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From seeing Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robotic at work in a DHL facility to Alphabet closing down one in every of its robotics subsidiaries, there was no scarcity of robotics information in February 2023.
Here are the highest 10 hottest tales on The Robot Report in February 2023. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter or take heed to The Robot Report Podcast to remain up to date on the robotics tales you’ll want to find out about.
10. Soft robotic wearable restores arm perform for folks with ALS
Some 30,000 folks within the U.S. are affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often known as Lou Gehrig’s illness. Now, a group of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a tender robotic wearable able to considerably aiding higher arm and shoulder motion in folks with ALS. Read More
9. What slowdown? – December 2022 robotics investments attain $1.14B
December 2022’s 55 robotics investments totaled US $1.14B, a 7.7% improve over December 2021’s funding whole. Investment into firms offering robotics options for autonomous floor transportation resembling sensors, autonomy ‘stacks’ and ‘drivers’, and complete fabric methods, was significantly robust. Read More
8. Alphabet closes Everyday Robots amongst layoffs
Alphabet, Google’s mum or dad firm, is shutting down its subsidiary Everyday Robots, based on reporting from Wired. On January 20, 2023, Alphabet introduced it could be shedding round 12,000 staff, 6% of its workforce, and Everyday Robots is likely one of the few initiatives disbanded as a part of the funds cuts. Read More
7. Rapid Robotics to supply Yaskawa industrial robots
Rapid Robotics introduced a brand-new integration with Yaskawa America, Inc., Motoman Robotics Div. (Yaskawa Motoman) that may carry industrial capabilities to Rapid Robotics’ Rapid Machine Operator (RMO). The firm is now built-in with your complete Yaskawa robotics portfolio. Read More
6. Rapid Robotics and Universal Robots group as much as speed up cobot deployments
Rapid Robotics and Universal Robots (UR) simply introduced a brand new partnership. UR, a Danish firm that makes collaborative robots (cobots), will provide Rapid Robotics with collaborative robotic arms in order that it may arrange cobot work cells throughout North America. This signifies that Rapid Robotics will be capable of serve extra clients and preserve the short deployment occasions that clients have come to anticipate, at the same time as Rapid Robotics continues to develop throughout the nation. Read More
5. 5 prime robotics tendencies to look at in 2023
Robot installations hit an all-time excessive in 2021, with the International Federation of Robotics’ (IFR) knowledge displaying over 500,000 new industrial robots have been put in that 12 months. In North America, robotic gross sales hit an all-time excessive for the second 12 months in a row in 2022, based on the Associate for Advancing Automation (A3), bringing in $2.38 billion. Read More
4. How ChatGPT can management robots
Researchers at Microsoft, which has invested billions into OpenAI and lately built-in ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, prolonged the capabilities of ChatGPT to manage a robotic arm and aerial drone. Microsoft launched a technical paper that describes a sequence of design ideas that can be utilized to information language fashions towards fixing robotics duties. Read More
3. 10 industries China is specializing in automating
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with 17 different companies, has created a brand new motion plan known as the “Robot + Application Action Plan.” This plan lays out 10 industries the nation needs to deal with creating robotic methods for and overarching objectives for the nation’s robotics trade to hit by 2025. Read More
2. Inside Zoox’s upgraded robotaxi take a look at fleet
Since its founding eight years in the past, Zoox, an organization creating autonomous automobiles (AVs) and now a subsidiary of Amazon, has been working in the direction of its aim of making a purpose-built autonomous car, with no steering wheel. Zoox has an intensive, lately upgraded testing fleet that’s verifying the effectiveness of its autonomous driving expertise. Read More
1. Watch Boston Dynamics’ Stretch unload a DHL trailer
Boston Dynamics is formally placing its Stretch robotic into the hand of its clients. Its first business utility is with DHL Supply Chain, an organization that Boston Dynamics has been collaborating with since 2018, when it started creating Stretch. Read More