IN A NUTSHELL AT PACK EXPO INTERNATIONAL 2022 Post-COVID, tradeshows have been slowly lumbering back into the global event circuit this past year or so, most to highly receptive audiences. One of the biggest returnees, PACK EXPO International (Chicago, October 23-26), absent since 2018, promised to return larger than ever with a flurry of new looks, staging, and attendee outreach. Upon hitting the show floor, the jump-out realizations to grab onto at Pack Expo 2022 are two: More cobots doing mor...
Nov 01, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 13
WHAT’S NEW IN ROBOTICS? What’s New in Robotics? Travels to an Indonesian village, the Czech Republic, then Sweden, and finally California News briefs take a look at an exosuit or wearable robot to manage spastic muscles for those afflicted with multiple sclerosis (MS) and cerebral palsy (CP), followed homemade ingenuity in service robots with a service robot that has a rice cooker for a head; followed by a 3D-printed cobot arm that actually “works”, and finally the 45-second pizza, robot-made in...
Sep 28, 2022•31 min
HONORING INDIA’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE (1947-2022) India: An Unexpected Revolution in Robotics There’s a revolution in robotics just emerging in India that bears watching. An unexpected revolution! No one expects robotics revolutions to take place in India, no one ever has. Why? Cerebral more than mechanical has been the rap most often heard about India. India has always shown itself fantastically adept at constructing unrivaled intellectual kingdoms. However, India has been in search...
Aug 15, 2022•26 min
Will Farm Robots Become Our Next Gas-Guzzling, Fume-Spewing Agents of Climate Change? Farm Robots…and the coming explosion in their numbers. As the world moves toward an additional 2 billion people, going from 7 to 9 billion total, the global food supply, according to the UN, will need 70% more food. Farm robots are the only way that will happen. But, with millions of new farm robots, will farm robots become our next gas-guzzling, fume-spewing agents of climate change? It’s going to happen, but ...
Jul 08, 2022•30 min
KOREA’S ROBOT TECHNOPOLIS A fascinating piece on the rise of Daegu City, which will be, by 2028, the biggest and most important robot city in all of Asia. Decade of work pays off in high-tech victory as Daegu City wins nationwide competition as mega-site for Korea’s Robot Technopolis Daegu City Prospectus MOXI AND THE WOMEN WHO BUILT HER A well-deserved shout to Diligent Robotics scoring a $30 million investment, and what it means for service robotics as well as to robotics companies founded by ...
Apr 28, 2022•31 min
The Very Best of This Is Robotics: Radio News Fan Favorite Top 5 podcasts THE TROUBLE WITH COBOTS from 9/2021 podcast #2 Arguably the most important advance in robotics in the last 50 years has got a problem: sales. Why is that? Important and far-reaching consequences of those puny sales are a major concern for manufacturing and productivity. SEX ROBOTS WILL NEVER MAKE YOU CRY from 8/2021 podcast #1 The allure, fascination and repulsion for humanity’s new best friend THE FANTASTIC FIVE OF ASIA f...
Mar 26, 2022•48 min
PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #7 of This Is Robotics: Radio News , a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. #1 Global Robotics News Podcast. You’re Going to Love What You Hear! The lineup for podcast #7 Robotics for February 2022 ! WELCOME TO THE AMERICAS: ADDVERB TECHNOLOGIES “We Change the Way Things Move” says Addverb Technologies. A Twelve Time Zone Chat: Boston, Bangkok, Delhi and San Diego crackled on last evening as Asian Robot...
Feb 27, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 2
PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #6 of This Is Robotics: Radio News , a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. #1 Global Robotics News Podcast. You’re Going to Love What You Hear! The lineup for podcast #6 Robotics for the New Year: 2022 ! THREE HALLMARKS DEFINING COBOT SUCCESS Three tech attributes showing themselves to be necessary for cobot success. Universal Robots, Techman, and Doosan share the knack, but better keep an eye on newco...
Jan 27, 2022•39 min
PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #5 of This Is Robotics: Radio News , a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. #1 Global Robotics News Podcast. You’re Going to Love What You Hear! The lineup for podcast #5 The People Program includes: THE IMPORTANCE OF AN END-OF-YEAR “PEOPLE PROGRAM” This Is Robotics: Radio News proudly concludes its 2021 podcast programming season with The People Program: Robotics and Automation Are Really All About Peo...
Dec 29, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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...
Nov 25, 2021•27 min
PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #3 of This Is Robotics: Radio News , a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. The lineup for podcast #3 includes: AMAZON, ASTRO AND OUR LIVING ROOMS Is Amazon about to crack the code on how to make a mobile robot a part of the family? Amazon shocked the robotics world in 2012 with Kiva, then again in 2015 with Alexa, and maybe now is gearing up for a trifecta. PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE WORLD OF AI, ROBOTICS AN...
Oct 28, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 3
PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #2 of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. The lineup for podcast #2 includes: THE TROUBLE WITH COBOTS Arguably the most important advance in robotics in the last 50 years has got a problem: sales. Why is that? Important and far-reaching consequences of those puny sales are a major concern for manufacturing and productivity. THE FANTASTIC FIVE Five fascinating robot innov...
Sep 28, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 2
PLEASE JOIN US for the podcast premier program of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. The lineup for our premier show includes: BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH SURGICAL ROBOTS Oh, boy, new millionaires will be made WHEN THE ROBOT BURNS THE TOAST Toyota Research Institute’s kitchen robots THE DEMISE OF DUMB The rise of “smart” robots for factory and warehouse UNINTENDED COINCIDENCE has our premier program ...
Aug 23, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 1
This Is Robotics: Radio News (trailer) (Launch date: August 2021) 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 b...
Jul 10, 2021•4 min
