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What do burger flippers, call center workers, and many car wash workers have in common?
Over the past decade, a vast majority of their jobs have been taken over by robots. In fact, the more repetitive, routine, and simple a task is, the more susceptible that job is to takeover by an automated device.
Whether you call a machine that makes fast-food items on order at a rapid pace a robot or an automated food preparation device doesn’t matter. [Read more…] about How to Land a Robot-Proof Job
It’s out!!!
The 2021-22 Robotics and Automation News Awards brochure is out – finally! Sorry if it’s later than you expected.
In the brochure, you will see the 11 companies that received the highest numbers of readers’ votes in each category.
The three companies with the highest number of votes are listed in the “Nominees” section and one of them will receive the Readers’ Award. We will announce the winner at the presentation in late November or early December – exact date yet to be decided. [Read more…] about It’s out! The 2021-22 Robotics and Automation News Awards brochure
Robotics and Automation News is organising its first-ever awards event, despite the challenges caused by the global pandemic.
We had originally wanted to hold a live event, either by renting space at one of the big trade shows or a separate conference centre.
However, this is highly unlikely to happen, so we are planning a virtual awards ceremony for sometime in late October or early November 2021. [Read more…] about Awards update: Robotics and Automation News Awards 2021 to go ahead
Vote for your favourite companies using this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1c6DppSIyB8vSMo4fUWC1nGlXH5cmWTN4oS0EBSYS0ag/edit
After five years of publication, Robotics and Automation News is launching an awards competition to highlight and honour some of the many companies in the sector that we cover on a daily basis and which have done particularly well in terms of their technical innovations and their success in their respective markets.
As a website and media outlet, and a group of people putting it together, we are honoured to be in this position.
Over the past few years, we have seen the website grow from literally nothing to one of the most influential websites in the market today, and we have some very strong, well-established competition to compare ourselves and aspire to.
For these awards, we have chosen categories based on popular articles we have published over the past few years. These include:
1. 3D printing: Top 10 3D printer manufacturers
2. Agriculture: 30 farm automation technologies
3. Agriculture: Top 25 vertical farming companies
4. Computing: Top 25 AI chip companies
5. Energy: Top 20 electric vehicle charging station companies
6. Industrial control: Top 20 programmable logic controller manufacturers
7. Industrial design: Top 10 industrial design software applications by install base
8. Industrial robots: Top 30 robotic arm makers
9. Logistics: 30 robotic solutions for warehouses (autonomous mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, and automated storage and retrieval systems)
10. Logistics: Top 20 autonomous delivery robots
11. Software: Top 10 product lifecycle management applications by install base
12. Transportation: Top 25 autonomous shuttle manufacturers (driverless minibuses)
13. Networks: Industrial cloud providers
14. Various: Robotics and automation software and other companies
15. Systems: End effectors, peripherals, sensors and embedded technologies
Although the above lists include up to 30 companies, we will whittle them down to a shortlist of three to five in each category, and some of the categories themselves are likely to be removed because 12 may be too many. We’ll just have to see how much interest there is – we may omit some categories if not enough people vote in them.
You can vote for a maximum of three companies in each category using the online form, or nominate a judge to us by email. We encourage you to take part in any way you can so we can make this project as broadly representative of the audience’s opinions as possible.
Initially, we can open up voting to readers through an online form. These votes will be counted towards the “readers’ awards”.
We will have separate “judges’ awards”, and the judges will be chosen from a variety of different technical backgrounds or companies.
Closing date for voting is 30th June 2021. Main picture is just for illustrative purposes, and shows MX3D’s innovative robotic arm section.
Beautiful design of the online store does not guarantee its high conversion rates. Your visitors may like beautiful pictures. But they came to buy something.
And if the process of selecting, comparing and ordering products will be inconvenient, none of designer tricks will hold them.
Moreover, visitors make up their opinion instantly. According to Microsoft research, on average, it takes 10.5 seconds. [Read more…] about 5 Examples How to Improve the Usability of an E-Commerce Store
Omron has introduced its sixth wave of factory automation control equipment.
The company says the devices are built on a common design platform for unified product specifications, for further innovation in control panel building.
The products will be available as 237 models in six categories. [Read more…] about Omron introduces new control panel equipment for factory automation
JMP Solutions, industrial technology partner to Fortune 1000 companies, has earned CSIA Certified status in the Control System Integrators Association “Best Practices and Benchmarks” certification program.
This marks the 13th year JMP has held this coveted certification with CSIA, after receiving its initial certification in 2006. JMP is one of only 83 companies in the world that is CSIA certified.
JMP Solutions earned the certification following a successful audit administered by an independent consulting firm that assessed its performance against client-centric criteria in a wide range of business, project management, and system development categories. [Read more…] about JMP Solutions earns new control system integration certification
