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Cloud RoboticsMarket is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.47% in the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. Data Bridge Market Research report on cloud robotics market provides analysis and insights regarding the various factors expected to be prevalent throughout the forecasted period while providing their impacts on the markets growth.

Cloud robotics is a robotics field that seeks to increase cloud advances, such as cloud computing, cloud storage, and other web innovations that focus on the benefits of a united framework and sharedroboticsadministration. Cloud robotics is an imminent trend in an industrys smart system.

Cloud Robotics report is an ideal guide to attain an information or key data about market, emerging trends, product usage, and motivating factors for customers, customer preferences, competitor strategies, brand positioning, and customer behaviour. It is a wide-ranging market research report that comprises of various parameters of the market namely market definition, currency and pricing, market segmentation, market overview, premium insights, key insights and company profile of the key market players. The Cloud Robotics market report includes top to bottom analysis and evaluation of various market related factors that plays a key role for better decision making. As per study key players of this market areFanuc Corporation, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi, Kuka AG, ABB Group, Calvary Robotics, HotBlack Robotics Srl, Motion Controls Robotics, Wolf Robotics LLC, Tech Con Automation Inc., Matrix Industrial Automation, SIASUNand Automation IG.

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Global Cloud Robotics Market Dynamics:

Market Drivers and Restraints:

Important Features of the Global Cloud Robotics Market Report:

1) What all companies are currently profiled in the report?

List of players that are currently profiled in the report-Amazon Robotics, Google, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, C2RO, CloudMinds, Hit Robot Group, V3 Smart Technologies, Rapyuta Robotics, Ortelio, Tend.ai, Ericsson, Rockwell Automation Inc.,

** List of companies mentioned may vary in the final report subject to Name Change / Merger etc.

2) What all regional segmentation covered? Can specific country of interest be added?

Currently, research report gives special attention and focus on following regions:

North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific etc.

** One country of specific interest can be included at no added cost. For inclusion of more regional segment quote may vary.

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Global Cloud Robotics Market Segmentation:

By Component (Software and Services),

By Service Model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS),

By Application (Industrial robots, Customer robots, Military robots and Commercial robots),

By End-user (Third party users and Verticals), By Connectivity Technology (Wi-Fi and others),

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Chapter 1:Introduction, market driving force product Objective of Study and Research Scope Cloud Robotics market

Chapter 2:Exclusive Summary the basic information of Cloud Robotics Market.

Chapter 3: Displaying the Market Dynamics- Drivers, Trends and Challenges of Float-Zone Silico

Chapter 4:Presenting Cloud Robotics Market Factor Analysis Porters Five Forces, Supply/Value Chain, PESTEL analysis, Market Entropy, Patent/Trademark Analysis.

Chapter 5:Displaying the by Type, End User and Region 2013-2018

Chapter 6:Evaluating theleading manufacturers of Cloud Robotics marketwhich consists of its Competitive Landscape, Peer Group Analysis, BCG Matrix & Company Profile

Chapter 7:To evaluate the market by segments, by countries and by manufacturers with revenue share and sales by key countries in these various regions.

Chapter 8 & 9:Displaying the Appendix, Methodology and Data Source

Region wise analysis of the top producers and consumers, focus on product capacity, production, value, consumption, market share and growth opportunity in below mentioned key regions:

North America U.S., Canada, Mexico

Europe: U.K, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Spain, etc.

Asia-Pacific China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia etc.

South America Brazil, Argentina, etc.

Middle East & Africa Saudi Arabia, African countries etc.

What the Report has in Store for you?

Industry Size & Forecast:The industry analysts have offered historical, current, and expected projections of the industry size from the cost and volume point of view

Future Opportunities:In this segment of the report, Cloud Robotics competitors are offered with the data on the future aspects that the Cloud Robotics industry is likely to provide

Industry Trends & Developments:Here, authors of the report have talked about the main developments and trends taking place within the Cloud Robotics marketplace and their anticipated impact at the overall growth

Study on Industry Segmentation:Detailed breakdown of the key Cloud Robotics industry segments together with product type, application, and vertical has been done in this portion of the report

Regional Analysis:Cloud Robotics market vendors are served with vital information of the high growth regions and their respective countries, thus assist them to invest in profitable regions

Competitive Landscape:This section of the report sheds light on the competitive situation of the Cloud Robotics market by focusing at the crucial strategies taken up through the players to consolidate their presence inside the Cloud Robotics industry.

