Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

Lifeward, formerly ReWalk Robotics, offers a portfolio of exoskeletons for those with spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, and more. Source: Lifeward ReWalk Robotics yesterday unveiled new corporate branding to officially begin operating as “Lifeward.”

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

ReMEmbR combines LLMs, VLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation to enable robots to reason and take action. They can also be integrated with live data sources and tools, to request more information if they don’t know the answer or take action when they do. But how can you apply these advances to perception and autonomy in robotics?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At Agility Robotics, we are working with our humanoid robot Digit, which balances actively at all times, can recover from unexpected bumps, and can lift and move heavy things. Training Digit in simulation through NVIDIA’s tools designed for robotics. There are 28 degrees of freedom and quite a few sensors.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Source: Asensus Surgical Asensus Surgical Inc. today announced that Nagoya University Hospital in Japan agreed last month to lease its Senhance surgical robot. Source: Asensus Surgical Senhance became the first digital laparoscopic surgery system for children when the FDA cleared its pediatric indication in March, according to Asensus.

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MAY 9, 2024

MMI’s Symani system for robotic-assisted microsurgeries has tiny instruments operated by a surgeon using OperaAir controllers. Source: MMI Editor’s Note: This article was syndicated from The Robot Report’s sibling site MassDevice. The post MMI’s Symani surgical robot used in first U.S.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Mako robotic-assisted surgery system. Source: Stryker Stryker Corp. has announced plans to showcase new joint-replacement technology and updates to its Mako surgical robotic platform. based company called the update to its robot-assisted surgical system “a brilliant, immersive visual experience.” The Mahwah, N.J.-based

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Modern robotics has come a long way since the 1960s. We’ve created robots accurate enough to work on a production line and safe enough to maneuver around a facility floor. In these locations, the robotics charging challenges become more pronounced. Perhaps the most pressing problem of all is how to charge those robots.

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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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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. How the robot engages carts remains part of the mystery.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The ROSA Shoulder System for robot-assisted surgery. Source: Zimmer Biomet Zimmer Biomet announced last week that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its ROSA Shoulder System, which it claimed is the first surgical robot for shoulder replacement. unit ‘s digital technologies, robotics, and implants.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

The range of manipulation tasks that robots can carry out is growing, according to FAULHABER. When it comes to standardized mass production, specialized robots can perform the same tasks day and night. The greater the range of tasks that a robot can carry out, the better, FAULHABER said in a blog post. according to IPR.

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MAY 26, 2024

[link] A collaboration between NVIDIA and academic researchers is prepping robots for surgery. It is a simulation framework to train robots that could augment the skills of surgical teams while reducing surgeons’ cognitive load. The open-source code package is now available on GitHub. minimally invasive surgery.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Knee replacement expectations for surgical robots may be misaligned, says study. Source: Adobe Stock Robotically assisted total knee arthroplasty, or TKA, has skyrocketed in popularity, but a new analysis of registry data has raised some questions about the benefits of surgical robots for knee-replacement patients.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Since the 1970s, the field has evolved from writing sophisticated programs to using deep learning, teaching robots to learn directly from human behavior. To improve, robots need to encounter scenarios that push the boundaries of their capabilities, operating at the edge of their mastery. But a critical bottleneck remains: data quality.

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CMR Surgical’s Versius surgical robotics system in action. Source: CMR Surgical CMR Surgical Ltd. yesterday announced that it has launched vLimeLite, an integrated fluorescence imaging system that works with its Versius Plus surgical robot. ” Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more.

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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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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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JUNE 10, 2024

The Robotics Manufacturing Hub is modular, adaptable, and multi-use, with OEM diversity. Source: The ARM Institute When the ARM Institute launched its Robotics Manufacturing Hub about a year ago, it quickly realized that U.S. manufacturers were, and still are, eager to explore the possibilities.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Source: Corin Corin Group PLC last week said it has received 401(k) clearance from the U.S. 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. The Unity Knee MC tibial insert. stated Christopher Plaskos, Ph.D.

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JULY 1, 2024

Source: MIT CSAIL As a child, I often accompanied my mother to the grocery store. Now imagine a world where robots could delicately pack your groceries, and items like bread and eggs are never crushed beneath heavier items. The RoboGrocery system combines vision, algorithms, and soft grippers to prioritize items to pack.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The Intuitive da Vinci 5 (top left), Sony microsurgery assistance robot (top right), Stryker Mako (bottom left) and Globus Medical ExcelsiusGPS (bottom right) are all featured in the top surgical robotics stories of 2024 so far. Over the course of 2024, we’ve seen all kinds of stories across surgical robotics.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

The da Vinci SP surgical robotics system. Source: Intuitive Surgical Intuitive Surgical last week shared findings from a meta-analysis of surgical outcomes across a number of robotic surgical procedures. It compared robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgical approaches, covering a 12-year timeframe.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Sewing machines were controlled via ROS to synchronized apparel operation with a robot. Source: ARM Institute A staggering 97% of the apparel sold and worn in the U.S. The ARM Institute and its members said they believe that the key lies within robotics and automation. Not only does this mean that the U.S.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A CRX-20iA/L robot slides a tray of cookies onto a rack. Source: FANUC FANUC America plans to showcase its latest packaging and processing innovations in Booth N-5332 next week at Pack Expo in Chicago. A CRX-10iA robot picking objects from a box. The Rochester Hills, Mich.-based The M-710 Box Palletizer.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Versius surgical robotics systems. Source: CMR Surgical CMR Surgical Ltd. this week announced that it closed 2023 with a record number of Versius surgical robot installations in one quarter. based company reported more than 17,000 procedures completed with the surgical robot during the year for growth of more than 60%.

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MARCH 22, 2024

The veil is starting to lift on medical robotics startup Mendaera Inc. Mendaera also has financial support from Dr. Fred Moll, the Auris and Intuitive Surgical co-founder who is known as “the father of robotic surgery.” But Mendaera isn’t a surgical robotics developer. based company.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Source: Erez Krimsky Whether it’s a powered prosthesis to assist a person who has lost a limb or an independent robot navigating the outside world, we are asking machines to perform increasingly complex, dynamic tasks. Motors that can do more With significantly more efficient motors, robots could travel further and accomplish more.

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APRIL 3, 2024

The Intelligent Surgical Unit powers the Senhance surgical robot system. Source: Asensus Surgical Asensus Surgical Inc. 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.

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APRIL 14, 2024

Source: Project CETI Off the idyllic shores of Dominica, a country in the Caribbean, hundreds of sperm whales gather deep in the sea. A multidisciplinary group of scientists, led by Project CETI, is using soft robotics, machine learning, biology, linguistics, natural language processing, and more to decode their communications.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The TMINI robotic surgical system features a wireless handpiece that assists surgeons in performing total knee replacements. Source: THINK Surgical THINK Surgical Inc. has announced two new collaborations involving surgical robotics and implants for total knee arthroplasty, or TKA. over the past week. The Fremont, Calif.-based

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Researchers filmed multiple instances of a robot arm feeding a dog. The videos were included in datasets to train the robot. Credit: MIT Training a general-purpose robot remains a major challenge. In robotics, people often claim that we don’t have enough training data.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci 5 is the device developer’s fifth-generation surgical robotics system. Intuitive’s ‘groundbreaking’ Force Feedback tech Curet described Intuitive’s new Force Feedback technology on the da Vinci 5 as “groundbreaking for robotic surgery.”

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JULY 15, 2024

Think Surgical designed the TMINI Miniature Robotic System for accurate implant placement. Source: Think Surgical Think Surgical continues to forge new partnerships involving its handheld surgical robots and implants for total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

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