Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024 could be a year of building robotics momentum. Source: Adobe Stock 2023 was a year of great change within the robotics industry. Entering into 2024, a number of promising technologies and use cases are primed for growth. Here are five robotics trends that we think will take center stage in 2024.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 15, 2024

Source: ABB Robotics ABB Robotics yesterday announced the launch of a global competition to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence systems in robotics. Startups with expertise in AI and robotics are encouraged to submit their proposals by June 12, 2024. The challenge is now open for applications.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The NLJIC was established in May 2024 in Shanghai. The center also announced Qinglong, its first full-sized humanoid robot, at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). Qinglong is designed to be an open-source platform for advancing the field of humanoids globally. Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Photoneo Photoneo Brightpick Group today announced that it has agreed to Zebra Technologies Corp.s In October 2024, Brightpick raised $12 million, and it said it has secured a total of $47 million in funding to date. based Brightpick won Application of the Year in the 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards for Autopicker.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2025

In July 2024, Chinese organizations issued draft guidelines for the development of robots including humanoids, seen as a priority for economic development. In August 2024, LimX demonstrated its CL-1 humanoid robot loading heavy objects continuously. The modular TRON 1 combines wheels and two legs. It has raised $27.5

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2025

Source: RoboForce RoboForce on Monday emerged from stealth with $10 million in early-stage funding. from 2024 to 2030. In November 2024, Collaborative Robotics, a startup founded by Amazon’s Brad Porter, unveiled its Proxie mobile manipulator publicly for the first time. million in 2023. It will grow at a CAGR of 23.9%

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Source: MassRobotics BOSTON — WTWH Media, which produces The Robot Report , has announced that MassRobotics is the exclusive strategic partner of the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo , which will be on May 1 and 2 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Registration is now open for the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 30, 2024

Source: Elmo Motion Control From industrial automation and healthcare applications to increasingly diverse use cases, robots need precise and reliable motion control. Source: Elmo Motion Control Elmo Motion Control said its Platinum line of servo drives demonstrates its “commitment to innovation and excellence.”

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Source: Horizon Robotics Horizon Robotics, a Chinese developer of autonomous driving technology , is raising HK$5.4 According to Reuters , this is the largest IPO in Hong Kong in 2024. The post Horizon Robotics raises $696M in Hong Kong’s biggest IPO of 2024 appeared first on The Robot Report.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Source: Rainbow Robotics Samsung Electronics Co. In February 2024, the company partnered with Schaeffler Group and the Korea Electronics Technology Institute ( KETI ) to develop mobile manipulators. The RB-Y1 dual-armed mobile manipulator was announced this year. Samsung first acquired a 14.7% billion ($59 million U.S.).

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 16, 2024

Image: Weld Australia Weld Australia has announceed that Queensland Premier, the hon Steven Miles MP, will open the 2024 National Manufacturing Summit in Brisbane on 31 July. In total, 27 per cent of electricity generated in Queensland is produced from renewable energy sources (as at 29 February 2024).

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Source: Slip Robotics For more than a century, truck trailers have been loaded and unloaded in the same way, leading to wasted time for drivers and dangerous bursts of activity for forklift operators. Slip Robotics won a 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for its development of SlipBot.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

Source: LinkedIn As The Robot Report reported last October, one of the biggest autotech stories of the year was the stalling of Cruise after California’s Department of Motor Vehicles suspended its driverless testing license. Submit your nominations for innovation awards in the 2024 RBR50 awards. Elon Musk talks about autotech on X.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2025

Source: Cornerstone Robotics Cornerstone Robotics Ltd., In September 2024, Cornerstone Robotics obtained National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approval in China for Sentire, its endoscopic surgical system. a surgical robotics developer, Monday today said it has raised $70 million in Series C financing.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Source: Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse application programming interfaces (APIs) into its Emulate3D digital twin software. based company employs 27,000 people in more than 100 countries as of fiscal year-end 2024. The Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Source: Intuitive Surgical The surgical robotics space saw a major shakeup last year. J&J now plans to submit Ottava for FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) in the second half of 2024 in order to start clinical trials. The da Vinci SP surgical robotics system. Robotics is hard. Robotics in healthcare is hard.”

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 30, 2024

Cover of the 2024 U.S. Source: UC San Diego Unlike China, Germany, or Japan, the U.S. Source: Carnegie Mellon University Christensen calls for more federal coordination Between corporations, academic departments, and agencies such as DARPA and NASA, isn’t there already investment in robotics research and development ?

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In August 2024, five of our top 10 stories were about such robots or humanoid alternatives. Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in August 2024. Multiple sources told The Robot Report a funding round fell through at the last minute, which caused the company to lay off its staff and close its doors.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2025

Source: RIC Technology RIC Technology last week debuted its most advanced and largest construction robotic 3D printer, named RIC-PRIMUS. In 2024, the company’s previous model, operated by Alquist 3D , printed an 8,000-sq.-ft. RIC Technology’s new RIC-PRIMUS will be 3D printing live at WOC 2025. m), 20-ft. (6

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 26, 2024

22, features top threats observed in the first half of 2024, and emerging cybersecurity trends. This report comes from a study by Critical Start who bills itself as “a leader in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) cybersecurity solutions and a pioneer in Managed Cyber Risk Reduction (MCRR).

