Boston Dynamics Launches Commercial Sales of Spot – Yours for Only $74,500!
Softbank owned Boston Dynamics has announced the much-anticipated commercial release of their four-legged robot Spot named after its...
OpenAI Trains an AI to Solve a Rubik’s Cube with Just One Robot Hand
San Francisco based AI company OpenAI which counts Elon Musk among its backers has unveiled a robot which can solve a Rubik’s Cube which...
IFR Forecasts that Industrial Robot Sales Should Increase by 12% p.a. in 2021
The International Federation of Robotics released their annual update on market trends. Their new World Robotics Report on industrial...
Sales Forecasts for Industrial Robotics Remain Firm - McKinsey
McKinsey & Company has issued its research piece on the outlook for growth for industrial robotics. With a global installed base of 2.1...
World’s First Autonomous Carts Aimed at Factories and Logistics Launched
Canvas Technology has launched what it claims is the world’s first self-driving industrial cart. The company says the logistics...
Chinese Robot Manufacturing Set to Reach 120,000 Units in 2017
Chinese robot makers manufactured more than 100,000 industrial robots in the first 10 months of this year, according Chinese state news...
First Trainers Run Off Adidas ‘SpeedFactory’s’ Production Line in Germany
Adidas’s new highly automated and very flexible manufacturing plant called the SpeedFactory has begun to produce trainers. The machines...
Alibaba May Spend $15 Billion on Automated Logistics According to WSJ
Alibaba is reportedly planning to invest $15 billion over the next five years to “build up its global-logistics infrastructure and...
ABB Adds Further Robotics Capacity in the U.S. as Fanuc Focuses on China
Ulrich Spiesshofer, who took over as CEO of ABB in 2013, said in an interview with Reuters that the company is planning to expand its...
Foxconn’s $10 billion Wisconsin Electronics Factory Could Be First of Many
Foxconn the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and perhaps Apple’s most well-known supplier has announced a plan to build a factory...