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    AgBot Robotic Seeding Challenge powered by $50K grant for Grizzly RUV
    By Rachel Gould The 2016 agBOT Robotic Seeding Challenge challenges participants to build unmanned robotic equipment to plant, measure and track multiple crop seeds to improve farming efficiency...
    14 May 2015, by

    IdeaHub, ABB launch new robotics accelerator programme
    The IdeaHub recently announced the launch of a robotics accelerator programme, run on behalf of ABB Robotics, to deliver solutions to some of the biggest issues facing robotics today and in the future...
    14 May 2015, by and

    Danish co-bot maker Universal Robots sells for $350 million
    Privately held Danish company Universal Robots - the successful producer of the UR line of collaborative robots - has sold to Massachusetts-based Teradyne, a provider of electronic testing equipment....
    13 May 2015, by

    Shadow Robot’s Dexterous Hand can do more than cook up a storm
    The Shadow Robot Company has been perfecting its robot hands for almost two decades, but it took just a short demo by the world’s first robot chef last month to propel this small, London-based start...
    07 May 2015, by

    Takeoff in robotics will power the next productivity surge in manufacturing
    BCG research predicts that by 2025, adoption of advanced robots will boost productivity by up to 30 percent in many industries, and lower total labor costs by 18 percent or more in countries such as S...
    05 March 2015, by

    New Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in architecture and digital fabrication at ETHZ
    In September a new Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) ETH in Architecture and Digital Fabrication will be offered by the Gramazio Kohler Research chair at ETH Zurich. This one-year, full-time program f...
    19 February 2015, by



    Media is more excited about farm robots than exhibitors at World Ag Expo
    The 48th annual World Ag Expo, with over 1,400 exhibitors, finished up in Tulare, California last week with little exposure to robotic game changers. Their Top 10 New Products included just one robot...
    17 February 2015, by

    2015 sees mobile manipulators coming to market
    [tweetquote]Fetch Robotics has just announced $3 million funding from Shasta Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures[/tweetquote], which will be used to bring their new mobile manipulator robots to...
    09 February 2015, by

    Robot Startup Series #7: Interview with Soft Robotics’ Carl Vause
    [tweetquote]Soft robotics is finally leaving the research lab and entering the real world. [/tweetquote] One of the companies leading the way is a Boston-based startup that is commercializing the inn...
    18 December 2014, by

    10.1% CAGR projected for material handling robots through 2020
    UPDATED 12.16.14: Robots for palletizing, logistics, packaging, and speciality materials handling (e.g.: in life science labs and for pharma, food and beverage, semiconductor and electronics) are pro...
    15 December 2014, by

    25% of KUKA shares trade hands
     Voith GmbH, among the biggest family-owned businesses in Europe, acquired 25% of robot maker Kuka AG by buying the shares held by Grenzebach GmbH. The transaction was valued at €555 million ...
    08 December 2014, by

    South Korean private-public partnership to invest $2.6B in robot industry by 2018
    With contributions by JiEun Maeng On July 25, the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy held the robot industry policy meeting at the Korea Technology Center in Seoul and announced the 2nd...
    11 August 2014, by

    Will agricultural robots arrive in time to keep fruit and vegetable costs down?
    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...
    11 July 2014, by

    Robots automate testing for bacteria, including coliforms
    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...
    08 July 2014, by

    Top 10 take-aways from AUTOMATICA 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...
    02 July 2014, by

    Migration from Mexico to U.S. is tapering off. How does this impact farmers?
    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....
    26 June 2014, by

    Grasping objects in a way that is suitable for manipulation
    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...
    19 June 2014, by

    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...
    05 June 2014, by

    IFR reports record 2013 industrial robot sales
    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...
    04 June 2014, by
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    Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke

    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...
    02 May 2014, by

    EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner
    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...
    28 April 2014, by

    Make it smart; make it here!
    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....
    28 April 2014, by

    ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017
    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....
    24 March 2014, by

    Robotic skills want-ads up 13% in 2013
    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...
    16 February 2014, by

    Industry and Society, with Rezia Maria Molfino

    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...
    07 February 2014, by

    Competing sales reports for industrial robotics
        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...
    29 January 2014, by

    Bloomberg Businessweek says: “Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It.”
    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-...
    27 January 2014, by

    Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over next 4 years
    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...
    13 January 2014, by

    Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
    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...
    07 December 2013, by

    Lynne Parker on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”
    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...
    13 November 2013, by

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