Robotics News
Researchers Set Record by Preserving Quantum States for More Than 5 Seconds
Quantum science holds promise for many technological applications, such as building hackerproof communication networks or quantum computers that could accelerate new drug discovery. These applications require a quantum version of a computer bit, known as a qubit, that...
Microsoft Rolls Out Ampere Altra Arm CPUs in Azure
There was a time when “the cloud” ran on pretty vanilla x86 architecture, save for boutique firms like Nimbix (acquired by Atos last year) that pioneered the use of then-exotic hardware like GPUs and FPGAs and other Intel alternatives. If further evidence was needed...
6 robotics pioneers win 2022 Engelberger Awards
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced its six recipients of the 2022 Engelberger Robotics Awards: Michael P. Jacobs of Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), Oussama Khatib of Stanford University, Marc Raibert of Boston Dynamics, Bertil...
2021 sets robot sales record for North America
2021 set a new record for number of robots sold in North America with 39,708 units, according the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). Those sales were valued at $2 billion. Robot sales rose 28% from 2020 to 2021, jumping from 31,044 units in 2020. Fifty-eight...
3 rules for taking a prototype to production
Bringing your startup from a prototype to production at a large scale is a daunting challenge. There’s no roadmap that’s going to work for every robotics startup, but there are general trends in the industry that startups can learn from. The post 3 rules for taking a...
The robots that helped build the James Webb Telescope
Last week, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began preparing for a three-month long process of aligning the 18 hexagonal mirror segments that make up the telescope’s mirror. The process begins by moving each segment upwards by just 12.5 mm. The post The robots that...
Multiverse Targets ‘Quantum Computing for the Masses’
The race to deliver quantum computing solutions that shield users from the underlying complexity of quantum computing is heating up quickly. One example is Multiverse Computing, a European company, which today launched the second financial services product in its...
Trio of Supercomputers Powers Estimate of Carbon in Earth’s Outer Core
Carbon is one of the essential building blocks of life on Earth, and it—along with hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen—is one of the key elements researchers look for when they search for habitable planets and work to understand how—and why—those planets are formed. But...
5 HPC Optimization Techniques
For many organizations, decisions about whether to run HPC workloads in the cloud or in on-premises datacenters are less all-encompassing and more about leveraging both infrastructures strategically to optimize HPC workloads across hybrid environments. From...
3 trends shaping robotics demand in 2022
With demand for robots growing as companies in multiple sectors look for new ways to enhance their productivity and competitiveness post-pandemic, ABB has compiled a set of growth predictions, looking at key trends driving demand for robots in the coming year. The...
Researchers Achieve 99 Percent Quantum Accuracy with Silicon-Embedded Qubits
Researchers in Australia and the U.S. have made exciting headway in the quantum computing arms race. A multi-institutional team including the University of New South Wales and Sandia National Laboratory announced that they have accomplished a 99 percent accuracy rate...
100,000+ mobile robots shipped in 2021
More than 100,000 mobile robots, including automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), shipped globally in 2021, according to a recent report from Interact Analysis. Overall, the number of robots shipped in 2021 rose 70% from the year before,...