Robotics News

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North American Robot Orders Down Slightly in First Quarter 2019

North American robot orders were down slightly in Q1 2019, according to the Robotics Industries Association, but long-term signs remain healthy. - June 14, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

Two Weeks Until North America’s Leading Soldier Modernization Conference – Future Soldier Technology USA 2019

SMi reports: Two weeks to go until the Future Soldier Technology USA conference, taking place in Arlington, Virginia on June 24th-25th 2019. - June 10, 2019 - SAE Media Group

SWOZI Introduces Pioneering Robotic Solution for Sports Field Marking

SWOZI announced an autonomous GPS addition to their flagship product SWOZI cart pro. With a maximum speed of 7km/h, the automatic cart marks sports turf with 100% accuracy via GPS. While decreasing the need for manual operation, it can save up to 75% of the time to position and layout sports fields. Customers have access to over 100 sports field templates, which enable them to perform marking for virtually any desired sport with consistent accuracy. - June 01, 2019 - SWOZI AG

Q&A Released with Major General John Charlton, Former Commander of the Army Test and Evaluation Center, US Army

SMi reports: Conference chairman, Former Commander of the Army Test and Evaluation Center, US Army is interviewed ahead of the upcoming conference on June 11th and 12th 2019. - May 31, 2019 - SAE Media Group

Less Than 4 Weeks to Go Until the Future Soldier Technology USA Conference

SMi Reports: Registration closes in less than 4 weeks for the Future Soldier Technology USA conference, taking place on June 24th-25th in Arlington. - May 30, 2019 - SAE Media Group

SMi Release 10 Key Reasons to Attend and Preliminary Attendee List for MilSatCom USA 2019

SMi Reports: SMi Group releases ten reasons to attend the 4th Annual MilSatCom USA conference on the 26th-27th June in Arlington, Virginia. - May 25, 2019 - SAE Media Group

Robotics Business Review and IDC Name Energid to RBR50 List for Innovation, Market Transformation, and Commercial Success

Recognized for its Leadership in Real-Time Adaptive Robotic Motion Control and Path Planning - May 16, 2019 - Energid

Intent Solutions Group Recognized by Amazon as an AWS Activate Partner

Intent Solutions Group is pleased to announce that it has been recognized by Amazon as an AWS Activate Partner. The AWS Activate Program will enable Intent Solutions Group to provide startups with access to the resources they need to quickly get started on AWS – including credits, training,... - May 06, 2019 - Intent Solutions Group

Automate 2019 Closes Last Show in Chicago with Record Attendance and Leads

Hundreds of Exhibitors Already Reserved Space for 2021 in Detroit; Innovative Mechatronic Systems Wins 2019 Launch Pad Startup Competition. - May 02, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

Eric Breen Joins PINC as Vice President of Business Development

Industry veteran joins market leader for yard management systems and inventory robotics technology to further expand global growth. - April 17, 2019 - PINC

Principled Technologies Compares Cloud Workload Performance on Servers Powered by Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 Processors and Those Powered by AMD EPYC 7601 Processors

In hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found that Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 processor-based servers delivered stronger overall performance on simultaneous WordPress, Cassandra, and Apache Spark workloads. - April 15, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.

Rose State College, Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance Announce Educational Partnership in Collaborative Robotics

Rose State College and the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance have formed a new educational partnership. Rose State will be providing training in collaborative robotics for manufacturers across Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance will provide subject matter experts to assist with curriculum... - April 15, 2019 - Rose State College

SnapFulfil Announces Autonomous Fulfillment Cart, SnapCart

SnapFulfil, a Tier-1, cloud-based warehouse management system (WMS) provider, today announced the creation of its new, innovative fulfillment cart, SnapCart. SnapCart is an extension of SnapFulfil’s cloud-based WMS and is designed to help small parts picking and eCommerce fulfillment centers... - April 10, 2019 - Snapfulfil

Automate 2019 Opens Next Week in Chicago

Automation industry gathers April 8-11 for its largest show yet with more than 500 exhibitors and 20,000+ attendees. - April 05, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

PASCO® Garners FANUC Certified Service Provider Status

St. Louis Robotics Integrator Achieves Highest Level of Certification. - April 03, 2019 - PASCO

Flexiv Ushers in 3rd Gen Robot with Launch of Adaptive Robot

1. Product launch of world’s first adaptive robot at Hannover Messe 2019; 2. Broader set of applications - can be applied to different scenarios and industries, even in uncertain environments; 3. Bottom-up innovation and all-inclusive robot design for great adaptivity; 4. Proprietary force control and AI technology from top AI and robotics researchers - April 03, 2019 - Flexiv Ltd.

