Opinion & Briefings
Industry briefings, distilled for engineers
Daily industry briefings distilled from robotics research and industrial automation news — each links back to its original source.

ArchiveOpinion · May 29, 2024
Mitsubishi Electric Leads Series B Investment in Realtime Robotics
Mitsubishi Electric leads Realtime Robotics' Series B to advance collision-free motion planning and digital twin integration for industrial automation.
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ArchiveOpinion · May 27, 2024
Picnic Works and Roboworx Partner for National Rollout of Autonomous Pizza Stations
Picnic Works teams with Roboworx to deploy and maintain autonomous pizza-making stations nationwide, boosting efficiency in commercial kitchens.
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ArchiveOpinion · May 27, 2024
Urbx launches robotic inventory storage and retrieval system
Urbx introduces a robotic AS/RS with AI-driven TowerBots for high-speed, multi-SKU order fulfillment.
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ArchiveOpinion · May 21, 2024
LRS and EverestLabs Deploy AI Robot to Boost Aluminum Can Recovery at Chicago MRF
EverestLabs' RecycleOS robot, funded by CMI members, helps LRS recover missorted aluminum cans at The Exchange MRF.
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ArchiveOpinion · May 21, 2024
German Bionic to unveil 360° Human Augmentation Platform at VivaTech
German Bionic integrates Apogee exoskeletons with a proprietary OS and new interfaces into a unified platform for industrial human augmentation.
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ArchiveOpinion · May 20, 2024
Cyngn Expands Commercial Rollout of Autonomous Mobile Robots
Cyngn reports Q1 2024 progress with John Deere and Rivian, expanded distribution, and tech milestones.
Read moreArchiveOpinion · May 8, 2024
Purely Central Piezoelectric Stick-slip Rotary Stage without Driving Redundancy
A compact piezoelectric rotary stage achieves high load capacity and 0.10 μrad resolution using a single actuator and force-magnifying bridge mechanism.
Read moreArchiveOpinion · May 8, 2024
Optimal Trajectory Generation for Rotorcraft Autonomous Landing on Moving Platforms
Researchers propose an optimal lift decomposition method for time-optimal trajectory generation, enabling rotorcraft to land on moving platforms in the shortest time.
Read moreArchiveOpinion · May 8, 2024
Segmented DMP Method Improves Robotic Arm Trajectory Learning and Obstacle Avoidance
Researchers propose a segmented dynamic movement primitive approach that preserves original trajectory features while avoiding obstacles, outperforming traditional methods.
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