Robotics Business Review

MAY 22, 2024

The Cumbria Robotics Cluster had its official launch at the HRAICE event. Source: Industrial Solutions Hub Among the ingredients for a successful regional robotics cluster are an industry focus and institutional support. The Cumbria Robotics Cluster yesterday marked its official launch in the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

As we enter the third quarter of the year, the frenzy around humanoid robots has continued. 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. In it, the robot does eight pushups as a quick “warm-up” before work.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2024

University researchers have developed an approach for making robots more reliable by adapting to varying levels of vulnerabilities. The researchers said that the existing tradeoff between overhead and protecting against vulnerabilities is due to a “one-size-fits-all” approach to protection. Register now.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics Inc. The company said Ricoh will help it expand its customer-support capabilities throughout North America, better preparing it for larger deployments of its bipedal mobile manipulation robot, Digit. to deploy the robot in its logistics operations. The Corvallis, Ore.-based

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JULY 11, 2024

Source: Universal Robots Universal Robots reached a new milestone this week. The Danish collaborative robot (cobot) developer has now launched over 500 products through its UR+ ecosystem. The post Universal Robots surpasses 500 products in UR+ ecosystem appeared first on The Robot Report.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Source: FANUC FANUC yesterday introduced the M-950 i A industrial robot, which is capable of lifting heavy items including automotive components, construction materials, and electric vehicle battery packs. We’re thrilled to introduce our new robot to the market,” said Eric Potter, general manager of FANUC America Corp.’s

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Source: Premier Labs While many startups come out of universities and search for problems to solve, another model is the “venture studio,” in which a company creates startups in response to customer needs. Joel Reed, former director of the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, is president of Premier Labs.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 1, 2024

ETRI’s robotic hand with omnidirectional tactile sensors. Source: ETRI Researchers from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) are developing tactile sensors that detect pressure regardless of the direction it’s applied. These abilities make up the core of the technology.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

inaho’s cherry tomato harvesting robot in action in the greenhouse this summer. Source: inaho inaho Inc. has been conducting trials in the Netherlands for its cherry tomato harvesting robot. The robot started trials with Dutch growers in May 2023, and its latest trial wrapped up this July. Register now.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The CLX robotic vision stack was inspired by human eyesight. Source: CynLr CynLr, or Cybernetics Laboratory, today said it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The Bengaluru, India-based company specializes in “visual object sentience,” robotics, and cybernetics. He also cited plant-level automation customers.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 28, 2024

Re-Up LLC is installing autonomous robotic chefs from Nala Robotics in a variety of its convenience store locations. The Wingman robots are autonomous fry stations that customers can easily add or configure to any restaurant or commercial food service operation, the company said. Wingman is a fully automated robotic fryer.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2024

Research at UMass Amherst shows that self-organizing robot teams could be better for industrial environments than multipurpose systems. Source: Adobe Stock Instead of multipurpose robots, teams of robots can cooperate to execute tasks that would be tedious or hazardous for scarce human workers. suboptimal.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The SensONE T80 mounted on a Universal Robot collaborative robot arm. Source: Bota Systems Bota Systems AG, a developer of multi-axis, force-torque sensors, last week launched the SensONE T80. The Zurich-based company said it designed its latest sensor for larger collaborative robots.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 10, 2024

The Robotics Factory is dedicated to creating, accelerating, and scaling Pittsburgh-area startups. Source: Robotics Factory The Robotics Factory has accepted five companies to its Scale Residency program. part of “Robotics Row.” Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2024

The PPE module tested by gantry robot will power the Gateway space station. Source: Bell-Everman NASA’s Artemis Program plans to send humans back to the moon to establish a lunar ground base and space station. This mobile-robot gantry design was the most cost-effective option and drastically reduced system complexity.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Source: Orbbec Collaborative robot arms and mobile robots need reliable perception and connectivity for complex tasks such as bin picking and palletizing, noted Orbbec Inc. Gemini 335Lg promises versatility The Gemini 330 series offers versatile 3D capabilities for AMRs and robotic arms, said Orbbec.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 1, 2024