Creative Brain Learning Celebrates PI Day (pi=3.14...) with STEM Learning and Fruit Pies for All

Creative Brian Learning After School program provider distributes thousands of fruit pies to students in celebration of PI Day. - March 28, 2019 - Creative Brain Learning

Global Motion Control and Motors Market Sees Record Growth in 2018

Stats show $3.827 billion in shipments in 2018, up 8 percent over 2017. - March 28, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

OmniFi Access Supports Straight-Through Business Intelligence

SkySparc, an independent solutions provider, has added new functionality to OmniFi to simplify data exchange and analysis for users of market-leading business intelligence (BI) tools. - March 27, 2019 - SkySparc

Automate 2019 Introduces “Automation Works!” Day to Help Manufacturers, Exhibitors Fill Record Number of Open Jobs

Last day of the April 8-11 show in Chicago will include theater sessions focused on working in automation and the chance for job seekers to connect with exhibitors looking for new employees - March 22, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

Principled Technologies Publishes Results from Hands-on Testing of the Dell EMC PowerMax 8000 All-Flash NVMe Array and the Array of a Competitor

Principled Technologies (PT) tested two all-flash NVMe storage arrays to see which could better help organizations in the areas of performance, efficient use of capacity, and ease of management. - March 15, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.

Automate Announces 2019 Launch Pad Startup Competition Finalists

Emerging Companies with Range of Offerings from Augmented Reality Headsets to Intelligent Robotic Software to Soft Robot Hands and Wireless Charging for Drones - March 15, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

HCA/HealthONE’s Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center and Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children Physician Offers Robotic Procedures for Adolescent & Pediatric Patients

Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center and Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children are proud to offer adolescent and pediatric robotic procedures for the following conditions: Appendectomy, Intestinal resection, Choledochal Cyst, Cholecystectomy, Splenectomy, Partial Splenectomy, Adrenalectomy,... - March 14, 2019 - Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

OGV to Host Top Speakers at OTC

OGV announce top speakers at the inaugural OTC Business Breakfast including senior level industry professionals from the UK, Norway and the USA. - March 09, 2019 - Oil and Gas Vision

RIA to Present 2019 Engelberger Robotics Awards to Catherine Morris and Dr. Howie Choset

Automation Industry’s Most Prestigious Honor to be Presented at Automate 2019 in Chicago on April 10 - March 08, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

Nord Modules Launches in US with Top Modules for MiR, Other AMRs

MiR Co-Founder Bruno Hansen Launches Nord Modules in US Offering Standard Industrial-Quality Top Modules to Connect Production Lines and Internal Logistics Using Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) - March 07, 2019 - MiR

Portable Latency Emulator for Network Impairment Testing

The PDS-1/10G Portable Delay Simulator allows users to test/stage critical network equipment by altering bandwidth, latency, packet loss, congestion and other important link impairments over 10/100/1000 or 10GbE Ethernet. - March 06, 2019 - East Coast Datacom, Inc.

Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Release a Preview of AIXPRT, a Tool Designed to Help Testers Evaluate Machine Learning Performance

Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community release a preview of AIXPRT, a free tool that makes it easier to evaluate a system’s machine learning inference performance by running several common image-classification workloads. - March 04, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.

CoreValue Joins IT Services Competence Platform

IT Services Competence Platform, a global-reach Capital Group, managed from Poland and backed by Oaktree Capital Management and Cornerstone Partners, welcomes a new member - CoreValue, a U.S. based software services provider. - February 28, 2019 - CoreValue

New Bionic Hand - BIOT Already in Production

BIOT - an innovative, multipurpose bionic hand that gracefully performs any gesture or grasps with the functionality and appearance of the human hand. - February 26, 2019 - BIOT

RNA Expands Sensors Division

RNA Search, Inc. (RNA) is pleased to announce that Daniel Dwyer, Senior Consultant, will be spearheading the expansion of our Sensors Division. Daniel focuses on bringing top-notch Senior Executives, Business Development Professionals, Sales, Engineering, and Tech Support candidates together with clients specializing in sensor technologies and applications. - February 24, 2019 - RNA Search Inc.

Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community Release HDXPRT 4, a Benchmark Designed to Show How Well Windows Devices Handle Real-World Media Tasks

Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community release HDXPRT 4, a performance evaluation benchmark that shows how well Windows 10 devices handle common media-creation tasks. - February 22, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.

