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    China overtakes USA in robot density, according to World Robotics 2022 Report
    China’s massive investment in industrial robotics has put the country in the top ranking of robot density, surpassing the United States for the first time.
    10 December 2022, by

    Robot density nearly doubled globally
    The use of industrial robots in factories around the world is accelerating at a high rate: 126 robots per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries, according to the 2021 World Robot Report.
    21 December 2021, by

    World Robotics 2021 – Service robots report released
    Service robots hit double digit growth worldwide. The market for professional service robots reached a turnover of 6.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide – up 12% in 2020. At the same time, turnover of new consumer service robots grew 16% to 4.4 billion U.S. dollars.
    07 November 2021, by

    Mobile robots revolutionize industry
    Robot mobility is booming worldwide: Unit sales of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in the logistics sector e.g. will increase by 31% between 2020 and 2023 annually. At the same time, the use of AMRs i...
    06 August 2021, by

    Robot Race: The World´s Top 10 automated countries
    The average robot density in the manufacturing industry hit a new global record of 113 units per 10,000 employees. By regions, Western Europe (225 units) and the Nordic European countries (204 units) ...
    21 March 2021, by

    Ethics of connected and automated vehicles
    The European Commission has published a report by an independent group of experts on Ethics of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). This report advises on specific ethical issues raised by driverl...
    11 March 2021, by and



    Five projects make the first cut and receive a ROBOTT-NET pilot
    It all started with 166 companies spread across 12 European countries appling for a “golden ticket” to ROBOTT-NET’s Voucher Program. 64 companies received a voucher and highly specialized consul...
    11 April 2018, by

    The referees’ special awards ERL Emergency Robots 2017
    The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
    29 September 2017, by

    Spider webs as computers
    Spiders are truly amazing creatures. They have evolved over more than 200 million years and can be found in almost every corner of our planet. They are one of the most successful animals. Not less imp...
    27 June 2017, by

    24 research reports that dissect the robotics industry
    After reading the press releases for this batch of 24 research reports, although they vary widely in their forecasts, they almost all agree that most segments of the robotics industry are expected to...
    05 May 2017, by

    The changing landscape of mobility at the Automate and ProMat trade shows
    America's retailers are closing stores faster than ever while demand for warehouse workers by online retailers is higher than ever. Retailers and logistics companies have been opening facilities at...
    20 April 2017, by

    A report on the ELS Workshop 2016
    The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Social Robots in Healthcare and Education Workshop (also called ELS Workshop) was held in Yokohama the 14th Nov 2016 during the JSAI-isAI Conference. The works...
    06 January 2017, by , and

    Ethically Aligned Design
    Having been involved in roboethics for some years, I was delighted when the IEEE launched its initiative on Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems, early this year. Especially so because ...
    27 December 2016, by

    Foundry tool: Multi-material designing for 3-D printing
    3-D printing has progressed over the last decade to include multi-material fabrication, enabling production of powerful, functional objects. While many advances have been made, it still has been diffi...
    13 October 2016, by

    How to hire women
    It’s super hard to find skilled people willing to work for robotics companies in Silicon Valley. Even though robotics is awesome and going to change the world. Because big companies with big payche...
    18 April 2016, by and

    Study shows public perception of robotics generally positive in EU, but declining
    A major study into European attitudes toward automation has found that while almost two thirds of people polled feel generally positive about robots, public acceptance of them in the EU is in dec...
    25 June 2015, by and

    Series of research reports evaluate robotics industry
    Businesses, analysts and investors often need and are willing to pay for more facts than they can gather from their sales and R&D departments; detailed comparative reviews of the landscape of a pa...
    23 June 2015, by

    Robotics research reports project upward growth
    A flurry of robotic research analyses and reports are being sold by a variety of vendors. Most show steady growth rates — and a few project spectacular growth....
    09 February 2015, by

    South Korean gov’t robotics budget grows 8.3%, to almost $146 million (US) in 2015
    South Korea has finalized its 2015 robotics budget at around $145.8 million (US), an increase of about 8.3 percent from last year. ...
    17 December 2014, by

    4 reports predict steady growth for robotics
    Four recent research reports covering service robots, vision guided robotics, material handling robots, and robot component speed reducers, all predict steady growth, particularly in China....
    15 October 2014, by

    Reader poll: Home robots — appliance or companion?
    While vacuum robots continue to dominate the ‘robots at home’ market, with Jibo taking on the role of the top 5 most funded Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, and Pepper expected to arrive at ...
    17 September 2014, by

    Impact of robocars perceived as net positive even if jobs are displaced
    Will robots take away our jobs? Will we be better off with robots even if they do? One Forbes article published last year by Chunka Mui focused the jobs issue on autonomous cars. In the article tit...
    15 September 2014, by

    Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
    One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...
    03 September 2014, by

    Readers support cars that communicate and self-organize
    The conventional cars that we drive today don’t really talk to one another. Sure, some of them connect to your cellphones and mp3 players. But they don’t form a communication network with neighbou...
    01 September 2014, by

    Reader poll: How do you feel about “Swarms of Autonomous Cars”?
    A few of days ago, WIRED and Robohub covered a story about “Largest Swarm of Robots” and how self-organizing algorithms can be used by robots to form certain shapes. This inspired us to see wha...
    19 August 2014, by

    If drinking and driving, ride the car that doesn’t need your input or let it go home w/o you
    For the past few months the Open Roboethics initiative and Robohub have explored the topic of autonomous cars in the form of biweekly polls. We were able to find out a lot of interesting facts about w...
    18 August 2014, by

    Reader poll: Should an autonomous car be able to drive w/o a human passenger?
    A couple of months ago, we asked our readers whether three different unlicensed groups of individuals should be able to ride in autonomous cars alone. The individuals were: a child under the legal dr...
    05 August 2014, by

    Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MGQqaY3eo Driving has become an integral component of our daily lives, especially in developed countries. Cars are not just a means for us to get from point A to p...
    04 August 2014, by

    When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?
    A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won’t attempt to cover them all in one poll. But on...
    22 July 2014, by

    Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision
    Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...
    21 July 2014, by

     
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