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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...