3 Robotics Companies Included in 50 Most Innovative List

By Frank Tobe | March 6, 2012

Kiva Systems – for their disruptive warehousing robots, Liquid Robots – for their versatile wave gliders, and Siemens AG – for their extensive R&D in energy, transportation and healthcare, were included in FastCompany’s The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

One might not think of Siemens as a robotics vendor but Siemens owns many subsidiaries which provide various services, control systems, sensors and Tecnomatix Robotics & Automation Planning software (which is widely used in defense UAVs and factory material handing applications).

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.