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What does the future of drone technology look like? We have an idea!

05/02/17, 09:11 AM | Other Topics | Business Development, Technology Discussions

While most companies are focused on how drones work in the sky, XWorks is setting its sights on how they work on the ground, using a landing pad they call the RDISt (Robotic Docking and Interchange Station).

What Manufacturing Needs

04/18/17, 08:16 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Business Development, Opinions and Advice | Bishop-Wisecarver Group

U.S. labor statistics project we will be short some two million manufacturing workers in the next 10 years.

Robots Are Going Their Two Separate Ways

02/23/17, 08:28 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Analysis and Trends, Business Development

Mobility is a powerful enabler to intelligent robots as it increases the utilization of the robot in different form factors (land-based, air-based/space/drones, water-based and wearable/exoskeleton) and various applications.

How Dynamic Group Quadrupled Production Capacity with Collaborative Robots

02/09/17, 08:57 AM | Industrial Robotics | Business Development, Case Study | Universal Robots USA

This application produces a medical device with parts that are extremely heat sensitive, so cycle times have to be consistent from part to part.

Automation in IV Pharmacy Compounding

01/31/17, 11:08 AM | Industrial Robotics | Business Development, pharma

Automation in the pharmacy for IV drug compounding is still in its infancy.

$18.867 billion Paid to Acquire 50 Robotics Companies in 2016

01/17/17, 08:09 AM | Industrial Robotics, Other Topics | Business Development

Companies are reinventing themselves, looking at their business in a new way with regards to how can they be a disrupter, and how they can prevent being disrupted - and this opens up deal flow.

2016 Best Year Ever for Funding Robotics Startup Companies

01/05/17, 10:17 AM | Industrial Robotics, Other Topics | Business Development

128 companies got funded, some multiple times. $1.95 billion, 50% more than 2015 which was also a phenomenal year with over $1.32 billion funded.

RoboBusiness 2016: Our Takeaways

11/01/16, 08:15 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Business Development, Tradeshows and Conferences | Robotiq

Just like at Automatica last summer, it almost felt as if the robotics event was morphing into an IT event. So much so that Michael Loughlin of nelmia Robotics Insight joked that it looked like manufacturers forgot that their job is actually to build stuff.

A Look at a Danish Robotics Cluster

10/11/16, 09:28 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Business Development

Clusters don't just happen by accident. They need knowledge sharing, community spirit and participation by all of the stakeholders.

Growth of the Robotics Industry in Thailand

08/30/16, 08:11 AM | Industrial Robotics | Business Development

Under the automation and robotics cluster, the BOI (Thailand Board of Investment) promotes projects investing in automation machinery and/or automation equipment with engineering design and assembling of robots or automation equipment and/or parts.

Collaboration and Integration are Crucial for the Growth of the Robotics Industry

08/25/16, 09:06 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Analysis and Trends, Business Development | Vecna

The advancement of robotics will happen more quickly and provide more value with collaboration in the community around the adoption of reasonable interoperability standards.

Industrial Robots and Manufacturing Jobs - A Catalyst for Loss or Growth?

08/23/16, 08:17 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Business Development | OCTOPUZ

When disruptive technologies are introduced to the marketplace, there is an initial uncertainty among the general population about these unfamiliar products, services, or new ways of conducting business.

Solving the Custom Robot Parts Challenge: The Deshazo-MFG.com Story

07/28/16, 07:34 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Business Development

The number of unique parts required is high - some 200 parts in the past year or so - but the volume in which each part is needed is low, often only one or two.

What's Happening in Robotics? Five Trends to Watch

07/26/16, 07:29 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Analysis and Trends, business, Business Development

2016, through mid-June, shows 56 startups received $427.5 million; and that 20 acquisitions have happened thus far totaling $4.53 bn (from the 11 reporting amounts involved).

Logistic companies Swisslog, Dematic, Egemin and Intelligrated have all been Acquired

07/12/16, 08:30 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Business Development

All these companies are logistics and material handling vendors and times are changing in logistics and fulfillment

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