Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levines Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Interact Analysis here discusses two new growth areas it has identified from its research and conversations with manufacturers: smart conveyance technology and robots with machine-integrated control. Most of them are suppliers of motion control components such as linear motors and servo products, or conveyor manufacturers.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 20, 2024

Everyone wants universal household robots. For widespread adoption, they are going to have to have a price point that allows monthly financing or lease payments that are roughly similar to a car, suggesting that manufacturers will need to retail units in the neighborhood of $40,000 to get widescale uptake.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 5, 2024

Sewing machines were controlled via ROS to synchronized apparel operation with a robot. lost these jobs when apparel manufacturing moved overseas, but it poses a significant risk to our national security, as evidenced by the nation’s struggle to manufacture and obtain personal protective equipment (PPE) at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Robotics, digitalization, and vertical and precision agriculture can improve yields, says HELUKABEL. Trends such as precision farming, digitalization, and robotics are intended to help farmers produce more bountiful harvests more efficiently and sustainably, noted HELUKABEL GmbH. Robots are a means to counter this.

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Cisco Manufacturing

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Internet is littered with articles about Industry 4.0. Examples are, mobile robots, AGV (automated guided vehicles), and manufacturing infrastructure. The details that are often unexplained in such articles, is what is actually needed from the network. We will consider 3 use-cases: 1) Mobile robots and AGV.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2025

which offers robots as a service, or RaaS, is now selling and servicing drones from Vision Aerial. based drone manufacturer is the first of its kind to join RobotLAB’s portfolio, which currently includes mobile robots for restaurants, hospitality, floor scrubbing, and sidewalk delivery. RobotLAB Inc., The Bozeman, Mont.-based

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 23, 2024

Universal Robots, along with other cobot manufacturers, cobots can now use SRCI, a standard interface between PLCs and robots. Source: Universal Robots Just before Hanover Messe, Siemens announced its cooperation with two collaborative robot vendors, UR and JAKA. There are two main ways of doing this.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 13, 2024

The robotics industry has seen major growth and maturity in the past decade. Robots also are getting cheaper and more affordable. Robots are taking a greater role and improving automation in many ways, but are humanoid robots the next step? million unfilled positions in manufacturing.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Robotics insights The consumer packaging industry faces significant challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions, and a worker shortage, leading to a need for increased automation. There’s a buzz around manufacturing and automation, but it’s not as widespread as you might think, but we need automation.

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ATS

MAY 13, 2025

Share Dallas-Fort Worth is rapidly becoming one of America’s premier hubs for manufacturing, driven by a strategic central location, a resilient economy, and rapid technological advancement. Manufacturers are increasingly investing in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to benefit from its robust infrastructure and proximity to major markets.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 27, 2024

Agility Robotics continues to have a leg up in the humanoid race. The first official deployment of Digit is already up and running, generating real revenue for Agility Robotics , the inaugural RBR50 Robot of the Year winner. The logistics provider is paying Agility Robotics under a robotics-as-a-service ( RaaS ) model.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The TMINI robotic surgical system features a wireless handpiece that assists surgeons in performing total knee replacements. Food and Drug Administration has granted 510(k) clearance for the use of its TMINI surgical robot with Zimmer Biomet Robotics’ Persona system. Source: THINK Surgical THINK Surgical Inc. Register now.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Indoor mobile robots rely on autonomous navigation for safe and efficient delivery. Source: Relay Robotics When we think of autonomous navigation, the first thing that usually comes to mind is self-driving cars. Relay robots in particular, are being deployed in busy hospitals and hotels across the world.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Estun was among the many companies showing humanoid robots at CIIF in China. Credit: Georg Stieler Over the past three years, more than half of the world’s robots were sold in China. While not historically seen as a technological leader in robotics, China is increasingly setting global trends in this industry.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 23, 2024

Source: Stereotaxis Stereotaxis announced that a hospital in Italy established the first robotic cardiac heart program in the region. Now, doctors there can treat patients with heart rhythm disorders using robotic ablation procedures. Stereotaxis RNM uses robotic precision and safety for cardiac ablation.

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Cisco Manufacturing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Internet is littered with articles about Industry 4.0. Examples are, mobile robots, AGV(automated guided vehicles), and manufacturing infrastructure. Such articles often leave out critical details, such as what is actually needed from the network. 2) Manufacturing logistics. 2) Manufacturing logistics.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

. | Source: NASA Virtual Incision’s MIRA surgical robot system has made it to the International Space Station (ISS). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded the grant to use the miniaturized robotic-associated surgery (RAS) platform on the 2024 technology demonstration mission. S2 is the Torrance, Calif.-based

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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. ’ You want the robot to stay within a tenth of a meter across a distance of half a mile. .

