Amazon Robotics Moves Closer to Displacing Human Workers
A recent video published on Amazon’s science blog features a new “pinch-grasping” robot system that has the potential to one day do a lot...
International Federation of Robotics (IFR) Released World Robotics 2020 Report
The World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report shows a record of 3 million industrial robots operating in factories around the world,...
Amazon Rolls out Machine Learning Services to Monitor Workers and Machines
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon’s cloud arm AWS announced five new machine learning services, helping industrial and manufacturing customers...
Demand for Service Robots Jumped 32% in 2019 Led by Logistics & Healthcare
The sales value of professional service robots increased by 32% to $11.2 billion worldwide in 2019 according to the IFR (International...
Ocado Buys Robotic Companies to Automate Even More of Your Home Delivery
Ocado has spent $287 million to acquire two North America-based robotics specialists Kindred Systems and Haddington Dynamics in an effort...
China Ecommerce Companies Deploy Delivery Robots Amid Virus Outbreak
Delivery app Meituan Dianping has started to deploy robots in the Shunyi district of Beijing. “This project is to minimise the risk of...
Ford Teams Up with Agility Robotics to Explore ’The Last 50 Feet’ Problem
Ford Motor and start-up Agility Robotics are partnering in a research project that will test how two-legged robots and self-driving...
Amazon’s New Prime Air Drone Should be Delivering Packages “within Months”
During the Re:MARS 2019 conference in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled its latest prototype drone for Prime Air package deliveries to its...
Boston Dynamics Unveils ‘Handle’ and Targets Warehouse Automation Market
Boston Dynamics have just unveiled the latest in a long line of videos showing off what they can get their robots to do. In the video a...
UPS Starts Commercial Drone Deliveries at U.S. Hospital Campus
Logistics leader UPS and drone maker Matternet have announced a groundbreaking logistics service to deliver medical samples via drone...