Vecna Robotics jointly announced at MODEX 2022 with Big Joe Forklifts its latest autonomous offering for labor-intensive material-handling workflows called the Vecna Co-Bot Pallet Jack (Vecna CPJ). The solution leverages Vecna controls onboard a Big Joe designed pallet jack. The result is a fully autonomous pallet jack that brings the strength of both companies together. […]

The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) racecar, a Dallara AV-21 programmed by team PoliMOVE from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and the University of Alabama (USA), set a new land speed world record of 192.2 MPH / 309.3 KPH at the historic Kennedy Space Center this week. Organized by Energy Systems Network, the primary goal of the IAC […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will start field testing its drone-traffic-management capabilities in the spring of 2022. Its end goal is to eventually integrate drones into the National Airspace System. The post FAA begins testing drone traffic management capabilities appeared first on The Robot Report.

White Castle is installing Miso Robotics‘ Flippy 2 frying robot at an 100 fast food locations. Rollouts of Flippy 2 are being phased by region and will be planned out and scheduled in the months and years ahead. The post White Castle installing Flippy 2 frying robots at 100 locations appeared first on The Robot […]

Outrider, a developer of autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, released fully autonomous trailer backing capabilities to its fleet. The technology enables autonomous yard trucks to back trailers into tight spaces without modifications to trailers. The post Outrider now autonomously backs up trailers in distribution yards appeared first on The Robot Report.

Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) regulations would govern the usage of drones, piloted and autonomous, that fly far beyond their operators’ location. While drone companies and operators have to date been able to apply for special permissions for BVLOS flights, these have been issued on a case-by-case or geography-specific basis. The post BVLOS recommendations […]

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced its six recipients of the 2022 Engelberger Robotics Awards: Michael P. Jacobs of Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), Oussama Khatib of Stanford University, Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics, Bertil Thorvaldsson of ABB, Bruno Siciliano of the University of Naples and Melonee Wise of Zebra Technologies.  A3 will present three […]

2021 set a new record for number of robots sold in North America with 39,708 units, according the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Those sales were valued at $2 billion. Robot sales rose 28% from 2020 to 2021, jumping from 31,044 units in 2020. Fifty-eight percent of those orders came from outside of the automotive […]

Bringing your startup from a prototype to production at a large scale is a daunting challenge. There’s no roadmap that’s going to work for every robotics startup, but there are general trends in the industry that startups can learn from. The post 3 rules for taking a prototype to production appeared first on The Robot […]

Last week, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began preparing for a three-month long process of aligning the 18 hexagonal mirror segments that make up the telescope’s mirror. The process begins by moving each segment upwards by just 12.5 mm. The post The robots that helped build the James Webb Telescope appeared first on The Robot […]