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Will agricultural robots arrive in time to keep fruit and vegetable costs down?

  11 Jul 2014
Grape pickers migrate from field to field in northern Mexico and California. Photo credit: Tomas Castelazo (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons. 77% of all agricultural workers in the US are foreign bor...

Robots automate testing for bacteria, including coliforms

  08 Jul 2014
http://youtu.be/hVyw9qN6HGY Robohub is an online platform that brings together leading communicators in robotics research, start-ups, business, and education from around the world. Learn more abo...

Top 10 take-aways from AUTOMATICA 2014

  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...

Migration from Mexico to U.S. is tapering off. How does this impact farmers?

  26 Jun 2014
A recent newsletter from Harvest Automation, the start-up company that produces robots that move potted plants at nurseries and greenhouses, cites two very revealing trends regarding migrant workers....

Grasping objects in a way that is suitable for manipulation

  19 Jun 2014
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Robots are expected to manipulate a large variety of objects from our everyday lives...

ROS meets precision agriculture at Blue River Technology

If you were to design the worst possible environment for software engineering, the cramped jump seat of a John Deere tractor would be a contender. The sound and vibration of the engine makes conversat...

IFR reports record 2013 industrial robot sales

  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...
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Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke

  02 May 2014
In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and har...

EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner

  28 Apr 2014
The European Robotics Challenge (EuRoC) Info Day will take place on May 5, 2014 at the Fraunhofer IPA auditorium in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will have the opportunity to present t...

Make it smart; make it here!

  28 Apr 2014
Make it smart and make it here! These are the rallying words heard around the world regarding keeping jobs in-country and manufacturing smarter, more efficiently, and less costly....

ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017

  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....

Robotic skills want-ads up 13% in 2013

  16 Feb 2014
Comparing 2013 to 2012, demand for robotics skills increased 13% year-over-year. Further evaluation shows that the bulk of hiring is in the healthcare sector. WANTED Analytics, a research firm anal...

Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino

  07 Feb 2014
Link to audio file (33:13) In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it's just that they serv...

Competing sales reports for industrial robotics

  29 Jan 2014
    Research and Markets, an online market research store, is offering a new $3,000 report, Global and Chinese Automotive Industrial Robotics Industry Report 2013-2014, with figure...

Bloomberg Businessweek says: “Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It.”

  27 Jan 2014
Although politicians and economists may have been aggravated by the article, the figures are impressive and worthy of study. Manufacturing makes up 12% of the U.S. economy with only 10% of the non-...

Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years

  13 Jan 2014
Photo credit: Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich Over the next four years, the Swiss will invest almost CHF30 million to build a new National Centre of Competence in Research for digital fabrication i...

Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs

  07 Dec 2013
Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive, leasable, and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems, which currently...

Lynne Parker on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”

  13 Nov 2013
I found the plenary speeches at IROS to be especially interesting. Marc Raibert gave an entertaining talk on the robots being developed at Boston Dynamics. It's encouraging to see that robots are beco...

From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact

  11 Nov 2013
The popular conception of farming as low-tech is woefully out of date. Modern farmers are high-tech operators: They use GIS software to plan their fields, GPS to guide field operations, and auto-steer...

Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics

  18 Oct 2013
With an ever-increasing need to feed the world's hungry, the agricultural sector has long been an important boon to the field of robotics: the sector's widespread acceptance and use of automation tec...

ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit

  08 Oct 2013
... Grabit, a 2012 SRI International spin-off, secures $3 million in Series A funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Nike and Formation 8, a tech VC in Silicon Valley....

Don’t blame technology for persistent unemployment | Slate

  06 Oct 2013
Posting on the Slate blog Future Tense, James Bessen takes issue with the notion that technology causes unemployment, illustrating his point by debunking a pair of frequently cited examples, textile w...

There are mobile robots and then there’s KUKA’s MOBILE robot

  26 Sep 2013
... At the recent Hannover Messe trade fair, KUKA displayed their concept mobile robot showing how it could work a huge turbine blade. ... The device consisted of a KUKA omnimove mobile platform, a K...

Interest in industrial robots seen at Taipei Intl. Industrial Automation Exhibition and Robot Show

  13 Sep 2013
... The trade show, held the last week of August in Taipei, had a record 550 exhibitors. “It is the age of intelligence and automation,” said Eric Chuo, chairman of TAIROA (Taiwan Automation Intel...

China’s 5-Year Plan targets robotics as a growth industry

  11 Aug 2013
... China's 12th 5-Year Plan (2011-15) targeted robotics as a growth industry necessary for China's development. It expects a compound growth rate of 25%, said Wang Weiming, deputy director of the Min...

World’s first all stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom

  17 Jul 2013
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has developed the world's first all stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom. It will be used in the drug discovery and pharmaceutical fields to automate experi...

Robotic bartender assembles personalized drinks, monitors alcohol consumption, and takes social mixing to a whole new level

  16 May 2013
You're at a busy bar. You order your personalized cocktail through a smart phone app; a drink dispenser measures out the beverage according to your instructions and a Kuka robotic arm give it a shake ...







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