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    5G fast and ultra-low latency robot control demonstrated
    SoftBank and Huawei jointly demonstrated various use cases for their forthcoming 5G network. 5G commercial services, which will provide ultra-high throughput of over 800 Mbps with ultra-low latency tr...
    13 October 2017, by

    Industrial cleaning equipment maker Nilfisk goes public
    Danish Nilfisk Holding A/S began being listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under symbol NLFSK after being spun off from NKT A/S, a Danish conglomerate. Nilfisk is one of the world’s leading sup...
    12 October 2017, by

    Robocar-only highways are not quite so nice an idea as expected
    Recently Madrona Ventures, in partnership with Craig Mundie (former Microsoft CTO) released a white paper proposing an autonomous vehicle corridor between Seattle and Vancouver on I-5 and BC Highway 9...
    11 October 2017, by

    GM accepts all liability in robocars, and other news
    General Motors announced this week that they would “take full responsibility” if a crash takes place during an autonomous driving trip. This follows a pledge to do the same made some time ago by D...
    11 October 2017, by

    25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2017
    Ada Lovelace Day on October 10 2017 is a day to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and there was no shortage of women to feature on Robohub’s annual Ada Lovelace Day “25 women in ro...
    10 October 2017, by , , and

    Everything’s bigger in China
    Recent news about growth of Chinese robotics and related AI indicate just how massive their investments are and how well they are paying off. For example, 90% of the personal robots on display at the ...
    10 October 2017, by



    September 2017 fundings, acquisitions and IPOs
    26 different startups were funded to the tune of $507 million in September, up from $369 million in August. Six acquisitions were reported during the month including Deere’s acquisition of Cali...
    05 October 2017, by

    Global robot growth causing shortages in critical components
    Two reputable research resources are reporting that the robotics industry is growing more rapidly than expected. BCG (Boston Consulting Group) is conservatively projecting that the market will reach $...
    03 October 2017, by

    Robotics, the traditional path and new approaches
    Robotics, like many other technologies, suffered from an inflated set of expectations resulting in a decrease of the developments and results during the 90s. Over the last years, several groups though...
    20 September 2017, by

    The importance of research reproducibility in robotics
    As highlighted in a previous post, despite the fact that robotics is increasingly regarded as a 'Science', as shown by the launch of new journals such as Science Robotics, reproducibility of experimen...
    20 September 2017, by

    iRobot on the defensive
    SharkNinja, a well-known marketer of home consumer products, has entered the American robotic vacuum market with a product that is priced to compete against iRobot’s Roomba line of floor cleaners. T...
    20 September 2017, by

    New NHTSA Robocar regulations are a major, but positive, reversal
    NHTSA released their latest draft robocar regulations just a week after the U.S. House passed a new regulatory regime and the senate started working on its own. The proposed regulations preempt state ...
    15 September 2017, by

    NTSB Tesla crash report and new NHTSA regulations to come
    The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) has released a preliminary report on the fatal Tesla crash with the full report expected later this week. The report is much less favourable to autopilo...
    13 September 2017, by

    United Technologies acquires Rockwell Collins for $30 billion
    Aerospace conglomerate United Technologies is paying $30 billion to acquire Rockwell Collins in a deal that creates one of the world’s largest makers of civilian and defense aircraft components.&nbs...
    08 September 2017, by

    Planning for hurricanes and other disasters with robocars
    How will robocars fare in a disaster, like Harvey in Houston, Irma, or the tsunamis in Japan or Indonesia, or a big Earthquake, or a fire, or 9/11, or a war?...
    08 September 2017, by

    Isaac Asimov’s 3 laws of AI – updated
    In an OpEd piece in the NY Times, and in a TED Talk late last year, Oren Etzioni, PhD, author, and CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, suggested an update for Isaac Asimov’s...
    05 September 2017, by

    August 2017 fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
    August fundings totaled $369 million but the number of August transactions, seven, was down from previous months, eg: both July and June had 19 fundings each. Acquisitions, on the other hand, remained...
    02 September 2017, by

    Robots won’t steal our jobs if we put workers at center of AI revolution
    by Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Lee Dyer, Cornell University The technologies driving artificial intelligence are expanding exponentially, leading many technology experts and f...
    02 September 2017, by

    Industrial robots in China up, up and away!
    China has rapidly become a global leader in robotics and automation. 2016 annual sales of industrial robots reached the highest level ever for any single country: 87,000 units (up 27% from 2015) and C...
    30 August 2017, by

    Those amazing flying machines
    Last year, Intel partnered with Lady Gaga on the Super Bowl Halftime Show to showcase its latest aerial technology called “Shooting Star.” Intel did a reprise performance of its Shooting S...
    16 August 2017, by

    US Army and Navy ordered to halt use of DJI drones
    The U.S. Army has ordered its members to stop using drones made by Chinese manufacturer SZ DJI Technology because of "cyber vulnerabilities." The directive applies to all DJI drones and syst...
    11 August 2017, by

    How artificial intelligence will transform higher education
    As AI surpasses human abilities in Go and poker – two decades after Deep Blue trounced chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov – it is seeping into our lives in ever more profound ways. It affects the wa...
    09 August 2017, by and

    The agricultural labor conundrum
    Instead of worrying so much about robots taking away jobs, maybe we should worry more about wages being too low for robots to even get a chance. Seasonal labor for harvesting agricultural products, p...
    09 August 2017, by

    Auris Surgical Robotics raises another $280 million!
    Auris Surgical Robotics, the Silicon Valley startup headed by Frederic Moll who previously co-founded Hansen Medical and Intuitive Surgical, raised $280 million in a Series D round led by Coatue Manag...
    07 August 2017, by

    July 2017 fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
    July 2017 was a big month for robotics-related company funding. Four raised $588 million and 19 others raised $370.6 million for a monthly total of $958.6 million. Acquisitions als...
    01 August 2017, by

    Many different approaches to Robocar Mapping
    Almost all robocars use maps to drive. Not the basic maps you find in your phone navigation app, but more detailed maps that help them understand where they are on the road, and where they should go. ...
    01 August 2017, by

    China’s appetite now focused on artificial intelligence
    China has recently announced their long-term goal to become #1 in A.I. by 2030. They plan to grow their A.I. industry to over $22 billion by 2020, $59 billion by 2025 and $150 billion by 203...
    27 July 2017, by

    Indoor robots gaining momentum – and notoriety
    Recent events demonstrate the growing presence of indoor mobile robots: (1) Savioke’s hotel butler robot won the 2017 IERA inventors award; (2) Knightscope’s security robot misto...
    25 July 2017, by

    ST Engineering acquires mobile robot maker Aethon for $36 million
    Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) has acquired Pittsburgh, PA-based robotics firm Aethon Inc through Vision Technologies Land Systems, Inc. (VTLS), and its wholly-owned...
    25 July 2017, by

    Does the next industrial revolution spell the end of manufacturing jobs?
    By Jeff Morgan, Trinity College Dublin Robots have been taking our jobs since the 1960s. So why are politicians and business leaders only now becoming so worried about robots causing mass unemploym...
    25 July 2017, by

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