News briefs for the week take a look at Time Magazine’s annual issue of Best Inventions for 2022. As expected, robotics is a well-represented category. However, robotics has seeped its way into many other categories and many other inventions. We tracked them all! Amazingly, robotics tech pops up across most of Time’s entire list of …
News briefs for the week take a look at robots and cobots in automated and semi-automated laboratories, in what’s now called Pharma 4.0. From drug discovery, to the manufacturing and packaging of new pharmaceuticals, the marriage of AI and robotics has been crucial to the process. It’s a new world for robots and cobots, and …
News briefs for the week take a look at the return of PACK EXPO International after its 4-year COVID-caused hiatus from the tradeshow circuit. The producers promised a big-bang reentry, and they delivered, calling it One Powerful Show. From the perspective of robots and cobots, however, it was a dominating performance. From what was in …
News briefs for the week take a look at the return of PACK EXPO International after its 4-year COVID-caused hiatus from the tradeshow circuit. Promising a big-bang reentry with its 2022 Chicago show, the production, packaging and packing event giant has an agenda stocked full of new additions and enlarged pavilions. PACK EXPO returns to …
News briefs for the week take a look at cobot solutions for pick n’ pack fashion apparel SKUs, exosuit to manage spastic muscle conditions, homemade ingenuity in service robots, a 3D-printed cobot arm that actually “works”, and the 45-second, robot-made pizza in a moving truck. Cobot solution: pick n’ pack fashion SKUs If you are …
NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket on pad 39B. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now Confident that out-of-bounds engine temperature readings during Monday’s Artemis 1 countdown came from a bad sensor, NASA officials gave the green light Thursday to move forward with another try Saturday afternoon to launch the agency’s giant new moon rocket …
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News briefs for the week take a look at Japan’s FamilyMart robots restocking shelves, a giant Stäubli robot hefting around 176-lb. wheels of cheese, robots manually QC-ing apps on cellphone screens, Tesla’s humanoid robot vs. Xiaomi’s, and 800 ElliQ robots living with seniors. Robots restock shelves at Japan’s FamilyMart In 2021, the 16,000-strong chain of …
News briefs for the week take a look at deep-diving aquatic humanoid robots that offer a sense of touch, both multi-vehicle and single-vehicle retrofit systems for industrial autonomy, breakthrough robotics for small intestine endoscopy, and an inspection robot for aging and ailing dam infrastructure. Undersea world of OceanOne A humanoid form isn’t the most popular …
News briefs for the week take a look at the voyage of the autonomous research vessel Mayflower 400 across the Atlantic, Amazon’s logistics evolution from KIVA to Proteus, Robust.AI targeting the SME market with automation, cobot paint system attaining the human-impossible millionth-of-an-inch range, and Lyra, the radiation hunter, keeping humans safe. Third time’s the charm! …
News briefs for the week take a look at Automate’s re-located, reenergized automation party and crowd appreciation, old-line robot vendors and their new lines of AMRs, cobots taking on entire solutions rather than tasks, the ongoing transformation of the teach pendant, Doosan’s re-think of the cobot ecosystem and “smart” cobotics, Techman’s brand-new cobot lineup of …
