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Beam-ing into RoboBusiness 2013

By Frank Tobe | October 28, 2013

Two events stood out at RoboBusiness 2013 last week in Santa Clara, CA: Suitable Technologies brought two dozen Beam robots to the show and rented them by the hour to people calling in from around the world AND Unbounded Robotics unveiled their UBR-1 mobile robot. $35,000 for a mobile one-armed robot made by the same people that developed the Willow Garage PR2 (which sold for $400,000 when it came out in 2009).

Terrific video of the new UBR-1 robot here.

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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.