robotics

Roberta Nelson Shea, Universal Robot’s Global Technical Compliance Officer, has received the the world’s most prestigious robotics prize, the Joseph F. Engelberger Robotics Award, often described as the Nobel Prize of robotics. She received the award at a ceremony at the Automate Show in Detroit.

The North American robotics market showed strong growth: Total installations in manufacturing rose by 12% and reached 41,624 units in 2022. Number one adopter is the automotive industry: companies based in the US, Canada and Mexico installed 20,391 industrial robots – up 30% compared to 2021. These are preliminary results, presented by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

“Our time is characterized by major global challenges such as climate protection, supply chain resilience, lack of specialists, and the establishment of digital production facilities Rocking Robots sat down with Anja Schneider, Exhibition Director of automatica, to discuss the growing significance of automatica as the world’s leading exhibition for intelligent automation and robotics, and the rapidly evolving role of robotics in organizations.

‘We want them to come back to the robot community in Odense’, say both Christian Schlette and Morten Nielsen in this Rocking robots videoreport from ERF 2023. This major European robotics event was hosted last week in Denmark, receiving over 1,200 participants from academia, government and business.

The future of robotics is intelligent machines, working together with and augmenting the skills of humans. Marco van der Hoeven reports on the trends at ERF 2023, which is hosted this week at Odense , Denmark.

The adoption of robots and automation technologies in businesses is at an all-time high, driven by macro forces like labor shortages. However, most businesses do not have a documented automation strategy in place, leading to missed opportunities and slow adoption beyond initial investments, according to research published by Søren Pap-Tolstrup, CEO of independent advisors Gain & Co.

The rapid growth of the robotics market means it is difficult to keep track of all the developments, suppliers and solutions. HowToRobot is mapping this fluid market in a growing number of countries, and provides a platform to get quotes internationally on robot related questions. Rocking Robots talked to CEO Søren Peters about his vision on the maturity and challenges of the current robotics-market.

Walking robots, flying drones, protective exoskeletons and more were developed at UMass Lowell, which recently celebrated 10 years of robotics at the university’s New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center.

Swedish online pharmacy Apotea has fully automated its logistics center. The company can now ship more than 50,000 orders to customers per day. For the first time, the entire process has been integrated and for the first time worldwide, the eOperator, a robot for piece-picking, has been included in the AutoStore application. This is the result of an international collaboration between Element Logic, AutoStore, RightHand Robotics and Apotea.

Just one year after returning from its unscheduled break, automatica, the exhibition for smart automation and robotics, will be held again from June 27 to 30, 2023. This is due to a change in its rhythm. From now on, the international automation industry will meet at the Munich exhibition center in odd years, side by side with LASER World of PHOTONICS—World’s Leading Trade Fair with Congress for Photonics Components, Systems and Applications.