May 23, 2018 — Ann Arbor The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) announced the winners of the 2018 Engelberger Robotics Awards, the world's most prestigious robotics honor. The 2018 awards will be presented to Gudrun Litzenberger, the General Secretary of the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), and Esben Østergaard, CTO and Cofounder of Universal Robots.

Dec 15, 2017 — Tokyo International Robot Exhibition 2017 (iREX 2017), which was the largest scale ever, was a great success with 130,480 visitors from various countries during the four-day exhibition period from November 29 through December 2, 2017.

Dec 12, 2017 — Ann Arbor The North American automation market set new records through the first nine months of 2017, according to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), the leading global advocate for the benefits of automating. Results found records set in the areas of robotics, machine vision, motion control, and motor technology.

Apr 25, 2017 — Ann Arbor The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced that the Automate 2017 show and conference broke all previous attendance records with show attendance of 12,960 people, which is a 37 percent increase over 2015. With the collocated ProMat and ProFood Tech attendees taking advantage of free entry, well over 20,000 people visited Automate.

Jun 25, 2015

German robotics and automation sector on global growth course after record year - In the past years, robots have considerably contributed to economic growth and prosperity worldwide.