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 […]

With demand for robots growing as companies in multiple sectors look for new ways to enhance their productivity and competitiveness post-pandemic, ABB has compiled a set of growth predictions, looking at key trends driving demand for robots in the coming year. The post 3 trends shaping robotics demand in 2022 appeared first on The Robot […]

More than 100,000 mobile robots, including automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), shipped globally in 2021, according to a recent report from Interact Analysis. Overall, the number of robots shipped in 2021 rose 70% from the year before, which resulted in a 36% increase in revenue.  The post 100,000+ mobile robots shipped […]

Business-to-business publisher WTWH Media announced MassRobotics will serve as the exclusive Strategic Partner for the Robotics Summit & Expo to be held on May 10-11 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. In that role, MassRobotics will provide strategic guidance and act as a liaison to MassRobotics’ partners, sponsors, startup residents, and the robotics community […]

In celebration of National Robotics Week, iRobot today launched the Create 3 educational robot. Based on the Roomba i3 Series robot vacuum platform, Create 3 is a mobile robot development platform for advanced makers who are learning ROS 2. The post iRobot launches Create 3 educational robot appeared first on The Robot Report.

Robotic end effectors enable a robotic arm to interact with the world around it. As robotic arms are used in more diverse industries, the demand for end effectors that can adapt to multiple use cases has risen. The post Intelligent magnetic gripping revolutionizes ferrous automation applications appeared first on The Robot Report.

AutoStore announces the arrival of the new R5+ robot. This newest addition to the AutoStore fleet has a taller profile and is designed to handle deeper bins, up to 425 mm. The new dimension is the tallest bin size available in the AutoStore system. The post New AutoStore R5+ robot handles larger bins appeared first […]

Years ago, robots were inflexible, hard to program, stationary and, except for industries with long production runs, cost-prohibitive. Plus, they were blind, deaf, incapable of tactile sensing, unintelligent and couldn’t be trusted to work next to people. Now, thanks to stronger processing power, sophisticated software that simplifies programming and operation, machine learning (ML), machine vision […]

ACEINNA announced the INS401 INS and GNSS/RTK solution for autonomous vehicle precise positioning. The INS401 is part of ACEINNA’s new product portfolio that provides high accuracy and high integrity localization for developers and manufacturers of ADAS and Autonomy solutions for autonomous vehicles of all types. The post ACEINNA unveils system for autonomous vehicle positioning appeared […]