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Soft Robotics: Robots Morph to Better Interact with Humans

By Dick Weisinger

Robots are getting soft.  They are changing and being designed in new ways to allow better and safer interactions with humans.  Soft robotics is a new field of robots that are built with soft elastic materials. Software and hardware designers,

Robotics: The Engelberger – The Academy Award for Robotics

By Dick Weisinger

The Engelberger.  It’s the top honor in the field of robotics, an award that has been presented annually since 1977.  The award is named after Joseph F. Engelberger, the “father of robotics.” Engleberger was founder and president of the first robotics

Robotics: Businesses to Invest Heavily in Robotic Automation

By Dick Weisinger

Global spending on robotic automation is growing at a rate of more than 18 percent annually.  That includes robotic hardware, software and services.  2017 robotic spending was $97 billion and will grow to $230 billion by 2021, according to IDC.

Robotics: Evolving Robots to be able to Improvise in the Real World

By Dick Weisinger

Robots nowadays can be trained to do seemingly anything.  But making general-purpose robots that can interact under many different scenarios and environments are a long ways off.  Robots today aren’t able to easily reuse in a different environment what they

The Evolution of Robots: Rapid Advances But Humans Need not Worry Yet

By Dick Weisinger

Robots are evolving, and the evolution is being led by the military, fulfillment operators like Alibaba and Amazon, and Chinese startups developing devices to enable low-cost manufacturing. Rodney Brooks, a robotics pioneer, chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, and inventor