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The Global Mobile Robotics Market is poised to grow strong during the forecast period 2018 to 2028. Some of the prominent trends that the market is witnessing include adoption of UAVs for applications such as agriculture, surveying and mapping, focus on developing robots with special features, and increasing geriatric population worldwide boosting demand for service robots for elderly assistance.

According to component, the market is bifurcated into software, hardware, and support and service. in addition hardware segment is divided into power supply, actuator, sensor, control system, and other hardware components. Other hardware components are further divided into mechanical components, and electrical and electronic.

This industry report analyzes the market estimates and forecasts of all the given segments on global as well as regional levels presented in the research scope. The study provides historical market data for 2017, 2018 revenue estimations are presented for 2019 and forecasts for 2023 and 2028. The study focuses on market trends, leading players, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, and future strategies. With comprehensive market assessment across the major geographies such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America and Rest of the world the report is a valuable asset for the existing players, new entrants and the future investors.

The study presents detailed market analysis with inputs derived from industry professionals across the value chain. A special focus has been made on 23 countries such as U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Germany, Spain, France, Italy, China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, etc. The market data is gathered from extensive primary interviews and secondary research. The market size is calculated based on the revenue generated through sales from all the given segments and sub segments in the research scope. The market sizing analysis includes both top-down and bottom-up approaches for data validation and accuracy measures.

Report Highlights:

Key Topics Covered:

1 Market Outline

1.1 Research Methodology

1.1.1 Research Approach & Sources

1.2 Market Trends

1.3 Regulatory Factors

1.4 Product Analysis

1.5 Application Analysis

1.6 Strategic Benchmarking

1.7 Opportunity Analysis

2 Executive Summary

3 Market Overview

3.1 Current Trends

3.1.1 Adoption of UAVs for Applications Such as Agriculture, Surveying and Mapping

3.1.2 Focus on Developing Robots With Special Features

3.1.3 Increasing Geriatric Population Worldwide Boosting Demand for Service Robots for Elderly Assistance

3.1.4 Growth Opportunities/Investment Opportunities

3.2 Drivers

3.3 Constraints

3.4 Industry Attractiveness

3.4.1 Bargaining power of suppliers

3.4.2 Bargaining power of buyers

3.4.3 Threat of substitutes

3.4.4 Threat of new entrants

3.4.5 Competitive rivalry

4 Mobile Robotics Market, By Component

4.1 Software

4.2 Hardware

4.3 Support and Service

5 Mobile Robotics Market, By Product

5.1 Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)

5.2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

5.3 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

5.4 Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV)

6 Mobile Robotics Market, By Application

6.1 Entertainment, Education, and Personal

6.2 Domestic

6.3 Field

6.4 Military and Defense

6.5 Public Relations and Inspection

6.6 Human Exoskeleton

6.7 Construction and Demolition

6.8 Logistics and Warehousing

6.9 Medical

6.10 Painting & DE Painting

6.11 Coating & Dispensing

7 Mobile Robotics Market, By Type

7.1 Personal and Domestic Robots

7.2 Professional Robots

8 Mobile Robotics Market, By Geography

8.1 North America

8.2 Europe

8.3 Asia Pacific

8.4 Middle East

8.5 Latin America

8.6 Rest of the World (RoW)

9 Key Player Activities

9.1 Acquisitions & Mergers

9.2 Agreements, Partnerships, Collaborations and Joint Ventures

9.3 Product Launch & Expansions

9.4 Other Activities

10 Leading Companies

10.1 Northrop Grumman Corporation

10.2 Kongsberg Maritime

10.3 Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

10.4 Softbank Robotics

10.5 Irobot Corporation

10.6 Ubtech Robotics, Inc.

10.7 Boston Dynamics

10.8 Kuka Ag

10.9 Lockheed Martin Corporation

10.10 Amazon Robotics

10.11 Bluefin Robotics Corporation

10.12 Samsung Electronics

10.13 Google, Inc.

10.14 Adept Technology, Inc.

10.15 Geckosystems Intl. Corp.

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Otto Motors, the industrial division of Clearpath Robotics, is expanding into the Japanese market.

The move marks Ontario-based Ottos first expansion outside North America.

Otto Motors produces self-driving vehicles also referred to as autonomous mobile robots or warehouse robots that move materials within manufacturing and warehousing facilities.

Otto is partnering with Altech, a specialized trading company that imports advanced machinery and equipment from Europe and the US to support Japanese industrial companies.

The companies announced their partnership at RoboDEX2020, an annual robot development and application expo being held in Tokyo.

Richard Baker, Ottos chief revenue officer, says: This is a big moment for Otto Motors. Our innovative self-driving vehicles have been helping modernize factories throughout the United States and Canada since 2015.

Otto Motors entered the Japan market in 2018, and with several successful deployments completed, we are expanding our efforts in Japan working alongside Altech.

Together, Otto Motors and Altech have already begun to serve customers in the automotive, logistics, food and industrial equipment industries.

One such customer is Hirotec, a leading Tier 1 automotive parts supplier to Mazda. Hirotec installed three Otto self-driving vehicles within its Hiroshima plant to deliver Mazda door panels to welding cells as part of a mission-critical process.

The Otto materials handling platform allowed Hirotec to easily reconfigure its process to improve material movement efficiency and increase throughput.

By installing the three Otto self-driving vehicles, Hirotec was able to eliminate the need for eight legacy autonomous guided vehicles.

This is the second deployment of Otto within Hirotec, they were first deployed at Hirotec Americas in 2017 to automate spare parts production.

Hidehiko Suyama, executive director of Altech, says: Altech has a proud history of providing high-quality technology products and services to our customers.

Now, we are proud to be the first to bring Otto Motors products to the Japanese market, where we know there is great demand across several industries.

Otto expansion in Japan and partnership with Altech come at an important time for the market.

While there is a lot of attention on self-driving passenger vehicles, self-driving industrial vehicles, such as Ottos fleet of autonomous mobile robots and carts, are transforming material handling in numerous factories and warehouses.

The global market for mobile robotics is expected to exceed $224 billion by 2030, according to global technology market advisory firm ABI Research.

Demand in Japan will be particularly high because of the countrys demographic inversion. Having fewer young people than older people means that there is not enough labor supply to do all the work needed to power the economy.

Japanese manufacturers must rely on self-driving vehicles and other forms of industrial automation because there simply are not enough humans to do all the work that needs to be done.

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Chinas pioneering technology and internet companies are investing in artificial intelligence to erode the military advantage enjoyed in recent decades by the United States, according to western military officials.

