Inaugural conference and expo addressing healthcare robotics engineering challenges co-locates with DeviceTalks, a leading technical and business development event for the medical device sector. Business-to-Business publisher WTWH Media has announced the launch of the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum, an international conference and expo focused on easing, speeding and improving the design, development and manufacture of…

At the Embedded Systems Conference, a MassRobotics co-founder explained where developers and investors should look for successful commercial robots.

Earlier this week, Micropsi Industries, a Berlin, Germany-based robotics software startup founded in 2014, closed $6.08 million in Series A funding. This brought the company’s funding to a total of $9 million over six rounds. Micropsi, which at press time had 15 employees, said ABB, NVIDIA, OnRobot and Universal Robots are some of its key…

Micropsi Industries, a robotics software company founded in 2014, closed $6.08 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by Project A, a leading Berlin-based investor with more than €260 million in assets under its management. Previous investors Coparion and Vito Ventures as well as experienced business angels also participated in this round. Micropsi raised…

Visit Booth N-4740 at PACK EXPO 2018 where Omron will be displaying new technologies including sensing, control, safety, vision, motion and robotics that will help manufacturers upgrade their traceability systems and streamline their flexible production lines. This is essential to compete successfully in an industry where high variety and extensive customization is the norm. Flexible…

Automatica 2018 is one of Europe’s largest robotics and automation-related trade shows and a destination for global roboticists and business executives to view new products. It was held June 19-22 in Munich and had 890 exhibitors and 46,000 visitors (up 7% from the previous show). The International Symposium on Robotics (ISR) was held in conjunction…

  Twenty-seven startups were funded in May for a total of $2.5 billion. The top five were: Cruise Holdings announced a two-phase funding by SoftBank Vision Fund totaling $2.25 billion. $900 million will be funded right away. Future funding of $1.35 billion is contingent on two things: regulatory approval and at the time when Cruise AVs…

One of the biggest challenges in robotics is developing autonomous systems that can reliably operate in unmapped environments. This is why, for example, leading self-driving car company Waymo only tests in areas it’s spent countless hours at creating detailed 3D maps. Exyn Technologies, a spin-off of the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP lab founded by Vijay Kumar, is making tremendous…

THine Electronics, Inc. and California Eastern Laboratories, Inc. now offer a Camera Development Kit (CDK) — a design tool for advanced camera system developers. More advanced camera systems require specialized co-dependency of multiple components, resulting in more complicated design challenges. ISP firmware design is one of the hardest challenges, as it depends on (1) CMOS…

Kollmorgen, a leading provider of servo, frameless and stepper motion solutions for a variety of robots, including collaborative robots, industrial articulated robots, medical robots and more, will be displaying its latest products at the Robotics Summit & Showcase. Taking place May 23-24 at the Westin Boston Waterfront, the Robotics Summit is a multifaceted educational event…

The Robotics Summit & Showcase is a multifaceted educational forum and showcase dedicated to addressing the technical issues involved with developing commercial robotics and intelligent systems. The inaugural event takes place May 23-24 in Boston, one of the world’s leading cities for robotics, and is packed with live demos and discussions about cutting-edge robots and intelligent…

E-commerce sales for 2017 were $453.5 billion in the U.S. and $1.1 trillion in China, an increase of 16.0% and 32.6% respectively over 2016. This upward trend is projected to continue for the next many years. Consequently flexibility and an ability to handle an ever-increasing number of parcels is of concern to warehousing, fulfillment and…

Early Bird Registration for the Robotics Summit and Showcase has been extended to May 4, 2018. Register by May 4 to receive a 20% discount to attend the event. There are discounts available for corporate groups and associations. Please email me for details. The Robotics Summit and Showcase differs dramatically from academic, association and industrial and robotics…

Several years ago, Canary Pete’s political cartoon flooded email inboxes and social media pages. The humorous illustration showed a middle-aged executive walking into a typical job interview, with the exception that he had to build his own office chair (since he was applying to work at IKEA). Pete’s satire might be short-lived, as last week…

MODEX, ProMat and CeMAT are the biggest global material handling and logistics supply chain tech trade shows. But as I walked the corridors of this year’s MODEX in Atlanta, I was particularly aware of the widening disparity between the old and new. Stats: Material Handling and Logistics The 2018 MHI Annual Industry Report found that…

The trucking industry is heading for an autonomous future. Self-driving trucks have been in the works for several years – Daimler introduced in 2014 the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 – but developments within the last year show the transformation is moving full steam ahead. The tests being done currently are limited to semi-autonomous systems that…

Competition at the 23rd Olympic Winter Games is underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Hundreds of athletes have already been in action for nearly two days. But the athletes aren’t the only ones hard at work. South Korea is a world leader in robotics. The country is using the Olympics as a platform to showcase those robotics skills. A total of…

Robot density is a measurement that tracks the number of robots per 10,000 workers in an industry. According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), robot density in manufacturing industries increased worldwide in 2016. This shows more countries are turning to automation to fill their manufacturing needs. The average global robot density in 2016 was…

The Robotics Summit & Showcase (May 23-24 in Boston, MA), produced by WTWH Media and The Robot Report, will provide technical and business professionals with the real-world solutions and actionable content they need to design, develop and manufacture commercial class robotics and intelligent systems that will drive the sector forward. The Robotics Summit & Showcase…

The journal Science Robotics ran a survey about the challenges in robotics. An invited panel of experts then sifted through the responses to come up with 10 biggest challenges that might have major breakthroughs in the next 5-10 years. Guang-Zhong Yang, director of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery at Imperial College London, led the panel.…

The drone industry got a big boost from federal officials yesterday with a White House order to establish a three-year pilot program to test drones in partnership with state and local governments in specific jurisdictions. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program was announced with President Trump directing U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao to…

Despite recent attempts to tease the robotics projects incubating at its Google X skunkworks, industry observers say that Google has done more to stifle than advance innovation in robotics. A bit of history On December 4th, 2013, John Markoff, a technology reporter for The New York Times, broke the story that Google had acquired seven…