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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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Versius Surgical System is a small, modular robotic system used to perform minimally invasive procedures such as cholecystectomy or gallbladder removal. Source: CMR Surgical CMR Surgical Ltd. based company said this milestone solidifies its position as the second most-used soft-tissue surgical robot on the market.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2025

For the Accelerate Program, the Robotics Factory will invest up to $100,000 in the form of a convertible note in addition to receiving 2% common stock equity from participating companies. Source: Robotics Factory The Robotics Factory has opened the application window for its Accelerate program.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Source: Vention Vention launched its first turnkey robot for sanding. The company said it developed the product due to growing demand for robot workcells for sanding applications, especially in cabinet making. This is a collaborative robot ( cobot ) with advanced safety features for working alongside humans.

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i4.0 today

MARCH 10, 2025

Mitsubishi Electric has launched its MELFA RH-10CRH and RH-20CRH SCARA robots, providing manufacturers with greater flexibility in adopting digital manufacturing while addressing skilled workforce shortages. These new robots enhance industrial automation through high-speed operation, easy installation, and exceptional efficiency.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2025

This complexity makes a robotic hand highly challenging to control. In the world of robotics, theres no higher level than the fine motor skills required to grasp and manipulate objects with precise speed and force. But this new project demanded something further still.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2025

ABB said its AppStudio software is compatible with all of its robots on the OmniCore controller platform. Source: ABB Robotics ABB Robotics yesterday launched AppStudio, a “no-code” software tool that it said can reduce startup time by up to 80%. Users can select options in 20 languages.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Robotics, digitalization, and vertical and precision agriculture can improve yields, says HELUKABEL. Source: Adobe Stock The agriculture industry is faced with tremendous changes driven by climate change, a growing global population, and the increasing scarcity of resources such as water and farmable land.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Source: Citi GPS Eight years ago, not even $1 million went into startups focused exclusively on humanoids. Just this month, Citis leading investment analysts published The Rise of AI Robots: Physical AI is Coming for You. Robots are hardly new, but theres a number of new developments that are happening,” he stated.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 6, 2025

Source: Aescape Aescape Inc., which has developed massage robots using artificial intelligence, this week said it has raised $83 million in strategic funding. The massage is carried out by Aerpoints, heated end effectors attached to a robotic arm that are designed to replicate the seven touch techniques of a skilled therapist.

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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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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

KUKA’s KR FORTEC industrial robot aims to provide high dynamic performance to achieve shorter cycle times. Source: KUKA KUKA AG has revealed its KR FORTEC industrial robot. This latest robot fits between KUKA’s KR QUANTED and KR FORTEC ultra robots. cm) and can handle payloads of up to 529 lb.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Ozmo robotic window cleaner operates on a skyscraper in New York City. Source: Skyline Robotics Cleaning the windows of skyscrapers around the world meets the definition of dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs for robot assistance. ” Skyline Robotics’ Ozmo cleans a building facade.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Source: ABB Robotics With each passing year, labor shortages and complexity increase for the healthcare industry. ABB Robotics asserted this week that robotics and automation can help solve these problems. ABB Robotics asserted this week that robotics and automation can help solve these problems.

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Mold Making Technology

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Source | A1 Tool Corporation Get To Know A1 Tool Corporation Stop by Booth 716 to explore A1 Tool Corporation’s expertise in stack, 2-shot and bucket molds. Source | Cavalier Tool & Manufacturing Ltd. Source | Dynamic Tool Corp. This list represents committed exhibitors as of the time of publication.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Source: ANELLO Photonics Self-driving vehicles, mobile robots, and drones need multiple sensors for safe and reliable operation, but the cost and bulk of those sensors have posed challenges for developers and manufacturers. ’ You want the robot to stay within a tenth of a meter across a distance of half a mile. .

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Source: Case Western Reserve University, Vanderbilt University There have been about 299,010 new cases of prostate cancer in the U.S. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University are pioneering a new approach to prostate cancer surgery by combining advanced robotics and “low-field” MRI technology.

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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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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

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

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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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

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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Robotics Business Review

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

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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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

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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Robotics Business Review

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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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

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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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 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

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

JULY 8, 2024

Inventor Dean Kamen and Cybernetix Ventures co-founder Mark Martin at Robotics Invest 2024. Credit: Eugene Demaitre BOSTON — While many robotics events are vendor-driven, some share the perspectives of other parts of the growing global ecosystem. How did this year’s programming evolve from the first Robotics Invest?

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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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