In artificial intelligence, nobody knows exactly where everybody is in this kind of [development] to mention one of them, autonomous systems and so on, France's Gen. Andre Lanata, NATOs supreme allied commander for transformation, told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview. We all know that everybody is looking to such development, but we don't know exactly what is the level of investment these countries are providing and until which point they are.

Lanata, who leads NATO efforts to develop and upgrade military capabilities, echoed a U.S. admirals recent warning that U.S. adversaries can reach even the East Coast with a modern arsenal. The French general went a step further in saying just how modern, as his comments raise the specter of American forces surprised to find themselves outgunned by Chinas lethal autonomous weapons, or killer robots, as theyre sometimes known.

It's very difficult to say what is the gap, what will be the gap, as we have not a clear vision on the latest developments especially on the Chinese side, said Lanata, who is based in Norfolk, Va.

The technology is expected to "use sensor suites and computer algorithms to independently identify a target and employ an onboard weapon system to engage and destroy the target," as the Congressional Research Service put it recently.

Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humankind, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in 2017. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.

Essentially, you have two sides that are worried about the other gaining an advantage, Peter Singer, an expert in what he calls the Robotics Revolution, said in September. That then has the ironic result of them both plowing resources into it, competing against each other, and becoming less secure.

The artificial intelligence race is just one area in which China and Russia are developing weapons that could rival U.S. capabilities, as military officials warn that the U.S. Navy should not feel safe even in home ports on the East Coast.

If we were to look at how great power competition will be driven, it will be driven by investments in gray matter as much as gray hulls, Vice Adm. Andrew "Woody" Lewis, who is also based in Norfolk, said last week. The gap that we'll have on a technological basis, weapons systems, will not be that great. It's how we fight.

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The deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has pushed the Chinese medical community into overdrive, has also prompted the countrys hospitals to more quickly adopt robots as medical assistants.

Telepresence bots that allow remote video communication, patient health monitoring and safe delivery of medical goods are growing in number on hospital floors in urban China. Theyre now acting as a safe go-between that helps curb the spread of the coronavirus.

A local resident uses a drone to spray disinfectant over a village in Henan province on Jan. 31.

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Keenon Robotics Co., a Shanghai-based company, deployed 16 robots of a model nicknamed little peanut to a hospital in Hangzhou after a group of Wuhan travelers to Singapore were held in quarantine. Siasun Robot and Automation Co. donated seven medical robots and 14 catering service robots to the Shenyang Red Cross to help hospitals combat the virus on Wednesday, according to a media release on the companys website. Keenon and Siasun didnt reply immediately to requests for comment. JD.com Inc. is testing the use of autonomous delivery robots in Wuhan, the company said in a statement. Local media has also reported robots being used in hospitals in the city as well as in Guangzhou, Jiangxi, Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin.

Siasun service robots in Shenyang, China in 2015.

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The rapid spread of the coronavirus has left provincial hospitals straining to cope and helped accelerate the embrace of robots as one solution, turning the gadgets into medical assistants. These bots join Chinas tech-heavy response to the coronavirus outbreak, which also includes airborne drones and work-from-home apps. The jury remains out on how effective these coping tactics will be.

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Chinas rapid buildout of fifth-generation wireless networking in areas around urban hospitals has also seen a rise in 5G-powered medical robots -- equipped with cameras that allow remote video communication and patient monitoring. These are in contrast to robots like little peanut, whose primary function is to make indoor deliveries.

The technology of robots used in Chinese hospitals isnt high, but what this virus is also highlighting -- and it could be the next stage of Chinese robots -- is the use of medical robot deployment, said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Nikkie Lu.

China Mobile Ltd. donated one 5G robot each to both Wuhan Union Hospital and Tongji Tianyou Hospital this week, according to a report by ThePaper.cn. Riding the 5G network, these assistant bots carry a disinfectant tank on board and will be used to safely clean hospital areas along a predetermined route, reducing the risk to medical personnel.

Zhejiang Peoples Hospital used a 5G robot to diagnose its first coronavirus patient on Sunday, according to a report by the Hangzhou news center run by the State Council Information Office. Beijing Jishuitan Hospital performed remote surgery on a patient in Shandong province via China Telecom Corp.s 5G network last June.

An employee tests a delivery robot.

While it may take patients a moment or two to get over the shock of being helped by a robot rather than a medical professional, bots have already permeated a growing number of sectors in Chinese society including nursing homes, restaurants, warehouses, banks and over 200 kindergartens.

Financial services company Huachuang Securities Co. believes even more robots are in Chinas immediate future. Pointing to National Bureau of Statistics data suggesting that domestic production of industrial robots increased by 15.3% in the month of December, they predict similarly fast growth in the current quarter, according to a report published by Finance Sina.

The increased quantity of robots deployed to combat the coronavirus has helped accelerate Chinas path to the goal it had already set for itself. The country wants to become one of the worlds top 10 most intensively automated nations by the end of this year.

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NIOSH and the National Science Foundations Funding for Workplace Robots

Funding will soon be available to further research collaborative robots (co-robots) in the workplace. The deadline to apply is February 26, 2020.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently announced its partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the US Department of Agriculture to make funding available for collaborative robotics studies.

The Program Announcement from Dec. 2, 2019 called for proposal applications for the National Robotics Initiative 2.0 (NRI 2.0). The program reportedly expands on the original robotics initiative program to better support research of co-robotsrobots whose main purpose is to work with other people or other robots to accomplish a goal.

NIOSH sees potential in co-robots specifically to help reduce workplace risk exposures. Further research on co-robots will hopefully identify potential risks of co-robots to workers and evaluate various control strategies to protect workers.

Project research proposals should address industry sectors likely to deploy and benefit from co-robots such as agriculture, construction, healthcare, and mining. Proposals should consider modeling and simulation to evaluate potential hazards to humans in a virtual environment.

NIOSH will consider projects with budgets ranging from $85,000 to $250,000 per year for up to three years.

Those interested in applying for funding can read more about the opportunity on the NSF website. The deadline to apply is February 26, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. in the submitters local time zone. There are a number of platforms to which applicants can submit: FastLane, Research.gov, or Grants.gov.

This program and funding is through NIOSHs Center for Occupational Robotics Research which works to guide the development and use of occupational robots that enhance workers safety, health, and well-being. The Center researches a number of robotic topics such as robotic cells and cages away from human workers, emerging robotic technologies, wearable robotics or powered exoskeletons, remotely controlled or autonomous vehicles and drones, and future robots using advanced artificial intelligence.