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Cloud Robotics Market Size 2021 Including Growth Factors, Applications, Regional Analysis, Key Players and Forecasts to 2027 - KSU | The Sentinel...

Robotic-assisted surgery while still in growing stages shows a bright future for patients, doctors and hospitals embracing this advanced technology, say local and national experts studying this surgical evolution having roots in South County Hospital.

Wakefields Ortho Rhode Island and South County Hospital are celebrating the 10th anniversary of using this technique transforming surgery in thousands of local cases nearly a million nationwide last year and whose use is forecasted to expand more widely.

The robot now is highly accurate and highly precise and very protective of soft tissues and it does some really perfect things that I cannot do as a human, said Dr. Robert Marchand, hospital surgeon who first started using this technology.

For instance, Jeanne Callaghan of Wakefield is one of those patients. She had disabling pain and through robotic-assisted surgery had a quicker recovery time and what she believes is a better outcome than through open surgery, she said.

My sciatic pain was like a severe toothache down my leg, waking me up at night and I needed a cane to walk because my leg would just give out occasionally, she explained, adding that the outcome of the surgery was wonderful.

Good for Doctors, Hospitals, Patients

These physicians are at the waters edge of a growing U.S. and global trend estimated today to be a $4 billion market in the United States alone, according to Amit Hazan, equity analyst in medical technology with Goldman Sachs Research.

Last year in the U.S. about 900,000 procedures were done by robotic-assisted surgery, which is about 5% of all surgeries, he said. With an aging baby boomer population coupled with more development of the robots, that number is expected to grow to 17% in the next 10 years.

In terms of expansion nationwide for practices becoming involved in robotic surgery, the market jumps in one decade to $17 billion in the United States, Hazan said.

As seen with the pressure needed for a rapid rather than customary development pace for a coronavirus vaccine, medicine does not turn quickly to adopt changes until benefits have been proven over long periods of time, trial and testing.

However, the potential in robotic-assisted surgery a decade ago was clearly seen by Marchand and his partners at Ortho Rhode Island as well as officials at South County Hospital, home base for these physicians. They started slow and built on their successes with it, Marchand noted.

The hospital later even formed an Institute for Robotic Surgery and positioned itself to be a state leader in the effective uses of this technique now and in the years ahead.

Today, the Ortho Rhode Island and other doctors said, they are happy with the results, investment of time and training, and ready for the next stages.

I always say, this (the current iteration) is the flip phone of robots. So, what is the next level? The next level is coming within a year or two. Ill call it smart robotics, said Marchand, who estimates hes done about 7,500 robotic-assisted operations in the last decade.

Its all about advancing technology and algorithms, he said, echoing Hazan.

Think of the power of the smart phone. In this instance with robots, you add artificial intelligence and machine learning following the hands of the surgeon and then incorporating that into a movement to address a specific kind of surgery the surgeon maps out beforehand, he said.

Next bring in augmented reality overlaying high-tech radiology scans and join them with advanced multi-dimensional and microscopic views of the area needing surgery.

When all this is combined together, an algorithm can be developed to produce exacting precision in the way the human hand sometimes subject to slight tremors cannot do and the naked eye cannot see, Marchand said.

Now you have not just a powerful precise robotic tool, you have powerful, precise robotic brain linked to the tool, he explained.

Hazan emphasized those same points, noting it means rapid new developments to modern surgerys continuing evolution toward exactness, efficiency and satisfactory or even better results for patients.

He said he expected to see training in virtual reality begin soon because machine-learning capabilities are taking off. He envisions GPS-like systems that help a surgeon microscopically cut in the right way and in the right location.

In about five to 10 years, Hazan said, he thinks robots will do suturing and perhaps behave airplane-like in autopilot as surgeon oversees a robot doing more and more of the surgery.

Marchand added that robots help to remove subjectivity and replace it with science based on precision and successful outcomes for the variety of conditions and bodies of patients a surgeon must deal with.

Patient Experience

A patient and nurse who agrees with that view of robotic surgery is Callaghan of Wakefield. Her severe debilitating pain prevented her from even playing with her grandchildren because she lacked mobility.

Sleeping was difficult. She needed a cane or walker to get around. She tried weeks of physical therapy and cortisone injections. Hip and back problems were bearing down on her at once.

On January 7, 2019, Callaghan became the first person in Rhode Island to have spine surgery using a robot named ExcelsiusGPS. Not long after, on April 17, she had a total hip replacement done with another robot named Mako.

