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Robotics company Robco announces a financing round of 100 million US dollars. The company intends to use this to accelerate its roadmap for physical AI and expand its presence in the USA.
read more...International Federation of Robotics
Global sales of professional service robots have risen by 9% to almost 200,000 units, according to the annual report 'World Robotics - Service Robots' published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). The shortage of qualified workers is one of the main reasons for companies to rely on robots that are specially designed for use with trained specialists.
read more...International Federation of Robotics
The manufacturing industry installed a total of 542,000 new industrial robots in factories worldwide in 2024 - more than twice as many as ten years ago. This exceeded the 500,000 unit mark for the fourth year in a row, according to the World Robotics 2025 yearbook published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
read more...Technische Universität München
If autonomous robots are to interact with humans and perform tasks independently, the sensitivity of the robots is crucial. So far, however, there is no standardized method for determining this sensitivity and thus the suitability ('fitness') for physical interactions of individual robots. A TUM evaluation scheme aims to change this.
read more...From June 24 to 27, Automatica 2025 in Munich demonstrated the solutions that intelligent automation and robotics offer for the challenges of the future. A total of around 47,500 visitors from more than 90 nations gathered information from around 800 exhibitors from 40 countries.
read more...Omron has announced the establishment of a global robotics organization effective April 1, 2025. It will operate in parallel with Omron's automation business so that both areas can complement and support each other.
read more...Comau has signed a binding agreement to acquire Automha. The Italian company is active in the field of warehousing and intralogistics automation and is owned by Trasma.
read more...Kuka Digital, the newly established division of Kuka, has entered into a strategic partnership with Noux Node, a software provider based in Finland.
read more...International Federation of Robotics
The State Development and Reform Commission of China has announced that it will set up a publicly supported venture capital fund for robotics, artificial intelligence and cutting-edge innovations. A total of around 128 billion euros is to be raised over a period of twenty years.
read more...The Stuttgart-based AI robotics company Sereact and AWL are entering into a strategic partnership. The aim is to integrate Sereact's AI model into AWL's robotics solutions in order to offer highly flexible, self-learning automation systems for the intralogistics industry.
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