Realtime Robotics, a Boston-based developer of responsive motion planning for robotics and autonomous vehicles, today launched its Realtime Controller. It claims the controller simplifies the programming and deployment of robotic workcells. The post Realtime Robotics controller aims to simplify industrial robotics deployments appeared first on The Robot Report.
Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped is now available commercially in the U.S. | Credit: Boston Dynamics Nine months after the limited release of its Spot, Boston Dynamics made the quadruped robot commercially available. Applicable business can buy Spot from Boston Dynamics’ online store for a base price of $74,500. The post Spot’s commercial availability a milestone […]
Four years after entering into a collaboration with researchers at Harvard University to develop wearable exoskeletons for patients with limited mobility, ReWalk Robotics revised the research agreement to extend the terms of the collaboration. Continuing the ongoing project until March 2023, the research team will also investigate how their novel designs for exoskeletons may incorporate […]
Source: Brain Corp As retail stores and other public spaces reopen after closures in response to the novel coronavirus crisis, interest in robots for disinfection and cleaning has grown. San Diego-based Brain Corp., which provides autonomy to mobile systems, said it expects demand for cleaning robots to persist. The post Cleaning robots, ease of use, […]
DHL is scaling up its robotic workforce. Last month it announced an expanded roll-out of Locus Robotics’ autonomous mobile robots, and today it said it’s scaling the use of Avidbots’ Neo floor-scrubbing robot. The post DHL deploying hundreds of Avidbots’ Neo cleaning robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
Influenced by the increasing profitability of indoor farming and the ever-increasing costs and difficulty of finding labor, robotic technology is quickly revolutionizing agriculture. The post 5 ways robots are disrupting agriculture and farming appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Flexible manufacturing can improve a company’s return on investment, and here are several examples of how automation and new processes benefit ROI. The post How flexible production systems hold the key to ROI appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
Although robots are quickly becoming ubiquitous in farms, factories, warehouses, hospitals, and even city streets, some developers of service robotics have assumed that older adults would be hostile to new technologies, particularly humanoid robots. However, a study by psychologists at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, suggests that older people are far less anxious and […]
The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) forecast two million new units of industrial robots will be installed in factories around the world between 2020 and 2022. The forecast is part of its “Top Trends Robotics 2020” announcement. The post IFR says robots will get smarter, more collaborative appeared first on Robotics Business Review.
“What can I do to support the battle against COVID-19? I kept thinking about this question over and over again,” says Yu Qi, Head of Siemens China’s Research Group for Advanced Manufacturing Automation located in Qingdao. As China intensified its efforts to combat the virus during Chinese New Year holidays, he was trying to figure […]