I would definitely recommend robotic surgery to anyone. I just know it has improved my quality of life, as now I can go to the gym, do yoga and best of all have fun with my grandchildren, said 67-year-old Callaghan.

While there are other methods and combinations of surgery, such as open or laparoscopic, robotic-assisted surgery is less-invasive in operating rooms, which were once ruled only by a scalpel that drew long and invasive incisions.

Ian Madom, a partner of Marchands, started doing robotic-assisted spine surgery more than a year ago and now uses it on about half of his cases.

He pointed to the efficiency for both surgeon and patient. Madom noted a particular kind of spine operation that once took five hours and had a lot of blood loss.

Today that same surgery takes about three hours, has far less blood loss and patients spend about 50 percent less time in the hospital, he said.

The health-care economics are so drastic there because now were keeping people in the hospital fewer days, which means fewer potential complications from the hospital stay, he said.

Dr. Joseph Renzulli, the hospitals chief of urology, uses the da Vinci Xi robotic surgical system.

His specialty is treating cancers and tumors in places like bladders, kidneys, prostate glands and other areas that are part of the urological network. He uses the robot in most cases, he said.

These 98 percent of surgeries are going to have better outcomes because they have the advantages of the robotic system, he has said.

One large observational study, according to one medical journal, showed that patients undergoing robotic prostatectomy experienced fewer complications.

The study found a hospital stay cut from three days to two, drastic reductions in blood transfusions and fewer postoperative respiratory and other complications when compared to open radical prostatectomy,

Renzulli said, Weve been able to apply robotic surgery to almost every aspect of urologic issues and the reason why is that it was very difficult to do this laparoscopically.

Changes Ahead

Dr. Michael Bradley, president of Ortho Rhode Island, hailed guided precision as an important development in surgery and that training is available for those who want it.

Robotics was not part of our original training, but as surgeons it is important to develop with technology and to continuously seek ways to improve efficiencies. Industry leaders that have robotics in their product portfolio have strong training platforms forsurgeons, he said.

For his part, Marchand has branched out to also teach the robotic system and often cameras will light up in his operating room each week with other surgeons from around the globe watching him in action.

Its changed my whole practice. Its changed my whole life, he said about becoming a consultant to other doctors, co-author of medical journal articles on the subject and first-in-line reviewer before release of robot software under development.

One over-arching satisfaction, he said, is that the efficiencies of robotic surgery allows him to treat more patients and get the expected results discussed beforehand with patients, he said.

The other is that his interests led him to a form of advanced medical technology that is both profitable and rewarding for himself and his practice as well as South County Hospital, which has invested millions of dollars in robotic technology as part of a partnership with Ortho Rhode Island.

Hazan, of Goldman Sachs, would agree with that strategic approach, especially since he sees in the United States by 2030 continued opportunity to expand an expected 17% growth in robot-assisted technology in surgery.

We are expecting an acceleration of growth over the next 10 years, the researcher said, especially with the addition of machine-guided data, analytical capabilities, augmented reality, and automation.

Marchand sees clearly how his risk in joining the robotic-assisted movement a decade ago was a wise investment now paying off.

I think Im very fortunate to have come along into this kind of surgery. It wasnt planned. I had no idea what a computer was in 1988, he said with a laugh.

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Copenhagen-headquartered architectural practice 3XN has revealed its competition-winning design for a campus that will serve as the future home of two leading industrial robotics firms: Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR). The roughly 215,000-square-foot space, located in Denmarks third-largest city, Odense, appears from the design renderings to be more or less a standard, state-of-the-art tech campus with plenty of integrated green space, open workspaces flooded with natural light, bustling communal social spaces, and plenty of mass timber.

The campus, however, is envisioned as a so-called Cobot Hub where collaborative robotscobotsshare workspaces with their human counterparts. As noted by 3XN in a press release, Odense is actually known as the Cobot Capital of the world and the 3XN-designed campus will, appropriately, be the largest hub of its kind when completed. According to statistics compiled by trade association Odense Robotics in a February 2020 announcement of the forthcoming $36 million Cobot Hub, roughly 8,500 people work for Denmark-based robotic firms with around 3,900 being based in Odense, which was historically a major shipbuilding hub and is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Hans Christen Andersen. If growth forecasts hold, the Danish robotics industry could employ 25,000 people by 2025.

