Contactless wireless charging offers benefits over contact-based wireless charging for robots and other systems, says Meredot’s CEO.

By working with Opteran, SAFELOG says it is developing a new generation of mobile robots with robust and efficient navigation. 

As robots spread from factories to field applications, developers face many challenges, but wireless charging can help, says WiBotic.

Explore the challenges of mobile robot adoption and the benefits of AGVs and AMRs. This webinar will also provide OEMs and suppliers with insights to position themselves as reliable partners of warehouse operators.

DIN power supply provider PULS Power acquires the wireless power business of Wiferion, to create a new PULS Wireless division.

These AGVs will be used to alleviate congestion in the industry, according to ABI Research’s Multimodal Logistics market data report. 

Researchers combined a crawling robot, wire-controlled cable car, and real-time monitoring system into a UGV.

The GML Series Wheel Drive can be used as a direct drive or differential drive and can be combined with a steering drive to form a drive-steer unit.

ASTM’s new standard outlines common objects encountered by AMRs and AGVs. The new standard gives operators and manufacturers a common way to describe these items.

MOV.AI, which offers a robotics platform to develop AMRs and AGVs, brought in $8.2 million in funding.

For today’s heavy manufacturers, conveyance automation systems must be extremely robust and capable of transporting high-capacity payloads, yet also deliver the high levels of flexibility, safety and scalability expected from today’s mobile robotic systems. Modern automated guided vehicles can do just that.

Civ Robotics announced that it closed a $5 million seed round for its autonomous surveying solution CivDot.

What is the state of the robotics and automation sector at 2022’s midpoint? ABI Research’s Lian Jye Su has a few thoughts, five in fact.

Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 quadruped robot can now be equipped with Onyx Industries’ Nautical Autonomous Unmanned Tail to make it amphibious. 

SICK highlights solutions safe productivity, part localization in bin picking, and LiDAR localization

Listen to how Blue River Technology brought autonomy to John Deere tractors and are using machine learning to continually improve the operations.

MODEX recap and a discussion with automation end-user Brian Tu from DCL Logistics about the effective deployment of cobots.

Brian Hart, CEO of Black-i Robotics, discusses the development of a new autonomous heavy lift robot arm designed to be deployed on top of a mobile robot.

The biggest market for mobile robots is China, which made up 40% of worldwide shipments in 2021, followed by the U.S.

The company develops autonomous mobile robot (AMR) controllers, AMRs and automated guided vehicles.

The acquisition strengthens Zapi Group’s position in the fast-growing mobile robotics sector.

Eckhart offers engineering, design, simulation and integration services, as well as proprietary tooling and other automation and robotics systems such as AGVs and cobots.