Category: Robots

News briefs for the week take a look at new AI-powered robots and cobots for machine tending and logistics operations, mobile UV robots for disinfecting passenger aircraft in 10 minutes, oil rig robot roughnecks entering the drilling industry, the Top 5 picks for countries winning the robotics implementation race for 2021 (and it’s only April!), […]

The vaccine rollout is being met with lifted COVID-19 restrictions inside buildings and restaurants, but this change presents a new challenge to business owners — managing increased occupancy, while still abiding by safety restrictions. Businesses that find themselves exceeding occupancy could face fines, citations, and license suspensions. One increasingly prominent solution employs 3D counting and […]

As countries start to open up a bit more after the global pandemic, it’s helpful to look back on what we’ve learned in 2020. Robots have been a driving technology behind the response to many of the changes. What lessons did we learn about how to thrive in the face of difficulty? Share it

An out of this world collaboration aims to bring farming to the space age. NASA is teaming up with a company called CropX to leverage its satellites in the fight for food security and sustainability. NASA has long had a unique vantage on the world thanks to its constellation of Earth-observing satellites. Satellite imagery, which […]

Security and surveillance are one of the biggest growth areas in the ever-expanding UAV sector. While it’s a relatively recent addition to enterprise toolkits in many industries, the use of drones to provide aerial assessments of activities on the ground is actually a return to form for the technology, which has seen some of its […]

A company that’s bringing gourmet pizza to a vending machine near you is adding a new high tech quirk to its quick-serve process. Piestro, which has developed an automated artisan pizza concept, is partnering with PopID, which develops facial recognition payment technology, to offer pizza you pay for with your pretty mug. As I wrote last year […]

A developer of a tethered freefall drone delivery mechanism recently completed the first commercial deployment of its so-called rapid delivery system. A2Z Drone Delivery, LLC, partnered with drone services provider DroneUp to make residential package deliveries in Coffee County, GA, using A2Z’s tethered delivery system to safely land packages on the ground. Drone delivery is coming, but there are […]

How can remote workers make their presence known in their organization? How can enterprises overcome the limitations of video conferencing and enable a level of communication and collaboration that approaches on-site interaction? Telepresence robots have been on the scene for the better part of a decade, though as global upheavals reshape work and reorient attitudes […]

A company spun off from the maker of Vespa scooters wants robots to follow the leader. To that end, it has equipped a famous robot dog, Boston Dynamics’ Spot, with proof-of-concept technology to enable it to follow humans around.  Piaggio Fast Forward (PFF), which cut its teeth on a robot designed to follow humans and carry […]

News briefs for the week take a look at shipbuilding with robot welders, the versality of a dual-speed cobot, robotics aiding a biotech lab’s major pain points, orchard spraying via autonomous ground vehicles, VC funding in robotics for 2020 and the 2021 outlook for robotics. Robot welders to build U.S. Coast Guard vessel Danish-based Inrotech […]