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Battered iRobot stock takes another hit
Frank Tobe
24 Oct 2012
... Although iRobot reported that its 3rd quarter profits rose 8% and the company saw revenue growth within its consumer products, the stocks dropped 19% as it warned that it’s revenue outlook had d...
Episode 2: Accelerator or Hackerspace?
Andra Keay
19 Oct 2012
Is Robot Launchpad an accelerator or a hackerspace? Both. Right now we’re testing the viability of opening a robot hackerspace. Theoretically, this makes a lot of sense. I believe that the hackerspa...
Ada Lovelace Day: Women in robotics
Andra Keay
16 Oct 2012
Celebrate women in science and technology today, in honor of Ada Lovelace, world’s first computer programmer. Ada Lovelace Day was started by Suw Charman-Anderson in 2009 in recognition that good ro...
FoxBots being deployed in China
Frank Tobe
15 Oct 2012
Foxconn-built robot FoxBot. Source: TechWeb.com.cn
Foxconn, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision (2317:TW), has begun deploying their own brand of industrial robots to ...
FoxBots being deployed in China
Frank Tobe
15 Oct 2012
Foxconn-built robot FoxBot. Source: TechWeb.com.cnFoxconn, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision (2317:TW), has begun deploying their own brand of industrial robots to their fa...
Another robotic frontier: Fast food
Frank Tobe
08 Oct 2012
They can't build the machines fast enough to satisfy the demand, particularly from Italian end-users. A1 Concepts Let's Pizza machines are in Europe and soon will be coming to the US. The devices don'...
Episode 1: Robot Launchpad’s lean year
Andra Keay
08 Oct 2012
I thought I’d document our somewhat unusual journey through lean startup methodology and robotics. I founded Robot Launchpad almost a year ago to test the assumption that robotics and lean went toge...
Distribution centers: An emerging robotics frontier
Frank Tobe
03 Oct 2012
Distribution centers (DCs) are massive warehouses that receive, inspect and store goods for later picking, packing and shipping to end-users, re-distributors or retail outlets. Products can be everyth...
Remote presence products proliferating
Frank Tobe
26 Sep 2012
Y-Combinator’s Spring 2012 success story Double Robotics, which has already sold 600 units in pre-orders, just received another $250,000 from the new Grishin Robotics Robotic Investment Fund, a fund...
Andrew McAfee TED Talk on robots and jobs
Sabine Hauert
24 Sep 2012
Andrew McAfee is principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the the author of Enterprise 2.0 and the co-author, with Erik Brynjolfsson, o...
iRobot acquires competitor Evolution Robotics for $74 million
Frank Tobe
20 Sep 2012
Mint floor cleaning robots produced by Evolution Robotics differ from iRobot’s methods; plan is for them to be developed and marketed as complementary.
Evolution’s CEO Paulo Pirjanian ...
Rethink Robotics launches Baxter the Robot
Frank Tobe
19 Sep 2012
Yesterday was the launch of Rethink Robotics' Baxter shop assistant robot.
Many reporters, including myself, saw Baxter at Rethink's headquarters in Boston in the past two months but were embargoed...
Is Baxter the biggest story in robotics?
Frank Tobe
19 Sep 2012
Is all the news coverage because it’s a good product and the market is ripe to buy that product? Let’s hope this is so.
Every major newspaper, magazine and online service aired the laun...
Double Robotics: Crossing the chasm?
Andra Keay
12 Sep 2012
Double Robotics, the Ycombinator company behind 'wheels for the ipad' is a fantastic showcase of the new breed of affordable consumer robotics. But can they cross the chasm? These guys know how to cre...
2011 Industrial & Service Robotics Statistics
Frank Tobe
07 Sep 2012
... The Intl. Federation of Robotics has released their 2012 books reflecting 2011 results, and projections for 2012-2015.
... Bottom line: 2011 was very successful for industrial robot manufacturers...
A Frank Review of the movie ‘Robot & Frank’
Frank Tobe
07 Sep 2012
My friends have been kidding me for months about the movie Robot & Frank (because my name is Frank, I've got gray hair, and I'm way into robots -- I research, edit and publish The Robot Report and...
Buyer beware
Frank Tobe
04 Sep 2012
... This paid-for ad appeared in the Huffington Post.
... Investing in robotic stocks is complicated and some stocks aren’t worth that investment. I wrote about that, and about Quantum Internat...
Thomas Friedman breaks secrecy about Rethink Robotics’ new robot
Frank Tobe
27 Aug 2012
... In a NY Times Weekend Review OpEd piece, three-time Pulitzer winner and prolific author Thomas Friedman saw Rethink Robotics’ new robot. His comments and observations about the new robot and...