2024 is heating up for the robotics industry. It was an exciting month for the industry, and there was no shortage of robotics new to cover. Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in February 2024. Scythe robot lawnmowers adopting ‘Tesla charging standard’ Colo.-based 52 robot lawnmower.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 17, 2024

Yaskawa’s AR1440 robot in a demonstration welding workcell. Source: Yaskawa CHICAGO — Yaskawa Motoman last week showed several offerings bundling its robots with vision and controls to help manufacturers adopt automation. Founded in 1989, the Motoman Robotics Division of Yaskawa America Inc. payload capacity.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2024

Soft Robotics spinoff Oxiptal AI’s vision tech can detect bruises on produce, excess fat on proteins, burn marks on snacks, and more. Credit: Oxipital AI After two straight record years during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, industrial robot sales have crashed back to reality, especially in North America.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Source: ZettaScale While multiple industries could benefit from mobile robots, the standard Data Distribution Service or DDS middleware has difficulty keeping up in wireless environments, according to ZettaScale Technology Ltd. “Imagine if the same protocol could be used for both robotic platforms and autonomous driving.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

CaseFlow orchestrates case-picking robots and workers, noted new CEO Karl Iagnemma. Source: Vecna robotics Vecna Robotics today announced that it has closed $14.5 based company provides mobile robots for materials handling. Iagnemma has been a robotics researcher and an entrepreneur. The Waltham, Mass.-based

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

PickoBot specializes in robotic grasping in challenging scenarios with changing items. Source: Pickommerce Pickommerce today announced that it has secured $3.4 The Meitar, Israel-based company said the latest financing will help it to advance the development, production, and marketing of its PickoBot piece-picking robot.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 1, 2024

Recently, Tormach introduced its new 1500MX CNC mill that can be operated with the ZA6 industrial robot via the company’s free and open source PathPilot ® control software. How does Tormach differ as a company from other CNC machine and robot vendors? Tell us about the ZA6 industrial robot arm.

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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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JANUARY 9, 2024

Source: Epson Epson America Inc. announced today that the GX10B and GX20B, larger models in its GX-B series of SCARA robots, are now available through its channel distributor partners. “These new SCARA robots are powerful, automation solutions with a low total cost of ownership, expanding opportunities for our partners.”

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Robotics Business Review

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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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

CMU pipe-repair robots crawl into natural gas pipelines and coat them. Source: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute are creating robots that can map and repair natural gas pipelines. The CMU team’s robot sits on a pair of 2-in. according to the U.S.

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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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APRIL 9, 2024

MassRobotics recently hosted a Robotics in AgTech event, bringing together innovators and industry leaders to explore challenges and solutions in the agriculture industry. The event served as a catalyst for discussions and offered a glimpse into the transformative potential of robotics for farming, said the Boston-based organization.

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Automation Mag

JULY 22, 2024

Universal Robots shared in a press statement that it has reached a new milestone – the company has now launched over 500 products through its UR+ ecosystem. Today, the UR+ ecosystem reportedly offers a wide range of components, kits, applications and solutions within both hardware and software designed to meet various customer needs.

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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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APRIL 12, 2024

The Phoenix humanoid robot is being developed to enable embodied AI and support general-purpose applications. Credit: Sanctuary AI Humanoid robot developer Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., Through this expanded partnership, Sanctuary plans to equip Magna’s manufacturing facilities with general-purpose AI robots.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 9, 2024

Source: Techman Robotics Techman Robot launched its TM30S collaborative robot arm for palletizing this week. Techman equipped its latest robot with built-in smart vision and a 3D camera. The company says this technology allows the robot to arrange items without the need for pre-specified stacking patterns.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Symbotic’s automation system utilizes autonomous mobile robots and robotic arms with advanced vision and sensing capabilities. Source: Symbotic Symbotic Inc. SymBots to modernize Walmex operations Symbotic said its robotic case-picking systems will help Walmex modernize its extensive supply chain network.

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Robotics Business Review

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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Fabricating & Metal Work

APRIL 18, 2023

WELDING TIPS Implementing robotic welding can significantly improve a manufacturing operation’s productivity and weld quality, but what are the robotic welding basics you should know to be successful? Success with robotic welding requires a well-researched plan.

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