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From AI to humanoids: top robotics trends of 2024

Robotics Business Review

The Robot Report Podcast 2024 year in review: bold bets and dashed dreams In Episode 178 of The Robot Report Podcast, we present our annual end-of-the-year review show. The staff recalls the good, the bad, and the ugly in 2024. The staff recalls the good, the bad, and the ugly in 2024.

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Global Growth in Robotics Expected to Hit Major Milestone by 2024

Automation World

Global annual robot installations are expected to reach 500,000 units by 2024 as robotics technology becomes more applicable.

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Top 10 robotics stories of December 2024

Robotics Business Review

A series of humanoid robot announcements at the end of the month dominated our top 10 stories in December 2024. Here are the 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in the past month. Microbot Medical submits LIBERTY surgical robot to FDA for approval Microbot Medical has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the U.S.

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KUKA Robotics to showcase solutions for education and mixed reality at Automate 2024

Design World

and the future of manufacturing, KUKA Robotics will highlight an innovative solution for educating the next generation of workers and its collaboration with three universities on cutting-edge Mixed Reality (MR) demonstrations at Automate 2024, May 6 – 9 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Firmly committed to Industry 4.0

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From surge to sobriety: the state of robotics investment in 2024

Robotics Business Review

1X’s Eve robot. Over the last several years, the investment environment has been tough for robotics startups. Capital deployment has fallen and companies have closed as the general downturn in tech investment that started in 2022 hit the resource-intensive robotics particularly hard. Where is the money going?

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Teradyne robotics group lays off 10% of global staff

Robotics Business Review

UR and MiR consolidated R&D facilities and headquarters in 2024. Source: Universal Robots Economic uncertainty has taken a toll on the robotics industry, including leading vendors. ’s robotics group laid off 10% of its global workforce this week. Teradyne Inc.’s based company.

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Samsung increases stake in Rainbow Robotics, establishes Future Robotics Office

Robotics Business Review

Source: Rainbow Robotics Samsung Electronics Co. today announced that it is increasing its stake in Rainbow Robotics to 35% to accelerate the development of robots such as humanoids. to market its collaborative robots in the U.S. to market its collaborative robots in the U.S. Samsung first acquired a 14.7%

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