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Top 10 robotics developments of September 2024

Robotics Business Review

September 2024 brought unique business deals, exciting events, and even the return of a robotics industry veteran. Other popular stories this month gave insights into the state of the robotics industry worldwide. Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report this past month. Robotics investments top $1.3B

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Europe has a key role to play in the development of robots, humanoids

Robotics Business Review

Europe is a major center of robotics development and use, according to Humanoid. and Asian companies in the humanoid robotics race, a silent revolution is brewing in the tech hubs of Europe, where cutting-edge startups are making remarkable strides in developing human-like robots. In the realm of autonomous vehicle , the U.K.-based

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Businesses that integrate robots see profits fall in the short term, study finds

E&T

The team studied industry data from the UK and 24 other European countries between 1995 and 2017 and found that, at low levels of adoption, robots have a negative effect on profit margins. However, at higher levels of adoption, robots can help to increase profits. We wanted to know whether there is a similar pattern with robotics.”

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Navigating the future

Manufacturer's Monthly

In 2008, Xavier Orr was digging deep into the world of neural networks in his final year of artificial intelligence studies at the University of Western Australia. Today, the Australian-based company is making moves in the futuristic worlds of self-driving cars, aerial drones, space launch vehicles and robotics.

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Lifetime Achievement Award: Mark Dolsen’s legacy of problem-solving and automation excellence

Automation Mag

Dolsen recalls how in the 1980s there was a fascination with robots and automated guided vehicles. In the early days, a lot of robots were installed even when it may not have made any sense to add one,” he explains. The push, he says, was towards substituting direct labour with automation. “A

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Movers & Shakers – Edwin Olson, Co-founder & CEO, May Mobility, Inc.

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

Edwin Olson earned a PhD from MIT in 2008 in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and is on leave from the University of Michigan, where he is a Professor of Computer Science. Olson has worked on autonomous vehicles for over a decade, including work on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and vehicles for Ford and Toyota Research Institute.

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