Robotics News

We’re halfway through 2024, and for the past six months, the robotics industry has continued to progress rapidly. From novel deployments and humanoid robotics developments to emerging partnerships, there was no shortage of news to cover in June 2024.  Here are the top...

The Association for Advancing Automation, or A3, released its quarterly and end-of-year report on robot orders in North America for 2023. It found that sales were down by 30% but noted that 2021 and 2022 were record-setting years. While North American companies...

Robotics investments for May 2024 equaled $2.1 billion, the result of funding for 38 companies. The $2.1 billion is the highest monthly funding amount for the year 2024 and greatly exceeds the trailing 12-month average of $1.2 billion. Robotics funding through May...

Businesses are adopting automation not to replace workers but to augment scarce labor, according to data that HowToRobot released yesterday. It found that 80% of respondents said their projects are intended to free employees from manual tasks and move them to other...

Apple has built a new AI infrastructure to deliver AI features introduced in its devices and is utilizing resources available in Google’s cloud infrastructure.  The post Apple Using Google Cloud Infrastructure to Train and Serve AI appeared first on HPCwire.

Overall global industrial robot shipment volumes exceeded 500,000 units in 2023, Interact Analysis reports. The global market research firm says the industry is starting to bounce back from a 2023 low point.  Industrial robot shipments are similar to levels seen in...

“In this long-term study, we first used the Comet supercomputer to run tens of millions of simulations – looking at how ribonucleic acid (RNA) works within individual maize genes,” said Solares, a lecturer and researcher with the UC San Diego Computer Science and...

Rain, a developer of aerial wildfire containment technology, and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company specializing in advanced rotorcraft, are researching how to fight wildfires autonomously. The companies completed test flights in late 2023 using an autonomous...

We have all thought about it. No one has done it, but now, thanks to HPC, we see what it looks like. Hold on to your feet because NASA has released videos  of what it is like to orbit and enter a black hole. And yes, it crosses the event horizon (don’t worry, nothing...

The robotics industry has seen major growth and maturity in the past decade. Technology advances such as vision systems and computing power, along with the rise of artificial intelligence, have helped the industry grow in many ways. Robots also are getting cheaper and...

The Robot Report recently spoke with Ph.D. student Cheng Chi about his research at Stanford University and recent publications about using diffusion AI models for robotics applications. He also discussed the recent universal manipulation interface, or UMI gripper,...

With actions from suppliers like Siemens, Interact Analysis expects the market for machine-integrated robot control to grow rapidly over the next few years. The post Demand for integrated robot control surges appeared first on The Robot Report.