This Is Robotics: Radio News is a new and very different robotics news program. One that we’re very excited about, and know that you’re going like a lot…and also find super useful. Radio News is a compilation of the best in robotics news, views and interviews gathered worldwide and presented as a 30-minute podcast. The global best in robotics! Now you can consume the best in global robotics news while driving to work, waiting to board a plane, or at the breakfast table. Miss something? Stream it again. Want to go deeper? Go online to the This Is Robotics news page for the very same articles, as text, a bit longer, with links and references. Welcome to the best news in robotics. You're going to love what you hear!
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Join me, your host Tom Green, for our annual Holiday Special exploring how robotics transforms lives, rebuilds cities, and lifts nations. This year's theme showcases four extraordinary stories of social change through automation. This year's theme is one close to my heart: "Robotics Driving Social Change." We begin in India, where three startups—Genrobotics, Solinas Integrity, and Sakar Robotics—are using robots to end manual scavenging, one of the world's most dangerous jobs, giving 58,000 work...
Welcome to Our Halloween Program 2025 Yes, it’s Halloween, when people dress up like someone or something else, and when the dead come back to visit the living. Which, in a way is kind of apropos of today’s podcast. ABB Sells to SoftBank The recent sale of ABB’s robotics division to Japan’s SoftBank. Was that a normal sale of one company to another, or was it something else? Was it part of a disguise? Was it part of an elaborate plan for Japan’s moribund AI and smart robotics industry to return ...
Delve into how GenAI and robotics are transforming pharmaceutical R&D, from Alice Zhang's Verge Genomics leveraging AI and stem cells for neuroscience breakthroughs to autonomous robot chemists accelerating drug discovery. The episode also highlights the critical need for smart industrial robots to combat expensive downtime and production errors, paving the way for efficient smart factories.
Listening to Our Fans We get lots of fan interest in our online news platform and podcast. To recognize and honor all that attention, June’s podcast is dedicated to replying to some of the email and queries that our fans sent to Asian Robotics Review, This Is Robotics, Robo AI News, and LinkedIn. First off, thank you one and all for your interest in what we do. You are important to us, and we honor the time you take out of your busy day to send us what’s on your mind. Here are three of the most ...
THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT OVERARCHING ROBOT-BASED THEMES FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2025 DON’T MISS THIS PODCAST! The one podcast that will catch you up, inform you, and get you ready for the future of manufacturing, jobs and careers, robotics, artificial intelligence, and Gen Z, the generation that is the most aware, well-adapted, and emotionally ready to create an out-sized impact on the future. Any new technology that happens along that ends up amplifying industrial robotics is a benefit to th...
Welcome to the April 2025, Edition #37of This Is Robotics. Today, BTW, is National Superheroes Day. Good time to give thanks of appreciation to a superhero in your life, comic book, cinema, TV, or real life, who has been important to you. For April’s edition of This Is Robotics, we’ll look at the high-tech drama from Korea as it unfolds a nationwide plan for robot-driven automation for the entire country. Only the second industrialized nation to devise and execute such a massive plan; China, and...
INTRO: Here at This Is Robotics, we have our very own March Madness championship series with teams vying for the GenAI Trophy. The brackets of contenders are set: ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, Alibaba’s Qwen, Tencent’s T1, and of course the Cinderella team of the playoffs, DeepSeek, which has already crashed Wall Street for a trillion dollars. Our lead story for March is one that generated a ton of email both pro and con plus a pile of commentary. It was a special report just last week in Asia...
This Is Robotics: Radio News #35 The Wild, Wild World of Humanoid Robots 2025 The Rise of Humanoid Robots in 2021: How We Got to Now Good fortune has befallen humanoid robotics in this fast-paced year for humanoids 2025. Join us for the journey to Now! That journey arguably can be said to have begun in August of 2021 with the emergence of high-octane influencer, Elon Musk, and his introduction of Optimus to the heralded list of humanoid names. Surely, humanity has been at the chase for a humanoi...
This Is Robotics: End-Of-Year Program, 30 December 2024 What Was the Most Important Story in Robotics for 2024? Yes, there Was Only One. And no, it wasn’t bipedal humanoids. Not by a long shot. Not as long as there’s gravity and Mother Nature to contend with. The hype and investment millions going into bipedal humanoid robots these days feels a lot like the over-hyped, over-heated, craziness of the multi-billion-dollar market that was self-driving cars back in 2009-2017. Remember? Google investe...
