Robotics

OMRON Corporation announced the signing of an agreement for a capital investment in Techman Robot, Inc., a robot brand that work with people at manufacturing sites. OMRON will hold a stake of approximately 10% in Techman. The investment is expected to be completed by December 2021.

NVIDIA has introduced NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the claimed world’s smallest, most powerful and energy-efficient AI supercomputer for robotics, autonomous machines, medical devices and other forms of embedded computing at the edge.

A huge range of robot technologies that were considered experimental a few years ago, are now commercially viable for SMEs in the manufacturing sector, according to a recent analysis from global robot hub HowToRobot.com. 

INTEGRA offers a range of liquid handling solutions designed to improve the reproducibility and throughput of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing workflows. 

Deploying an autonomous robot to a new environment can be a tough proposition. How can you gain confidence that the robot’s perception capabilities are robust enough, so it performs safely and as planned?

Universal Robots has launched a new financial leasing scheme with the aim of reducing the costs of introducing automation into the UK and Ireland’s SME manufacturing markets, as part of SME Automation Month in October.

NVIDIA has announced its initiative to deliver a suite of perception technologies to the Robotics Operating System (ROS) developer community. NVIDIA and Open Robotics have entered into an agreement to accelerate ROS 2 performance on NVIDIA’s Jetson edge AI platform and GPU-based systems. These initiatives will aim to reduce development time and improve performance for developers seeking to incorporate computer vision and AI/machine lea...

Britain’s brewing industry has expanded from a modest 1,218 breweries in 2012 to a colossal 3,018 in 2020 – with small and microbreweries accounting for over 80% of this figure. With the industry reaching a saturation point, Martyn Williams, Managing Director of COPA-DATA UK explains how digital tools can help small brewers compete in a bubbling market.

IDTechEx has released 'Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032', a market research report exploring the technical and market factors that are shaping the emerging industry around agricultural robotics. The agricultural robotics industry has grown quickly in recent years, spurred on by advances in robotics technology and AI, and may be set to help alleviate some of the labour issues that are currently threatening global agriculture.

Cobots have now been developed to a point where the only thing differentiating them from their human co-workers is soft-skills. Developing adaptive capabilities like decision-making or problem-solving in cobots is challenging for engineers, but progress is inevitable. With state-of-the-art sensors, actuators and software, cobots are now capable of experiencing physical sensations that allow them to feel and identify the object being touched. Here...