Mobile Robots

With demands for hygiene and workforce efficiency at an all-time high, grocery stores are turning to robots like these to better track inventory and serve customers.

Modular robotics are currently a niche market, but the need for flexibility could propel demand, predicts one global market analyst.

While much of the interest and investment in healthcare robotics focuses on surgical systems, nonsurgical applications are also maturiing.

Diligent Robotics plans to use its funding to scale its Moxi mobile manipulation system to a wider customer base and to expand its hardware and software product development.

The Sense One flash camera from Sense Photonics is a 3D, solid-state lidar that promises to help autonomous robots and vehicles see farther and more safely.

MODEX 2020 was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but exhibitors and attendees expressed optimism about the supply chain robotics market.

Field robots, industrial automation, self-driving vehicles, and healthcare systems received funding in February 2020.

In addition to its expansion into the Americas, Geek+ announced the appointment of executives to lead its efforts for logistics and factory automation with mobile robots.

Rather than take jobs, robots can address HR concerns about recruitment, morale, and retention through safe collaboration and improved work environments, states a KUKA VP.

Grizzly Analytics’ Bruce Kulwich chats with us about ultra-wideband advances that will offer more precision for devices and robots.

The Robot Report, sibling site to Robotics Business Review, tracked $1.9 billion in robotics transactions in December 2019, including funding for aerospace, logistics, and healthcare applications.

Orchestration will need to grow to handle growth of robots throughout the 2020s.

Zebra Technologies said its SmartSight with the EMA50 mobile automation system is the retail industry’s first subscription-based robotic offering to turn data into actions to improve store performance.

Hundreds of millions of items ordered between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday.

Enormous opportunities exist for companies looking to improve efficiencies and save money on customer delivery.

Last-mile delivery robot company continues to expand its offerings on college campuses across the U.S.

New platform aimed at providing low-cost option for researchers looking to develop autonomous mobile robots, mobile manipulation, mapping, and multi-robot systems.

Robot can carry up to 40 pounds of belongings to allow for more hands-free walking.

Social intelligence and mobile manipulation features help workers with hospital tasks.

SoftBank Robotics also adds inventory financing to meet market demand for inventory scanning system.

Multi-channel commerce developer to integrate robotics platform to accelerate its growth.

Strategic partnership has ‘Chuck’ mobile robots working with SuperPick piece-picking robot.

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

ROAMEO joins stationary systems to assist companies with security operations.

New scooter and material-delivering robots will autonomously navigate through new AI algorithms.