News briefs for the week take a look at in vitro fertilization of a human ovum using a robot, needle, and a SONY PlayStation 5 controller, small batch machining tripling its output with a robot work cell, Ripe Robotics’ new offering of HaaS (Harvest as a Service), Kodiak Robotics automating Class 8 EV trucks, and …
News briefs for the week take a look at the week’s biggest announcement: Walmart’s recent blockbuster 5-year plan to go all-in on robotics and automation (April 5). By 2026, Walmart claims that 65% of its retail operations will be totally serviced by automation. Winning robotics vendors in the Walmart plan: Symbotic, GreyOrange, and Alert Innovation. …
News briefs for the week take a look at the revolution in new-age logistics, where many technical tasks are quickly diminishing while others are arriving just as quickly; like the combination of AR, VR, 5G, and advanced imaging to industries interacting with simulation, predictive maintenance, building management, remote operation, and advanced robotics…all in unison! We …
News briefs for the week take a look at outdoor robots sprouting up in springtime. Robots made of DeWalt nail guns that shingle roofs, grass-cutting robots specializing in solar farms, robots that eliminate weeds using hundreds of teeny blades, automated robot piledrivers powered by the sun, Honda’s sleek, new mobile robot for construction sites, and …
News briefs for the week take a look at a robot startup braving a warzone and still becoming successful, a robot tire changer completing a one-hour job in twenty-five minutes, a newly-launched Canadian humanoid robot that is at home in a retail environment, and two other Canadian robot developers honored in Fast Company’s best robots …
News briefs for the week take a look at a new breed of nano warehouses and the robots that serve them, a first-ever picking robot that also consolidates orders as it goes, a new, three-way partnership combining expertise to upgrade AutoStore, an automated layout printer revolutionizing the construction industry, and KUKA debuting a new AMR …
News briefs for the week take a look at AMRs readying to take on Antarctic cold, John Deere’s move into precision farming with ExactShot autonomous planter, Cobalt Robotics fielding security patrols for Johnson Controls’ mega-size properties, and specialized cobot arm with glass end effector is a breakthrough upgrade for biopsies and other subdermal procedures. Mobile …
News briefs for the week take a look at robots at CES2023. As artificial intelligence [machine learning] and robotics converge, CES was an interesting place for a few of the most remarkable of these new-age robots to show up and display their talents. Agriculture, logistics, exoskeletons, mobile EV recharging robots, and multitasking service robots, from …
As the dust is settling on the 2020 global pandemic, many workers are finding themselves in a unique position. An abundance of job vacancies and low unemployment means people are quitting their jobs at an alarming rate. This phenomenon has been coined “The Great Resignation” and it could affect the future of automation. What is …
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News briefs for the week take a look at the top 5 impacts of robotics on construction industry in 2022, TUGBOT: two-wheeled logistics robot that can “pull anything”, Kodiak Robotics’ $50 million payday from the Department of Defense, HITBOT’s indoor harvesting technique, and too few robot assistants for the mobility impaired. How robots impact construction …
