In the UR survey, more than 50% responded that they already harness artificial intelligence and machine learning in their production. 

In addition to increasing first responders’ safety, drone support resource optimization can help to save the lives of those involved in incidents, Nokia said.

Code Metal has obtained $16.5M from J2 Ventures and Shield Capital to accelerate AI development for edge devices such as robots and drones.

OmniOn Power says that mobile robots, AI, and self-driving vehicles need more power and networking innovation.

BIONIK Laboratories, which provides three InMotion therapeutic robots for neurological rehabilitation and the InMotion Connect data management system, is an example of how developers of assistive technology can work with hospitals.

Kespry said its Kespry Perception Analytics cloud-based system is designed for industries including chemicals, pulp and paper, energy, food and beverage, and ports.

When using Jetson devices, Formant users can now enable real-time video and image analytics in the cloud and perform PII scrubbing at the edge, writes CEO Jeff Linnell in this column.

CIRQ+CLEAN is a cloud-enabled disinfection robot intended to help restore public confidence in the hospitality industry.

The SmartGuardUV robot uses pulsed xenon UV technology to neutralize harmful viruses and bacteria in high-traffic areas, and the autonomous mobile robot provides real-time disinfection reporting.

Boston Dynamics has built partnerships to add capabilities to its Spot quadruped robot. The Rocos cloud-based management platform allows for greater autonomy as well as remote control.

Executives at an autonomous mobile robot vendor, an AI company, and a visual inspection provider take a look ahead to 2020.

CloudMinds, which is developing cloud-based service robotics and AI, is displaying its XR-1 at Mobile World Congress LA this week.

Robot Care System has designed the LEA smart walker to help people with mobility challenges. It used AWS RoboMaker and the cloud to improve the robotic capabilities of its product.

Formant, whose cloud- and Web-based software is designed to make it easier to manage robot fleets, is adding teleoperation from Formation to its Robotics-as-a-Service offerings.

Fetch Robotics raised $46 million in Series C funding for its autonomous mobile robots. Fetch Robotics has now raised $94 million to date.

Freedom Robotics, which is making cloud and on-device software for managing robots and robotic fleets, closed a $6.6 million seed round.

CloudMinds, which has developed a cloud-based infrastructure for making service robots smarter, filed for a $500 million IPO.

There was no shortage of robotics-related announcements today at NVIDIA’s GPU Tech Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California. We will start with NVIDIA’s Jetson AI computer platform adding support for AWS Robomaker, the cloud robotics service from Amazon Web Services. AWS RoboMaker makes it easier to develop, test and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale.…

The year is 2019, and we still don’t have the robots that we’ve imagined would help us with all the tedious and dangerous tasks that we have to suffer through. A lot has improved since the early days of robotics, but the autonomous intelligent robot is not here. And it looks like such a robotics…

In Lyon, France, 14th to 16th March, 2012. Save the date! By Frank Tobe, Editor/Publisher, The Robot Report (www.TheRobotReport.com)and Catherine Simon, General Secretary, French Federation of Robotics Today’s devices are becoming smarter and connected. They sense their environment, process the data collected and act upon their decisions autonomously or semi-autonomously.  The transformation is beyond productivity and enters…