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Crop Weed Control Robot -

Weed that grow among crops is a problem in many ways since humanity started agriculture. Weeds compete with crops for water, soil nutrients, sunlight. They can host pets, harbor diseases. They cost labor to remove them, either manually or chemically. This also increases overall costs and chemical removal may mean environmental impacts. Overall, weeds cause lower crop yield, decrease in quality, and higher costs. Considering […] Read More

Advanced Robotic Platforms from Deep Robotics -

DEEP Robotics develops a range of advanced robotic platforms, each designed for specific real-world applications across industrial, public service, and research sectors. Lite3 is an agile quadruped platform ideal for education, research, and light industrial tasks, offering versatility for developing AI and robotics solutions.Lite3 supports open source, users can develop advanced perception capabilities such as autonomous navigation, automatic obstacle avoidance, visual localization, environment reconstruction, customizable […] Read More

Collaborative Robot Market -

Technology overview Collaborative robots (also known as co-bots; an emerging automation technology) are designed to work alongside humans with precision, strength, and speed for achieving high efficiency in production. Collaborative robots differ from industrial robots in several ways, such as the absence of “safety fence” while working alongside humans, simplified programming and reduced setup time, integration of auto-speed reduction and distance monitoring or proximity sensors, […] Read More

RE2 Robotics Receives Air Force Funding to Develop Robotic Pilot -

PITTSBURGH, PA – June 21, 2017 – RE2 Robotics announced today that the Company was selected by the Air Force to develop a drop-in robotic system to rapidly convert a variety of traditionally manned aircraft to robotically piloted, autonomous aircraft under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. This robotic system, named “Common Aircraft Retrofit for Novel Autonomous Control” (CARNAC), will operate the aircraft similarly […] Read More

Get ready for robolution! -

How industrial robots will shape the work to come Industry 4.0 is one of the most discussed topic worldwide. All over the world, the race for innovation has become one on the main challenges that nations and companies have to face, working to create new policies able to take into account factors like Big Data, digitization and industrial robots. According to many, the latter is […] Read More

Naturipe Berry Growers Invests in Harvest CROO Robotics -

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                      CONTACT:    Gary Wishnatzki O: (813)498-4278 C: (813)335-3959 gw@harvestcroo.com     NATURIPE BERRY GROWERS INVESTS IN HARVEST CROO ROBOTICS Adds to the growing list of strawberry industry investors   Tampa, FL (September 20, 2016) – Naturipe Berry Growers has joined the growing list of strawberry industry investors supporting Harvest CROO Robotics’ mission to answer the need for agricultural labor with technology.  […] Read More

Sarcos Robotics Secures Investment from Caterpillar, GE and Microsoft -

BELLEVUE, WA and SALT LAKE CITY, UT (Business Wire) September 12, 2016 – Sarcos Robotics, a global leader in the development of dexterous industrial robots for use in unstructured environments, announced today it has secured funding from a group of top-tier strategic investors including Caterpillar Ventures, GE Ventures, and Microsoft Corporation. Additionally, Cottonwood Technology Fund and two other private investment firms, together with the Company’s […] Read More

Robotiq Launches DoF a community for Robotics professionals -

Québec City, Canada, September 12, 2016 – Robotiq launches DoF, an open community where industrial automation professionals share their know-how and get answers to accelerate their robotics projects. DoF is meant as a medium for sharing ideas and solving automation problems. “We realized that the know-how is locked in the head of automation engineers who can’t talk to each other because they are far apart, […] Read More

Worldwide Civil UAS Production -

Teal Group Predicts Worldwide Civil UAS Production Will Total $65 Billion in Its 2016 UAS Market Profile and Forecast   Fairfax, Virginia – July 7, 2016. Civil Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) promise to be the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, report Teal analysts in their latest market analysis. The emergence of the commercial UAS market, growth in demand from […] Read More

World Medical Robotics and Computer – Assisted Surgery Market -

World Medical Robotics and Computer – Assisted Surgery Market Is Expected to Reach $20.5 Billion by 2022 – Allied Market Research A new report published by Allied Market Research titled, World Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery Market – Opportunities and Forecasts, 2015 -2022, projects that the world medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery market would reach $20.5 billion by 2022. The surgical robotics segment was the […] Read More