Robotics

The road to fully autonomous vehicles is, by necessity, a long and winding one; systems that implement new technologies that increase the driving level of vehicles (driving levels being discussed further below) must be rigorously tested for safety and longevity before they can make it to vehicles that are bound for public streets.

Black Sesame are a leading Chinese provider of automotive computing chips for ADAS, autonomous driving, and infotainment. At IAA Mobility 2023 (also known as the Munich Motorshow), IDTechEx Technology Analyst James Falkiner spoke with Ming Zhong, System Analyst at Black Sesame. Mr Zhong discussed Black Sesame's products, from their upcoming C1200 chip, built on TSMC's 7nm process, to their A1000L, a high efficiency chip targeted at ADAS systems.

Tuesday 10 October 2023 - Mobile Robotics in Logistics - Over 20-fold Revenue Increase in the Next Two Decades; An overview of mobile robots and a breakdown of different types of mobile robots used in logistics; Exploring the reasons behind the rapid growth of mobile robots in logistics and the benefits they offer to various industries; Discussion of the fundamental technologies and components that empower mobile robot systems; Analyzing the present state of the market, including noteworthy developments such as acquisitions and new product launches by industry leaders; Delving into the obstacles and regulatory considerations that mobile robots face, along with a timeline for addressing these challenges; Providing an overview of IDTechEx's independent forecast for the future of mobile robots in the logistics sector.

Mobile robots have experienced substantial growth in the last decade due to their autonomous mobility, which has been propelled by advancements in robotics technology, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence. IDTechEx's market research report, titled "Mobile Robotics in Logistics, Warehousing, and Delivery 2024-2044", delves into the technical, regulatory, and market aspects influencing the emerging logistics mobile robot industry.

Wednesday 27 September 2023 - AI capabilities, and why these matter; Market revenue forecasts for AI chips at the edge up to and including 2034; Analyses relating to multiple key industry verticals, such as consumer electronics and automotive; Discussion of trends within these industry verticals.

The promise of autonomous vehicles has been a long time coming. While many are still waiting to see the fruits of all this work, there are some cities like Arizona and San Francisco where autonomous cars are starting to become a reality.

This premium article highlights some of the leading companies across the US and China and reports on their progress in commercialising robotaxi services. The leaders are also benchmarked on their testing miles, fleet sizes, funding, sensor suites and deployment progress.

Next2U is an academic spin-off in Italy specializing in thermal cameras. The potential target applications include driver monitoring systems (DMS), pilot detection, and service robots. Despite an early stage of commercialization, IDTechEx believes that thermal cameras have potential in DMS.

This premium article discusses grid-based automated guided vehicles, including funding of mobile robot start-ups and categories of mobile robots seeing growth.

Since the introduction of Artificial Intelligence to the data center, AI has been loath to leave it. With large tracts of floorspace dedicated to servers comprising leading-edge chips that can handle the computational demands for training the latest in AI models, as well as inference via end-user connections to the cloud, data centers are the ideal environment for facilitating much of what AI has to offer.

Thursday 7 September 2023 - The percentage penetration of level 0, level 1 and level 2 technologies in US, Europe, China and Japan; Leading OEMs in level 2 development and technologies; Level 3 vehicles available on the market; Regulatory changes around using level 2 and level 3 vehicles on the roads; How level 3 will spread across consumer passenger vehicles

Innovation roadmap for the edge AI landscape.

IDTechEx talked with 4am Robotics at Automatica 2023. 4am Robotics specializes in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) including indoor and outdoor tuggers, forklifts, and mobile manipulators.

Forecasts from the IDTechEx Research report "Mobile Robotics in Logistics, Warehousing and Delivery 2024-2044"

Neura Robotics is a company developing cognitive collaborative robots using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. IDTechEx analysts talked with Neura Robotics at Automatica 2022, and this year (2023), IDTechEx analysts talked with them again to check their updates.

IDTechEx talked with Thira Robotics at Automatica 2023. Thira Robotics is a South Korea based autonomous mobile robot (AMR) manufacturer. Thira Robotics has a number of products, its T-Series and L-Series AMRs.

This premium article provides an in-depth overview of a teardown analysis of various mobile robots, specifically focusing on automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).

This premium article presents data and analysis of key data from the California DMV over the past seven years, creates a proxy measurement for robotaxi safety performance, and benchmarks progress against human levels of performance.