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

Intuitive Surgical said today that it has submitted for FDA 510(k) clearance of its next-generation da Vinci 5 multiport surgical robot. The da Vinci 5 will join Intuitive’s existing da Vinci robotic surgical system portfolio alongside the multiport X and Xi systems and the single-port SP. Register now for the 2024 Robotics Summit.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The company said this option will enable surgeons to independently stabilize the medial compartment during a standard or robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty, or TKA. As part of the Unity Knee system, it is compatible with ApolloKnee, Corin’s next-generation robotic-assisted surgical platform.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 10, 2024

Collaborative Robotics has been developing a system for trustworthy operations. Source: Adobe Stock, Photoshopped by The Robot Report Collaborative Robotics today closed a $100 million Series B round on the road to commercializing its autonomous mobile manipulator. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to a groundbreaking exploration at the intersection of advanced ceramics and industrial robotics and automation. In this article, we embark on a journey that unveils the remarkable synergy between these two fields and how their integration is reshaping manufacturing processes and driving innovation.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 7, 2024

Medrobotics Flex 360 robotic surgery system. Tiger Group and Liquidity Services today announced the availability of all surgical robotics assets from a Medrobotics plant for sale. Assets, including surgical robotics platforms used by nearly 30 hospitals around the world, are available in a turnkey sale.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2024

The HiP framework develops detailed plans for robots using the expertise of three different foundation models, helping it execute tasks in households, factories, and construction that require multiple steps. While we can routinely complete each step without much thought, a robot requires a complex plan that involves more detailed outlines.

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Robotics Automation News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Whats described as a bifocal modernisation strategy, implemented in 2011, is ongoing at Yoke Industrials pioneering industrial lifting equipment manufacturing facility Production at Taiwanese company Yoke Industrial Corp started in 1997. A lot has changed since, as well explore in this article.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’re in the midst of a decade of unprecedented transformation, driven in part by the global pandemic and geopolitical events that are fundamentally changing the way we manufacture and deliver goods, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. AI itself is not new to robotics. What does this mean in practice?

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2025

In this conversation, Chris Savoia discusses the advancements in robotics, focusing on the value proposition of connecting robots, the enhancements brought by MotionPlus, and the importance of cybersecurity in connected systems. based company has built and iterated on a working humanoid and tested its robot on a production line.

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Mold Making Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Bureau of Labor Statistics “Back in 2011, we were already talking about a skills gap, with 600,000 job openings in manufacturing. Marion Wells , founder of Human Asset Management and MMT Editorial Advisory Board member says we've made tremendous strides in changing the perception of manufacturing. Source | U.S.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 17, 2024

which yesterday retired the older version of its humanoid robot after 15 years of development and today showed a preview of its successor. based company showed that its robot could walk, open a door, and maintain its balance while being shoved by a person holding a hockey stick, all without a tether. By 2016, the Waltham, Mass.-based

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Automation Mag

APRIL 15, 2025

Manufacturers are in strict saving-mode, hoping to emerge from this potential crisis mostly unscathed. While the end of 2024 suggested a growing focus on humanoid robotics and further advancements in AI, automation technologies have taken a backseat in current plans for Canadian manufacturers.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 17, 2024

Utilizing massive volumes of data is “the next wave of work” for surgical robotics developers, industry vet Mark Toland said in an interview with Medical Design & Outsourcing, a sister publication of The Robot Report. We’ve all done a good job of building the hands and connecting them to the eyes,” Toland said. billion in 2019.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 6, 2024

Manufacturers are under pressure to take on a digital transformation that will add flexibility on the plant floor while increasing productivity. This can’t-miss event will delve deeper into technology integration for manufacturing, discussing not just the “why” but also the “how” of digital transformation.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 16, 2024

Then a consumer product company where Consumer Reports published a poorly researched article—but the external market also changed. Then we went into brief cycles of IIoT, edge, networks, collaborative robots, IT companies looking at the manufacturing market. I morphed it into Gary on Manufacturing to make it more general.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The da Vinci SP surgical robotics system. Source: Intuitive Surgical The surgical robotics space saw a major shakeup last year. Robotics is hard. Robotics in healthcare is hard.” It’s even moving forward on a next-gen da Vinci robot. Despite the increased competition, Intuitive remains the undisputed leader.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

The Intelligent Surgical Unit powers the Senhance surgical robot system. The agreement enables Karl Storz to engage in due diligence and negotiations over a potential acquisition of the surgical robot maker. based Asensus is developing the Senhance surgical robot. In November, Asensus inked a manufacturing deal for its platform.

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 11, 2023

In the realm of advanced manufacturing, precision and efficiency are paramount. From intricate mechanical components to complex assemblies, CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machining plays a vital role in transforming digital designs into tangible realities.

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