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Deepfield Robotics is preparing to showcase its robotics and automation technologies for the agriculture market at the Agrilevante event, in Italy.
The company is a startup established by industrial giant Bosch, and has a variety of solutions for the burgeoning precision agriculture market. [Read more…] about Deepfield Robotics to showcase precision agriculture technology at Agrilevante
ABB has partnered with Amazon and Sonos to add new functions to its home automation range of products, collectively called free@home.
ABB claims to be the leading home automation company in the German market, and the company is apparently looking to expand into new geographies, possibly including the US.
Its free@home range includes a variety of devices and hardware, all based on its digital platform, ABB Ability. [Read more…] about ABB integrates Amazon and Sonos technology into its smart home products
Exclusive interview with Mike Bell from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu
There’s a lot of talk about the Robot Operating System. Understandably so. But the most widely used operating system in robotics and automation systems development is actually Ubuntu.
In fact, ROS is not actually an operating system at all – it’s a set of software frameworks, or a software development kit, to be installed into an operating system like Ubuntu.
As Mike Bell, executive vice president of internet of things and devices at Canonical, explains in an exclusive interview: “It’s a bit confusing because it’s called Robot Operating System, but the reason is because if you’re developing robot applications, you don’t need to worry about the fact that it’s running on Ubuntu.
“You just write your application to interface into a ROS SDK and then deploy on Ubuntu.” [Read more…] about Interview with Ubuntu boss: A rich ecosystem for robotics and automation systems
Quanta Storage, the company behind the Techman industrial robot, is aiming to ship 1,000 collaborative robots this year, according to a report on DigiTimes.com.
The company is further planning to ship another 2,000 units in 2018, says the website.
Techman produces a range of collaborative robots. The TM5 has two models – one with a payload of 6 kg and another with a payload of 4 kg. [Read more…] about Quanta Storage aiming to ship 1,000 collaborative robots this year
Investing in robotics is something many people are interested in.
Not surprising, since funds which have invested in robotics and related technologies on the stock markets have returned significantly more profits than funds in other business sectors.
Rewired is a new fund which is starting out with $100 million to invest in what it says will be “the next generation of robotics”. [Read more…] about Investing in robotics with a $100 million fund and a humanitarian perspective
Oracle is partnering with Mitsubishi Electric to develop an internet of things platform for smart manufacturing.
Mitsubishi Electric developed its new FA-IT Open Platform for factory automation with Oracle Cloud.
Using edge computing between devices and business applications, the new platform enables the rapid collection, analysis, and utilization of data at production site, says the company. [Read more…] about Oracle and Mitsubishi Electric to jointly develop internet of things platform for smart manufacturing
The global market for advanced driver assistance systems is set to treble over the next decade, according to figures seen by Robotics and Automation News.
Although the numbers are from two different reports, they provide a broad overview of a market which is set for exponential growth.
The overwhelming majority of vehicles on the road today do not have ADAS, while new cars are mostly produced with some elements of ADAS included.
This means that the scope for growth is huge. Moreover, the technology essentially transforms entirely mechanical machines into intelligent machines, or robots on wheels.
Robotics and Automation News has produced a briefing on ADAS which is available now, free to subscribers. It reports some of the latest news, and many of the most important companies in the sector.
There’s been a lot of talk about, and tremendous interest in, Genesis Robotics because of its new invention, the LiveDrive, an actuation system which could not only revolutionise industrial robotics and automation, but could also transform automotive vehicles as well as change many other machines, devices and whole sectors.
But for the people behind the technology, one especially interesting potential application for LiveDrive is exoskeletons and what the company calls “assistive robots”, which they see as being in virtually every home in the future.
In this exclusive and wide-ranging interview, Robotics and Automation News talks to Mike Hilton, CEO of Genesis Robotics, about its development of LiveDrive, its potential applications, as well as the company’s negotiations for the licensing of its technology as well as the possibility of an acquisition. [Read more…] about A smooth revolution: Exclusive interview with Genesis Robotics CEO
Even if you’ve never heard the term before, you probably understand what “vertical farming” is.
Unlike some buzz phrases, it sounds like what it means – farms built upwards, inside a building on multiple levels, unlike traditional farms, which occupy large, flat, single-level fields, covering thousands of acres of earth if done on an industrial scale.
The concept of vertical farms has been around a long time, but perhaps only now is the technology available to sustain the sector commercially. [Read more…] about Vertical farms in urban areas ready to grow after harvesting tons of seed money
It’s not a glamorous business, logistics. Doesn’t make the mainstream news very often. And it’s not likely to be the top career choice for most people.
It’s understandable. After all, how interesting can it be to move boxes from point A to point B?
Put like that, it’s not much to write home about. But now, with driverless vehicles everywhere, augmented reality glasses and exoskeletons for warehouse workers, and robotics and automation technologies of all kinds promising to transform the industry worldwide, logistics is about to get much more interesting. [Read more…] about DHL could stop Amazon from taking over the world. Probably
