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BMW testing Figure 01 humanoid at South Carolina automotive plant

Robotics Business Review

Source: Figure AI The interest in humanoid robots continues to gain steam. BMW said its Spartanburg facility is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., Brett Adcock, Figure’s founder and CEO, said the initial tasks include moving bins and boxes and other “various logistics things” inside the BMW body shop.

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Automotive Aftermarket Looks to 4Rs and Closed Loop Ecosystem for Sustainable End-of-Life Battery Management

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

million xEVs that need to have their original batteries retired due to aging-related erosion of energy storage capacity between 2020 and 2030. between 2020-2030 due to the aging of original batteries. The key driver behind this rapid growth will be the projected 1.9 Frost & Sullivan forecasts a €1.39

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Volvo launches VNL Autonomous truck equipped with Aurora software

Robotics Business Review

Source: Volvo Autonomous Solutions Volvo Autonomous Solutions this week unveiled its first-ever production-ready autonomous truck. The unit of the Volvo Group offers customers tailored transport as a service (TaaS) with autonomous vehicles, required infrastructure, operational and uptime support, and cloud-based management of logistics flows.

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Boston Dynamics debuts electric version of Atlas humanoid robot

Robotics Business Review

In the meantime, the company itself changed owners, from Google in 2013 to SoftBank in 2017 and most recently to Hyundai in 2020. Source: Boston Dynamics “Everything we understood, from the time of launching Spot as a prototype to it being a reliable product deployed in fleets, is going into the new Atlas,” Playter said.

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8 noteworthy robotics acquisitions of 2023

Robotics Business Review

In January 2020, Softbank participated in Berkshire Grey’s $263 million Series B financing round. million for 6 River Systems , which makes autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for logistics applications. Source: 6 River Systems Suffering a $437.3 Berkshire Grey had struggled financially after going public via a SPAC in 2021.

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Robotics and Automation in 2022 – Can They be a Hedge to Recession?

i4.0 today

This has made many large companies aware of the weaknesses of the current business model where manufacturing is outsourced, and global logistics is heavily needed. In 2020, the European Commission proposed its ‘Industry 5.0’ Source: IDTechEx. fold increase in demand for logistics and delivery robots and a 6.8-fold

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CERATIZIT’s Sustainability Mission Results in Maximum Productivity

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The company’s wear parts and cutting tools are used in sectors such as mechanical engineering and toolmaking, the automotive and aerospace industries, medical industries, and oil and gas industries. CERATIZIT’s ultra-modern logistics and supply chain systems mean that the tools are delivered to customers in next to no time.