Tag: home robots
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Fast-growing sectors within robotics and automation
If we were to think of robotics and automation as one industry – which we at this website in fact do – we could argue that it’s one of the fastest-growing industries in the world right now. Certainly if we were to include software automation systems – such as robotic process automation – it would…
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Time Magazine picks several automation technologies in its top 25 inventions of the year
Time Magazine has chosen several automation technologies in its selection of what it considers the top 25 inventions of 2017. Although it doesn’t seem to have listed them in any numerical order, it did place the Jibo home robot at the top. Jibo is not mobile in the way many home robots are, but its…
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Midea planning robot bartenders and factories with no human workers in them
Midea, the Chinese company which acquired industrial robotics and automation systems supplier Kuka, is planning to launch robot bartenders and design factories where no humans are needed. Neither one of the ideas is new, since most visitors to robotics industry events may have seen at least one robotic arm pouring and serving up a drink,…