Occupying one of the largest booths at Automate 2017 in Chicago this week, the Danish cobot manufacturer will showcase more than 20 new Universal Robots+ products from 14 different developers. The UR+ platform is a new online showroom that takes the trial and error process out of creating a robot application by providing access to products verified to […]
Show daily: Hottest and most useful robotic technologies at Automate 2017
The Automate 2017 Show in Chicago is quite large this year, with record foot traffic and exhibitors. We’ve seen a lot of new technologies here in the form of motion control, power transmission, linear designs … and robotics for automation. One bit of news from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) was of the first-ever U.S.-China robotics forum […]
ABB collaborative robots with SafeMove2 now smaller — See at Automate 2017
ABB Robotics today announced that SafeMove2 is now also available for IRB 1200 — the smallest ABB robot to feature its leading edge advanced safety-certified monitoring and control software. SafeMove2 enables people to work safely alongside ABB robots with payloads ranging from 6kg to 800kg without compromising productivity. It also provides an optimum level of collaboration […]
Billion $ acquisitions continue: ABB acquires B&R
ABB, one of the Big Four global robot makers, has acquired Austrian industrial automation integrator and components manufacturer B&R (Bernecker & Rainer) Automation for an undisclosed amount but estimated to be “close to $2 billion.” The purchase is being funded from ABB's own cash and is expected to close by mid-year. ABB has an installed…
How Deep Learning Could Help Drug Discovery
Researchers at Stanford University show how an advanced form of machine learning called “one-shot learning” can be used to solve problems in drug discovery.
ReWalk Robotics slides on Barclays downgrade
Shares in ReWalk Robotics (NSDQ:RWLK) are off nearly 4% today after an analyst with Barclays downgraded the stock, citing “lack of tangible progress” and increased competition from other players in the robot-assisted rehabilitation market. Barclays analyst Matthew Taylor lowered the investment house’s rating on ReWalk from “equal weight” to “underweight” and cut his price target to…
Vertical farms profiled on CBS Morning News
CBS News profiled a New Jersey vertical farm providing baby kale, arugula, spinach and romaine to nearby Newark and NYC groceries. They boast 130 times more productivity, 95% less water and no pesticides versus field farms. And they harvest 24 times a year, rain, snow or shine. The pros for vertical farming are obvious: 95% less water, no pesticides,…
Invest in robots to really help workers
America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. A new report from PwC estimates that 38% of American jobs are at “high risk” of being replaced by technology within the next 15 years. How soon automation will replace workers is not the real problem. The real threat to American jobs will…
Is this the year [A.I., robotic assistants, drone data analytics] lives up to all the hype?
March 2017 fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
March 2017 had 29 robotics-related startups saw funding totaling over $222 million – another solid month for 2017 and $658 million year-to-date. Acquisitions also continued to be substantial with Intel's eye-popping $15 billion acquisition of Israeli Mobileye. Plus there were three IPOs. Fundings Corindus Vascular Robotics, already an over-the-counter stock, raised $45 million in a private placement of 68 million shares at…