UR and MiRs offices are spread across five different addresses in Odense, and were growing rapidly, which has meant that we have been challenged space-wise, said Sren Nielsen, CEO of MiR, in a statement. This is the reason why we will now group most of our activities in a new joint domicile, which will be the worlds largest hub for collaborative robots. At the same time, it gives us the opportunity to establish a strong professional environment and the best facilities that will help to attract talents from all over the world to work with cobots.

UR and MiR, which also share a robotics hub opened in 2019 in Barcelona, are both owned by Massachusetts-based automatic test equipment giant Teradyne. UR specializes in robotic arms while MiR is an industry leader in the development of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs)

We have worked closely with the users of the building since the beginning of the process, and we have conducted many interviews to outline what the new building needs to deliver, explained Audun Opdal, architect and senior partner at 3XN. A lot of different elements had to come together. The new building will house two independent companies that need everything from traditional office space to workshops, laboratories, and creative robot playrooms, where the robots of the future are developed.

To best accommodate the two companies that will be sharing the campus, 3XN has designed a flexible, highly adaptable space comprised of modular components that can be adjusted to meet the distinct requirements of UR and MiR. As detailed by the firm, [] the cubic volumes form a strong architectural expression and provide a flexible framework so that the building can be scaled up or down according to future needs. This means that significant parts of the buildings structure and materials can be reshaped and reused.

Like with other 3XN projects, the Cobot Hub embraces a circular design in which the entire wood construction can potentially be recycled in the future.

In addition to its focus on sustainability and high adaptability, 3XNs design also emphasizes cross-company collaboration between the sentient workforce of the campus via several common areas and communal amenities including a spacious shared central courtyard that the firm incorporated into the design as the social heart of the campus. (It would appear that the outdoor space isnt necessarily envisioned as a robot-free zone.)

Cobot Hub is expected to be completed in 2023, year of the robot boss.

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3XN reveals Cobot Hub for collaborative robots and their sentient colleagues - The Architect's Newspaper

Theglobal surgical robotics and computer-assisted surgery marketreached nearly $3.5 billion in 2015. This market is expected to increase from $4.0 billion in 2016 to $6.8 billion in 2021 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3% for 2016-2021.

Report Scope:

The scope of this report is broad and covers different types of MRCAS, and the applications for surgical robots and computer-assisted surgery for different kinds of treatment. The market is broken down by types of medical robotics, types of computer-assisted surgery, applications and regional markets. Revenue forecasts from 2016 to 2021 are given for each major type of medical robotics, computer-assisted surgery, application and regional market, and the estimated values are derived from the manufacturers total revenues.

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The report also includes a discussion of the major players across each of the regional MRCAS market; it explains the major market drivers of the global MRCAS industry, current trends within the industry, major applications and the regional dynamics of the global MRCAS market.

The report concludes with a special focus on the vendor landscape, which includes detailed profiles of the major vendors in the global MRCAS industry.

Report Includes:

An overview of the global market for medical robotics and computer-assisted surgery (MRCAS). Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2015 and 2016, and projections of CAGRs through 2021. Examination of the historical and current value of each of the product segments in specified applications and geographical markets. Evaluation of the impact of demographic, economic, and other factors that will drive future demand for MRCAS devices. Identification of promising new surgical procedures and products still in the development and testing stages, and the probability that they will be commercialized successfully within the next five years. Profiles of major players in the industry.

Report Summary

Medical robotics are humanoids or electro-mechanical surgeons operated using computer programs with the help of the human surgeons. It is used to provide greater access to complex areas by precise and minimally invasive methods where the surgeons feel it is difficult to operate manually.

The market for MRCAS is expected to grow, mainly due to an expected growth in demand for laparoscopic and cardiac surgeries. The rising geriatric populations in the Asia-Pacific region, North America and Europe are also expected to drive the global MRCAS market. The increasing use of MRCAS because of its minimally invasive surgery capability, reduced pain and blood loss and quick patient recovery is expected to drive the market through 2021.

Surgical robotics and computer-assisted surgery find major applications in orthopedic, neurosurgical, ENT, cardiac, prosthetic, gastrointestinal, urology and other applications. The surgical robots accounted for 70.3% and 78.4% of the global medical robotics, and surgical robotics and computer-assisted surgery markets, respectively, in 2016.

BCC Research projects that the global MRCAS market will grow from over $4.0 billion in 2016 to more than $6.8 billion by 2021 at a five-year CAGR of 11.3%.

