Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Source: ANELLO Photonics Self-driving vehicles, mobile robots, and drones need multiple sensors for safe and reliable operation, but the cost and bulk of those sensors have posed challenges for developers and manufacturers. ANELLO offers an evaluation kit for its navigation and positioning system. ANELLO Photonics Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Previous approaches often relied on depth sensors, which simplified the problem but missed crucial real-world complexities.” Although collecting demonstrations is easy, scaling a real-world robot teleoperation setup to thousands of skills is challenging because a human has to physically set up each scene.

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Gary Mintchell

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Businesses have been collecting data for years, but the real challenge is how to use that data to fuel future business opportunities, streamline operations, and enhance decision-making, which really drives competitive advantage. I present these as thoughts to try to go beyond the mundane to get you thinking about your 2025 plans.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Estimate Series C China Sensors Yobotics Estimate Other China Humanoids What defines robotics investments? Estimate Series C China Sensors Yobotics Estimate Other China Humanoids What defines robotics investments? Verification Funding information is collected from several public and private sources.

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DO Supply

JANUARY 10, 2025

Wireless Sensor Networks, or WSNs, are infrastructure-less wireless networks that use thousands of spatially distributed sensors to monitor environmental and physical parameters, like temperature, motion, pressure, etc. Each sensor node collects data and transmits it to a sink node or a central hub using radio frequency.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“Academics who aren’t roboticists but want to do data collection can now do so with a simple Python interface, without learning ROS,” Edwards said. It comes with a sensor suite for navigation, pre-installed and configured OutdoorNav software, a Web-based user interface, and an optional wireless charging dock.

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Automation World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

With the connection of Manufacturing Data Engine and Cortex Framework, Google Cloud looks to ease the collection and processing of multi-modal data from machines, sensors and cameras for contextualization with data from enterprise applications.

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NCMS

MAY 19, 2025

FOD Mission: We support two modes of operations: Surgical: Linked with a long range radar such as TREX or MOOG: radar detects, C2 asks for authorization to enter the runway, rover collects and documents. Systematic: Rover performs a grid pattern over the runway to collect all FODs present, usually at night.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The company also said its AI Vision 360 eliminates the need for external sensor infrastructure. “The data is collected but doesn’t live in the cloud. Its onboard sensors and compute recognized construction zones, skateboarders, a bike lane, and stop signs. We deliver over-the-air updates to customers.”

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2025

The ceiling-mounted sensors emit ultrasonic waves that are picked up by an inexpensive sensor mounted on the mobile device. It provided a look at the next generation of refuse collection, fire fighting, and airport tarmac automation. Customers simply need to add a sensor package necessary for the intended application.

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Automation Mag

JUNE 17, 2025

Privacy: Because humanoids often incorporate cameras, microphones and biometric sensors, there is an intrusion risk in sensitive environments. Standards should enforce privacy-by-design protocols, opt-in data collection and user-governable sensor control.

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Cisco Industrial Automation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Connectivity is a prerequisite for collecting data from equipment, people, and the environment. Depending on use cases that range from basic wireless sensor networks, to software-defined networking, or programmable networks for large-scale management, there is a need for varying levels of sophistication.

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Design World

JULY 9, 2024

igus announced its iComm Box communication module, which enables users to integrate i.Sense sensors into its superwise condition monitoring service.

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i4.0 today

JUNE 12, 2025

The SICK stand (5/F90) at Smart Factory Expo demonstrated how businesses can harness sensors to unlock the power of their data, with SICK’s next-generation connectivity solutions and digital innovations designed to create safer, smarter, more flexible, self-optimising manufacturing systems.

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Design World

MAY 1, 2023

Sensor data can be collected and turned into information useful far beyond the narrow scope of part presence or absence. Making decisions based on data, not projections or expected results, can produce far more accurate and efficient outcomes regarding your equipment.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2025

And we collected data from our customers, to understand what they wanted [from a drone].” The company said its drones are designed to be easily configured with different payloads, including a variety of cameras and other sensors like infrared cameras or lidar sensors. with up to a 40-minute battery life and 20 km (12 mi.)

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 10, 2025

It added that its systems can collect real-time, accurate data for navies, law enforcement, civil government, and commercial organizations. Saildrone claimed that its uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) offer endurance and resilience. Saildrone said it has sailed more than 1.6 million nautical miles from the High North to the Southern Ocean.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2025

The company’s “end-to-end” system includes the DRIVE AGX system-on-a-chip ( SoC ) and reference board design, the NVIDIA DriveOS automotive operating system, a sensor suite, and an active safety and SAE Level 2+ driving stack. The company said it designed its WFMs for physical AI research and development.

