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Thursday, December 6, 2018 2pm ET / 11am PT     A large percentage of small-to-medium manufacturers have missed out on many the benefits of robotic industrial automation such as […]

Late October spelled bad news for Pepper, the quintessential and iconic face of Softbank Robotics. According to a Nikkei Tech survey, only 15% of companies planned to renew their three-year […]

Motion control is the software component of a robotic system that dictates how a robot should move to do tasks that have already been defined. Robot arms move through the […]

Piab has introduced piCOBOT, an end-of-arm (EOAT) vacuum tool designed specifically for the collaborative robotics market. Offered as a development kit, piCOBOT comprises a vacuum pump unit, a gripper unit […]

Pittsburgh startup IAM Robotics raised $20 million to expand the deployment of its Swift mobile picking robot. The round was led by KCK Ltd, a family-owned investment firm with teams […]

Rethink Robotics, the Boston, Mass.-based maker of collaborative robots Baxter and Sawyer, shut down on October 3. The Robot Report first reported the story, confirming the news with former Rethink […]

Universal Robots (UR) has hired 20-plus former Rethink Robotics employees, primarily within engineering and product development roles. In an email to The Robot Report, a UR spokesperson said the company […]

Universal Robots (UR) has hired 20-plus former Rethink Robotics employees, primarily within engineering and product development roles. In an email to The Robot Report, a UR spokesperson said the company […]

We hope you enjoy the 2018 Design World Robotics Handbook, which was produced by The Robot Report. Here is a breakdown of the topics covered inside the Robotics Handbook: Collaborative […]

The robotics industry is poised to be a major beneficiary of 5G, the fifth generation of wireless communication. If 5G meets its advertised median speeds of 1 Gbps, 5G will […]