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MEDICAL ROBOTICS AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGERY MARKET 2021 PRICE BY REVENUE, REGIONAL OUTLOOK AND CONSUMPTION - NeighborWebSJ

Jan 16th 2021

THE YEAR is 2021, and honestly there ought to be more robots. It was a decade ago that two scholars of technology, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, published Race Against the Machine, an influential book that marked the start of a fierce debate between optimists and pessimists about technological change. The authors argued that exponential progress in computing was on the verge of delivering explosive advances in machine capabilities. Headline-grabbing breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) seemed to support the idea that the robots would soon upend every workplace. Given that, on the eve of the pandemic, jobs were as plentiful as ever, you might now conclude that the warnings were overdone. But a number of new economics papers caution against complacency. The robots are indeed coming, they reckonjust a bit more slowly and stealthily than you might have expected.

Economists have, on the whole, been fairly sanguine about the impact of robots and AI on workers. History is strewn with incorrect predictions of the looming irrelevance of human labour. The economic statistics have yet to signal the arrival of a robot-powered job apocalypse. Outside of slumps, firms remain keen to hire humans, for example. Growth in productivitywhich ought to be surging if machines are helping fewer workers produce more outputhas been unimpressive. A look beneath the aggregate numbers, though, reveals that change is indeed afoot.

Take work by Daron Acemoglu and David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jonathon Hazell of Princeton University and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University, which was presented at the recent meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA). The authors use rich data provided by Burning Glass Technologies, a software company that maintains and analyses fine-grained job information gleaned from 40,000 firms. They identify tasks and jobs in the dataset that could be done by AI today (and are therefore vulnerable to displacement). Unsurprisingly, the researchers find that businesses that are well-suited to the adoption of AI are indeed hiring people with AI expertise. Since 2010 there has been substantial growth in the number of AI-related job vacancies advertised by firms with lots of AI-vulnerable jobs. At the same time, there has been a sharp decline in these firms demand for capabilities that compete with those of existing AI.

An AI-induced change in the mix of jobs need not translate into less hiring overall. If new technologies largely assist current workers or boost productivity by enough to spark expansion, then more AI might well go hand-in-hand with more employment. This does not appear to be happening. Instead the authors find that firms with more AI-vulnerable jobs have done much less hiring on net; that was especially the case in 2014-18, when AI-related vacancies in the database surged. But the relationship between greater use of AI and reduced hiring that is present at the firm level does not show up in aggregate data, the authors note. Machines are not yet depressing labour demand across the economy as a whole. As machines become cleverer, however, that could change.

Evidence that AI affects labour markets primarily by taking over human tasks is at odds with some earlier studies of how firms use the technology. A paper from 2019 by Timothy Bresnahan of Stanford University argues that the most valuable applications of AI have nothing to do with displacing humans. Rather, they are examples of capital deepening, or the accumulation of more and better capital per worker, in very specific contexts, such as the matching algorithms used by Amazon and Google to offer better product recommendations and ads to users. To the extent that AI leads to disruption, it is at a system level, says Mr Bresnahanas Amazons sales displace those of other firms, say.

New work by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb of the University of Toronto suggests that this state of affairs may not persist for long, though. As the quality of AI predictions improves, they write, it becomes increasingly attractive for AI-using firms to restructure in more radical ways. At some level of accuracy, for example, Amazons ability to predict consumers desires could encourage the firm to adjust its business modelby pre-emptively shipping goods to consumers before they ever go searching at Amazon in the first placein ways that are likely to change how many workers and of what sort the firm requires. In that event, the influence of AI on the economy could change dramatically.

Does more automation mean a surge in productivity is just over the horizon? Not necessarily. Speaking at the (virtual) AEA meeting, Mr Acemoglu mused that automation comes in different sorts, with different economic consequences. Good automation generates large productivity increases, and its transformative nature leads to the creation of many new tasks (and therefore jobs) for humans. Advanced robotics, for example, eliminates production jobs while creating work for robot technicians and programmers. So-so automation, by contrast, displaces workers but generates only meagre benefits. Mr Acemoglu cites automated check-out kiosks as an example; though they save some time and money, their deployment is hardly revolutionary. From 1947 to 1987, the displacement effect of new technologies was generally offset by a reinstatement effect, he reckons, through which new tasks occupied displaced workers. The rate of reinstatement has since fallen, though, while displacement has not, suggesting an increase in so-so automation relative to the good kind.

