Robotics and AI for logistics are the subjects of this video interview with Fetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise at RoboBusiness 2017. She also talks about working with early adopters and research institutions, as well as careers in automation.

Why did Andy Rubin leave the GooglePlex?

Google, Rubin and their band of seven may rewrite what it means to be a robot.

After seven years of innovative research and development, Willow Garage decided to focus its efforts elsewhere, transferring most employees to one of its spin-off companies, Suitable Technologies, Inc.

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More and more leaders in industrial robotics are being connected to IROS through the research community. ROS supporters believe that the open source movement is the best path towards accelerating the development of the robotics industry.

Stanford’s Ryan Calo reveals how the robotics industry can protect itself from liability cases involving personal robots

hiDOF will be applying robotics technology to commercial applications, and is founded by Willow Garage engineers who believe in the power of using open source software to provide increased value to customers.

By actively involving the users, Henry and Jane Evans, in our participatory design process, we have made tangible progress towards assistive capabilities that are both useful and usable.

Building on the software libraries that ROS provides, ROS-Industrial will enable advanced capabilities and interoperability with a range of off-the-shelf industrial mobile platforms, manipulators, perception systems, and peripherals, without sacrificing the reliability and safety crucial for industrial systems.

According to expert analyst Dan Kara, Rethink Robotics is very well positioned, in terms of executive leadership, financing and first-to-market advantage to monopolize the market for its unique class of manufacturing robots for the foreseeable future.

An open source approach might have a comparatively greater impact on the robotics market than the enterprise IT space a decade ago.

The Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. (OSRF) is an independent non-profit organization. The mission of OSRF is to support the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education, and product development.

The company’s focus on unique markets which are new to robotics, like the natural foods sector, is likely to produce increased future revenue. In these areas, Adept Technology has little competition from peer companies.

Microsoft’s newest hardware, designed to change the state of the art of gaming and media, could also revolutionize another industry: robotics.

Will standardized platforms boost robotics development the way IBM’s PC architecture accelerated the deployment of desktop computers?

Open source technologies provide a low barrier to entry and foster communities of contributors accelerating advancements, but developers need to pay close attention to licensing nuances and weigh commercial trade-offs.

Technology normally has to percolate in the military or the space program before it trickles down, but video games can be an interesting exception.