Research

International Federation of Robotics provides stats on industrial robots, service robots, and cobots.

New report outlines the drivers and growth expectations for warehouse automation hardware, software and services providers.

A ‘perfect storm’ of e-commerce demand, low unemployment and technology maturation is driving growth.

Universal the top cobot manufacturer in latest cobot research report from ABI Research.

One of the pioneers in socially assistive robots discusses how all parts of a robot are important for human interaction.

AI processing, Internet of Things and cloud computing driving growth for nascent market.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology break down the sprints of cockroaches to create equations to make a robots amble about better.

New study forecasts 8% growth over next 10 years, with $28B market by 2029.

Automotive OEM orders up a whopping 83% compared to same period last year, RIA says.

Large-scale projects in warehouse automation could see a revenue dip in 2021, but that provides opportunities for smaller robotics companies.

Lower cost, ease-of-use, and re-programming ability driving growth of market.

OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers are focusing on L2+ in 2019, report suggests.

Feelings of self-worth at risk more with human replacement, survey suggests.

Employees cautious, yet companies also looking to create new job roles.

Collaboration opens up opportunities for global researchers and companies for mobile applications.

Researchers create system that could help autonomous cars and robots see better.

New research predicts $10 billion market by 2030, with a $101 billion overall market for drone services.

MIT CSAIL system allows users to design drones that can switch between hovering like a traditional drone, and gliding like a fixed-wing airplane.

New architecture can improve speed and power efficiency for specialized algorithms, including SLAM.

How vision, AI, machine learning and simulation are getting us closer to closing the ‘lab to reality’ gap.

A 5-year, $15 million grant will fund research into advanced perception and decision-making algorithms.

Contraction in semiconductor space drove fewer orders in machine vision and systems, AIA says.

Demonstration uses special light sources and sensors to reconstruct shapes of unseen objects.

PartNet dataset includes more than 573,000 fine-grained part annotations for better robot task completion.

$2 million research grant aims to have robot explore moon pits for possible shelter, resources.