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Don’t blame technology for persistent unemployment | Slate
Posting on the Slate blog Future Tense, James Bessen takes issue with the notion that technology causes unemployment, illustrating his point by debunking a pair of frequently cited examples, textile...
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ABB, Nike and a Silicon Valley VC invest $3 million in Grabit
Grabit, a 2012 SRI International spin-off, secures $3 million in Series A funding from ABB Technology Ventures, Nike and Formation 8, a tech VC in Silicon Valley. Grabit’s products include grippers...
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Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of...
With an ever-increasing need to feed the world’s hungry, the agricultural sector has long been an important boon to the field of robotics: the sector’s widespread acceptance and use of automation...
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From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies...
The popular conception of farming as low-tech is woefully out of date. Modern farmers are high-tech operators: They use GIS software to plan their fields, GPS to guide field operations, and auto-steer...
View ArticleLynne Parker on “What were the highlights at IROS/iREX this year?”
I found the plenary speeches at IROS to be especially interesting. Marc Raibert gave an entertaining talk on the robots being developed at Boston Dynamics. It’s encouraging to see that robots are...
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Factory-in-a-Day: EU FP7 invests €7.9M to make robotics affordable for SMEs
Factory-in-a-Day is an EU initiative to develop a robotic system that is inexpensive, leasable, and can be set up and working in 24 hours. The goal is to make advanced robotic systems, which currently...
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Swiss to invest almost CHF30 million in digital fabrication research over...
Photo credit: Gramazio & Kohler, ETH Zurich Over the next four years, the Swiss will invest almost CHF30 million to build a new National Centre of Competence in Research for digital fabrication in...
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Bloomberg Businessweek says: “Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It.”
Although politicians and economists may have been aggravated by the article, the figures are impressive and worthy of study. Manufacturing makes up 12% of the U.S. economy with only 10% of the...
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Competing sales reports for industrial robotics
Research and Markets, an online market research store, is offering a new $3,000 report, Global and Chinese Automotive Industrial Robotics Industry Report 2013-2014, with figures that differ sharply...
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Robots Podcast: Industry and society
Link to audio file (33:13) In today’s episode Per Sjöborg speaks with Rezia Molfino from the PMAR group at University of Genova about how all robots are service robots, it’s just that they serve people...
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Robotic skills want-ads up 13% in 2013
Comparing 2013 to 2012, demand for robotics skills increased 13% year-over-year. Further evaluation shows that the bulk of hiring is in the healthcare sector. WANTED Analytics, a research firm...
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The economic impact of the robotic revolution
Whilst the word ‘robot’ generally conjures up visions of humanoids with superior intelligence, this science fiction image tends to forget the other type of robots: machines that carry out complicated...
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ROV operations expenditures to grow to $1.5 billion by 2017
Douglas-Westwood, an energy research group, says (in their $5,000 World ROV Operations Market Forecast 2013-2017 report), that ROV operations expenditures will grow 80% over the next 5 years. 75% of...
View ArticleChinese city aims to have 80% of production done by Robots by 2020
South China’s economic powerhouse of Guangzhou has set a goal of having 80 percent of the city’s manufacturing production done by robots instead of human labor by 2020.According to an industrial...
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Make it smart; make it here!
Make it smart and make it here! These are the rallying words heard around the world regarding keeping jobs in-country and manufacturing smarter, more efficiently, and less costly. In the EU, the...
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EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner
The European Robotics Challenge (EuRoC) Info Day will take place on May 5, 2014 at the Fraunhofer IPA auditorium in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will have the opportunity to present...
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Robots Podcast: Zero Tillage Robotics
Link to audio file (27:19) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting,...
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IFR reports record 2013 industrial robot sales
At a press conference this morning at AUTOMATICA 2014 in Munich, International Federation of Robotics (IFR) President Arturo Baroncelli announced that 179,000 industrial robots were sold in 2013, a...
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ROS meets precision agriculture at Blue River Technology
If you were to design the worst possible environment for software engineering, the cramped jump seat of a John Deere tractor would be a contender. The sound and vibration of the engine makes...
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Grasping objects in a way that is suitable for manipulation
This post is part of our ongoing efforts to make the latest papers in robotics accessible to a general audience. Robots are expected to manipulate a large variety of objects from our everyday lives....
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