By Jenny Shern, general manager at NexCOBOT, part of Nexcom
Robot installations worldwide have more than doubled in the past decade – and deployments are no longer contained to the manufacturing line.
A growing wave of players are racing to develop advanced robots and humanoids with sophisticated capabilities in a variety of dynamic environments, from retail stores and hotel lobbies to eldercare facilities and bustling warehouses
For instance, Amazon’s newest collaborative robot, Vulcan, is equipped with tactile sensing that enables it to pick, sort, and stow objects with the finesse of a human hand. [Read more…] about Robots are getting smarter and more sophisticated. They also need to get safer