RBR Staff

Black swans are unpredictable events such as the novel coronavirus epidemic. Alan Beaulieu, president of ITR Economics, will provide guidance on how businesses can get through this crisis.

maxon, a Swiss developer and manufacturer of drive systems, is a long-time partner of leading medical technology companies worldwide. Its products are used in medical devices such as ventilators, respirators, protection masks and lab automation. During these unprecedented times, maxon is focused on supporting the companies producing these life-saving devices so desperately needed during this…

Panama-based Medcom has upgraded two production studios with camera robotics from Telemetrics that help it create more content with the same resources.

Retailers with traditional automated storage and retrieval systems can now scale to fully automate millions of each picks in break pack operations.

The second annual Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum, which is scheduled for September in Boston, is seeking qualified and engaging expert speakers.

The Executive Board of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) elected Milton Guerry of SCHUNK USA as new President. Klaus Koenig of KUKA Robotics has been appointed as IFR´s new Vice President. “I feel very honored to serve as new IFR President and look forward to a successful collaboration with Klaus Koenig and our IFR…

Drone providers AeroVironment and Draganfly are widening distribution of the Quantix Mapper system, just in time for planting season in the Northern Hemisphere.

The partnership between Air Automation Engineering and Epson Robots is intended to lead to better support for Epson’s automation products throughout the Upper Midwest.

Initially slow to adopt robotics, farming and livestock operations are looking at automation to improve efficiency.

Ten new deployments will use Locus Robotics AMRs for fulfillment tasks.

Multi-year partnership will provide training for 400,000+ union members on use of autonomous earth-moving equipment.

Project aims to provide maps for automated driving using lower cost sensors and probes.

Soft Robotics, whose vision systems and soft grippers can handle a wide variety of items, said it can now address costly e-commerce returns of polybagged items.

The self-driving car company has been operating in 25 cities and is offering ride-hailing services.

RightHand Robotics has opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany, and named Jon Schechter as head of Europe.

Data from Exyn Technologies could assist in calculating remaining ore from old mine.

As artificial intelligence achieves greater importance as a competitive advantage and efficiency driver, the race to usable data is heating up. Yet according to Dimensional Research, 8 out of 10 AI projects fail, and 96% of those failures are due to the lack of data quality. Data quality is clearly paramount for a successful AI…

New program will help car dealerships make car buying experience easier for customers by reducing manual paperwork processes.

Which players are on the right track in scaling and maturing their retail-focused robots?

Nominations are now open for companies and groups to apply for the RBR50 2020 Innovation Awards.

Incident management, rural communications among most cited use cases.

Engineering firm breaks up large paint process into smaller steps to reduce rigidity.

‘Top trends of 2020’ includes predictions for 2 million new industrial robots by 2022.

RoboBusiness 2020, the premier event about robotics innovation, technology, and business opportunity, has extended the deadline for speakers to submit proposed sessions.

Robotics, automation, AI and drones are enabling digitization efforts for the future supply chain.