT-3.5, gained 100 million users in just 2 months.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Existing research shows that connected and automated vehicles (CAV) are expected to improve road safety substantially, including reducing accident frequency and severity. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), as of May 2018, 92.7 per cent, representing an annual decrease of an estimated 18,925 accidents.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

With a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and over 18 years of experience in hardware design and ODM project management, Ryan specializes in the development of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architectures and customized solutions for industrial automation applications.

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Fastener News Desk

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Kireta notes that ASTM International was selected to lead the SCoE in part because of the organization’s successful administration of existing centers of excellence in both additive manufacturing, launched in 2018, and exo technology, formed in 2019. SOURCE: ASTM RELATED CONTENT: ASTM International Welcomes Andrew G. Voss Award

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i4.0 today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Field workers face part-sourcing issues and multiple return visits. The platform’s automation replaces traditional manual methods, and its integration capabilities, metric displays, and bottleneck identification underscore its industry significance. It smoothly processes information from any source (CRM, ERP, Web APIs, etc.),

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