In this undated supplied photo, two humanoid Digit robots demonstrate the type of tasks they are capable of doing. Agility Robotics, creator of Digit, is about to open a first-of-its-kind robot production plant in Salem, Oregon. The 70,000 square foot facility will mass produce their humanoid robot, and the operation can be scaled to build…
Connect Robotics Delivers Emergency Kits by Drone Over the Sea in the “World’s Largest Robotics Exercise” Connect Robotics recently took part in what has been described as the “World’s Largest Robotics Exercise.” They utilized UAVs to deliver emergency medical kits over the ocean in the Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping Augmented by Maritime Unmanned Systems or…
The creators of the bipedal robot Digit are bringing the world’s first factory for humanoid robots to Salem and say they will soon have the capacity to produce 10,000 robots a year. Agility Robotics, a Corvallis-based company, announced the opening of RoboFab Monday. Construction of the 70,000-square-foot facility began last year and is set to…
Since the 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R., we have imagined machines – robots – able to carry out … [+] human activities (Photo by Fresco/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Investors are always trying to predict which trends are next. It is a challenging endeavor. The differences between short-term fads driven by hype and long-term trends…
According to GlobalData’s Technology Foresights, which uses over 116,000 patents to analyze innovation intensity for the consumer industry, there are 30+ innovation areas that will shape the future of the industry. Autonomous delivery management is a key innovation area in robotics Autonomous delivery systems often use robotics for deliveries with minimal human intervention. These vehicles…
The logo of ABB is seen at an office building in Zurich, Switzerland September 10, 2020. Picture taken September 10, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights ZURICH, Sept 13 (Reuters) – ABB (ABBN.S) is spending $280 million on a new robotics factory in Sweden, the Swiss engineering and technology group said on Wednesday, to…
Mark Messina is the CEO of Addverb USA, a company that solves complex fulfillment challenges through robotics and automation solutions. getty In today’s market, warehousing faces three primary challenges. Soaring real estate prices make storage efficiency paramount; no warehouse owner wants to foot the bill for storing mere air. Labor intricacies pose the second challenge….
Fresh out of their engineering college, three youths in Kerala decided to launch a robotics company in 2013. They had to show a capital of Rs 1 lakh to register their firm as an “India Private Ltd” company. They loaned Rs 35,000 each from their parents and got their company registered. They were so naive….
