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As Manufacturing Day approaches, the International Society of Automation (ISA) and its affiliate association, the Automation Federation, are celebrating the importance of manufacturing to the world’s economic health and future. Supported by leading manufacturers and other industry supporters, Manufacturing Day on October 2 is designed to amplify the voice of individual companies and coordinate a collective movement toward greater understanding…
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North American sales of machine vision systems and components grew 16% to $1.2 billion in the first half of 2015, the market’s highest first half total in history, according to new statistics issued by AIA, the industry’s trade group. Total machine vision sales include sales of machine vision systems and components. The machine vision systems category saw a year over…
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OMRON
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Amid rapid advances and adoption of robotic technology in materials handling, it can be hard to keep up with all the tipping points. Grippers, vision systems, navigation solutions and software are combining to make once fantastical robotic applications all but inevitable. But, even as they offer solutions to age-old challenges, concepts like robotic piece picking are also bound to present…
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Raytheon
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Terrafugia
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Manufacturing Institute
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The collaborative robotics sector is expected to increase roughly tenfold between 2015 and 2020, reaching more than $1 billion from approximately $95 million in 2015, according to a new study published by ABI Research entitled Collaborative Robotics: State of the Market / State of the Art. The growth will be fueled by three key markets: electronics manufacturers and electronics manufacturing…
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SpaceX
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The Robotics and Biology Laboratory (RBO) at the Technische Universität Berlin won the first Amazon Picking Challenge last week, marking a milestone in the development of commercially viable automated piece picking in unstructured environments. The centerpiece of the record-attendance IEEE Conference on Robotics & Automation in Seattle, the challenge was created to help develop a robotic system that autonomously grasps…
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Transparency Market Research (TMR), a market intelligence firm based in the U.S., has released a report forecasting the global industrial robotics market will reach a market value of $44.48 billion by 2020, growing from $29 billion in 2013. TMR estimates the market will grow at a CAGR of 6.2% between 2014 and 2020, in a report titled “Industrial Robotics Market…
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Teradyne and the shareholders of Universal Robots (UR) have announced they have signed an agreement under which Teradyne will acquire privately held Universal Robots, the Danish supplier of collaborative robots, for $285 million, plus $65 million if certain performance targets are met extending through 2018. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2015. Universal Robots is…
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Jabil
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The Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties in Ohio is a not-for-profit clearinghouse that collects, stores and distributes dry and frozen surplus food. To improve working conditions for volunteers, the company installed a fabric curtain wall that reduced noise and temperature variations in the warehouse. Since 2001, the food bank’s volunteers have worked out of the…
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Fetch Robotics
GENISOM AI makes ICRA debut at conference in Vienna
World's first omni-modal evaluation including tactile sensing for…
Ultrasonic sensing enhances robotics perception
Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