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Today, Denmarks Minister of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Simon Kollerup, unveiled what will become the new home of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) and Universal Robots (UR), the two flagships in the thriving Danish robotics industry. The companies will share 32,000 m2 (334,000 square feet) in a new "cobot hub" in the city of Odense, the heart of Denmarks rapidly expanding robotics cluster.

With financial backing from their joint U.S. parent company Teradyne, Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) and Universal Robots (UR) have acquired a 50,000 m2 building site in Odense, where $36 million will be invested in the construction of a major cobot hub in the "cobot capital" of the world. Collaborative robots or cobots are now the fastest growing segment of industrial automation. Cobots are a type of user-friendly robots that can work closely with humans without the need for safety guarding, enhancing both work environment and productivity.

The new cobot hub supports Teradynes mission to further strengthen the significant leads that both MiR and UR have established worldwide.

"MiR and UR are leading the world in the collaborative robot revolution thats making automation solutions available to companies of all sizes. Teradyne continues to invest aggressively in the development of new products, solutions, and sales channels and this new facility is a key part of our growth strategy," says Mark Jagiela, President and CEO of Teradyne. "We have found something very special in Denmark. The Danes combination of innovative industrial design, combined with a practical business sense, have created a perfect combination for this emerging industry. The ability to make robots work in collaboration with humans in a user-friendly manner is something we have not encountered to this degree anywhere else in the world and were very excited to expand our capabilities in Odense."

This is not the first time the MiR and UR owner has provided cash support for robot development in Denmark. To-date, Teradyne has invested more than half a billion USD in the two young Danish robotic companies, both of which are growing rapidly.

Expects further job growthThe building site is in Odenses industrial district close to URs current headquarters, which will also become part of the new cobot hub. The two companies will continue as separate entities with the aim to create an attractive environment that will help attract new employees to facilitate the continued growth expected by the two companies in the coming years.

"Denmark has a significant lead in the global market for cobots. Investing ambitiously in building the worlds largest cobot hub right here in Odense makes a lot of sense," says Thomas Visti, CEO of Mobile Industrial Robots. "Offering a strong, professional environment with superb facilities enables us to attract talent from all over the world." MiR has hired 100 new employees the past year, with UR adding 280 new staff members during the past two years. Today, the two companies have 160 and 450 employees respectively based in Denmark. UR employs almost 700 employees worldwide while MiRs staff counts a total of around 220 globally.

Unique talent base in DenmarkJrgen von Hollen, President of Universal Robots, sees enormous potential in the cobot market. "This is a market expected to grow to a total value of almost $12 billion in 2030, according to ABI Research. Demand for Danish cobots already means that we are growing out of our current offices in Odense, both at UR and MiR," says the UR President. "Odense has a strong ecosystem of talent and we are pleased to have the opportunity to invest long-term in the unique robotics environment that we have been building here over the last 10 years."

Danish robotics cluster on the riseThe Danish robotics industry is currently booming; the 2019 annual survey from trade association Odense Robotics shows that 8,500 people now work for Danish robotics companies, 3,900 of them in and around Odense, Denmarks third largest city. If the industry follows the growth forecasts, the Danish robot industry will employ 25,000 employees in 2025 according to the Danish analyst firm Damvad.

And its not just the number of employees thats growing. Danish robotics companies total revenue rose by 18 percent in 2018, reaching $995 million with exports increasing 26 percent. These figures are particularly significant in that just 15 years ago Denmark did not have any robotics industry to speak of.

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About Mobile Industrial RobotsMobile Industrial Robots (MiR) develops and markets the industrys most advanced line of collaborative and safe autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that quickly, easily and cost-effectively manage internal logistics, freeing employees for higher-value activities. Hundreds of mid-sized through large multinational manufacturers and logistics centers, along with several hospitals around the world, have already installed MiRs innovative robots. MiR has quickly established a global distribution network in more than 60 countries, with regional offices in New York, San Diego, Singapore, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Tokyo and Shanghai. In 2019, MiR had a revenue of USD 44 million. Founded and run by experienced Danish robotics industry professionals, MiR is headquartered in Odense, Denmark. For more information, visit http://www.mobile-industrial-robots.com.

About Universal RobotsUniversal Robots (UR) was founded in 2005 to make robot technology accessible to all by developing small, user-friendly, reasonably priced, flexible collaborative robots (cobots) that are safe to work with. Since the first cobot was launched in 2008, the company has experienced considerable growth with the user-friendly cobot now sold worldwide. The company, which is a part of Teradyne Inc., is headquartered in Odense, Denmark, and has regional offices in the United States, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Turkey, China, India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Mexico. In 2019, Universal Robots had a revenue of USD 248 million. For more information, please visit http://www.universal-robots.com.

About TeradyneTeradyne (NASDAQ:TER) brings high-quality innovations such as smart devices, life-saving medical equipment and data storage systems to market, faster. Its advanced test solutions for semiconductors, electronic systems, wireless devices and more ensure that products perform as they were designed. Its Industrial Automation offerings include collaborative and mobile robots that help manufacturers of all sizes improve productivity and lower costs. In 2019, Teradyne had revenue of $2.3 billion and today employs 5,400 people worldwide. For more information, visit teradyne.com. Teradyne is a registered trademark of Teradyne, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

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I visited Boston last week and met with a number of robotics researchers, startups and established companies more on that later in the lead up to TechCrunchs fourth annual TC Sessions Robotics + AI in early March. A big part of prepping for that event and my recent trip involved surveying some of the biggest funding raises from the past year.

A quick survey of these trends finds most investments concentrated in a handful of key categories. From there, we can get a pretty clear view of what the robotics industry will look like in the coming years and the roles we can expect these machines to play in our daily lives.

The definition of robotics is, of course, broad and only getting broader, as these technologies grow and mature. Its worth noting that for the sake of my own research, Ive mostly excluded autonomous driving one of the key targets of robotics investment. It is, perhaps, an arbitrary distinction that has more to do with the way we categorize technologies placing them in automotive or mobility, as opposed to robotics.

Artificial intelligence startups, too, are included sparingly for similar reasons. With those caveats in mind, these verticals have been the key focuses of robotics investments: warehouse automation/fulfillment, construction, retail/food, agriculture and surgical/medical.

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Using robotics to close the achievement gap in mathematics education is the goal of a one-day symposium at the University of Redlands Feb. 24. Organized by the C-STEM Center at the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with Redlands Unified School District and the University of Redlands, the meeting will bring together teachers, administrators and other educators to share experiences and hands-on training in using coding and robotics as tools to teach math.

Full program information is available here.

The UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education, or C-STEM,develops tools and curricula for using small robots to teach algebra, mathematics and programming. The centers programs are in use in schools in California and across the country and are particularly effective in reaching children who have struggled with or disengaged from math in elementary and middle school.

All the centers software and curricula are available through the centerswebsite. The C-STEM center also organizes professional development classes for teachers and summer camps at multiple locations.

The center was founded and is led by Professor Harry Cheng, UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

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BOSTON, Feb. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Okamura Corporation, Japans leading provider of high quality products and services for offices, education, commercial facilities and distribution centers, and RightHand Robotics (RHR), a leader in providing autonomous robotic picking solutions, announced a partnership to further automate warehouse operations. RHRs autonomous piece-picking solution, RightPick2, will be integrated with Okamuras logistics solutions, such as AutoStore, beginning in February 2020.

RHR and Okamuras solution will be exhibited for the first time in Japan at the Logis-Tech Tokyo 2020 Innovation Expo being held at Tokyo Big Sight on February 19-21, 2020 in booth 1A-37.

With the demand for e-commerce and product assortment rapidly increasing, the need for piece-picking solutions has grown significantly. Additionally, labor shortages in the logistics industry, including securing employees for mundane tasks such as picking, has become a challenge for warehouse managers.

Okamuras material handling systems are designed to achieve safer, faster, easier and more precise operations. Its business is not only to streamline logistics, but also to research, develop and provide new material handling systems to meet the diverse needs of customers. With the integration of RightPick2, operator workloads and errors will decrease and warehouse efficiency and productivity will improve.

RightPick2 handles the core task of picking and placing individual items as part of a wide range of warehouse workflows and processes. It works collaboratively with logistics facility employees and existing manual or automated systems, providing businesses with a vital productivity boost as part of a lean and highly efficient material handling process. The solution combines an intelligent gripper, advanced computer vision, control software and machine learning to provide reliable automation to customers.

RightPick2 Features

There is no need to provide the robot with the dimensions, or pre-learn 3D models for each SKU. The robots share image intelligence based on experience. Even if RightPick sees an item for the first time, it will make its best effort and often succeed on the initial attempt.

The advanced system features the 5th-generation intelligent gripper with integrated sensing, the vision subsystem, robotic arm and processor. Together, these provide fast and gentle handling for tens of thousands of individual products, sufficient for the demands of the Japanese market.

About RightHand RoboticsRightHand Robotics (RHR) builds a data-driven intelligent picking platform, providing flexible and scalable automation for predictable order fulfillment. The software-driven, hardware-enabled modular solution is capable of adapting to any picking situation bringing reliability to order fulfillment in growing industries such as electronics, apparel, grocery, pharmaceuticals, and more. RHR was founded in 2015 by a DARPA challenge-winning team from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, the Yale GRAB Lab, and MIT, intent on bringing grasping intelligence powered by computer vision and applied machine learning to bear on real-world problems. The company is based in the U.S. near Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Tokyo, Japan and Frankfurt, Germany. For more information, visit http://www.righthandrobotics.com or follow the company on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Okamura CorporationAs a leader in the material handling market in Japan and one of the biggest distributors worldwide of AutoStore, Okamura seeks to streamline logistics by constantly developing and providing new distribution systems through real-life experimentation. Okamura offers total support, from material handling system proposals resulting in financial benefits through increased speed, accuracy and safety of logistics, to software development, equipment installation, operational support and after-sales service. For more information on Okamura, please visit http://www.okamura.jp.

Contact details: Eugene HuntTrevi Communications for RightHand Roboticsmedia@righthandrobotics.com+1-978-750-0333

A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/678e45bf-3036-4a98-a7e8-03dee5d49be1

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ALBANY, New York, Feb. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The optimism in the global warehouse robotics market comes from the benefits derived from the implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a warehouse setting. Warehousing has come a long way from those days when it was a labor-intensive trade to this day when man and machines work together in every step of the supply chain.

The warehousing industry is expected to witness significant demand in the deployment of robotic systems as it enables companies to optimize workflows, lessen the cost of labor, and increase the bottom line. The growing awareness about workplace safety, improved production quality, and rising demand for automation are likely to present lucrative opportunities for growth of the global warehouse robotics market. These growth inducing factors are estimated to propel the warehouse robotics market expand at a CAGR of ~ 12% from 2019 to 2027, touch market valuation of ~ US$ 9.5 bn by 2027. End-use industries of the market in the review are anticipated to leverage on the benefits offered by warehouse robotics to improve their return on investment (ROI), make the flow of materials more efficient, and better productivity.

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Increasingly one should be searching for future logistics solutions in robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) a significant facet of several robotic solutions Robotics in the manufacturing industry is well established since many years and it is expected that the applications within the periphery of warehouse operations will be increasingly mainstreamed, notes TMR

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Warehouse Robotics Market: Key Driving Factors

According to the findings of the global warehouse robotics market by TMR, the growth of the market is fuelled by the clear and tangible benefits that warehouse robotics bring to several businesses. Augmented efficiency and cutting down of expenses are some of the apparent outcomes for most of the companies. However, businesses could also find less obvious ways of benefitting from robotic technology.

Deployment of warehouse robotics results in fewer errors. Human errors could prove to be costly for the business. It also ensures increased safety in the workplace as robots takeover hazardous jobs that could put the life and health of workers at jeopardy. In addition, deployment of robots can boost the image of the brand. Accelerated movement of goods inside the warehouse and across the supply chain ensures the faster accomplishment of tasks and delivery, which could present the company as a better brand.

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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are in particular serving as a platform for the generation of promising opportunities for the global warehouse robotics market. Increasing demand for industrial robots from the small and medium enterprises sector is a manifestation of their resolution to keep up with the cutting-edge technology and efficiency. It is despite that fact that deployment of warehouse robotic technology is usually a luxury for the often resource-strapped small and medium enterprises.

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According to the study, the key restraints hampering the market growth comprise:

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Competition Landscape

According to the findings of the study by Transparency Market Research, several e-commerce companies are entering into collaborations with the providers of the robotic system to automate their facilities. This upgradation is expected to meet up with the changing preference of consumers who now prefer speed and accuracy.

The global warehouse robotics market is highly competitive and fragmented with the presence of numerous players. These players are making use of various aggressive strategies to acquire a larger chunk of the warehouse robotics market.

Key companies in the Warehouse Robotics market include Honeywell Intelligrated, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Bastian Solutions, Inc., Omron Corporation, Amazon Robotics LLC, and Fetch Robotics, Inc.

