Smart manufacturing in action
04 September, 2019The application of e-F@ctory at Mitsubishi Electric's Kani manufacturing facility in Japan has led to a number of beneficial outcomes.
A miniature stretchable pump for next-gen soft robots
02 September, 2019 by Original article by Laure-Anne Pessina and Nicola NosengoScientists in Switzerland have developed a tiny pump that could play a big role in the development of autonomous soft robots.
Research team builds robots that can learn to swarm on the go
27 August, 2019A new generation of swarming robots which can independently learn and evolve new behaviours in the wild is one step closer.
Robotic warehouses to increase by over 1000% in six years
19 August, 2019Over 4 million commercial robots will be installed in over 50,000 warehouses by 2025 — up from just under 4000 robotic warehouses in 2018 — according to ABI Research.
Australian researchers design bespoke surgical snakebots
19 July, 2019Researchers at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision are creating bespoke, miniaturised surgical robots uniquely matched to individual patient anatomy.
Robot-ants that communicate and work together
15 July, 2019A team of researchers in Switzerland has developed tiny robots that are inspired by ants, and can work collaboratively and autonomously.
The spread of robotics: ABB to develop solutions for hospitals
12 July, 2019New facility at Texas Medical Center's innovation campus to focus on non-surgical medical robotics systems in the 'Hospital of the Future'.
ABB wins award for submersible inspection robot
02 July, 2019ABB's free-swimming robot for transformer inspection services receives 'Power Product of the Year' award in the UK.
Helping robots spot objects amid clutter
24 June, 2019Researchers have devised an approach to quickly finding hidden objects in dense point clouds.
SICK partners with MassRobotics to assist robotics start-ups
17 June, 2019SICK has announced a partnership with non-profit start-up incubator company MassRobotics.
ABB paint solutions for electric vehicle factory in China
06 May, 2019ABB Robotics is to provide advanced robotics painting solutions to SAIC Volkswagen, including environmentally friendly paint technologies.
Collaborative robots and Industry 5.0 on display at NMW
03 May, 2019Universal Robots will demonstrate its collaborative man and machine workforce solutions at National Manufacturing Week this year.
NZ company Invert Robotics expands into global market
03 May, 2019Top tech investors support global expansion of the world's first non-magnetic, climbing inspection robot for hazardous environments.
Researching robots that can sort recycling
23 April, 2019MIT researchers have developed a robotic gripper system that can detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic.
MIT teaching machines to reason about what they see
08 April, 2019A new study by a team of researchers at MIT shows the promise of merging statistical and symbolic AI to make machines better at understanding what they see.