Robots Of London Launches New Advanced Robot Receptionist

Robots Of London have launched their new and improved AI robot receptionist application for Pepper The Robot. Robots Of London were instrumental in the first full time robot receptionist in London and have successfully deployed robot receptionists in 5 European Countries. Pepper, designed by... - February 22, 2019 - Robots Of London

Virginia Senate Issues Joint Resolution Celebrating Unmanned Systems Initiatives

Virginia Senate Issues Joint Resolution 347 Commending The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) and the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP) for their successful leadership in unmanned systems integration. - February 15, 2019 - The Virginia Center for Unmanned Systems at CIT

ROYBI is Proud to be Invited to Present as a Finalist at SXSW EDU 2019 Launch Competition

ROYBI, an AI-powered companion robot for kids focusing initially on language learning, is one of eight finalists to compete at the SXSW EDU Launch Festival taking place in Austin, Texas from March 4-7, 2019. - February 05, 2019 - ROYBI, Inc.

SWOZI Appoints US Representative

US distributor, Turf Robotics becomes exclusive representative for the US market. - February 04, 2019 - SWOZI AG

Automate 2019 Announces Conference Sessions, Certifications Opportunities

Sessions support manufacturers, integrators and those seeking professional certifications to learn how to solve real-world challenges that make them more competitive. - February 01, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

Principled Technologies Study Finds Upgrading to the HP EliteDesk 800 G4 with Intel Optane Memory Could Save Businesses Millions Over Three Years

Intel Optane memory helped enable the current-gen desktop to dramatically outperform its first-generation counterpart, even though it had less RAM. - January 30, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.

RIA and Pittsburgh Robotics Network Establish Partnership

The Robotic Industries Association and Pittsburgh Robotics Network to collaborate on promoting work of Pittsburgh robotics companies across the nation. - January 26, 2019 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

Allvision Announces $3.2 Million Seed Investment

Allvision, a geospatial analytics company providing insights and business intelligence to verticals such as infrastructure management, insurance, advertising and security, announced today $3.2 million in Series Seed funding raised. Lavrock Ventures was joined by The Robotics Hub, IDEA Fund... - January 23, 2019 - Allvision IO

Principled Technologies Releases Report Comparing the Durability of Three Chromebooks from Dell, HP, and Lenovo

In hands-on testing, Principled Technologies (PT) found that the Dell Chromebook 5190 survived more hinge cycles and more micro-drops than the HP Chromebook 11 G6 EE and the Lenovo 100e Chromebook. - January 18, 2019 - Principled Technologies, Inc.

Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) Nearly Triple Sales for the Second Year in a Row, Meeting Forecast

Toyota Motor Corporation among global multinational companies using MiR autonomous mobile robots to optimize workflows for agile production; Industry first mover adds “mobile robots as a service” offering to help more companies benefit. - January 05, 2019 - MiR

Robot Bear Opens Office in the United States

Robotic startup, that has a robot bear co-founder, sells its 1st batch in pre-sale and opens laboratory in Boston. - December 28, 2018 - Tobyto

Patient at Swedish Medical Center Finds Relief from New Robotic Procedure

Brianna Robinson is the first patient at the 408 bed acute care hospital to have her bladder removed and a urinary diversion created in a single robotic-assisted procedure. - December 22, 2018 - Swedish Medical Center

Automate 2019 Show and Conference Comes to Chicago April 8–11

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced that the Automate 2019 show and conference is coming back to Chicago April 8-11. - December 08, 2018 - Association for Advancing Automation A3

Predictive Costing – Application Possibilities for Artificial Intelligence in Cost Management

Over 100 international costing experts met on November 29 at the 11th FACTON User Conference in Stuttgart, Germany. “Predictive Costing” was the theme of the event, where guests discussed the latest topics: From artificial intelligence and related application possibilities in product... - December 07, 2018 - FACTON

GeneFluidics Selected as One of Five Finalists for Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic (AMR) Challenge Step 2

GeneFluidics is the only group selected for both NIAID antimicrobial resistance diagnostics projects (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funds-nine-antimicrobial-resistance-diagnostics-projects) and as finalists for the NIH AMR Challenge Step 2 (https://dpcpsi.nih.gov/AMRChallenge/Finalists). - December 05, 2018 - GeneFluidics Inc.

Tastry Aims to Shape the Alcohol and Food Industries