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]]> Quarantines in major cities in China, especially in Wuhan where the virus originated, pose serious logistical challenges. Credit: Shutterstock.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared a global emergency after a new coronavirus causing severe lung disease emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan and began to spread across the country and internationally.

The new addition to the coronavirus family causes a fever, followed by a dry cough and shortness of breath. Only one in five cases are thought to be severe and generally healthy people can expect to make a full recovery from infection, but the young, elderly and immunocompromised may not be so fortunate. Nearly 500 people have died in China since the initial outbreak of the disease in December, which has been codenamed 2019-nCoV.

Confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV have now bypassed 24,000.

The new virus is moderately infectious, with each infected person expected to pass it onto two or three other people. As such, the main way to prevent people who have become infected from spreading the virus to others involves limiting their movement and treating them in isolation.

As such, many patients suspected to have 2019-nCoV have been placed under quarantine to minimise the spread of the disease. China has taken the decision to restrict travel in and out of cities in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital.

Doctors in the US have been using a telehealth machine to treat the first person in the country admitted to hospital with 2019-nCoV. The man is currently being held in a specially designed two-bed isolated area at Providence Regional Medical Center in Washington.

The room was set up five years ago during the Ebola crisis, but this is the first time its ever been used. It is away from other units at the hospital and even has a separate air filter. There is only one entry point for the unit which is guarded by security officers and visitors are required to wear full-body protection including a controlled air purifying respirator helmet.

Using a robot equipped with a camera, microphone and stethoscope, the patient has been able to consult with clinicians without coming into direct contact with them.

Providence Regional Medical Center chief of infectious diseases Dr George Diaz told CNN: The nursing staff in the room move the robot around so we can see the patient in the screen, talk to him.

This isnt the only robot thats being used to interact with quarantined people. A hotel in Hangzhou is being used to isolate more than 300 people suspected to have the virus, and has been using a robot to deliver food to their bedrooms. The hotel guests were on the same flight as travellers from Wuhan, and will remain in the hotel for two weeks as a precautionary measure.

Multiple food delivery robots have been deployed on all 16 stories of the hotel.

Likewise in Guangzhou City, at the Guangdong Provincial Peoples Hospital, autonomous delivery robots are being used to transport drugs around the hospital. The robots are loaded up with medicines and given instructions of where in the hospital to go to, and then head to their destination unaided. Theyre able to open and close doors and take the lift without any human assistance.

One robot is able to carry out the delivery tasks of three people, making the entire drug delivery process faster and reducing the risk of clinical staff contracting 2019-nCoV and spreading it throughout the hospital.

As well helping to minimise the potential spread of infection, robotics are being used for disinfection purposes.

Xenex robots, which are manufactured in San Antonio, use pulsed xenon ultraviolet-C (UVC) light to wipe out pathogens. The company says its devices are currently being used to clean hospital rooms where there have been suspected cases of the new coronavirus. The robot can clean a room in as little as five minutes.

Speaking to Forbes, Xenex spokesperson Melinda Hart said: Our science team has been on the phone non-stop with hospitals to discuss protocols for disinfecting rooms and areas where suspect patients have been and are being treated. Weve also been in contact with government contacts in China and the US to explore how quickly we could export robots to China.

Meanwhile LA-based Dimer UVC Innovations, which has developed a germ-killing robot designed to sanitise aeroplanes, has offered its services to three US airports to address the coronavirus outbreak.

Known as GermFalcon, the robot also uses UVC light to kill viruses and bacteria. Its designed to be pushed down the aisle of an aeroplane and has wings which hang over the seats to expose all surfaces to the light. GermFalcon is now being used at the Los Angeles International Airport, San Francisco International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport as part of their emergency response efforts.

Noble though these efforts are, theres a chance they might not all be entirely necessary. Many of the people quarantined, such as those in the Hangzhou hotel, arent displaying symptoms of the disease.

The jurys still out on whether 2019-nCoV can spread before a patient is symptomatic. Previous epidemic coronaviruses like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) could not be spread by a carrier of the disease before they began to feel unwell. However, a woman from Shanghai on a business trip to Germany is believed to have passed the disease onto her European colleagues, despite not becoming ill until she was on her flight home.

Even if the coronavirus can be spread by people with no symptoms, who may be infected for two to 14 days before they start to feel sick, people who are sneezing and coughing are far more likely to spread the disease. Quarantining people for weeks on end who may not be ill, and going so far as to have a robot deliver their meals, may be a recipe for social tension.

Additionally, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note that health workers interacting with 2019-nCoV patients should be able to protect themselves with a gown, gloves, eye protection and an N95 face mask. Isolating patients within hospitals makes perfect sense, but the risk of a clinician contracting coronavirus is minimal and casts Guangdong Provincial Peoples Hospitals drug delivery robots in a slightly different light. Technology can be lifesaving, but its overuse can breed fear and misunderstanding among patients and clinicians alike.

Robots are flashy and advanced, and if they can help contribute to stopping a global outbreak of a serious disease then their contributions should be welcomed. But doubling down on practices like handwashing, and reinforcing the importance of clear international communication, will be more important to stopping 2019-nCoVs spread than all the UVC light in the world.

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Todays your last day to score early-bird pricing on tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020, which takes place on March 3. If you want to keep $150 in your wallet, beat the deadline and buy your ticket here before the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. (PT) tonight!

Our one-day conference dedicated to robotics and AI the good, the bad and the challenging features interviews, panel discussions, Q&As, workshops and demos. Join roughly 1,500 experts, visionaries, creators, founders, investors, researchers and engineers. Rub elbows, network and engage with current and aspiring leaders, as well as students poised to drive future innovation.

We have a stellar line up, and just because were biased doesnt mean were wrong. I mean come on assistive robots, ethics and AI, the state of VC investment and robot demos. And thats just for starters. Here are a couple of specific examples (peruse the full agenda right here):

And in case you havent heard, weve added Pitch Night, a mini pitch-off, into the mix this year. Were accepting applications until tomorrow, February 1. This is no time for fence-sitting! Apply to compete in Pitch Night now. TechCrunch editors will review the applications and choose 10 startups to pitch at a private event the night before the conference. A panel of VC judges will select five teams as finalists. Those founders will pitch again the next day live from the Main Stage. Its awesome exposure that could take your startup to the next level.

If you love robots, you need to be at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020 on March 3. And theres no point paying more than necessary. Todays the last day to buy an early-bird ticket. Buy yours before the deadline expires at 11:59 p.m. (PT) and save $150.

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Nike, the worlds largest sportswear company, has integrated robots from Geek+ into its Japan warehouse. (See video below.)

