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Adept succumbs, sells to OMRON for $200M
When Rob Cain replaced John Dulchinos as CEO of Adept Technology in February, 2013 he was charged with restructuring the company to either make it profitable to operate or make it valuable as a take-...
16 September 2015, by
Frank Tobe
Adept’s restructuring is paying off: earnings better and stock higher
... It was just last February that Rob Cain replaced John Dulchinos as CEO of Adept Technology. Cain had worked with Adept for a few months as advisor and representative of Hale Capital Partners and c...
09 September 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Old and new at Automate 2013
Industrial Robots; Robot Arms; Cameras, Scanners and Vision Systems; Collaborative Cage-free Robots; Mobile Robots; Robot Operating Systems; Warehousing and Materials Handling; New Technologies, and J...
29 January 2013, by
Frank Tobe
CBS News 60 Minutes provides new definition of robots
CBS News Reporter Steve Kroft interviews Rodney Brooks at ReThink Robotics.
Click on the image to see the segment.
On Sunday, January 13, CBS News 60 Minutes reported on robots. Their focal po...
14 January 2013, by
Frank Tobe
New wave of deft robots is changing global industry
(New York Times) "Robots far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other industries are replacing workers in both manufacturing and distribution. ... Older robots cannot do such w...
19 August 2012, by
John Payne
Companies transitioning from industrial to service robots
Robot manufacturers are beginning to shift their
attention from industrial to service robots.
The robotics industry is on the cusp of a major transformation. Today’s factory robots are solit...
07 June 2012, by
Frank Tobe
Companies transitioning from industrial to service robots
A version of this post originally appeared on Singularity Hub, June 6, 2012.By Frank Tobe, Editor and PublisherThe Robot ReportRobot manufacturers are beginning to shift theirattention from industrial...
07 June 2012, by
Frank Tobe
Catching up with robots
http://youtu.be/UpyKt6mClVA
The above video, by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman of IEEE Spectrum, and shows Patrick Rowe, of RE2 (RE-squared), the firm hired by DARPA to build the standard platform fo...
28 May 2012, by
John Payne
Modex 2012: Robotic and smart technologies for handling material in factories and warehouses
In the emerging world of service robotics, many markets are opening to robotics that were once only handled by industrial robot manufacturers. Safely unmanned, or working alongside human workers, in a...
15 February 2012, by
Frank Tobe
