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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

    The evolution of assembly lines: A brief history
    The assembly line has long been considered one of the greatest innovations of the 20th century. It has shaped the industrial world so strongly that businesses that did not adopt the practice soon beca...
    24 April 2014, by

    Schunk Manipulators, with Henrik A. Schunk

    Link to audio file (27:49)In this episode Per Sjoborg speaks with Henrik Schunk about his company’s work in gripping technology, modular robotics and dexterous manipulation. They then look at se...
    20 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



    ShanghAI Lectures 2013, Lecture 8-II – Education and Industry Session
    Lecture 8-II: Education and Industry Session This lecture hosted by Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, is about higher education and industrial impact of the ...
    18 March 2014, by

    Sydney Harbor Bridge gets blasted by robot
    SABRE Autonomous Solutions, a spin-off from the University of Technology Sydney, is using two Schunk lightweight arms and blaster pistols to grit-blast the Sydney Harbor Bridge....
    18 February 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

    Seegrid adds vision-guided lifting and stacking to product line
    Seegrid Corporation, a Pittsburgh-based start-up, has been providing driverless tugs for moving materials from point a to point b. Up until now they have just delivered the skids of material and then ...
    19 January 2014, by

    Harvest Automation rolls out bots for nurseries
    Harvest Automation, a Massachusetts-based start-up, has begun shipping their robots. After five years and an A, B and C round of equity funding, plus some debt, totalling almost $25 million, their HV-...
    17 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

    Robotic hand changer enables high-precision docking through dual surface resting
    KOSMEK has developed a robotic hand changer that can switch between robot tools automatically - and with high precision. "Our aim is to enable a single robot to be used for many purposes. With this h...
    19 December 2013, 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

    From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact
    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...
    11 November 2013, by

    Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics
    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...
    18 October 2013, by

    ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit
    ... 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....
    08 October 2013, by

    Don’t blame technology for persistent unemployment | Slate
    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...
    06 October 2013, by

    There are mobile robots and then there’s KUKA’s MOBILE robot
    ... 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...
    26 September 2013, by

    Interest in industrial robots seen at Taipei Intl. Industrial Automation Exhibition and Robot Show
    ... 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...
    13 September 2013, by

    VW launches robot that collaborates with workers
    Human working with a UR5 assistant. At a VW diesel engine production plant in Salzgitter, a Universal Robots UR5 robot carefully picks up delicate glow plugs and puts them into hard-to-reach drill ho...
    30 August 2013, by

    China’s 5-Year Plan targets robotics as a growth industry
    ... 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...
    11 August 2013, by

    OMC robot mixing system
    This industrial mixing system, developed by OMC, uses a multi-axis robot from Nachi. In contrast with conventional mixing systems that rotate the container along two axes, using this multi-axis mul...
    19 July 2013, by

    World’s first all stainless steel robot with seven degrees of freedom
    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...
    17 July 2013, by

    Laboratory animal management robot can care for 30,000 mice
    This robot is being developed to automate the management of laboratory animal colonies used by pharmaceutical companies and research institutions, primarily those that raise from 10,000 to 30,000 mice...
    17 July 2013, by

    Tofu handling robot picks up soft, delicate food with ease
    Lands Work, a manufacturer of tofu-making machinery, has developed a robot that can pick up very soft foods such as tofu. "First, the robot checks which way the tofu is facing, and how big it is, usi...
    20 June 2013, by

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