Inside the 2023 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards

By Mike Oitzman | April 21, 2023

In this episode, co-hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman review some of their favorite 2023 RBR50 Innovation Award honorees, discussing innovation trends in robotics and what stands out as the state of the art in robotics development across the entire industry, from space robotics to your local grocery aisle.

For the past decade, the RBR50 award has honored and celebrated the leading innovators in the world of robotics. The award covers innovations that were launched or commercialized in the previous calendar year. So this year’s awards honor innovations that took place in 2022. Nominations open in late October each year.

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2023 RBR50 list of honorees

Mike Oitzman is Senior Editor of WTWH's Robotics Group and founder of the Mobile Robot Guide. Oitzman is a robotics industry veteran with 25-plus years of experience at various high-tech companies in the roles of marketing, sales and product management. Mike has a BS in Systems Engineering from UCSD and an MBA from Golden Gate University. He can be reached at [email protected].