The stock of operational robots around the globe hit a new record of about 3.5 million units – the value of installations reached an estimated 15.7 billion USD. "Robots play a fundamental role in securing the changing demands of manufacturers around the world," says Marina Bill, President of the International Federation of Robotics. "New trends in robotics attract users from small enterprise to global OEMs." Energy efficiency is key to improve companies' competitiveness amid rising energy costs. The adoption of robotics helps in many ways to lower energy consumption in manufacturing.

SoftBank Robotics America (SBRA), the North American arm of SoftBank, and Gausium, a provider of autonomous cleaning and service robots, announced a new partnership to deploy indoor automated robots in the US. SBRA and Gausium will work to help companies adopt, integrate and scale robotic solutions within their organizations. The partnership will focus on two solutions: X1, a running and bussing solution for the food service industry, and Scrubber 50 Pro (S50), a robotic floor scrubber powered by artificial intelligence. "SBRA is the right partner to bring our products to market throughout the U.S.," said Allen Zhang, Chief of Overseas Business of Gausium. "Their holistic customer support continues after the point of sale and ensures all adopters are receiving the expected return on experience and investment when utilizing our robots."

Mel Torrie, the CEO and founder of Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI), will kick off the Field Robotics Engineering Forum with his keynote presentation "A Field Robotics Journey". In this wide-ranging session, Torrie will provide attendees with a first-hand account of the opportunities and challenges of delivering field robotics solutions to the marketplace. Torrie's story will begin with ASI developing industrial robotic solutions in agriculture, landscaping and construction with John Deere 22 years ago. ASI eventually expanded into mining, logistics and automotive autonomy testing. More recently, ASI partnered with SoftBank to accelerate robotics adoption in the landscaping and logistics market through their Mobius multi-fleet orchestration platform.

Robotics solutions and technologies are rapidly changing society and transforming the way we live and work – with both positive improvements and unforeseen consequences. In Robotics4EU we wish to ensure that citizens have a say when it comes to these new technologies and how they affect everyday life. Therefore, we have gathered robots which are being developed right now or have just entered the market. We have set these up in a survey style consultation. By answering the survey, you get the opportunity to have an influence on these robotics solutions, as your answers will be given directly to the companies behind the robots, who will use your feedback in the further development of the robots.

The eighth edition of the SIDO Lyon will open its doors on September 14 and 15, 2022 at the Cité Internationale de Lyon: 48h top-chrono to decipher the innovation and to concretize its digitalization projects, whatever the level of maturity of its project! SIDO Lyon, the leading trade show in France for IoT, AI, XR and Robotics solutions for the 4.0 transformation of companies, will take place in a few weeks. To make IoT, AI, XR and robotics technologies accessible, to promote human-machine collaboration and thus better use of these technologies by industrial and service companies, to reinvent business processes with new roles, new ways of collaborating and to drive new business models. The market leaders will be in Lyon: Microsoft, Orange, STMicroelectronics, Avnet Silica, Aquitaine Robotics, the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region… but also and for the first time, the Pays de la Loire Region, sponsor of the event, which will present through Proxinnov, more than 80m2 dedicated to IoT, AI and Robotics solutions in the region, including a conveyor around which several collaborative robots (or cobots) will simulate a live production line. In total, there will be more than 40% of new exhibitors to discover.

Long-term autonomy of robotic systems implicitly requires dependable platforms that are able to naturally handle hardware and software faults, problems in behaviors, or lack of knowledge. Model-based dependable platforms additionally require the application of rigorous methodologies during the system development, including the use of correct-by-construction techniques to implement robot behaviors. As the level of autonomy in robots increases, so do the cost of offering guarantees about the dependability of the system. Certifiable dependability of autonomous robots, we argue, can benefit from formal models of the integration of several cognitive functions, knowledge processing, reasoning, and meta-reasoning. Here we put forward the case for a generative model of cognitive architectures for autonomous robotic agents that subscribes to the principles of model-based engineering and certifiable dependability, autonomic computing, and knowledge-enabled robotics.

We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Qulacomm said it is launching new platform support for advanced robotics products, 5G wireless networking and edge-AI applications. The company unveiled the Qualcomm Robotics solutions at its annual Qualcomm 5G Summit event as it recognizes the ways in which 5G is proliferating beyond smartphones. The San Diego, California-based company took the wraps off its Qualcomm Robotics RB6 Platform and the Qualcomm RB5AMR reference design, which can be used to build advanced edge-AI and robotics products using Qualcomm's chips. The solutions will help unlock new commercial markets for autonomous mobile robots, delivery robots, highly automated manufacturing robots, collaborative robots, unmanned aircraft, industrial drone infrastructure, autonomous defense solutions and beyond.

Before droves of people descend on a convention center for a trade show or conference, the hall must be carefully divided up to accommodate corporate show booths, walkways for attendees, spaces for administrators/security and much more. The process of defining the layout and marking it up for construction crews is often done with humans laboriously measuring and marking distances, but Lionel can do all of this for you. Once given a plan, it zooms along empty convention halls while precisely marking all of the dimensions for the schematics that you have in mind. Lionel, the floor-marking robot, was made specifically for the organizers of trade shows and conferences. Lionel isn't a robot that you'd typically think of when you imagine new applications of technology, but it fills a niche that there is strong demand for.

Robotics4EU is a 3-years-long EU-funded project which advocates for a wider adoption for AI-based robots in 4 sectors: healthcare, inspection and maintenance of infrastructure, agri-food, and agile production. Thus, Robotics4EU raises awareness about non-technological aspects in robotics through delivering a series of workshops to involve the research community, industry representatives and citizens. Social impact of Robotics in Inspection and Maintenance" which took place on the 26th of January, 2022 tackled the problem of interactions between robots and humans. How to evaluate the real impact of robotics on our society? How to decide if robots are hazardous and may complicate human lives? To what extent does society accept rapidly progressing robotic technologies?

Berkshire Grey Inc, the leading AI-enabled robotic solutions, has announced its partnership with North Highland, a worldwide management consulting firm, to solve global supply chain challenges and enhance the throughput of eCommerce fulfillment. With surging demand in the E-Commerce Industry, lack of labor issues, and increasing customer expectations for speed and quality, chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) are under more stress than ever to optimize supply chain operations and enhance supply chain resiliency. Berkshire Grey offers solutions to customers that support order fulfillment over the entire supply chain by providing the most extensive portfolio of (IER) Intelligent Enterprise Robotic solutions available. Berkshire Grey's complete services cover design, installation, testing, and commissioning, as well as ongoing support employing cloud-based AI solutions for auspicious maintenance, system operations management, analytics, and integration. Major retailers and consumer product companies trust North Highland consultants to advise and deliver cutting-edge technology, which is why North Highland chose Berkshire Grey's innovative robotic solutions.