Robotic start-up companies: A glimpse at our robotic future
Frank Tobe
25 Aug 2012
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This mash-up of our list of 160+ robotic start-up companies onto Google's global map graphically displays how widespread robotic inventions and inventors are d...
7 automation/robotics stocks to profit from global automation
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2012
... Credit Suisse recently chose 7 stocks to profit from the trend toward global automation. All 7 stocks are evaluated with a brief description, their reason for selecting the stock for the list, and...
Credit Suisse picks 7 automation/robotics stocks
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2012
Max Nisen of Business Insider wrote recently of a list of seven stock picks discovered in a Credit Suisse report on long term trends. One of those trends was increasing global automation (particularly...
Two different approaches to spawn robotics; one common thread
Frank Tobe
22 Aug 2012
... Two different approaches to spawn robotics innovation but one common thread: build a product using robotics that satisfies a specific need.
... RE2 (squared) started with defense funding to devel...
Two different approaches to spawn robotics; one common thread
Frank Tobe
21 Aug 2012
Sometimes a company is founded because it stumbles upon a niche that it can fill better than any other company. Such a company is RE2 (Robotics Engineering Excellence). Founded by Jorgen Pedersen as a...
Two different approaches to spawn robotics, one common thread
Frank Tobe
21 Aug 2012
By Babs Carryer, Adjunct Prof, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisor, Carnegie Mellon University, Editor and Author, New Venturist**Frank Tobe, Editor and Publisher, The Robot ReportSometimes a comp...
AUVSI Las Vegas show: Focus broadens beyond the military
Frank Tobe
14 Aug 2012
... AUVSI, the unmanned vehicle association, has mostly focused on aerial vehicles for the military; underwater and on-the-ground products and services played a lessor role.
... But this year the sho...
Parrot invests in two Swiss spin-offs
Frank Tobe
14 Aug 2012
... Parrot, a global leader in wireless devices for mobile phones and car entertainment systems, went out of character a few years ago with the introduction of the augmented reality quad copter AR.Dro...
Three different worlds, one big show
Frank Tobe
13 Aug 2012
The business of unmanned aerial, underwater and ground vehicles -- originally funded by DARPA, NSF and other government-sponsored research programs -- and the many ancillary businesses involved -- h...
Robotic start-up companies: A glimpse at our robotic future
Frank Tobe
13 Aug 2012
Click to enlarge and see details.
This mash-up of our list of 159 robotic start-up companies onto Google's global map graphically displays how widespread robotic inventions and inventors are di...
Robotic start-up companies: A glimpse at our robotic future
Frank Tobe
13 Aug 2012
By Frank Tobe, Editor/Publisher, The Robot ReportClick to enlarge and see details.This mash-up of our list of 159 robotic start-up companies onto Google's global map graphically displays how widesprea...
Robotic start-up companies: A glimpse at our robotic future
Frank Tobe
13 Aug 2012
... Thank you for helping by adding 40 new robotic start-up companies to our list
... But don’t stop now. Please add to our list of global robotic start-up companies by sending information to . ...
Mazor Robotics to get $15 million equity funding; Medrobotics gets $8
Frank Tobe
12 Aug 2012
... Larry Ellison’s Oracle Investment Management invested $7.5 million; the remainder comes from an issuance of ordinary shares.
... Part of the deal is to upgrade Mazor Robotic‘s Israeli ...
GA Tech’s extensive robotics program
Frank Tobe
06 Aug 2012
The Georgia Institute of Technology lays on a beautiful 400 acre campus and is a university committed to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. It also has campuses in...
GA Tech’s extensive robotics program
Frank Tobe
06 Aug 2012
By Frank Tobe, Editor/Publisher, The Robot Report The Georgia Institute of Technology lays on a beautiful 400 acre campus and is a university committed to improving the human condition thro...
Upcoming robotic events
Frank Tobe
02 Aug 2012
... World Maker Faire New York, September 29-30, Queens, NY
... IROS 2012, International Conference, October 7-12, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
... RoboBusiness Leadership Summit, October 22-24, Pitts...
Look what they’ve cobbled together now
Frank Tobe
01 Aug 2012
... Look what the folks at Robotic Solutions have cobbled together. No, it’s not a 3D printer.
... It’s the opposite. A robotic milling machine housed in a glass cage.
... A few of the fir...
The beginning of something important: InTouch Health and iRobot’s RP-VITA
Frank Tobe
01 Aug 2012
... InTouch Health’s new RP-VITA remote presence robot is the first product from the partnership between InTouch and iRobot. It can navigate autonomously or be driven by laptop or iPad.
... Prod...
