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Q1 and Q2 2014 robot sales best ever
Frank Tobe
04 Aug 2014
Following the International Federation of Robotics' (IFR) announcement earlier this year that 2013 set an all-time robotics record, the North American Robotics Industries Association announced that 2...
Home Depot starts selling 3-D printers in stores | Bloomberg
Hallie Siegel
14 Jul 2014
Home Depot Inc. (HD), the world’s largest home-improvement chain, will start selling 3-D printers today in stores for the first time, pushing deeper into a market that was once the domain of enginee...
Top 10 take-aways from AUTOMATICA 2014
Frank Tobe
02 Jul 2014
When you see a slick robot - say for instance the new Aldebaran Pepper robot - you can easily be distracted by the design, the gestures, the interaction, the cuteness. But AUTOMATI...
Keeping jobs in-country | NY Times
Frank Tobe
01 Jul 2014
One of robotics' most colorful proponents is Drew Greenblatt, President of Marlin Steel. In a recent NY Times article he vividly describes how he has used robots to automate ...
VC funding for robotics in 2013 | Hizook
Hallie Siegel
27 Jun 2014
Robotics companies raised at least $216 Million in 2013, which compares very favorably to the $190 Million from 2012 … Here's our tally for VC funding for robotics in 2013.
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12.6% CAGR forecast for mobile robotics market
Frank Tobe
21 Jun 2014
A recent $4,800 Transparency Market Research report forecasts that for the period from now until 2019, the global mobile robotics market will grow at a 12.6% CAGR....
Recent funding announcements
Frank Tobe
09 Jun 2014
Several robotics funding announcements have been made recently, the biggest of which was announced at AUTOMATICA 2014. The Partnership for Robotics in Europe launched SPARC - a €2.8 billion public-p...
ShanghAI Lectures: Claude Patrick Siegenthaler “In Search of Embodied Intelligence in Markets”
Nathan Labhart
05 Jun 2014
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2011-11-03
In this guest lecture, Claude Patrick Siegenthaler from Switzerland gives a brief introduction to economics and markets and relates them to intellige...
IFR reports record 2013 industrial robot sales
Frank Tobe
04 Jun 2014
At a press conference this morning at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, International Federation of Robotics (IFR) President Arturo Baroncelli announced that 179,000 industrial robots were sold in 2013, a 12...
EU launches world’s largest civilian robotics programme – 240,000 new jobs expected
the European Commission
03 Jun 2014
The European Commission and 180 companies and research organisations (under the umbrella of euRobotics) have launched the world’s largest civilian research and innovation programme in robotics....
17% compound annual growth rate forecast for home cleaning, remote presence and home entertainment robots
Frank Tobe
02 Jun 2014
A recent Business Insider article, Beyond Factory Robots: Market Forecast and Growth Trends for Consumer and Office Robots, concludes that for the period from now until 2019, ...
Intel’s 3-D printed robot will hit the market later this year | CNN
Hallie Siegel
29 May 2014
Intel plans to bring its fully customizable, 3-D printable robot kit to market by the end of the year, with a consumer version starting around $1,600.
The hardware designs will be freely available...
The answer to mis-selling? Let a robot pick your investments | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
29 May 2014
Chris Williams, a director on the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP), said: "Technology is the key to bridging the advice gap. Clients are already engaging with technology in their everyday lives a...
Amazon will be using 10,000 robots in its warehouses by the end of the year | CNN
Hallie Siegel
28 May 2014
CEO Jeff Bezos told investors at a shareholder meeting Wednesday that he expects to significantly increase the number of robots used to fulfill customer orders. There are currently about 1,000 robot w...
Titan Medical secures $34.8 million from public offering
Frank Tobe
23 May 2014
Titan Medical, a publicly-traded Canadian start-up company developing a robotic surgical system for minimally-invasive surgeries, announced the completion of two rounds of public offering totally $34....
Robots begin to attack waste and dirt
Frank Tobe
18 May 2014
In Finland, there's an army of robots sorting, selecting and processing trash, while in Cincinnati bactobots are targeting and neutralizing bacteria in waste water. Here's a review of wha...
Launching RoboJobs: The new dedicated jobs board for the global robotics community
Hallie Siegel
22 Apr 2014
RoboJobs is a new dedicated jobs board for the global robotics community that connects both seasoned robotics experts and recent top graduates with entrepreneurs and established businesses seeking the...
ECA Group acquires UAV copter maker Infotron for $10 million
Frank Tobe
22 Apr 2014
Groupe Gorgé, via their subsidiary ECA S.A., has acquired French UAV copter provider Infotron for €2.5 million and 375,000 shares of ECA - a combined value of around $10 million. The acquisition s...
