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Edge ML and robotics technologies are critical enablers for ongoing digitalization and automation efforts. Also required?… robust development platforms (hardware and software) that speed and simplify robotics development and deployment.

In Episode 75 of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman interview Willy Pell, VP of Autonomy at Blue River Technology. Plus Cruise’s robot taxis gets pulled over.

RGo Robotics’ solutions leverages patent-pending computer vision and machine learning technology to provide mobile robots and other systems with advanced perception capabilities such as object detection and recognition, and scene understanding, as well as mapping and localization.

The RBR50 awards honor technology, business, and market innovations, as well as the robotics and automation organizations worldwide that were responsible for them.

The Robotics Summit keynotes and sessions, along with exhibiting companies, provides members of the media and analyst communities with many news, interview and photo / video opportunities with world’s leading robotics professionals, as well as access to the latest robotic systems and technologies.

Research continues into the use of autonomous vehicles for military operations. The benefits are clear, but for systems to reach their full potential military personal must trust the systems under their control. Simulated systems training can assist in that effort.

In Episode 70 of The Robot Report Podcast, Mike Oitzman interviews Matt Rendall, CEO of OTTO Motors and Clearpath Robotics.

Companies must prioritize safety when deploying autonomous mobile robots. The ANSI/RIA R15.08 safety standard for mobile robots, recently released by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Robotic Industries Association (RIA), should be your guide.

The subhead for the Seegrid / RōBEX partnership announcement noted “Seegrid Partners with Growing Robotics Integrator”. ‘Growing’ is the operative word here, but ‘competent’ could also serve as the RōBEX descriptor.

Categories include 1) Business and Management Innovation, 2) Technology, Services, and Research Innovation, or 3) Application and Market Innovation.

Recent series large investments into robotics companies, totaling nearly US $1B, could be an early indicator that 2022 will be a banner year for robotics investments. Apex.AI’s Jan Becker and Joe Speed are also interviewed.

Asensus Surgical CEO Anthony Fernando extrapolates from current trends, and provides insights into the future of robotics-assisted surgery, digitized surgery and telesurgery.

In this Robot Report podcast, WTWH Media’s Robotics Group – Steve Crowe, Mike Oitzman and Dan Kara – discuss the leading trends, themes, and opportunities that will drive the robotics, automation and intelligent systems sector forward in 2022.

Categories include 1) Business and Management Innovation, 2) Technology, Services, and Research Innovation, or 3) Application and Market Innovation.

Robot behaviors are often built as computational graphs, with data flowing from sensors to compute technologies, all the way down to actuators and back. To obtain additional performance, robotics compute platforms must map these graph-like structures efficiently to CPUs, but also to specialized hardware including FPGAs and GPUs.

While articulated robots represent the biggest single market opportunity for robotics enabling tech providers, Interact Analysis’ Tim Dawson believes component suppliers should place greater emphasis on the more ‘open’, and burgeoning, collaborative robotics sector.

ROEQ’s solutions deliver a quick ROI, increasing both the productivity and efficiency of autonomous mobile robots, along with improving overall AMR utilization.

Week long digital event series is designed specifically to address challenges, and alleviate the burden, of AMR selection, adoption and management.

Korean AV and TaaS start-up 42dot will utilize Series A funding to further develop autonomous-driving technologies and mobility platform for land and air transport services.

Learn how support for robotic motion control has improved with the introduction of new products and technologies, and how they allow for new capabilities, new applications, and entry into new markets.

Skyline Robotics is targeting the $40B window cleaning industry with an automation solution that leverages the intelligence of human operators, and the strength and endurance of industrial robots.

Robotics Business Review’s essential announcements for the interval ranging from October 22 – 29, 2021 include notices from Fabric, Tactile Mobility, Drone Base, Fixposition, OMRON and Zebra Technologies.

Robot Report’s Steve Crowe reviewed ABB’s Q3 2021 financials to learn how much the company paid out for Spanish AMR provider ASTI Mobile Robotics.

CNC shops, and their clients, both benefit from the many advantages accrued by incorporating robots into various CNC manufacturing and production processes.

While deep learning methods have proven useful for autonomous navigation, the approach requires vast amounts of data and computing power, and produces solutions that are inefficient, fragile and unaffordable for many classes of applications. Opteran’s “Natural Intelligence” approach, based on the function of insect brains, provides an alternative for generating complex, autonomous behaviors for machines.