Category Archives: Robotics
Saving the Bees with AI and Robotics
Beewise delivers beekeeping at scale with Beehome, a newly invented beehive using precision robotics, computer vision and AI to help beekeepers fight the alarming decline in the global bee population. Read more
Shakey, the World’s First Mobile Intelligent Robot
Developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1966 to 1972, SHAKEY was the world’s first mobile intelligent robot. According to the 2017 IEEE Milestone citation, it “could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, … Continue reading
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Robot Augmentation
You may have heard “AI” explained as “augmented intelligence,” i.e.., robots supporting or enhancing human intelligence. Now, researchers at Amazon are experimenting with robot augmentation: “…researchers at Amazon’s Alexa AI division developed a framework that endows agents with the ability … Continue reading
Automation and Robots Take a Byte Out of US National Income
Bloomberg: Automation has “contributed substantially” to reducing the portion of national income that goes to U.S. workers over the past two decades, according to a new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Despite the lowest … Continue reading
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The Future of the Robotics Industry
Steve Crowe, Editor of The Robot Report, catches up with 10-year-old robotics prodigy Michael Wimmer at the Robotics Summit & Expo 2019.
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The AI and Automation Buzz
CB Insights: Media buzz around AI, robotics, and automation increased significantly towards the end of 2016. JP Gownder, Forrester: The forward march of automation technologies — which include hardware (e.g. robots, digital kiosks), software (e.g. AI), and customer self-service (e.g. … Continue reading
Industrial Robotics and the Smart Factory
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Funding Surge for Robotics Startups
Crunchbase: Thirty-nine US robotics companies raised $519 million in the first quarter of 2017, according to a Crunchbase News analysis. This compares to $553 million raised in all of 2014 by 134 companies, implying that deal sizes are getting larger. … Continue reading
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Robots Enjoy Strongest First Quarter on Record in U.S. and Canada
Robotic Industries Association: North American robotics companies posted the strongest ever first-quarter results, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade group. Both robot orders and shipments achieved record levels. An all-time high total of 9,773 robots valued … Continue reading
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The Next Big Thing in Robotics
Travis Deyle, Why Indoor Robots for Commercial Spaces Are the Next Big Thing in Robotics: Venture funding for robotics has exploded by more than 10x over the last six years and shows no signs of stopping. Most of this investment has … Continue reading