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A Review of the 2022 RBR50 Innovation Awards

April 27, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

In this episode, Steve, Mike and Dan discuss the 2022 RBR50 awards and talk about some of their favorite innovations from the last year.

Filed Under: Analysis, News Tagged With: RBR50

RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards 2022

April 19, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

The RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards honor technology, business, and market innovations, as well as the robotics and automation organizations worldwide that were responsible for them.

Filed Under: Analysis, News

Report: cobot market to grow 20-30% annually

April 18, 2022 By Maya Xiao Leave a Comment

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Cobots have broken out of manufacturing and into the wider service sector. For this reason, the cobot market will start to be more closely related to the performance of the wider macro economy.

Filed Under: Analysis, News

Teradyne’s Robotics Summit keynote to discuss how cobots can solve labor crisis

April 14, 2022 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Greg Smith, president of the Industrial Automation Group at Teradyne, will discuss the market drivers of human scale automation and present a model of the market potential for collaborative robots.

Filed Under: Analysis, Cobot Arms, News Tagged With: Robotics Summit, Universal Robots

When to use collaborative robots for manufacturing

October 8, 2021 By Doug Walker Leave a Comment

Automating part of the production line is a big step for companies. Instead of going all the way with a traditional programmable robot, a collaborative robot arm can be a valuable in-between solution. Also known as cobots, the technology is more affordable, more space-efficient, and excels at ease of use. Cobots enable rapid replacement of […]

Filed Under: Analysis, Cobots 101, Manufacturing, News

China, US to drive post-COVID cobot sales

January 19, 2021 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

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The COVID-19 slowed the cobot industry, but Interact Analysis indicates there will be a V-shaped rebound in 2021.

Filed Under: Analysis, China, Cobot Arms, News

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks to examine mega trends in RoboBusiness Direct keynote

September 22, 2020 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

RoboBusiness Direct Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, Rethink Robotics, and Robust.AI, will discuss mega trends and their affect on robotics development in his RoboBusiness Direct keynote.

Filed Under: Analysis, News, Opinion Tagged With: RoboBusiness Direct, Robust.ai

Interact Analysis’ Ash Sharma to focus on the business value of AMRs at RoboBusiness Direct

September 4, 2020 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

Interact Analysis' Ash Sharma to focus on the business value of AMRs at RoboBusiness Direct

As part of the RoboBusiness Direct series, Interact Analysis Managing Director Ash Sharma will analyze the recent growth of autonomous mobile robots and how they provide value to different markets.

Filed Under: AMRs, Analysis, News, Supply Chain Tagged With: Interact Analysis, RoboBusiness Direct

How cobots & lean integrators are bringing automations to SMEs

July 15, 2020 By Joe Campbell Leave a Comment

RCM Industries keeps jobs in the U.S. with help from UR10e cobot fleet

The rapid proliferation of cobots have resulted in the emergence of a new class of ‘lean’ integrators adapted to the needs of SMEs who wish to automate.

Filed Under: Analysis, Cobot Arms, Opinion Tagged With: Universal Robots

How robots are succeeding — and failing — in the world of logistics

June 24, 2020 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

FedEx’s Aaron Prather will review the opportunities for robotics in the logistics sector, including circumstances that lead to deployment failures.

Filed Under: AMRs, Analysis, Materials Handling, News, Supply Chain, Webinars Tagged With: FedEx, RoboBusiness Direct

2020 RBR50 innovation award winners named

June 15, 2020 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

Robotics Business Review, a sibling publication to Collaborative Robotics Trends, has announced the 2020 RBR50 innovation awards, which recognize excellence and advancement of technology, business, or applications.

Filed Under: Analysis, Design & Development, Digital Issues, News Tagged With: OnRobot, RBR50

8 reasons to stay positive about US economy during COVID-19 crisis

April 22, 2020 By Paul Heney Leave a Comment

Alan Beaulieu of ITR Economics examined what COVID-19 means for the US economy over the next few months and years. Here’s why you should remain positive.

Filed Under: Analysis

Digital Issue: Robotic grippers and end-of-arm tooling

February 12, 2020 By Eugene Demaitre Leave a Comment

Digital Issue: Grippers and end-of-arm tooling

In this month’s issue of The Robot Report, a special print insert in Design World, we get a grip on robotic manipulation and end-of-arm tooling.

Filed Under: Analysis, Cobot Arms, Digital Issues, Grippers, News

Collaborative Robots Comparison Tool

by Steve Crowe 11 Comments

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A comparison of 100 collaborative robots by maximum payload, maximum horizontal reach, repeatability and degrees of freedom.

Filed Under: Analysis, Cobot Arms, Cobots 101, News

Robots with high degrees of freedom face barriers to adoption

October 2, 2019 By Cobot Trends Staff Leave a Comment

Robots with high degrees of freedom face barriers to adoption

Why aren’t robots with high degrees of freedom more popular? Energid CEO Neil Tardella explains that it’s a matter of cost and flexible programming.

Filed Under: 6-Axis, Analysis, Cobot Arms Tagged With: Energid

How environmental factors affect robotic joints

August 31, 2019 By Lisa Eitel Leave a Comment

In this contributed piece, Kollmorgen engineers describe environmental factors to watch for that could affect the performance of robot motors, gears, and sensors.

Filed Under: Actuators / Motors / Servos, Analysis, Motion Control, News Tagged With: Kollmorgen

Anatomy of HAHN Group’s plans for Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer

March 7, 2019 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Anatomy of HAHN Group's plans for Rethink Robotics' Sawyer

Former integrators for Rethink Robotics explain what went wrong with the company’s cobots and comment on HAHN Group’s plan to revive the Sawyer product.

Filed Under: Actuators / Motors / Servos, Analysis, Cobot Arms Tagged With: HAHN Group, Rethink Robotics

Rethink Robotics: A look inside the cobot maker’s shutdown

November 14, 2018 By Steve Crowe Leave a Comment

Why did Rethink Robotics shut down? It’s a combination of design, target market, and timing, finds our editor.

Filed Under: Analysis, Cobot Arms, Investments, Opinion Tagged With: Rethink Robotics

Lessons from Rethink Robotics shutdown from GM cobot pioneer

October 5, 2018 By Prasad Akella Leave a Comment

Lessons from Rethink Robotics shutdown from GM cobot pioneer

A GM pioneer in the development of collaborative robots points out some lessons to be learned from Rethink Robotics’ demise.

Filed Under: Analysis, Cobot Arms, Opinion Tagged With: General Motors, Rethink Robotics

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