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Source: Cruise General Motors (GM) today announced that it will no longer fund Cruise LLC’s robotaxi deployment work. Cruise fails to recover from 2023 road bumps When Cruise was most successful, it was running services in San Francisco, Austin, Houston, and Phoenix, and had plans to expand to more than a dozen cities in 2024.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Source: Universal Field Robotics Sandvik AB today said it has acquired Universal Field Robots, or UFR, a developer of autonomous systems for the surface and underground mining markets. In the financial year that ended in June 2024 , Universal Field Robots generated revenue of approximately SEK 80 million ($7.2

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Source: MassRobotics MassRobotics, a robotics innovation organization, recently announced Dr. Cynthia Breazeal as the 2024 recipient of its Robotics Medal. Editor’s note: There will be a ticketed Women in Robotics luncheon as part of RoboBusiness 2024 this week in Santa Clara, Calif. Register now.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Source: Duke Robotics Duke Robotics Corp. The Insulator Maintenance Solution uses remote operation technology to reach locations known for their difficult access. this week announced initial revenue generation from its agreement with the Israel Electric Corp.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Source: Cruise General Motors Co. Cruise fails to recover from 2023 road bumps When Cruise was most successful, it was running services in San Francisco, Austin, Houston, and Phoenix, and had plans to expand to more than a dozen cities in 2024. today announced that it will no longer fund Cruise LLC’s robotaxi deployment work.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Source: Mobile Industrial Robots Mobile Industrial Robots ApS today announced the the latest addition to its growing list of MiR Go-approved products, the MC600 mobile collaborative robot. “By Kumar participated in a fireside chat at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. The MC600 is designed for reliable mobile manipulation, says MiR.

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Gary Mintchell

JULY 16, 2024

The International Society of Automation (ISA) — the leading professional society for automation — announced it has been named a 2024 Top-Rated Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits, the primary platform for community-sourced reviews about nonprofit organizations. “We

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2025

Source: Primech AI Primech AI Pte. The service robot completed its first commercial trials in September 2024, and the company said it received positive customer feedback. The latest version of the HYTRON cleaning robot uses NVIDIA hardware and software. HYTRON uses AI to autonomously clean commercial and industrial facilities.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Source: Bota Systems Bota Systems AG will be showing off its comprehensive range of force-torque sensors, including its latest sensor specifically designed for larger collaborative robots, at RoboBusiness next week in Santa Clara, Calif. Bota Systems will be showing its latest SensONE T80 force-torque sensor at RoboBusiness. Register now.

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Control.com

JANUARY 9, 2025

Explore milestones in the humanoid robotics industry, including FigureAI's first commercial deployment and AgiBot's launch of an open-source learning dataset for humanoids.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2025

Source: Adobe Stock In January 2024 , the U.S. Manufacturers need to master data analytics and robotics to adapt to demographic changes, says ABI Research. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S. manufacturers had more than 600,000 vacancies.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Source: NVIDIA We’ve been able to demonstrate this in areas like step-recovery , where physics are particularly hard to model. Source: Agility Robotics Early last year, we started using NVIDIA Isaac Lab to train these types of models. Training Digit in simulation through NVIDIA’s tools designed for robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Source: IFR The International Federation of Robotics, or IFR, today listed its picks for the top five global robotics trends of this year. The post Top 5 robotics trends for 2024, according to the IFR appeared first on The Robot Report. million units in 2022.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Source: Formant Slalom, a global business and technology consulting company, and Formant , a provider of cloud robotics management software, today announced a strategic partnership. The post Formant debuts partnership with Slalom at RoboBusiness 2024 appeared first on The Robot Report.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source: SiLC Technologies SiLC Technologies Inc. The post Eyeonic Vision System Mini unveiled by SiLC Technologies at CES 2024 appeared first on The Robot Report. The Eyeonic Vision System Mini is designed to be compact and power-efficient. For more information or to schedule an appointment, e-mail SiLC at contact@SiLC.com.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Source: Nauticus Robotics Nauticus Robotics and Leidos have partnered to advance the state of autonomous underwater robots. Nauticus secured $12 million in a second tranche of investment in 2024. Nauticus said it hit a number of deployment milestones in 2024. Nauticus Robotics’ flagship Aquanaut robot.

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MARCH 2, 2025

Source: ULC Technologies Construction of photovoltaic cells requires heavy lifting, precise assembly, and repetitive placement at scale, making it a good use case for robotics. ULC won a 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award for its Cable Splicing Machine, which it developed with Con Edison Company of New York.

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