PITTSBURGH: HOW ROBOTICS SAVED A CITY By 2000, 29 steel companies in Pittsburgh had declared bankruptcy, cratering its middleclass, and any future upon which the great city might have had hopes to grow and thrive. How did robotics bring the city back from the dead? Pittsburgh: From Dying Steel Town to Global Robotics Hub by Henry Lenard IS THIS THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMRS? Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere, you’ve undoubtedly heard the noise of their wheels and the rush of their whizzing by y...
Hello folks and welcome to This Is Robotics. I’m your host and fellow companion, Tom Green. The last half of 2024 is upon us, robotics-driven automation is in rapid ascendancy once again, especially now since 2024 is showing how robotics engages with GenAI, and how prompt engineering is significantly increasing the ease of adoption for robots everywhere. Last month, we gave you a longish one-hour show, which was necessary for it was meant to support my keynote address at SuperTechFT in San Franc...
2024: The Most Important Year in the History of Robotics! Companion podcast #31 to Keynote address at SuperTechFT 3 July 2024 Happy to be with you one and all. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion on this very special journey for 2024. We are only halfway through the year, and already 2024 has shown us that it is the most important year in the history of robotics. This podcast will show you why that is. This podcast is a companion to the live keynote address I will give at SuperTechFT in San F...
Welcome to a special edition of This Is Robotics for a special look at the "New Collar" Workforce. Robot-Driven Automation's "New Collar" Workforce Vitally needed workers for robot-driven manufacturing, and just maybe, the revitalization of America’s middle class. They’re definitely a new breed! Don’t call them blue collar and don’t call them white collar. Blue, many perceive as life-long drudgery with a wasted body by the age of fifty, and white as onerous college debt with the worst ROI imagin...
Has Code Writing Capitulated To GenAI? What exactly just took place, and why? Suddenly this March, we all woke up one morning to find code fighting for its life. Why so fast? Why so suddenly? Why so completely? Unexpectedly and quietly code is disappearing. Why is that? Is AI’s argument that convincing? Sure seems that way. It was a little like the Berlin Wall: imposingly there for a few decades, then suddenly gone and forgotten. We’ll take a look at what happened to code, and what’s next for ro...
Hi folks, welcome to This Is Robotics for February 2024, Episode #28 . I’m Tom Green, your host and companion as we travel together through the big, wide world of modern robotics…and now, robotics is getting even better as it converges with artificial intelligence. Ah, the age of smart robots is upon us. Thanks again for making This Is Robotics the #1 robotics news podcast worldw ide…for two years running. We did some investigative journalism this month to find out why…and we were surprised at w...
Hi folks, welcome to This Is Robotics, and our last episode for 2023. Next up a wild and woolly 2024. We are already planning our January show. It’s forecast to be a fabulous for robotics, logistics and automation in general. Plus, it’s also the Year of the Dragon (2024) The dragon, one of the luckiest and most powerful symbols offering prosperity, and good fortune throughout 2024. It is the perfect time for rejuvenated beginnings and setting the foundation for long-term success. THE STATS ARE I...
Welcome everyone to This Is Robotics, episode #26 for November, 2023. Oh, and BTW: Thanks for making us the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast for TWO YEARS IN A ROW. I’m Tom Green, your guide and companion into the wide, wonderful world of robotics. Welcome. It’s that time of year when we take a look at Time Magazine’s picks for its Global Top Inventions for the year. This year, 2023, there are 200 selections in 21 different categories. Robotics, as usual, has its very own category, category #18, ...
Hi folks. And welcome. Question: Is it okay with everyone if we talk about 2024? I know it’s still October of 2023, but so much is at the ready for 2024 now that it seems a shame not to give the upcoming new year some mega attention. Okay, deal. Let’s do it. Welcome again to This Is Robotics, episode #25, October of 2023. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion as we take a robotics look forward at the upcoming New Year of 2024. The word in the air and on the streets for 2024 is LOGISTICS. Yes, w...
Hi everyone and welcome to This Is Robotics, Episode 24. Thanks for joining us. I’m Tom Green your guide and companion for today’s journey into our global robotics news podcast. Our first story explores the reasons for Why Is There So Little Automation in America? As sci-fi writer William Gibson once remarked: “The future is already here but it’s not evenly distributed.” Well, much the same can be said for automation in America. Why is it that only 5 out of 50 U.S. states get 77% of all industri...
Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #23 I’m Tom Green, your host and companion on this incredible journey called robotics. For two years running now, we have been the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…we’re up to over 100,000 fans, and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much. And thanks for joining us today It’s August, the harbinger of September, and the 4th and final Quarter 4 for 2023. That year went fast! Maybe because it was such a rollicki...
This summer of 2023 is one to particularly remember for robotics. We’ll remember 2023 for a long time, even as it spawns two more equally amazing and remarkable years to come 2024 and 2025. Robotics technology and sales will thunder into the quarter-century mark of this millennium’s first 100 years. Today’s podcast looks at three bellwether happenings for robotics here in 2023…and the carryover for them through 2025. Of course, leader of the bellwether gang is generative AI or genAI that bull-ru...
Welcome everyone to This Is Robotics, Episode #12 . I’m Tom Green your host and fellow traveler in the wonderful world of robotics. This is our first podcast while the world is hip deep in generativeAI. In fact, much of our show today is about AI and robotics. We lead off with our partnership blog What’s New in Robotics? with Robotiq , the automation company that helps you elevate your workforce with easy-to-use cobot solutions that do the work for you. Two of our blog posts from What’s New in R...
Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #20 For two years running now, we are the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much. Thanks for joining us today We’d really be remiss here at This Is Robotics if we didn’t put some sense into the biggest robotics story of the last several months. That story is of humanoid robots, bi-pedal humanoid robots hooking up with AI. Our next story is called Humanoid Robots and AI Cr...
Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #19 For two years running now, we are the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much. Thanks for joining us today Topping the news of the month is Walmart with its blockbuster 5-year plan filled to the brim with automation and robots. A story we call: Walmart Goes All-In for Robots. In short, it’s a massive upside for the entire robotics industry. That’s sure to prompt other ...
Hi everyone and welcome, I’m Tom Green, your host for this episode of This Is Robotics, and your fellow companion on one of the most incredible journeys in human history: robotics. Thanks so much for tuning us in today. March 20th, at 5:24 p.m. EDT) spring rolled in. It’s that time of year when the ground begins to thaw, birds return, and many vendors introduce their outdoor robots. Outdoors meaning robots for backyards, construction sites, farms, and major infrastructure projects most everywher...
FABULOUS FEBRUARY Hi everyone and welcome to This Is Robotics for February. It’s been a mere two months into 2023 and already big things, major innovations, are happening in robotics. And some of them are quite fabulous and are the harbinger of follow-on innovations that are even more fabulous. Because of what’s popped to the surface these last 2 months, we’re going into full-stop mode for This Is Robotics for February Episode 17. We’re calling it Fabulous February. Because, If this is what the ...
CHINA TO AMP UP ROBOT USAGE 2023-2025 Already the world’s largest buyer of industrial robots for 9 straight years. A country that buys on average 21,000 industrial robots a month! Does that sound like a country that needs to “Amp Up” its robot usage? Yes, and there’s good reason for it. China’s got a failing grade for its “Made in China 2025” plan in which it promised 50% of all industrial robots bought would be homemade by Chinese robot makers. Today, that’s at 39%! More worrisome still, China ...
CHINA’S CHRISTMAS MIRACLE & BEST GIFT EVER! How China went from 88% of its people in utter poverty, making $2.06 per day, to having the largest middle class in human history. Larger than the entire population of Europe. And it’s all due to one man: Deng Xiaoping, the diminutive (5’2”) paramount leader of the People's Republic of China, who in 1978, at the age of 74, changed China forever. Keeping the sheen on Deng Xiaoping’s "Big Idea" China’s Christmas Miracle TOP 5 ROBOTICS TECH TRENDS FOR...
ROBOTS, COBOTS AND PHARMA 4.0 Robots and cobots, more and more, are beginning to exert an outsized impact on life-saving and disease-preventing new drug discoveries, medicines, and therapeutics. From drug discovery, to the manufacturing and packaging of new pharmaceuticals, the marriage of AI and robotics has been crucial to the process. In what’s now being called Pharma 4.0, a new world is emerging for robots and cobots, and they are proving themselves up to the task, and then some. NEW WORKPLA...
