Robotics

IDTechEx met Kawasaki at Automatica 2022.

ARTI are an Austrian-based company providing navigation software for autonomous guided vehicles. The company was started in 2019 with six founders and now has 12 people.

IDTechEx attended the International Symposium on Robotics, held in Munich from 20th-21st June. This premium article will look into the keynote sessions and industry presentations from the event.

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science shows that a hands-free system could effectively automate the treatment and removal of tooth-decay-causing bacteria and dental plaque.

Corvus Drones is a Dutch agritech company, founded in 2017 by Gerhold ten Voorde and Frans-Peter Dechering. The company has produced a drone for crop monitoring in greenhouses and claims to be one of the first to have developed an autonomous drone for indoor farming. IDTechEx spoke with Corvus Drones at the GreenTech 2022 event.

Microplastics are found nearly everywhere on Earth and can be harmful to animals if they're ingested. But it's hard to remove such tiny particles from the environment, especially once they settle into nooks and crannies at the bottom of waterways. Now, researchers have created a light-activated fish robot that "swims" around quickly, picking up and removing microplastics from the environment.

IDTechEx had a brief conversation with Omron at Automatica 2022. As IDTechEx had significant existing knowledge of Omron's autonomous mobile robots and included it in the report 'Mobile Robotics in Logistics, Warehousing and Delivery 2022-2042', the conversation was focused on the cobot.

IDTechEx attended the Automatica 2022 event from 21st-22nd June in Munich, Germany. This premium article will explore interviews held with machine vision, end effector, and software companies.

IDTechEx met KUKA at Automatica 2022. KUKA is a German manufacturer and a leading player in the market of industrial robots and systems for factory automation. However, it has been predominantly owned by the Chinese company Midea Group since 2016.

Someday, a swarm of cellphone-size robots could whisk through the water beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus, looking for signs of alien life. Packed inside a narrow ice-melting probe that would tunnel through the frozen crust, the tiny robots would be released underwater, swimming far from their mothercraft to take the measure of a new world.

Most neuro technologies are limited to the lab or clinic and are very expensive and hard to operate. This brain-controlled robotic arm requires no surgery and is accessible to robotically guide stroke rehabilitation both in clinic and at home.

IDTechEx attended the Automatica 2022 event from 21st-22nd June in Munich, Germany. This premium article will explore interviews held with cobot, service robot, and other robot companies.

With this approval, Einride will conduct a public road pilot. The autonomous and electric Einride Pod's design does not leave room for a driver on board and is instead remotely monitored by a Remote Pod Operator, marking this pilot as an industry first for this new type of vehicle.

IDTechEx has seen at Autonomous Ships Expo 2022 that autonomy in ships is a fast-developing area. There are some key areas that are emerging as early adopters and deployers of autonomous technology, while others are developing and gaining confidence in the technology. This premium article covers some key learnings from the Autonomous Ships Expo 2022, highlighting which applications are likely to adopt first, who the key players are, and what selection of sensors are needed.

Whilst much of the "5G" infrastructure is a moderate upgrade on existing 4G technology, there is still plenty of scope for higher frequency deployment such as mmWave devices and very different station types such as small cells. Each of these new developments presents its own technological evolution and with it, thermal challenges.

IDTechEx's new report, "Thermal Management for ADAS: 2023-2033" finds that the yearly market value for thermal interface materials (TIMs) in ADAS will increase 11-fold over the next 10 years.

Organifarms is a robotics company, founded in 2020 with headquarters in Germany. The company demonstrated their strawberry harvesting robot at the GreenTech 2022 event.

This premium article delves into the GreenTech 2022 event, held in Amsterdam from 14th-16th June, and summarizes some of the key talking points of the event, such as controlled environment agriculture (CEA) productivity and increasing sustainability in CEA.

Haptics 2023-2033: Technologies, Markets, and Players - Current and emerging technologies (ERM motors, LRAs, piezoelectric ceramics and polymers, surface haptics, SMAs, electroactive polymers, contactless haptics and thermal haptics), markets, forecasts, and players in haptics.

QUOKKA, a local UAE-based company that is devoted to serving the best quality of gelato with a unique twist of robotic technology, has partnered with NISKA Retail Robotics, an Australian-born tech start-up pioneering the emerging trends of robotization of retail, to open the first ice cream bar entirely staffed by robots inside the premises of Marina Mall, Abu Dhabi.