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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...

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...

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...

“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...

BADGR successfully reached its goal while avoiding collisions and bumpy terrain, unlike a geometry-based policy. Source: Greg Kahn, BAIR A geometric approach to mobile robot navigation and obstacle avoidance may be sufficient for environments such as warehouses, but...

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Gautam Narang doesn’t sugarcoat it: Level 5 autonomous vehicles at scale won’t be here anytime soon. But that’s OK. The CEO and Co-founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup Gatik isn’t trying to solve Level 5 autonomy. Instead, he’s focused on finding a business...

Driver-assistance systems and autonomous vehicles in development use multiple sensors for navigation, collision avoidance, and monitoring the state of the vehicle and the driver. These include cameras, lidar, and radar. Radar offers advantages in being able to see...

Demonstration of UVD robot disinfecting a hospital room. Source: UVD Robots ApS Blue Ocean’s ingenuity could be a silver lining in the COVID-19 crisis, joining a growing list of robotics and other businesses altruistically teaming up to defeat an invisible enemy. The...

Oriental Motor USA Corp. announced the DR Series, its latest compact electric cylinder motion-control products. The compact motor is suitable for products such as robots. The DR Series is a linear motion actuator that incorporates a precision ball screw into a stepper...

Modular robotics are currently a niche market, but the need for flexibility could propel demand, predicts one global market analyst. The post Modular robotics market expected to grow, says Future Market Insights appeared first on Robotics Business Review.