Robotics
Collaborative market rebounds in 2021
Traditional industrial robots will maintain their presence, but opportunities exist for the cobot market to grow in automotive spaces.
Soft assistive robotic wearables benefit from rapid design tool
MIT researchers have created a design and fabrication tool for soft pneumatic actuators for integrated sensing, which can power personalized health care, smart homes, and gaming.
Microrobot collectives display versatile movement patterns
Researchers have developed collectives of microrobots, which they can move in every formation they wish.
Industrial robot market growth accelerating
Industrial robots used to be a mature market, but COVID-19 has turbo-charged factory automation and is attracting considerable new investment.
Easier ways to teach robots new skills
MIT researchers have developed a technique that enables a robot to learn a pick-and-place task with only a handful of human demonstrations.
How eye imaging technology could help robots and cars see better
Researchers from Duke University are applying lessons learned from decades of perfecting eye-imaging technologies to tomorrow’s autonomous systems sensor technologies.
Six winners announced for annual robotics award
Six winners were named for the 2022 Engelberger Robotics Awards and will be honored at Automate 2022 and Automatica in June.
Teaching robots to manipulate soft objects
Researchers have developed a technique that could enable a robot to manipulate squishy objects like pizza dough or soft materials like clothing.
Cobot market set for double-digit annual growth rates
The pandemic has encouraged more companies to try a cobot as a solution to virus-related disruption, on-going labor shortages and more.
Mobile robot sales poised for large increase
In 2021, global autonomous mobile robot (AMR) revenues surpassed 100,000 units and overall sales are expected to increase to more than 600,000 by 2025.
