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Robots are everywhere, but which developments were of the most relevance to our business audience?

Catch up on a baker’s dozen mergers, acquisitions, and investments that altered the fast-moving robotics industry in the past year.

China and Israel have been building trade and technology partnerships and expect robotics to be key to productivity, global competitiveness.

The use of Cortana, an AI personal assistant created by Microsoft initially for Windows phones, has been a big hit in Japan and China. The Mandarin language version, named Xiaoice, is being used daily by a TV station to report the morning weather. Pronounced Shao-ice, meaning “little bing” in Mandarin, the youthful-sounding female voiced Xiaoice has been downloaded…

The Japan Innovation Showcase at CES 2016 will show off some of the latest cutting-edge technologies from Japan, including social robots, 3D printers, unmanned ground vehicles and more.

A consortium of Chinese companies, municipalities and investors, including Siasun, the largest robotics firm in China and the city of Guangzhou, have inked a deal to set up a $20 million R&D center in Israel dedicated to developing robot technology that China can use to modernize and automate its industrial base. The investment follows the September establishment…

The number of research reports covering the robotics industry has grown exponentially in the last few years. 81 have been previewed on The Robot Report thus far in 2015. The latest batch of 28 — shown below — brings the total to 109. GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICE ROBOTICS (3) Robotics 2016-2026, published December 2015, 120 pages,…

Mechatronics, like every other field of human endeavor, is undergoing rapid change driven in large part by the availability of increasingly more powerful processor technology.  In the September 2013 issue of Design World the cover article features a “toy” robot based on an inverted pendulum control system.  The robot is able to move on a […]

Jibo, Pepper, Buddy and other social robots begin to sell 2015 was a year of promotion and product development for social robots like Pepper, Jibo, Buddy, Rokid and Sota. ​2016 will be a pivotal year to see how they are received by the public. It's the time when companies will sell enough units to get enough feedback…

Twitter users could control the drone’s movement and stream what it captures.

Lower body exoskeletons currently lead the market, but commercial systems that augment capabilities will exhibit the strongest growth moving forward.

The partnership will use Google’s self-driving car technology and would be legally separate from Ford to shield the automaker from liability concerns.

When paired with a smartphone, the HOM-BOT Turbo+ robot vacuum can send you photos of the inside of your home, doubling down as a security guard.

Mobility is critical to our survival.  Mobility is required to perform all the basic survival tasks in a pre-industrial culture; hunting, gathering, fishing, finding water, farming, all these require mobility.  As resources and weather patterns change, longer range mobility may become necessary as well.  Survival literally can depend on being mobile. In our modern industrial society, […]

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The FAA granted Yamaha Motor Corp. an Agricultural Aircraft Operations certificate for their RMAX crop spraying remotely piloted helicopters. This certification plus the waiver issued earlier in the year allowing it to commercially fly over agricultural properties, complete the compliance aspect and enable Yamaha to begin agricultural spray service operations at the start of the…

The IFR (International Federation of Robotics) estimates that by 2018 one-third of all the industrial robots installed worldwide will be in China and said, “China is engaged on a historically unprecedented effort to catch-up in the race towards automation. The latest figures show that sales of industrial robots jumped to around 57,000 units in 2014 –…

Kia says it will introduce a semi-autonomous car by 2020 and a fully autonomous vehicle by 2030.

New procedures include bag checks, body screening and armed police officers.

The exhibit space dedicated to drones has grown 200% from CES 2015. There will be a record 27 companies exhibiting in the Unmanned Systems Marketplace.

Landmark policy provide veterans across the U.S. with access to evaluation, training and supply of ReWalk exoskeletons. The exoskeleton costs $69,500 and was too expensive for many injured veterans.