Geek+, a provider of smart logistics solutions, has powered same-day delivery for Nike in Japan, providing advanced robotics solutions to Nikes new distribution center in Chiba.

The installation uses more than 200 robots from Geek+s goods-to-person P series robot range.

The smart robots carry Nike products and packages directly to the warehouse worker, reducing costs, increasing picking efficiency and making daily work easier on the warehouse operators.

With the rapid growth of e-commerce, labor shortage in the logistics industry has become a serious economic issue.

Although warehouses globally are still mainly manually operated, the need for automation and new robotics technologies is fast increasing in order to meet demand and challenges brought by the massive growth of online platforms.

Major retailers such as Nike are introducing robots to meet that increasing demand and transform their logistics operations.

Smart robots guarantee lower cost, efficiency, flexibility and safety in the warehouse, says Geek+.

With Geek+, Nike has been able to introduce same-day delivery to its Japan customers.

Geek+ provides logistics solutions that are tailored to customer operations and contribute to solving operational problems in various industries, from retail and apparel to manufacturing sites.

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ELKHART A local robotics team that is part of the ETHOS Innovation Center and Granger Exploration and Robotics Studio has punched its ticket to compete in an international tournament this spring.

In December, seven local ETHOS teams competed in Indianas FIRST LEGO League State Championship in Fort Wayne. One of those teams, 31195 Heroes, placed second out of 48 teams made up of students between the ages of 9 and 14.

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Animal-like, four-legged robots have been a crowd-pleaser since Boston Dynamics BigDog, and Stanfords Doggo shows how the technology can be made open source, accessible and educational. Doggos creators will bring the diminutive robot, plus its smaller and larger siblings Pupper and Woofer, to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI on March 3.

P.S. Early-bird ticket sales end this Friday book your tickets today and save $150.

We first heard of Doggo last year when the Stanford Robotics Club showed off the highly capable design, which uses mostly off-the-shelf parts and can be assembled by anyone as long as anyone has considerable experience building robots and a couple thousand dollars to spend.

Still, a couple thousand is an order of magnitude or two lower than most quadrupedal robots go for, and project lead Nathan Kau told TechCrunch theyve seen a ton of interest.

I had no idea how many people were going to pick it up, he said. Its complicated! But I get emails every day from people building this thing, from all over. The first team to get it running, to my knowledge, was in Sri Lanka.

In order to further push the lower bounds of who can build and experiment with a robot like this, the team is building a smaller, even less expensive robot called Pupper. They hope to get the cost down to the level where even high school clubs can afford one.

Its less than $500 in development materials if you make it by yourself, said Kau. We imagine that if it becomes a kit and we have a partnership with the part manufacturers, it could be much less. We built it as a platform for learning, so it uses a Raspberry Pi and everything is programmed in Python. Its about as complicated as building a drone, Id say.

Youll be able to see Doggo and Pupper in action at the event, and theyll be joined by one more robot: Woofer, a jumbo-sized step up from the others. Its earlier in development than the other two, but to keep things simple it shares much of its codebase with the others.

Grab your tickets to the show today and get to see these awesome robots in person and hear from todays leading minds in the industry. Early-bird tickets expire this Friday, January 31, so book yours today and save $150 before prices go up.

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When you hear the word cyborg, scenes from the 1980s films RoboCop or The Terminator might spring to mind. But the futuristic characters made famous in those films may no longer be mere science fiction. We are at the advent of an era where digital technology and artificial intelligence are moving more deeply into our human biological sphere. Humans are already able to control a robotic arm with their minds. Cyborgshumans whose skills and abilities exceed those of others because of electrical or mechanical elements built into the bodyare already among us.

But innovators are pushing the human-machine boundary even further. While prosthetic limbs are tied in with a persons nervous system, future blends of biology and technology may be seen in computers that are wired into our brains.

Our ability to technologically enhance our physical capabilitiesthe hardware of our human systems, you could saywill likely reshape our social world. Will these changes bring new forms of dominance and exploitation? Will unaltered humans be subjected to a permanent underclass or left behind altogether? And what will it mean to be humanor will some of us be more than human?

Initial answers may be closer than we think.

Physicist Max Tegmark, MIT professor and president of the Future of Life Institute, considers the recent advances in artificial intelligence and technology through an evolutionary lens to imagine us as more than human. He categorizes all life into three levels. In his view, the vast majority of lifefrom bacteria to mice, iguanas to lobstersfalls into what he calls Life 1.0. These creatures survive and replicate, but they cannot redesign themselves within their lifetime. They evolve and learn over many generations.

Moving up, somewhere between Life 1.0 and 2.0, Tegmark classifies animals such as some primates, cetaceans, and corvids that have the ability to intermesh biology and culture. These animals are able to learn complex new skills, like how to use tools. Humans take this to an extreme, and Tegmark categorizes humans as Life 2.0. Through extensive language, social intelligence, and culture, Life 2.0 individuals can jump into new environments independently of genetic constraints. (If you missed it, we wrote about how body modification, as one example, makes us more socially human in part I, Your Body as a Map, of this pair of posts.)

Just think about how our ability to learn a new language within our lifetime is a bit like adding a software package to a computer. We can add an infinite number of self upgrades during our lifetime and pass our knowledge on to future generations. We also can manipulate other life forms to our own ends on a grand scalefrom cattle farming to harnessing bacteria in the preparation of fermented foods like cheese.

But with the leaps were seeing in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and biotechnology, our concept of animal and human could compete with the most imaginative Hollywood film. Life 3.0 doesnt yet exist on Earth, but Tegmark argues that in the future, we will see a technological life-form that can design both its hardware (which neither 1.0 or 2.0 can do) and its software (which currently only 2.0 can do).

Even in the near future, humans may be somewhere in between life-forms 2.0 and 3.0. In 2016, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, co-founded Neuralink, a company that aims to develop a braincomputer interface. Musk says his goal is to help human beings merge with software and be in sync with advances in artificial intelligence.

Whether people will volunteer to have a robot insert wires into their brain that are attached to a tiny chip implant remains to be seen. But humans across cultures have embraced a variety of technologies in surprising ways.

Today over 5 billion people have access to mobile phones. By 2025, around 71 percent of the worlds population is expected to be connected. The thought that virtually every aspect of a persons day might be influenced by a smartphone or something like it once seemed like science fiction. But as the number of digital natives grows, our relationship with technology does too.

Some of us readily anthropomorphize our gadgets and give our apps and devices names such as Siri or Alexa. We talk to them, allow them to control our surroundings, finances, shopping, and schedules. Yet many hesitate when it comes to embedding technology in our bodies if we are otherwise physically healthy.

