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Companies continue to come to market with robotics solutions that seek to remedy the agricultural sector’s ongoing labor shortage challenge, especially pronounced in advanced economies, as well as the need to pay a living wage to workers.

Precision drives are essential for numerous robotics applications. Source: FAULHABER Today, a world without robots is inconceivable. The areas of application that require process safety, reliability, and economic efficiency from these robots are equally manifold. FAULHABER MICROMO LLC said its drive systems can play a major role in fulfilling these requirements because they combine durability […]

NASA is crowdsourcing lunar exploration. Source: HeroX Before humans return to Earth’s moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to send multiple small robots to identify local terrain and resources, build habitats, and conduct other lunar missions. It has partnered with crowdsourcing expert HeroX, which today launched “Honey, I Built the NASA Payload, The […]

Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is expanding to its resume every day, and the quadruped can add nuclear power plant exploration and radiation monitoring to the list. Engineers from the University of Bristol recently tested Spot around the Exclusion Zone territory of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The Exclusion Zone covers approximately a 1,000-square-mile area in […]

iRobot Genius Home Intelligence gives users more control over their cleaning robots. | Credit: iRobot Using the new iRobot Home App, the Genius platform offers personalized control over how, when and where the robots clean. And iRobot claims the system gets smarter over time, similar to the Nest thermostat. iRobot Genius is currently available on […]

eKAMI is using Forge/OS as part of its curriculum. Source: READY Robotics Automation is key to the U.S. competing on a global manufacturing stage, but the nation must train its workforce to be fluent in advanced skills such as robot programming. To enable broader deployment of the automation that will power the future of manufacturing, […]

FedEx’s Aaron Prather discusses the four critical steps robotics start-ups must take to in order to have their solutions reviewed, acquired and successfully deployed by Global 2000 businesses. The post Getting Your Robot Startup Into The Big Leagues – The ABCD Approach appeared first on Robotics Business Review.

Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell after the company went public via SPAC on Dec. 3, 2020. CBS MarketWatch declared 2020 the year of the SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation). A record 219 companies went public through this fundraising vehicle that uses a reverse merger with an existing private business to create a publicly-listed entity. […]

Telesurgery architecture designed for the U.S. Army. Source: Energid Telerobotics — the area of robotics focused on controlling robots from a distance — will play an increasingly important role in society in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telerobotics lets a remote human operator program, control, and monitor one or more robots. This means a […]

For many applications, traditional cellular communications, including 5G, are suboptimal for data-intense autonomous vehicles, UAVs, and robotics systems. What is required is new cellular communications solutions that provide seamless connectivity and unlimited range for vehicles, and ensure all data is transmitted and received to and from related parties from any location.