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The robot industry is hiring. Do you have the skills?
Hallie Siegel
10 Apr 2017
A new white paper by the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) says that as many as 2 million US manufacturing jobs will go unfilled in the next ten years due to a lack of skilled workers. According t...
No, Detroit is not winning the robocar race
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Apr 2017
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...
Billion $dollar acquisitions continue: ABB acquires B&R
Frank Tobe
04 Apr 2017
ABB, one of the Big Four global robot makers, has acquired Austrian industrial automation integrator and components manufacturer B&R (Bernecker & Rainer) Automation for an undisclosed amount b...
Robolliance on-hand for ISC West’s Unmanned Security Expo
Robohub Editors
03 Apr 2017
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...
42 companies empowering robots and humans to work side-by-side
Frank Tobe
31 Mar 2017
There is growing demand for more flexibility in factories and shops. Collaborative robotics, a sub-set of service robotics in labs, manufacturing and material handling, is where the action is today...
To really help US workers, invest in robots
Nikolaus Correll
31 Mar 2017
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...
Baidu loses A.I. star Andrew Ng
Frank Tobe
23 Mar 2017
In a surprise move which shook Baidu's stock, Andrew Ng, Baidu's Chief Scientist and partner with Baidu's founder Robin Li Yanhong in expanding Baidu's AI activities into machine learning, driverless ...
Bosch and Nvidia partner to develop AI for self-driving cars
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2017
Amongst all the activity in autonomously driven vehicle joint ventures, new R&D facilities, strategic acquisitions (such as Mobileye being acquired by Intel) and booming startup fundings, two bi...
Intel to acquire Mobileye for $15.3 billion
Frank Tobe
14 Mar 2017
Intel announced plans to acquire Israel-based Mobileye, a developer of vision technology used in autonomous driving applications, for $15.3 billion. Mobileye share prices jumped from $47 to $61 (the t...
Beyond 5G: NSF awards $6.1 million to accelerate advanced wireless research
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
10 Mar 2017
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...
Reactions from experts: Robotics and tech to receive funding boost from UK government
Kassie Perlongo
09 Mar 2017
Yesterday, the UK government announced their budget plans to invest in robotics, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and faster broadband. The spending commitments include:
£16m to create...
Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?
Ronald Yu
09 Mar 2017
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...
Yves Behar designs a security robot for Cobalt Robotics
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
02 Mar 2017
Cobalt Robotics has launched their stylish security robot. The robot was designed by Yves Behar and as a fabric covered robot, it’s putting a new spin on soft robotics! Behar’s goal was to creat...
February 2017 fundings, acquisitions and IPOs
Frank Tobe
02 Mar 2017
February fundings for 16 robotics-related startups totaled over $313 million - another solid month for the new year. Acquisitions also continued to be substantial with Ford's acquisition of Argo and M...
Recap: 2016 funding and acquisition updates
Frank Tobe
28 Feb 2017
Although the original articles (2016 was best year ever for funding robotics startup companies) and (Over $19 billion paid to acquire 50 robotic companies) have been updated to reflect the omissions o...
Robotic cleaning market growing exponentially
Frank Tobe
13 Feb 2017
The International Federation of Robotics forecast that the global market for vacuum cleaning robots, lawn-mowing robots and other household cleaning robots will grow at a compound annual growth rate...
Uber talks of deal with Daimler which shows Uber’s great advantage
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
10 Feb 2017
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...
CleverPet is a robot that humans (and dogs) love
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
08 Feb 2017
The largest markets for robots is for when there aren’t any people around. We often call those jobs the dirty, dull and dangerous ones. But then there are devices like CleverPet which play with you...
Why artificial intelligence could be key to future-proofing the grid
Valentin Robu
03 Feb 2017
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...
January fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
Frank Tobe
03 Feb 2017
January fundings for robotics-related startups totaled over $123 million - a reasonable start for the new year. For acquisitions, three of the six companies acquired reported that $390.5 million trad...
Call for startups at Automate
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
01 Feb 2017
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has announced a call for startup companies in robotics, machine vision and motion control for its Automate Launch Pad Competition. The competition will be...
When being a woman in robotics gives you the edge
Andra Keay
31 Jan 2017
Robotics isn’t gender neutral, it’s gender blind. And that means that there are a lot of hidden opportunities for savvy investors and entrepreneurs. One of the first robotics companies I followed ...
Factory move to U.S. creates jobs with help from robot workforce
Frank Tobe
25 Jan 2017
By investing $6 million in robots, Bicycle Corporation of America (BCA) was able to take back 10% of their manufacturing from China and place it into a new factory in Manning, South Carolina employin...
Robotics, artificial intelligence, connected devices in ‘Forbes 30 under 30’
Kassie Perlongo
24 Jan 2017
Forbes “30 under 30″ list celebrates the achievements of 30 game changers in 20 different industries -- 600 in total -- of the brightest young entrepreneurs and innovators who are challenging conv...
$250 million awarded to new Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Innovation Hub
Frank Tobe
18 Jan 2017
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the new institute is made up of governments, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations from across the country. Combined they have contributed $173 million t...
21 research reports forecast double-digit growth for robotics industry
Frank Tobe
16 Jan 2017
After reading all the press releases for this batch of 21 research reports, one can see that although they vary widely in their forecasts they almost all agree that the robotics market is expected to...
Rethink Robotics raises another $18 million
Frank Tobe
12 Jan 2017
Rethink Robotics, the Boston-based maker of the Baxter and Sawyer robots founded by iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks, raised an additional $18 million in an unfinished $33 million Series E round led ...
HAX takes robotics to market in 2017
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
12 Jan 2017
If you attended CES 2017 last week you may have seen more than 70 HAX powered startups in Eureka Park, the ‘playground of innovation’. As service robotics steals the spotlight, we wanted to showca...
$18.867 billion paid to acquire 50 robotics companies in 2016
Frank Tobe
06 Jan 2017
2016 was a banner year for acquisitions of companies involved in robotics and automation: 50 sold; 11 for amounts over $500 million; five were over a billion. 30 of the 50 companies disclosed trans...
2016: the best year yet for funding robotics startups
Frank Tobe
02 Jan 2017
2016 was a busy and abundant year for seed, crowd, series A,B,C,D and VC funding of robotics-related startups. 128 companies got funded, some multiple times. $1.95 billion, 50% more than 2015 whic...
Looking towards service robotics in 2017
Silicon Valley Robotics
30 Dec 2016
Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all the building blocks for a veritable “Cambrian explosion” of robotics are there, as Gill Pratt described it wh...
White House report: Artificial intelligence, automation, and the economy
Robohub Editors
22 Dec 2016
The White House released a new report on the ways that artificial intelligence will transform the US economy over the coming years and decades....
The rise of China’s medical robotics sector
Siao Tin Soh
22 Dec 2016
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...
Teledyne Technologies acquires British imaging sensor maker E2V Technologies
Frank Tobe
15 Dec 2016
Teledyne Technologies, which specializes in deepwater gas and oil exploration and production, oceanographic research, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and developmen...
Robots may save the global economy
Frank Tobe
13 Dec 2016
A recent article in The Washington Post by Morgan Stanley strategist and author of "The Rise and Fall of Nations" Ruchir Sharma, provides a nuanced overview of the issues of jobs, robots, productivi...
Liquid Robotics acquired by Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Frank Tobe
12 Dec 2016
In a move consistent with many other recent acquisitions of stars within the robotics industry, Liquid Robotics announced that they sold their company to Boeing's Autonomous Systems for Defense, Spac...
