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    Softbank: How Large Companies Approach Robotics, with Brady Watkins

    Brady Watkins gives insights into how a large company like Softbank Robotics approaches the Robotics market
    03 August 2022, by
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    Mimicking the Five Senses, On Chip, with Rob Telson

    Rob Telson dives into the Akida Neural Processor from BrainChip, which is mimicking the five senses from the human brain on a low-powered chip.
    23 March 2022, by

    Robohub Digest 06/17: Robots in health and medicine, wheeling and dealing in the world of autonomous vehicles, and lots of new tech in action
    A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
    14 July 2017, by

    The startup Launch Pad Competition blasts off at Automate 2017
    What does Magic Johnson and a twenty foot robot have in common? You guessed it, Automate 2017. While this might seem like an odd pairing, it accurately reflects the current state of the robotics indu...
    13 April 2017, by

    No, Detroit is not winning the robocar race
    A new report from Navigant Research includes the chart shown below, ranking various teams on the race to robocar deployment. It’s causing lots of press headlines about how Ford is the top company an...
    05 April 2017, by

    Robolliance on-hand for ISC West’s Unmanned Security Expo
    This week (April 05-07, 2017), the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas will host ISC West 2017 in what they say is "the largest security industry trade show in the U.S.", drawing an estimated 29,000+ secur...
    03 April 2017, by



    To really help US workers, invest in robots
    America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and S...
    31 March 2017, by

    Beyond 5G: NSF awards $6.1 million to accelerate advanced wireless research
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $6.1 million, five-year award to accelerate fundamental research on wireless communication and networking technologies through the foundation's Platfo...
    10 March 2017, by

    Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?
    Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. Examples: Daimler-Benz has tested self-driving trucks on public road...
    09 March 2017, by

    Uber talks of deal with Daimler which shows Uber’s great advantage
    I generally pay very little attention when companies issue a press release about an “alliance.” It’s usually not a lot more than a press release, unless there are details on what will actually b...
    10 February 2017, by

    Why artificial intelligence could be key to future-proofing the grid
    A recent Conversation piece pointed out that the British electricity mix in 2016 was the cleanest in 60 years, with record capacity from renewable energy, mainly from wind and solar power. But one pro...
    03 February 2017, by

    The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
    An emerging need China’s once abundant labor force has contributed to the country’s astonishing economic success in recent decades. But in the coming decades, the percentage of retirees relativ...
    22 December 2016, by

    Automation should complement professional expertise, not replace it
    Will your next doctor be an app? A cost-cutting NHS wants more patients to act as “self-carers,” with some technologized assistance. A series of flowcharts and phone trees might tell parents whose...
    19 October 2016, by

    Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute in planning for USA
    The US just moved a step closer to building an advanced robotics institute modeled on the hugely successful Fraunhofer Institutes. The proposed ARM or Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute is one...
    31 May 2016, by and

    Global and iRobot floor cleaning market
    iRobot recently divested its defense division so that it could focus on consumer and mobility products. Red Mountain Capital, a hedge fund that owns ~6% of iRobot stock wants to place two pe...
    25 April 2016, by

    Autonomous truck platoons travel across Europe
    A dozen trucks arrived in Rotterdam after traveling across Europe in the European Truck Platooning Challenge. Six different truck makers participated: Scania, Daimler, Volvo, IVECO, MAN and DAF....
    14 April 2016, by

    Live coverage of #ERF2016
    The next edition of the European Robotics Forum is kicking off in Ljubljana. This 3-day event, from March 21-23, is a meeting point for at least 600 scientists, companies and robotics officials fr...
    18 March 2016, by

    5 innovation challenges in materials transport
    by: Meghan Hennessey Walk into any manufacturing facility today. Forklifts and AGVs may be in operation serving specific parts of the manufacturing floor, but you’ll also see hundreds of people a...
    18 March 2016, by

    Robotics has its first unicorn – small SF startup Cruise Automation
    Forget about Google and Boston Dynamics. This week the real news is that GM acquired small San Francisco based startup Cruise Automation for the rumored sum of more than $1B US, according to Fortune....
    18 March 2016, by

    iRobot sells off defense & security division
    In a transaction valued at $45 million, iRobot has sold its Defense and Security division to Arlington Capital Partners. Sean Bielat, who takes over as the CEO, says the new company wil...
    04 February 2016, by

    IoT may be 2016’s hot new trend, but in industrial robotics it’s been around for a decade
    As everyone starts to look for "the big technology trends of 2016", it seems that one technology is overshadowing all others - the Internet of Things. We take a look at why robotics is actually ahead ...
    06 January 2016, by and

    Autonomous mobile additive manufacturing robot runs circles around traditional 3D printers
    By Adam Zewe | SEAS 3D printing is revolutionizing the way objects are created, from plastic toys to ceramic dental crowns. But the seemingly boundless possibilities of 3D printing technology have ...
    18 December 2015, by

    BCG study finds that reshoring with robots works
    Two important findings from Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) recent survey of US manufacturing executives: (1) Of those who plan to add capacity, most plan to do so in the US, and (2) a rising perc...
    10 December 2015, by

    Robots at #ERW2015: From imagination to market
    [clear] Bridging the gap between cutting-edge research in academia and the vibrant robotics startup ecosystem is no easy task. This Wednesday in the UK city of Bristol, a free public event titled ...
    27 November 2015, by

    Robots in Depth: Andra Keay on opportunities and challenges for startups
    Robots in Depth is a new video series featuring interviews with researchers, entrepreneurs, VC investors, and policy makers in robotics, hosted by Per Sjöborg. In this interview, Andra Keay, directo...
    10 November 2015, by and

    Blue Belt Technologies acquired by Smith & Nephew for $275 million
    Smith & Nephew, a global medical tech conglomerate that is expanding into robotics-assisted surgeries, announced that they are paying $275 million to acquire Pittsburgh startup Blue Belt Technolog...
    03 November 2015, by

    While Amazon doubles its number of warehouse robots to 30K, competing systems emerge
    Amazon announced that at the end of September they had 30,000 Kiva robots at work in 13 fulfillment centers, effectively doubling the number of Kiva bots that it had in 2014. "Our intent is to use...
    02 November 2015, by

    Dyson releases 360 Eye in Japan for ~$1200, files legal proceedings against Bosch for VW-like cheating
    News Brief: Dyson released its 360-Eye in Japan today -- for about $1200 USD -- and has also filed legal proceedings against Bosch, alleging that their longstanding rival is cheating EU energy eff...
    22 October 2015, by

    Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini
    Finding the right approach to automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a critical step in Jibo’s design: get it right and the experience will be great; get it wrong, and it could really take awa...
    14 October 2015, by

    IFR predicts double digit growth for service robots through 2018
    The service robotics industry is relatively new, diverse and picking up steam daily. Service robotics covers every activity except those described as industrial. These are robots that perform useful t...
    05 October 2015, by

     
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