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Manufacturing Management

JUNE 16, 2025

Creds: FreePik This project, called WorkWise, integrates sensors with real-time monitoring capabilities of physical conditions into construction helmets to enhance worker safety. Sensor Technology and Prototyping Process Stiern: Our project began with brainstorming what types of sensors would provide meaningful safety data.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 9, 2024

has developed AFARA-COTTON, an autonomous mobile robot designed to collect cotton spilled on the ground after the mechanical harvesting process. His family, which harvested cotton, had asked him to build a robot to collect remaining cotton. While collecting the cotton, the picker drives up to 3.2 before it needs to be emptied.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 6, 2025

The new ESCON2 series of maxon servo controllers with CANopen and I/O commanding achieves a new level of smoothness, dynamics, and precision in machines and devices thanks to an innovative method for Hall sensor-based speed control and FOC commutation. Now accepting session submissions!

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Modern Machine Shop

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“Production monitoring, at its core, is about the collection of data,” says Greg McHale, founder and CEO of Datanomix. Turning this raw data into actionable insights is a key part of modern machine shop software. The latest generation of software can even analyze this data and predict production outcomes in real time.

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Control.com

MARCH 12, 2024

Installing sensors into a manufacturing process is intended to collect data, useful in making logical true/false decisions. But what settings must be adjusted when you install these sensors?

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 17, 2025

ANYmal can carry modular sensor payloads and detect machine noises and gas leaks. The new mobile acoustic imaging camera is able to access areas that are difficult and costly to reach with traditional static sensors, it noted. Source: ANYbotics Identifying and managing gas leaks at industrial sites can be costly and hazardous.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2025

Watch Out offers machining cells that use patented sensors and machine learning for precision manufacturing in aerospace and defense, automotive, medical, and other industries. ” Watch Out can also control the amount of aggregated data it collects for continuous learning without losing explainability. Nearly 2 million U.S.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

AgiBot World offers multimodal hardware including array-based visual tactile sensors, durable hands with six degrees of freedom (DoF), and mobile dual-arm robots with whole-body control. The company said it designed these scenarios to reflect the nuanced demands of real-world robotic applications.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 8, 2025

based company said its proprietary software and machine learning can transform collected data into actionable insights and intelligence. Saildrone added that its systems can collect real-time, accurate data for navies, navies, law enforcement, civil government, and commercial organizations. The Alameda, Calif.-based The Alameda, Calif.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2024

said GenSim-2 addresses industry challenges by offering an alternative to resource-intensive traditional data collection methods. It can generate driving scenes across multiple sensor modalities and perspectives. also offers WorldGen-1 , a generative AI foundation model that it said can simulate the entire autonomous vehicle stack.

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Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

New MQTT bridge simplifies connectivity and communication with smart IoT sensors and devices to support data collection and operations optimization. The new client brings data from smart IoT sensors and devices into the SCADA application and subscribes to MQTT message bus data.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 28, 2024

Updates include new local collector and file ingestion capabilities that expand data collection options for increased flexibility; also included are new filtering capabilities that create asset inventory views to answer key visibility questions for IT security and operations alike. It captures and processes critical data.

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Modern Machine Shop

JUNE 5, 2025

Sensors and software provide sufficient safety for traditional robot arms, but he noted that cameras and AI are needed for safe functioning of autonomous humanoids. ” In most robotics, a stopped robot is a safe robot. But this doesn’t necessarily apply to humanoids, which are at risk of falling over when they stop.

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ATS

JUNE 11, 2025

How to detect the P point (potential failure) early Sensors and analytics help improve the accuracy of P point detection. For example, the use of vibration sensors can detect changes in vibration intensity or frequency, which may then trigger a proactive maintenance event.

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E&T

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Seven years in the making, the camera weighs up to three tonnes and features a 3,200-megapixel sensor, powerful enough to spot a golf ball 15 miles away, according to its developers. Theoretically, it should be able to capture billions of galaxies with its 189 sensors over the course of the next 10 years. Length: 3.73m . gigapixels) .

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E&T

JANUARY 6, 2023

The team initially designed an antenna out of coiled copper wire to collect the leaked RF and experimented with various designs, from the thickness of the wire to the number of times it was coiled. If this leaked RF energy could be harvested, then it could be put to use. The design is cheap – less than fifty cents,” note the authors.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 12, 2025

Gecko uses a variety of robots that can climb, fly, and swim to collect data on built structures, such as U.S. Gecko’s business continues to grow as organizations across a wide variety of sectors realize this work is more safely and thoroughly performed by sensors and robots than humans,” said Trae Stephens, Partner at Founders Fund.

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Robotics Automation News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Gecko Robotics, a specialist developer and supplier of ultrasonic inspection robots, has launched its “AI-driven” data collection and analysis platform for industrial hardware – called “Cantilever”.

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Robotics Automation News

JANUARY 17, 2024

How do you deploy an environmental sensor to collect climate change readings over a prolonged period on an uninhabited island without failing? How do you power a seismic detector to operate for months in an underwater cave?

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