Portrait of Kateryna Portmann

One of 10 Women Shaping the Future of Robotics in 2025

May 06, 2025 — Hello, my name is Kateryna Portmann, and I am truly honored to be recognized as one of the women shaping the future of robotics. My journey into this field began in Ukraine, where I was raised in an environment where there were no limits on what boys and girls could achieve.

Portrait of Kate-Feng Xu

One of 10 Women Shaping the Future of Robotics in 2025

Apr 14, 2025 — Despite the growing number of women in China’s scientific community, now at around 40 million, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions, accounting for only 10 percent.

Could AI Level the Playing Field of Earnings Inequality?

The AI Twist

Feb 19, 2025 — For decades, technology has reshaped job markets throughout the world, often strengthening the relative position of the highly educated and skilled and those performing non-routine tasks.

2.1 million domestic floor cleaning robots sold in 2023

Global market development in vacuum cleaning robots from 2001 to today

Jan 23, 2025 — With more than 2 million units sold alone in 2023, floor cleaning robots account for close to 57% of domestic service robots and remain a major pillar of domestic service robots. Today, we see a fully mature market for domestic floor cleaning robots. This has not always been like that…

Integrating automated product disassembly

Pioneering Sustainability

Jan 15, 2025 — In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, sustainability has emerged as a crucial directive for manufacturing industries worldwide. One of the most transformative strategies to achieve this goal is the incorporation of automated product disassembly into the design process.

Quo vadis, mobile robotics?

A look at current trends and developments

Jan 15, 2025 — It is an exciting time for mobile robotics. Global events, technological advancements, and changing market conditions are increasingly influencing our industry. The growing labor shortage on the customer side further drives the topic of automation, and thus mobile robotics.

Driving Innovation in Service Robotics

Market Opportunities and Challenges for 2024

Dec 03, 2024 — Service robotics is an industry on the move. One trend are bipedal robots or humanoids with gigantic investments in the last months. Whether these robots will be a game changer is still open and so far, no sales could be observed.

Global Automation in 2023 and beyond

Challenges, Innovations, and Long-Term Growth Outlook

Nov 26, 2024 — Automation has become the cornerstone of the manufacturing industry. However, the potential is far from exhausting. Industries that already have a high degree of automation as well as those that have had little experience so far, are intensifying their work on automating their processes.

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