Filling in the puzzle pieces of Willow Garage and Savioke
Frank Tobe
14 Apr 2014
People say the darndest things! And some of those statements add to the puzzle that is Willow Garage....
ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017
Frank Tobe
24 Mar 2014
Douglas-Westwood, an energy research group, says (in their $5,000 World ROV Operations Market Forecast 2013-2017 report), that ROV operations expenditures will grow 80% over the next 5 years....
Robotics in reach: Your smartphone could be a robot brain
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
18 Mar 2014
António Câmara is a man with a vision.
Despite the widespread adoption of computers and digital technology over the last few decades, how we interact with that technology, and use technology to i...
Nicola Tomatis on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”
Nicola Tomatis
14 Mar 2014
RBI Update
The short answer is: a lot of patience and perseverance!
More seriously, this is one of the most frustrating aspects of entrepreneurship. High-tech entrepreneurs are supposed to be inno...
Schunk to Google: Welcome to the robotics game
Henrik A. Schunk
12 Mar 2014
The continuing interest of Google in robotics over the last years and its newest activities in this regard confirms what all players active in robotics will confirm: service robotics is on the thresho...
Robert Morris on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”
Robert Morris
12 Mar 2014
This is a really important question, and one that our community should focus on more. That said, the answer is not truly profound or particularly obscure. It takes three things: doing something people...
Andra Keay on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”
Andra Keay
12 Mar 2014
The rise of online crowdfunding platforms over the last decade has created a whole new pathway for some robot startups. In the process, crowdfunding campaigns have helped to catapult hardware and robo...
Mark Stephen Meadows on “What does it take to get from imagination to market?”
Mark Stephen Meadows
12 Mar 2014
There are two parts to this process: the invisible and visible.
Rodin once said that sculpture is an art dedicated to holes. What he meant is that great work is invisible: if you are building a tec...
What does it take to get from imagination to market?
RBI Editors
12 Mar 2014
It's the top-of-mind question for every would-be entrepreneur, and with the Robot Launch 2014 competition deadline coming up on March 30, it's an especially fitting question to pose to our panelists t...
Facebook plans to offer Internet service using aerial robots
Frank Tobe
05 Mar 2014
In a story on TechCrunch, it was revealed that Facebook is in talks to acquire or partner with Titan Aerospace. Titan makes solar-powered aerial robots that can fly for up to five years without needin...
With 11,000 pre-orders, Play-i gets $8 million Series A
Frank Tobe
05 Mar 2014
It was just a few months ago that Play-i raised over $1.4 million on Kickstarter. With a heavy advertising buy during the holiday season they now have 11,000 pre-orders for their Bo and Yana...
Brand strength, cultural influence of consumer-facing giants like Google, Apple and Amazon help legitimize robotics for businesses and investors
Dan Kara
04 Mar 2014
What is one to make of this focus series … Big Deals: What It Means to Have the Giants Investing in Robotics … with the giants being Google, Amazon and Apple (as given in the preamble)? The ass...
Mazor Robotics is gaining momentum
Frank Tobe
03 Mar 2014
Mazor Robotics, producer of the Renaissance Guidance System for spine and neuro surgeries, reported favorable earnings for the 4th quarter and for the whole year of 2013.
4Q revenue was up 111% ove...
Valery Komissarova on when investing in robots is the right move
Valery Komissarova and Andra Keay
26 Feb 2014
As part of Robohub’s Big Deals series, startup expert Andra Keay asks Valery Komissarova, Grishin Robotics’ Director of Business Development, about what all the recent robotics acquisitions mean t...
Top ten things I learned at Willow Garage
Steve Cousins
25 Feb 2014
10. Focus Focus Focus. When I started at Willow Garage, we had two projects (an autonomous car and an autonomous boat) and were planning to grow to 60 people, and I thought we needed to “round out ...
The robots behind your Internet shopping addiction: How your wallet is driving retail automation
Erin Rapacki
25 Feb 2014
When you're shopping for the best online deals you're probably not thinking much about the massive distribution network required to bring that pair of shoes to your doorstep. Is your quest for the bes...
168,000 robots were sold in 2013; 5% more than in 2012
Frank Tobe
21 Feb 2014
Based on the results of the IFR Quarterly Statistics, the IFR estimates that in 2013 about 168,000 industrial robots were sold, 5% more than in 2012....
Robot Launch 2014: The first global startup competition for robotics is here!
Andra Keay
19 Feb 2014
Ready, set, launch! Is your prototype the next breakthrough in home robotics? Or are you developing a smart device, sensor, component or software that will help build the robots of the tomorrow? Roboh...
