Robots enable industry to meet economic challenges
Oct 13, 2022 — Robotics as a technology is making a fundamental contribution towards supporting industries and business to immunise their core production processes against the outcomes of each global crisis. Despite all global headwinds, a record 517,385 new robots were installed across all industries in 2021.
ROS is advancing robotics for tomorrow’s challenges
Aug 10, 2022 — From its roots in academia to the first startup applications ROS and now ROS 2 along with the open source project ROS-Industrial are making a real difference with real solutions and products.
Jun 09, 2022 — Are humans still at the center of innovation? This question is at the heart of the debate on roboethics, a topic that SIRI identifies as fundamental to the future development of robotics.
Mar 08, 2022 — There is considerable misunderstanding around the role of AI in robotics. Human-like robots with super intelligence are standard fare in entertainment, while terms such as ‘robotic process automation’ and ‘bots’ refer to software applications with no physical robot.
Record number of service robotics companies observed
Nov 22, 2021 — The challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic continued in 2021 – for many of us much longer and tougher than we had expected back in the summer of last year. However, after many “lessons learned”, with a variety of new concepts and many compromises in private and professional everyday life we approach the “New Normal”.
Events
Automatik 2024
September 10- September 12, 2024
Expo & Conferences
Japan Robot Week 2024
September 18- September 20, 2024
onsite and online
CORA 2024
September 23- September 24, 2024
Conference on Robots and Automation
Robot Heart co-located with BI-MU
October 09- October 12, 2024
The art of smart robotics
RobotWorld 2024
October 23- October 26, 2024
RobotWorld, which is the biggest specialized robotics exhibition in Korea
Automate
May 12- May 15, 2025
Discover the latest in robotics, machine vision, AI, motion control, and related technologies.
World Robotics – Industrial Robots: Asia ahead of Europe and the Americas
The report recorded 553,052 industrial robot installations in factories around the world – a growth rate of 5% in 2022, year-on-year. By region, 73% of all newly deployed robots were installed in Asia, 15% in Europe and 10% in the Americas.
World Robotics – Service Robots: Worldwide sales of professional robots grew by 48%
In 2022, worldwide sales of professional service robot grew by 48%. Almost 158,000 sold units were registered by IFR Statistical Department. The size of the RaaS fleet grew by 50% to more than 21,000 units. At the same time sales of Consumer robots decreases by 12% to about 5 million units. There are hardly any RaaS models offered in this category.
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