Robotics

• [New] In the next four years, over a million warehouse robots will be installed and that the number of warehouses using them will grow tenfold.
• [New] The use of ABB's robots and automation solutions will ensure remote digital connectivity and monitoring of the robots that will ride on Ola's proprietary AI engine and tech stack.
• [New] Ola will utilize ABB's automation solutions in its factory's key manufacturing process lines, including its painting and welding lines, while the ABB robots will be deployed extensively for the battery and motor assembly lines.
• [New] Experts in new technologies and economists seem to agree: robotics and deep learning by machines will change most of the economic activities in the coming decades, at a very fast pace.
• [New] Researchers at Harvard University have recently devised a system based on Wi-Fi sensing that could enhance the collaboration between robots operating in unmapped environments.
• [New] With each passing year, exponential technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics become more efficient, user-friendly, and affordable, creating an inescapable wave of disruption across the global economy.
• [New] Manufacturers will terminate their line workers and replace them with robotic arms like the ones made by Universal Robots.
• [New] Investment: The projection that companies will invest up to a huge $1.1 trillion in IoT by 2023 means that we can look forward to an increased ability to deploy robots into the construction industry.
• [New] To advance retail automation and infection prevention, Badger Technologies and UVDI will conduct micro-efficacy testing and in-store pilots of the Badger UV Disinfect robot during the first quarter of 2021.
• [New] Robots have spent years rolling around Mars, which is pretty cool, but for the first time NASA will use a small helicopter, dubbed Ingenuity, to try flying around the planet.
• In Spring 2021, Robotic Industries Association (RIA), AIA - Advancing Vision + Imaging, Motion Control & Motor Association, and A3 Mexico will become the Association for Advancing Automation.
• With so much investment pumping into research and development, we can be sure that more robots will be brought into action over the next few years.
• Meatpacking plants from Canada to Europe are buying up robotic arms, to curb the risk of outbreaks by reducing the number of workers on assembly lines.
• Robotics and the increasing use of automation represent some of the most exciting invest opportunities for traders in the coming years.
• The 5G connected workshop environment will enable enterprises of all sizes to explore multi-edge computing and robotics applications, and benefits, including a live 5G-connected robotics demonstration later in the year.
• A live 5G-connected robotics demonstrator will come on stream later in the year and will give companies of all sizes an insight into how 5G can boost their productivity through connected digital innovation.
• Walmart plans to build warehouses at its stores where self-driving robots will fetch groceries and have them ready for shoppers to pick up in an hour or less.
• Advances in robotics and autonomous systems will provoke a boom in off-planet infrastructure, including bases on the moon, orbital staging-posts and even space hotels.
• The robotic arm will be made available to owners of existing Spot robots, so long as they are prepared to send their devices in to Boston Dynamics to have it professionally fitted.
• ESA calls its robotic drill and miniature laboratory package Prospect and has created the main navigation system for the Russian lander, Luna-27, which will carry Prospect to the Moon.
• In the spring of 2021, the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) will become the Association for Advancing Automation, the global advocate for the benefits of automating.
• Leading Japanese banks plan to automate about 30,000 workplaces because, according to the outstanding banking sector specialist, the traditional business model has lost effectiveness in current conditions and does not provide adequate profit generation opportunities.
• The number of robots per worker could quadruple between now and 2025, which would be equivalent to adding 5.25 additional robots per thousand workers.

Last updated: 21 February 2021