Category: The Robot Report
8 mobile robot applications that will grow in 2020
Mobile robot applications such as order fulfillment require purpose-built robots such as CarryPick. Source: Swisslog Thanks to cheaper sensors, advanced navigation software and communications, and growing user awareness, deployments of […]
Robotics investments recap: December 2019
In December 2019, The Robot Report recorded a total of about $1.9 billion in robotics transactions. While autonomous vehicles continued to receive the most investments, the biggest deals at year’s end […]
TransEnterix submits first machine vision system for robotic surgery to the FDA
TransEnterix Surgical Inc. this week announced that it has filed a 510(k) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Intelligent Surgical Unit, which is designed to enable […]
Phoenix Children’s Hospital to deploy Medtronic neurosurgery robot
Medtronic’s Stealth Autoguide platform is aimed to robotically assist with neurosurgery. Credit: Medtronic Phoenix Children’s Hospital today announced it will be the first health system in the U.S. to receive […]
WPI PracticePoint facility to foster medical robotics innovation
WPI PracticePoint director Greg Fischer showcasing the facility’s mock operating room. | Credit: Bogdan Vernescu, WPI Every two weeks, Greg Fischer and some colleagues made the three-hour drive, sans traffic, […]
CareClever launches Cutii companion robot for seniors
Loneliness is a major health problem for aging populations worldwide, equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day, according to AARP’s chief medical officer. Older people living at home reportedly have […]
Xenobots use repurposed frog cells for living robots
A team of scientists at the University of Vermont and Tufts University has taken living cells from frog embryos and reassembled them into new organisms. The millimeter-wide “xenobots” could theoretically […]
Bossa Nova CTO explains expansion to a total of 1,000 Walmart stores
NEW YORK — Bossa Nova Robotics Inc. announced today at NRF 2020 here that it plans to expand deployments of its inventory robots from 350 Walmart stores today to 1,000 […]
Woven City: Toyota’s ‘living laboratory’ for autonomous cars & robots
Toyota is building Woven City, a prototype city to be a living laboratory for autonomous cars and robots. | Credit: Toyota Just like its host city of Las Vegas, there […]
Movia Robotics offers help to children with autism through DoD contract
Jean-Pierre Bolat (left) and Tim Gifford of Movia Robotics. Credit: Sean Flynn, UConn Photo Although humanoid robots are far from as common as industrial robot arms or mobile platforms, they […]