Take, for example, microchips inserted under the skin, which can be used to pay for your shopping as well as a bus ride home. This is little different from a credit card in your back pocket, save for the convenience of not having to remember to take it with you.

Our resistance may be influenced by the yuck factor of new or different technologies or cultural shifts. But over time, what we think of as disgusting or offensive may become normalized. Lab-grown meat, for example, has gone from being a scientific and economic fantasy to something that might well be in stores by 2022. Similarly, eating insects, for those unused to the idea in the West, has become more accepted as a sustainable source of protein.

Even if more of us grow to accept the idea of implants, is Life 3.0 a genuine possibility? For now, mindcontrolled prosthetics are the closest innovation that hints at a Neuralink-type future. Such prosthetics are still in relatively early stages of development and not universally available. Nonetheless, as far as Musk is concerned, many of us are already cyborgs, with an indepth digital version of ourselves in the form of social media, email, and much more. His team, or others, may well inch us toward a version of Life 3.0.

Other early signs of how technologically integrated lives might function and impact our individual lives and societies are visible in places such as Scandinavia, where checks and cash are on their way out. In Denmark, for example, the majority of citizens make payments using their mobile phones. The absence of cash has had a direct effect on homeless people. Without smartphones of their own, homeless individuals were unable to receive payments for the newspapers they sold to earn money.

The solution was to provide homeless people with smartphones (and thus mobile payment methods). No longer a luxury, mobile phones became a basic tool vital for anyone engaging in modern society in Denmark.

As soon as we move into the idea of integrated technology as a social essential, we recognize a thorny possibility: a world where a new path to social or class dominance emergesperhaps a division between those who can and those who cannot afford to interface with technology. It begins to sound like the plot of the 20th-century dystopian novel Brave New World.

In that new world, would the Life 2.0 human without enhancements be relegated to a servile underclass? Perhaps this reflects a false dichotomy. After all, millions of people living in relatively remote regions around the planet have been able to fast-track to mobile technology, effectively skipping over earlier versions of the telephone and other communication technologies.

Nonetheless, developers of integrated technologies involving invasive surgery would be wise to consider the social ramifications of their work. Today we can accurately reconstruct the wealth distribution of an entire nation based on individual phone records. Can we predict the negative social impacts of a future Life 3.0? If contemporary clues are any answer, yes, we can. But whether we choose to ameliorate those impacts or not still lies within our control.

Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas is a data scientist and anthropologist working in the nonprofit sector in London, U.K. His current work combines machine learning and social science to address the needs of people in crisis. He has also written popular science articles for a variety of outlets, includingBioNews, SciDev.Net, and the Wellcome Trust Blog. Follow him on Twitter@matthewgthomas

Djuke Veldhuis is an anthropologist and science writer based at Monash University in Australia, where she is a course director in the B.Sc. advancedglobal challenges degree program. Her Ph.D. research examined the effects of rapid socioeconomic change on the health and well-being of people in Papua New Guinea. She has written for a series of popular science outlets, including SciDev.Net,Asia Research News, andNew Scientist. Follow her on Twitter@DjukeVeldhuis

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Robotic Catheter Systems Market Research Report: By Type, Technology, Application, Component, End User, Geographical Outlook - Global Industry Analysis and Forecast to 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Witnessing a CAGR of 5.2% during the forecast period (2019-2024), the global robotic catheter systems market is predicted to grow to $656.8 million by 2024, witnessing a significant jump in its revenue from $493.5 million in 2018.

The major drivers of the market are the rising prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and reduced occupational hazards for cardiologists. These systems are medical robots that work through a joy stick or a remote to perform various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as the stent implantation, myocardial biopsy, ablation, and coronary angiogram, among others.

The robotic catheter systems market is categorized into Middle East & Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America based on region. In 2018, the highest revenue generator in the market was North America, and in the forecast period as well, it would continue to dominate the market, in terms of revenue. The major driving factors of the regional market are the high adoption of these systems for cardiovascular diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in hospitals and clinics and the large presence of key manufacturers.

The robotic catheter systems market is witnessing the trend of digitization of instruments, which has been a key factor in the evolution of integrated and automated cardiovascular interventional labs. The advancements in the robotic technology are taking place rapidly, which, in turn, is helping hospitals cut down on catheterization lab costs, particularly in remote areas. The operational efficiency of cath labs has massively improved due to the commercialization of such systems. Even though these systems are pretty expensive, they are being heavily deployed owing to the advantages they offer over conventional catheterization procedures.

One of the major factors driving the growth of the robotic catheter systems market are the reduced risk of occupational hazards for cardiologists. Many surgeons have reported suffering from occupational hazards while performing interventional cardiology procedures. The modem catheterization laboratories extensively use ionizing radiation in the form of X-rays, which put the practitioners at a risk of malignancy, including in the head and neck region. Even though they wear lead aprons, their long-term use may result in orthopedic injuries. To make conducting procedures safer for surgeons, robotic catheter systems are being deployed.

With the technological advancements, the robotic catheter systems market would witness remarkable growth due to the extensive testing of these systems in the clinical trials. Catheterized cardiovascular procedures, such as catheter ablation, are popularly used in modern medicine, but robot-assisted catheterized procedures have not become as popular as their conventional counterparts due to the scarcity of skilled professionals. Companies, such as CorPath, Amigo, Sensei, and Niobe are commercializing robot catheterization systems, which may contribute in the demand for training people for operating the technology, thereby making them popular among patients and surgeons.

Hence, the market for robotic catheter systems is set to advance in the forecast period as the requirement for safer technologies for carrying out cardiovascular procedures is rising.

