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Western Europe Residential Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Market Forecast to Grow at 9.02% CAGR over the Period 2014-2019

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Residential Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Market in Western Europe 2015-2019" report to their offering.

7 Oct 2015

KUKA LBR iiwa Lightweight Robot Competes in Beer Pouring Contest

Pouring a wheat beer is the ultimate challenge behind the bar. In Paulaner’s new promotional video, wheat beer tradition comes up against robotic innovation. The task: Who can pour the perfect wheat beer more quickly? To find out, radio presenter Bernhard Fleischmann and Paulii, as the KUKA LBR iiwa lightweight robot was nicknamed for the advertisement, meet up in Paulaner’s traditional beer garden. Make way for Fleischi vs. Paulii, radio presenter and wheat beer expert vs. robot and wheat beer lover.

1 Oct 2015

Volvo Group and Three Universities Collaborate to Develop Robot-Based Autonomous Refuse Handling

Volvo Personvagnar-Imagine a robot that quietly and discreetly enters your neighborhood, collects your refuse bin and empties it into the refuse truck. It is done without waking the sleeping families and without heavy lifting for the refuse truck’s driver. This is the purpose of ROAR, a joint project with the aim to develop tomorrow's smart transport solutions.

18 Sep 2015

Imperial College London to Showcase Latest Advances in Robotics Research

A major showcase of the latest advances in robotics research will be held at Imperial College London on 25 September, covering everything from improving robot vision, and powering microscopic robots, to helping robots to learn through observing how their owners perform their daily duties.

15 Sep 2015

Carnegie Mellon University Sending Large Delegation to WEF's Annual Meeting of the New Champions

Carnegie Mellon University is sending the largest delegation of any university to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China, next week, along with robots and Big Data visualization demonstrations that will run throughout the three-day event.

7 Sep 2015

Global Programmable Robots Market Forecast to Grow at 14.94% CAGR from 2015 to 2020

According to a new market research report "Programmable Robots Market by Component (Hardware and Software), Application (Education & Research and Hobbyist and Entertainment), and Geography (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and RoW) - Global Forecast to 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, the market for Programmable Robots was valued 1,050 Million in 2014 and is expected reach USD 2,381.5 Million by 2020, at a CAGR of 14.94% from 2015 to 2020.

2 Sep 2015

Neato Robotics Introduces Wi-Fi Enabled Neato Botvac Connected Robot Vacuum

Neato Robotics today announced the Neato Botvac™ Connected robot vacuum, calling the new Wi-Fi enabled model the best cleaning robot the company has ever designed.

2 Sep 2015

Smart Robots Market to Witness Prominent Growth Due to Increased Demands

The collaborative smart robots market size is expected to reach USD 1.07 Billion by 2020 whereas the software market size for smart robots is expected to grow at a CAGR of 30.24% from 2015 to2020 says this new 2015 research on robots that are getting 'smart'.

29 Aug 2015

Innovation Video on Robotics Wins Telly Award

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is pleased to announce that its Empowering Innovation TogetherTM Spotlight video on Robotics has been recognized with a Telly Award for outstanding achievement.

28 Aug 2015

KUKA to Showcase Advanced Robotic Solutions at IROS 2015

“Only those who push back the frontiers can develop new ideas”: This is the slogan KUKA has selected for its participation in this year’s IROS, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, in Hamburg.

27 Aug 2015