Mr Acemoglu suggests that policy interventions that lean against employers inclination to deploy so-so automation, such as higher taxes on capital, might be desirable. Perhaps. Yet it is also possible that continued improvement in machine capabilities will solve this problem on its own, either by creating vast new categories of work for humans, or by making us so much better off that we do not especially mind our approaching obsolescence.

This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Its a bot time"

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New research shows the robots are coming for jobsbut stealthily - The Economist

The German company Energy Robotics, a developer of software solutions for mobile inspection robots, has received 2 million in seed funding round led by Earlybird, alongside other prominent business angels. Interestingly, one type of robots worked on by this startup, alongside company Boston Dynamics, were the inspiration for the robot dogs from the dystopian future seriesBlack Mirror.

Founded in 2019, Energy Robotics has launched one of the first commercially available software platforms for industrial applications that combines three essential components of intelligent control of mobile autonomous robots: a hardware-independent robot operating system, a cloud-based fleet management, and an AI-powered data analysis. The robots are used for remote inspection and monitoring, especially in industries with harsh and demanding environments such as the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, but also increasingly in the energy and security industries. The company relies on a SaaS model to do this, offering its software solution and associated IT infrastructure along with hardware from various third-party vendors.

The new investment enables the Darmstadt-based team to further develop their software-as-a-service solution and expand their product portfolio towards a platform economy and robot-as-a-service. In addition to European technology investor Earlybird, which has led first financing rounds in billion-dollar companies such as UiPath, N26 and Peak Games, further investors are participating: multi-supervisory board member Dr. Paul Achleitner, former CEO of Austrian oil company OMV Dr. Gerhard Roiss, and Martin Klssner, e-mobility expert and CEO of has-to-be GmbH. Business angel and serial entrepreneur, Andrej Henkler, known for his early investments in companies such as Palantir, is also among the new investors.

Earlybird sees great potential in the Darmstadt-based startup: The perfectly-coordinated founding team of Energy Robotics combines decades of experience and leading expertise in intelligent autonomous software for mobile robots with visionary entrepreneurship and a doer mentality, explaines Dr. Andre Retterath, Principal at Earlybird. The company is growing fast despite its early stage, the team has already been able to win numerous pilot and license customers such as Shell, Dow Chemical, E.ON and Merck. We are firmly convinced of Energy Robotics hardware-independent software approach. It allows the start-up to assemble the best possible fleet of mobile autonomous robots from various third-party vendors for a variety of customer use cases, controlling everything through a common interface and thus scaling optimally at the data processing level.

We see our solution as a platform for autonomous remote inspection and monitoring. Our goal is to offer customers our software in combination with the hardware they require, and the robot best suited to their specific use case. In doing so, the platform not only combines different types of robots, but at the same time enables the integration of a variety of apps to perform AI-based analysis of the collected data, explained Marc Dassler, Co-Founder and CEO of Energy Robotics. With the newly acquired capital, we are now in a position to grow further and expand our offering and partner network. We are therefore very pleased to have Earlybird and the other investors on our side who see our vision as forward-looking and are promoting it accordingly. For us, it is clear: autonomous robots will significantly change the coming decade, and we are at the forefront of shaping this change.

With Boston Dynamics and its walking robot called Spot, the companys network expanded in September 2020 to include another well-known robot manufacturer. The start of the collaboration was marked by a joint project at the Merck pharmaceutical group in Darmstadt. There, Spot was equipped by Energy Robotics with cameras, sensors and intelligent control software to record inspection data during autonomous inspection tours. In this specific application, the walking robot can read pressure gauges and inspects air outlets.

So what do you think apocolyptic future warning, or friendly useful assistants?

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Darmstadt-based Energy Robotics nabs 2 million for its mobile inspection robots - EU-Startups

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis personally congratulated the PlaisioBots team, who won gold for Greece at theInternational Robot Olympiad for youngsters, at Maximos Mansion on Thursday.

Iris Angelopoulou, Vasiliki Iliadi, Christos Rentzis and Alkiviadis Kotsikopoulos won the top prize for creating a smart white cane for the blind.

I had the pleasure of congratulating the PlaisioBots student team for winning the gold medal at the International Robot Olympiad. They designed and built a robotic cane to facilitate the movement of visually impaired people. They make us very proud, Mitsotakis tweeted.