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1. Research Background

1.1 Research Objectives

1.2 Market Definition

1.3 Research Scope

1.3.1 Market Segmentation by Type

1.3.2 Market Segmentation by Technology

1.3.3 Market Segmentation by Application

1.3.4 Market Segmentation by Component

1.3.5 Market Segmentation by End User

1.3.6 Market Segmentation by Geography

1.3.7 Analysis Period

1.3.8 Market Data Reporting Unit

1.4 Key Stakeholders

Chapter 2. Research Methodology

2.1 Secondary Research

2.2 Primary Research

2.2.1 Breakdown of Primary Research Respondents

2.2.1.1 By region

2.2.1.2 By industry participant

2.2.1.3 By company type

2.3 Market Size Estimation

2.4 Data Triangulation

2.5 Assumptions for the Study

Chapter 3. Executive Summary

Chapter 4. Introduction

4.1 Definition of Market Segments

4.2 Market Dynamics

4.2.1 Trends

4.2.2 Drivers

4.2.3 Restraints

4.2.4 Opportunities

4.3 Porter's Five Forces Analysis

4.4 Regulatory Framework Analysis

4.5 Upcoming and Emerging Technologies

4.6 Pricing of Robotic Catheter Systems

Chapter 5. Global Market Size and Forecast

5.1 By Type

5.2 By Technology

5.3 By Application

5.4 By Component

5.5 By End User

5.6 By Region

Chapter 6. North America Market Size and Forecast

6.1 By Type

6.2 By Technology

6.3 By Application

6.4 By Component

6.5 By End User

6.6 By Country

Chapter 7. Europe Market Size and Forecast

Chapter 8. APAC Market Size and Forecast

Chapter 9. LATAM Market Size and Forecast

Chapter 10. MEA Market Size and Forecast

Chapter 11. Strategic Developments of the Key Players

11.1 Product Launches

11.2 Acquisitions

11.3 Agreement, Partnership, and Collaborations

Chapter 12. Company Profiles

12.1 Stereotaxis Inc.

12.2 Corindus Vascular Robotics Inc.

12.3 Catheter Precision Inc.

12.4 Hansen Medical Inc.

12.5 Intuitive Surgical Inc.

12.6 Magnetecs Corporation

12.7 Boston Scientific Corporation

12.8 Abbott Laboratories

12.9 Biosense Webster Inc.

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Robotics are an important innovation in the cleaning industry, providing autonomous floor cleaning and tackling other highly repetitive jobs to free up custodians for more thought-provoking tasks.

Robotics are also playing a role in infection control, as evidenced by a new device being used to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus that began in China, Forbes reports. The device, known as Vici, allows health care providers to interact with coronavirus patients through a screen instead of in person. A telehealth device on wheels, Vici can be transported from hospital rooms to airports and allows doctors and nurses to talk to patients and perform basic diagnostic functions, like taking temperatures. This device was recently used in a Washington state hospital to treat the first U.S. patient confirmed to have coronavirus.

Other robots are being used in China to deliver food and medical supplies to coronavirus patients, preventing delivery people from catching the virus.

To learn more about the role of robots in todays society, mainly the cleaning industry, sign up for a webinar on February 12, The Cleaning Robots Are Here, Now What?

To learn more about coronavirus, check out a special Media Alert released to the global cleaning by the Global BioRisk Advisory Council (GBAC), a Division of ISSA. In addition, ISSA and GBAC have created a Tips Sheet on best practices for using personal protective equipment during a crisis. There is now an ISSAresource page for the coronavirus that will be updated with new information as it becomes available.

And dont forget about todays webinar Prepare, Respond, Recover: A Special Webinar on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The webinar will featurea Q&A session with GBAC Executive Director Patricia Olinger and other members of the GBAC team, as they discuss prevention and contamination control measures for the current situation, and other biohazards. Even if you cant attend the live event, you can register anytime and you will be sent a link to the recording.

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For the roboticist who has everything, heres something new: a soft robot hand that sweats.

Designed to handle scenarios where long operating hours might lead to a robot overheating and its performance degrading, this three-fingered gripper stays cool by borrowing one of humanitys greatest attributes: our sweat glands.

The ability to perspire is one of the most remarkable features of humans, material scientist T.J. Wallin, one of the grippers designers, told reporters during a briefing. Were not the fastest animals, but early humans found success as persistent hunters, using our ability to run and stay cool via sweating to physically exhaust our prey.

Hollow, pressurized reservoirs inside the fingers are filled with water and connected to the surface via ducts made of heat-reactive plastic. When the plastic hits a certain temperature, the pores open and water is pushed to the surface. There, it evaporates with a cooling effect more than twice as effective as those of the sweatiest beasts in the animal kingdom.

Details of the grippers performance are published in a paper in Science Robotics today.

But why sweat? Arent there easier ways to cool robots? Well, that depends.

Most robots are made from metal, which is an excellent conductor and therefore good at dispersing heat by itself. But soft robots, which are designed for delicate tasks like medical procedures and packing fruit, are made from rubber, a good insulator. If and when soft robots become commonplace, theyll need their own ways to stay cool.

There are other advantages to sweating, too. By building sweat glands into a machine, you can cool it below the temperature of its surroundings, something you cant achieve with environmental cooling like fans. It also means that the robot can operate independently, keeping itself cool in places where external coolants are unavailable.

The grippers creators, scientists from Cornell University and the Istituto Italiano di Technologia, say this could be essential for designing robots that operate untethered.

We believe [this] is a basic building block of a general purpose, adaptive, and enduring robot, said Robert Shepherd, associate professor of Cornells Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-author of the research, during a briefing.

Shepherd also noted that sweat glands could have a dual purpose in future. As well as releasing water for cooling, they could suck up liquid from the machines surroundings for analysis, similar to how space rovers collect soil samples on distant planets.

But as some nervous readers will know, there are downsides to sweaty hands as well.

One is that you need to top up your liquid supply. Humans do that by drinking, but sweaty robots would need a different method. Another is that sweat isnt helpful underwater, though in those scenarios the environment itself would aid cooling. But the biggest problem by far is that sweating causes performance issues of its own: reducing friction by lubricating the grippers fingers. Slippery hands arent necessarily safe ones.

The scientists have tried to compensate for this by modeling the range of temperatures in which the gripper performs best, and directing the robot to sweat sparingly to keep in that zone. Hopefully that means that the penalty we pay is not as debilitating, said Wallins.

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According to report published by Grand View Research, the growing demand for packaged food, need for automation, increasing food safety regulations, and high labor costs are expected to drive the food robotics market.

The globalfood robotics marketis anticipated to reach USD 3.35 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The growing demand for packaged food, need for automation, increasing food safety regulations, and high labor costs are expected to drive the food robotics market.

The industry has witnessed increasing investments in R&D activities, since the past few years, for the development of technologically-advanced robotics and automated systems. The increasing labor costs are driving the packaged food producers toward the adoption of automation systems. The application segments of the market include palletizing, packaging, repackaging, picking, and processing.

The packaging segment is presumed to hold the highest growth rate over the forecast years. The market is witnessing increasing use of packaging automation solutions in food industries. The advantages bestowed by the technology include higher efficiency in food production and processing, increased production efficiency, and consistent quality of products.

The key market participants IN the food robotics market are ABB Group,Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.,Fanuc Corporation,Yaskawa Electric Corporation, and others. The vendors in the robotics and automation market are likely to witness increased demand for robotics solutions over the forecast years, owing to the increasing technological advancements.

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