Frank Tobe
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Santa Barbara, CA, United States
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2018 industrial robot sales barely eke out year-over-year gain
2018 industrial robot sales barely eke out year-over-year gain → Read More
Enrico Krog Iversen’s impact on the robotics industry
Enrico Krog Iversen’s impact on the robotics industry → Read More
Fundings, acquisitions and IPOs, June 2018
Twenty-seven startups raised money in June to the tune of $2.1 billion, another great month for robotics! Also during June there were ten acquisitions and two IPOs. See below for details. The top fundings were: * Rockwell (NYSE:ROK) made a $1 billion equity investment in PTC (NASDAQ:PTC), an automation control software provider to government and industry. * Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is investing $500… → Read More
Takeaways from Automatica 2018
Automatica 2018 is one of Europe’s largest robotics and automation-related trade shows and a destination for global roboticists and business executives to view new products. It was held June 19-22 in Munich and had 890 exhibitors and 46,000 visitors (up 7% from the previous show). The International Symposium on Robotics (ISR) was held in conjunction with Automatica with a series of… → Read More
Robotics fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: May 2018
Robotics fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: May 2018 → Read More
British robot-using online grocer licensing their technology to US Kroger chain
British robot-using online grocer licensing their technology to US Kroger chain → Read More
Warehousing, fulfillment and DC transformation trends
Warehousing, fulfillment and DC transformation trends → Read More
Robotic fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: April 2018
Robotic fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: April 2018 → Read More
Teradyne acquires MiR for $272M, continues robotics spree
Teradyne acquires MiR for $272M, continues robotics spree → Read More
MODEX 2018: Old and new have never been so far apart
MODEX 2018: Old and new have never been so far apart → Read More
What’s all the fuss about AI, robotics and China?
What’s all the fuss about AI, robotics and China? → Read More
Robotics fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: March 2018
Robotics fundings, acquisitions and IPOs: March 2018 → Read More
Thousands jam to see Jen-Hsun Huang’s keynote at GPU Developers Conference
Thousands jam to see Jen-Hsun Huang’s keynote at GPU Developers Conference → Read More
Quiet inroads in robotics: the Vecna story
Robotics is undergoing fundamental change in three core areas: collaboration, autonomous mobility and increasing intelligence. Autonomous mobility technology is entering the industrial vehicle marketplace of AGVs, forklifts and tugs with new products, better navigation technologies and lower costs. Forecasters Grandview Research and IDTechEx suggest that autonomous forklifts and tugs will emerge… → Read More
10 tech-savvy companies on the hunt for AI/robotics talent and IP
10 tech-savvy companies on the hunt for AI/robotics talent and IP → Read More
Power transmission line inspection robots
In 2010 I wrote that there were three sponsored research projects to solve the problem of safely inspecting and maintaining high voltage transmission lines using robotics. Existing 2010 methods ranged from humans crawling the lines, to helicopters flying close-by and scanning, to cars and jeeps with people and binoculars attempting to scan with the human eye. (2010 article) In 2014 I described… → Read More
Robotics fundings, acquisitions, IPOs, failures: February 2018
Robotics fundings, acquisitions, IPOs, failures: February 2018 → Read More
Research arrows are up with one common thread: digital data
Research arrows are up with one common thread: digital data → Read More
Robotics industry fundings, acquisitions & IPOs: January 2018
Robotics industry fundings, acquisitions & IPOs: January 2018 → Read More
CES 2018: Robots, AI, massive data and prodigious plans
CES 2018: Robots, AI, massive data and prodigious plans → Read More