China lays out five-year plan to be global robotics hub
Chinese robotics market is projected to expand at 20% through to 2025, when the government is aiming to double manufacturing robot density and drive adoption in key sectors including automobile and mining. China has unveiled a five-year plan to drive its ambition of becoming a global innovation hub for robotics by 2025. It hopes to get there by focusing on enhancements in key components such as servomotors and control panels.
Robots in 2022: Six robotics predictions from industry-leading humans
The past five years have seen robots move from a developing technology in a number of sectors to an indispensable tool supporting operations across a vast range of enterprises.
AI Robots May Run Half of Cloud Data Centers by 2025
STAMFORD, Conn. — A new report says robots with artificial intelligence (AI) are coming to help run cloud data centers. The report by Gartner predicts that half of cloud data centers will deploy advanced robots with (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities, resulting in 30% higher operating efficiency. The move will be caused by staff shortages in the data center market.
Want to be a Robotics Engineer? Here are skills needed, where to study, job functions
Robotics Engineering is one of the most sought after and fast-growing disciplines in the world of today. As industry after industry is getting impacted by the use of robots, the demand for engineers who know how to design, build, operate and use robots is soaring.
Meet the robots that can 'see, hear and feel' at Gitex 2021 in Dubai
Robots that learn what needs doing while cleaning your house and understand verbal commands will be commercially available as soon as next year, says the manufacturer. German company Neura Robotics – which is exhibiting at the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition in Dubai for the first time – says it has improved the scope of industrial robots.
How AI is Being Used in Robotics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the robotics market into various areas, including mobile robots on the factory floor, robots that can do a large number of tasks rather than being specialized on one, and robots that can stay in control of inventory levels as well as fetching orders for delivery.
Robots: stealing our jobs or solving labour shortages?
As the coronavirus pandemic enveloped the world last year, businesses increasingly turned to automation in order to address rapidly changing conditions. Floor-cleaning and microbe-zapping disinfecting robots were introduced in hospitals, supermarkets and other environments.
Automation and the workplace: 3 Ways robotics will transform the workplace as we know it
This comes as no surprise since the world has been gearing up for a robotic first future for quite a while. Globally, the robotics industry is expected to reach USD 74.1 billion by 2026- a compound annual growth rate of 17.45 percent from 2021.
Enabling 5G and the Future of Robotics
If robotics and cellular communications seem strange bedfellows, it’s because the fifth generation of wireless, 5G, is the first to wirelessly address the need of such applications rather than just increasing data rates and expanding coverage as previous generations did.
Search for hosts of robotics discussion
An EU-funded project, called Robotics4EU, is seeking 10 people in Malta to host a discussion in October about robotics and artificial intelligence. The three-year project is aimed at discovering possible barriers to the acceptance of robotics in society and finding out how to overcome these barriers.
‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots
In the corner of an Ohio field, a laser-armed robot inches through a sea of onions, zapping weeds as it goes. This field doesn’t belong to a dystopian future but to Shay Myers, a third-generation farmer whose TikTok posts about farming life often go viral.
Top Robotics Funding In The Last Three Months
Even before we could realize it, robotics has become an important part of our lives. It is very difficult to name an industry that functions without robotics playing its part. Healthcare, banking, hospitality, you name it and you are bound to find robotics. The wide range of applications that this technology caters to is the reason why it receives heavy global funding. Here is the list of top robotics funding in the last three months.
Fantastic Voyage-Inspired Miniature Surgical Robot Aims To Revolutionize Abdominal Surgery
Bill Gates-backed Vicarious Surgical, which is set to go public in a SPAC deal, hopes to reach $1 billion in revenue by 2027 as it takes on the goliath of surgical robots.
The Robotics Revolution Is Changing Business Landscape
In the first half of the last century, industrial robots such as the hulking one-armed Goliaths dominated the robotics space. Even though they were highly disruptive and served many human purposes, industrial robots were not sexy.
The rise of the robots
Robotics. Just the mere mention of the word conjures up images of humanoids in science fiction movies with awkward speech patterns. But that stereotype has long gone. Many companies, including ING, have embraced the robotics revolution by introducing software robots that can automate monotonous, manual processes.