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At the European Robotics Forum (ERF), which kicked off yesterday in Rotterdam, a broad range of topics related to robotics was discussed by representatives of science, business and public sector. In this interview with Rocking robots Bernd Liepert, president of euRobotics, discusses trends in robotics, the world class robotics start-up ecosystem in Europe and the crucial role of SMB.

‘We are at the beginning of a big explosion of robotics’, says Melonee Wise of Zebra Technologies in this report from Automatica in Munich. This week she received the  ‘Nobel Prize’ of robotics, the 2022 Engelberger Award for her contributions to robotics technology. The award is bestowed by the Association for Advancing Automation (A3).

Yesterday Universal Robots unveiled their newest cobot, the UR20, at Automatica 2022.  Afterwards Rocking Robots talked to president Kim Povlsen on the challenges this cobot is addressing, and his vision on the rapidly growing cobotmarket.

With demand for robots growing as companies in multiple sectors look for new ways to enhance their productivity and competitiveness post-pandemic, ABB has compiled a set of growth predictions, looking at key trends driving demand for robots in the coming year.

From 28 to 30 June, the thirteenth edition of the European Robotics Forum (ERF) will take place in Rotterdam. With about a thousand visitors, this will be the largest robotics event in Europe, where a diverse group of participants, from industry and science to government and end users, will exchange views on a wide range of topics.

The operational stock of industrial robots hit a new record of about 3 million units worldwide – increasing by 13% on average each year (2015-2020). The International Federation of Robotics analyzes the top 5 trends shaping robotics and automation around the globe.

What are the latest trends in automation? At the beginning of the new year there are of course all kinds of predictions. For the manufacturing-industry Diego Lombardo, VP of Product Marketing at UiPath, recently highlighted some market trends for Europe in the webinar Automation Accelerates: Industry Trends for 2022 and Beyond.

Everyone is fed up of hearing about the pandemic and the catastrophic impact it has had on the world. But the fact is, although statistics confirm Covid-19 is waning, the rise of new variants including Omicron means the virus is still very much present and working its way through the population, continuing to leave its destruction behind it. 

At the start of the new year we look at some strategic predictions Gartner is making for the future of technology:

Automatisierung zählt laut McKinsey zu den Top-Technologie-Trends weltweit. Auch in Deutschland werden in mehr als 70 Prozent aller Unternehmen bereits Software-Roboter bei mindestens fünf Prozessen eingesetzt. Fast ebenso viele Firmen planen weitere Investitionen in den kommenden zwölf Monaten, das zeigt eine aktuelle IDG-Studie. Die Experten bei UiPath sehen daher in diesem Umfeld für das kommende Jahr vier große Trends im Bereich Automatisierung; drei davon beziehen sich auf neue Aufgaben im C-Level der Unternehmen.