Category Archives: Robotics
The Robots Are Coming: Funding and Spending Doubling
CB Insights: Funding to private robotics companies nearly doubled in 2015, reaching a record high in deals and dollars… Our robotics category excludes drones, but includes robotics companies focused on process and manufacturing automation, agricultural automation, surgical applications, and personal/social robots. Together, … Continue reading
Driverless Cars: A Misguided 20th Century Idea
IEEE Spectrum: A vision of fully autonomous, self-driving cars allowing human owners to nap or read in the car seems to come from the future. But David Mindell, a historian and electrical engineer at MIT, says that the idea of such … Continue reading
Connected Cars: A History of Security Vulnerabilities
Chris Poulin, IBM, on Tech Crunch: A Short History Of Car Vulnerability Research In 2010, researchers from the University of Washington and University of California, San Diego published a seminal paper proving that once an attacker has physical access to a … Continue reading
The global UAV drones market to grow 32% annually to reach $5.59 billion by 2020
MarketsAndMarkets: Before 2014, the use of UAV drones for commercial applications was highly regulated in countries such as the United States. Post 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has relaxed the norms for the use of UAV drones for commercial … Continue reading
Collaborative Robotics Market to Grow 10x to $1 Billion by 2020
ABI Research: Advancements in robotic and control technology now make it possible for industrial robots to expand beyond their traditional manufacturing and automation roles, to support whole new classes of applications, and by extension, new markets. Perhaps the best example … Continue reading
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How Will Robots Evolve? (Video)
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The Apple Watch, Uber, and Robotic Car Service
Tech Crunch: “When you open the Uber app on your Apple Watch, it goes straight to a screen showing how long it’ll be until a car can come get you — no pulling out your phone to drop pins or … Continue reading
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Small drones market to reach $8.4 billion by 2018
The Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) market will surpass US$8.4 billion by 2018 according to new research published by ABI Research entitled Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) Solutions Ecosystem. By 2019 the Commercial sector will dominate the overall sUAS market … Continue reading
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The Robotics Market, 1950 to 2050 ($67 Billion)
Sources: BCG, FastCompany
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