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The IFR said it hopes the list will inspire girls and young women to pursue a career in STEM subjects or robotics.

Nomagic said it reached deployment milestones with several clients, including Apo.com, Arvato, Asos, Brack, Fiege, Komplett, and Vetlog.one.

The VDMA laid out four recommendations for European Union policymakers to make it more competitive in the global robotics market.

Odense Robotics and the Danish Technological Institute share the four trends they think will dominate robotics in 2025.

The VDMA R+A forecasts Germany’s robotics and automation industry to drop 9% in total turnover in 2025 to 13.8 billion euros

Intuitive plans to integrate its da Vinci and the Ion business operations into its European commercial and marketing organization.

In 2023, China surpassed Germany and Japan in robot density, putting it at the third most automated country worldwide.

LOXO, which has already successfully demonstrated autonomous deliveries with its software and vehicles, is opening an office in Munich.

Europe is more fragmented a market than the U.S. or China, but it hosts numerous innovators, from industrial automation to humanoids.

Opteran said nature offers a more robust solution for autonomy in space robotics which will enable new capabilities for future Mars missions.

In its annual World Service Robotics report, the IFR said that sales of medical, logistics, and hospitality robots have been growing.

There are no signs that the robotics industry’s long-term growth trend will end in the near future, said the IFR’s World Robotics report.

Planzer and LOXO are developing highly automated and sustainable transport with an interchangeable chassis, starting in Switzerland.

At the AI-based Robotics 2024 conference in Berlin, professors from TUM and KIT presented the Robotics Institute Germany, or RIG, concept.

Adapta Robotics grew out of a university competition team, and the Romanian startup identified electronics and retail as markets.

Odense, Denmark, has become a leading robotics cluster thanks to its spirit of collaboration and cobot leadership, says serial entrepreneur Thomas Visti.

FlexQube has received its first order for the patented FlexQube Navigator AMR, which engages with powered carts, in the Nordic market.

The EU informed Amazon that its preliminary view is that the acquisition may restrict competition in the market for robot vacuum cleaners. 

UVD Robots said the European Commission chose it to deploy disinfection robots across the continent to fight the spread of COVID-19 and reduce hospital-acquired infections.

Spain-based drone maker Quaternium and fuel-injection system provider Löweheiser said they have set a new endurance record for hybrid-powered aerial drones by combining technologies in the HYBRiX system.

Although industrial automation did not grow as much worldwide in 2019 as in 2018, it still set records, reported the International Federation of Robotics. The IFR also looked at regional growth.

Blue Ocean Robotics, whose venture factory develops service robots based on common technologies and then spins off units for commercialization, has raised close to $20 million and acquired the Beam telepresence robot.