The team which was sponsored by one of the largest technology outlets in Greece, Plaisio, worked closely together during the coronavirus pandemic.

The white cane has a 3D detection sensor that warns the user of obstacles that are in the environment.

It can also read traffic lights, allowing it to tell users when to cross the street.

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Greek PM Congratulates PlaisioBots Team For Winning Gold At The International Robotics Olympiad For Youngsters - Greek City Times - GreekCityTimes.com

TALLINN, Estonia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The medium class Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle by the European leading robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics passed its initial mobility tests.

The Type-X will become an intelligent wingman to main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and will be capable of taking on the most dangerous tasks and positions, resulting in lower lethality risks.

The Type-X will provide equal or overmatching firepower and tactical usage to a unit equipped with Infantry Fighting vehicles. It provides means to breach enemy defensive positions with minimal risk for own troops and replacing a lost RCV is purely a logistical nuance, said Kuldar Vrsi, CEO of Milrem Robotics.

The Type-X can be fitted with a cannon up to 50 mm. With up to a 30 mm cannon the RCV is airdroppable - the C-130J and the KC-390 can carry one, an A400M two and a C-17 five.

The vehicle will be equipped with intelligent functions such as follow-me, waypoint navigation and obstacle detection with Artificial Intelligence being part of the algorithms, Vrsi said. Also, our software developers have taken a totally new and innovative approach to allow remote controlled operations on higher speeds.

With a weight of 12 tons and efficient power management the vehicle has superior terrain capabilities. Its height of 2.2 m and a rear engine provide low visual and heat signature.

The Type-X is three to four times lighter and its cost significantly lower than that of a conventional IFV. It has been designed with intelligent predictive maintenance combined with a Health and Usage Monitoring System and Line Replacement Unit principle to ensure a low Through Lifecycle Cost and logistic footprint. Its hybrid powertrain and rubber tracks reduce lifecycle costs significantly.

To create the Type-X Milrem Robotics utilized its knowledge gained from developing its THeMIS Unmanned Ground Vehicle, intended to support dismounted troops, that has been acquired by ten countries, including seven NATO members: France, Norway, the UK, the US, Germany, the Netherlands and Estonia.

Milrem Robotics is the European leading robotics and autonomous systems developer with two offices in Estonia, one in Sweden and Finland and shortly one in the Netherlands.

The company leads a consortium that was awarded 30,6 MEUR from the European Commissions European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) to develop a European standardized unmanned ground system.

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Milrem Robotics Rolls out its New Type-X RCV - Business Wire

Here come the droids.

This year's all-digital CES is a tough one for everyone involved, but it may be even harder if you're a robot.

Robots can pique people's interest via the written word or videos, but there's nothing like showing people what you can do in person to really make a good first impression. And the robots you meet at CES never fail to impress.

I've been thrilled by robots ever since I was a little girl, and if I could go back and tell my younger self about the interactions I've had with robots on the Las Vegas show floor over the past few years, those stories would blow my tiny mind. I've played ping-pong and Cards Against Humanity with robots, I've been served pizza by one, and last year at CES I met a snoring Labrador puppy robot that was so realistic it made me want to take it home and love it like I do my cat.

CES 2021 is proving to be very different from previous years. With no opportunities to meet spectators on the show floor due to CES being staged as a virtual event, all of those robots ready to show the world what they can do are having to do so online. It doesn't mean we're any less excited to find out all about them -- but the impact is blunted by the fact that you're viewing their activities through a Zoom feed on your monitor.

Here are the robot friends we've met so far.

If 2020 taught us anything, it's that sanitation and hygiene are key to keeping people safe. It also showed us that there may be jobs that are better for us to hand over to technology to help humans stay safe.

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging around the world, it's no surprise that this year at CES several companies are showing off robots that can sanitize surfaces.

One such droid is Coro-Bot, an "antivirus disinfection robot" created by Hills Engineering from South Korea. The robot has autonomous driving capabilities, allowing it to move independently around environments. It uses its flexible arms to identify the areas in need of cleaning, and sterilizes them using ultraviolet. It also contains an air circulator that it says kills airborne coronavirus and other viruses using a far-Infrared ceramic filter. It's easy to imagine robots such as these being used in hospitals and other environments in which it's imperative to ensure there's no sign of coronavirus.

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LG has been working on a similar robot, which it plans to unveil at CES, that radiates ultraviolet light to disinfect high-touch, high-traffic areas. Again, the robot can move autonomously, navigating around furniture to clean the entire room. It's designed for hospitality, education, corporate, retail and restaurant venues, as well as transportation.

"Whether it's hotel guests, students in classrooms or patrons of restaurants and other businesses, they can rest assured that the LG autonomous UV robot will help reduce their exposure to harmful bacteria and germs," Michael Kosla, vice president of LG Business Solutions USA, said in a statement.

Like LG, Ubtech every year shows off new robots at CES, and this year it brought its own sanitizing robot to the show. The Adibot robotic system includes two robots -- the larger Adibot-A and the smaller mobile Adibot-S -- which both use UV to disinfect surfaces. Ubtech has already announced pricing for the two droids, which cost $40,000 and $20,000, respectively.

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If you've been keeping an eye on the robotics world, you might have already spied Moxie around over the past year. This friendly-faced teal robot made by startup Embodied was recently announced as one of Time's best inventions of 2020. Plus, it was listed as a CES 2021 Innovation Award Honoree.

This companion robot helps children build social, emotional and cognitive skills through everyday play-based learning and the delivery of educational content. Better still, it's built with input from educators and child development experts, and Embodied has been outspoken about taking security extremely seriously. If you've been struggling with home schooling very little ones this year, Moxie might be just the thing you've been looking for to lend a hand.

Moxie is the home-school helper you've been hoping for.

From Japan, Yukai Engineering always brings the fun to CES with its cute home robots -- one of which is famously a cushion with a robotic tail. This year at the show, the company is introducing the Petit Qoobo, an identical but smaller sibling to its much-enjoyed animated cushion, along with an updated version of its Bocco Emo emotional home companion robot.

Also from Japan will be Vanguard Industries, and we have high hopes that the company will use the opportunity to introduce its adorable AI pet robot Moflin to the world.

Sort of like a little gray guinea pig, this is the closest thing we've seen to a robot that looks appropriate for anyone aged newborn or older. (It's dinky with some really soft-looking floof going on.) Each Moflin develops an individual personality over time and can express emotion through movement and sound. This is one robot we're really sad not to be meeting in person.

Meet Moflin.

With robot vacuum cleaners a mainstay at tech shows and in many people's homes around the world, it's not surprising that robots designed to lend a hand at home are appearing on the big stage at CES 2021.

At its press conference Monday, Samsung showed off theBot Care and Bot Handy, the first of which is a kind of personal assistant that monitors your health and the second of which will lend a hand with pouring you a glass of wine or emptying the dishwasher. Samsung'sJetBot 90 AI is a next-level robot vac, which comes with a self-emptying dustpan and Lidar for navigation.

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Some robots are tricky to categorize -- are they genuinely helpful, or just good fun? Looking at San Diego-based Moorebot's Scout robot, the answer seems to be: it depends who has control of it. Looking like a palm-size remote-control car, Scout is both a toy and a tool.

Some robots are cute, but this is a tough boi.

The tiny robot can monitor your house with its autonomous patrolling function, two-way radio and night-vision capabilities -- making it an ideal prop for a new Home Alone film. But kids and adults alike can also build their own applications for Scout, giving it an educational edge.

One of the biggest names in agriculture, John Deere has been a big presence in recent years at CES by bringing its iconic and eye-catching green machinery to the show floor. This year, the company has been given a CES Innovation Award for the robotic capabilities of its X Series combine harvesters. With cameras that allow farmers to see directly inside grain tanks, computer vision, autonomous driving capabilities and in-field machine-to-machine communication, the X Series must be among the biggest robots to ever win the award. The company is already giving select reporters a virtual experience of its CES wares.

Imagine trying to get one of these into the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Another robot designed to support those working outdoors is Daesung's Hive Controller. This robot is all about honey extraction, removing honeycomb from a beehive -- usually a time-consuming process performed by two to five skilled individuals -- in around a minute. With bees at risk and honey achieving superfood status, any robot that helps the honey industry thrive is going to be well received by us.

Hive Controller makes extracting honey much quicker and easier.

Many industrial robots such as the ones described above are designed to perform ultra-specific tasks, but the Dual Arm Robotic System, aka DARS, from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan is quite the opposite.

DARS has been given human-like arms and hands that can serve multiple applications in health care, professional services, smart manufacturing and hazardous environments without using specifically designed tools. Its high level of dexterity combined with its advanced machine learning capabilities mean the robot is able to do complex human tasks such as playing the piano.

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