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INTRO:Here at This Is Robotics, we have our very own March Madness championship series with teams vying for the GenAI Trophy. The brackets of contenders are set: ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, Alibaba’s Qwen, Tencent’s T1, and of course the Cinderella team of the playoffs, DeepSeek, which has already crashed Wall Street for a trillion dollars. Our lead story for March is one that generated a ton of email both pro and con plus a pile of commentary.  It was a special report just last week in Asian Robotics Review called The Rise of China's Robotics Industry: Modernize or Perish!It got a ton of reaction. Some bad, but most was overwhelmingly good. Even former naysayers were impressed saying things like “don’t like the form of government, but got to hand it to them: they are hard workers who came up with a great plan. We’ve been following this story for seven years. See the link in our show notes for How China Became a Robotics Powerhouse 2015-2025.In fact, this month we are juxtaposing China’s ri

This Is Robotics: Radio News #35The Wild, Wild World of Humanoid Robots 2025The Rise of Humanoid Robots in 2021: How We Got to NowGood fortune has befallen humanoid robotics in this fast-paced year for humanoids 2025.Join us for the journey to Now! That journey arguably can be said to have begun in August of 2021 with the emergence of high-octane influencer, Elon Musk, and his introduction of Optimus to the heralded list of humanoid names.  Surely, humanity has been at the chase for a humanoid likeness for centuries. Modernists may insist that WABOT-1, built in 1970 by Ichiro Kato at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, was the first humanoid robot. And they’d be correct. Since WABOT-1, the list of humanoids has been chock-full of exemplary technology and technologists. Not to diminish the robust efforts of any precursors, but all of it seemed to be progressing in slow motion and a bit of anonymity until the world’s richest man, with a half-dozen spectacular moonshots under his belt, suddenly jumped into h

This Is Robotics: End-Of-Year Program, 30 December 2024What Was the Most Important Story in Robotics for 2024?Yes, there Was Only One.And no, it wasn’t bipedal humanoids. Not by a long shot. Not as long as there’s gravity and Mother Nature to contend with.The hype and investment millions going into bipedal humanoid robots these days feels a lot like the over-hyped, over-heated, craziness of the multi-billion-dollar market that was self-driving cars back in 2009-2017. Remember?Google invested $1.1 billion, so say recent Waymo court documents. Yikes!The single, most important news story for 2024 is now changing our lives and futures.Please join us. 30 December 2024 for that news story’s reveal.“You’re Going to Love What You Hear!Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast

PITTSBURGH: HOW ROBOTICS SAVED A CITY By 2000, 29 steel companies in Pittsburgh had declared bankruptcy, cratering its middleclass, and any future upon which the great city might have had hopes to grow and thrive. How did robotics bring the city back from the dead?Pittsburgh: From Dying Steel Town to Global Robotics Hub by Henry LenardIS THIS THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMRS?Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere, you’ve undoubtedly heard the noise of their wheels and the rush of their whizzing by you, either on TV news, YouTube, or better, in person. What you’re seeing and hearing is the future arriving in a hurry. They’re called AMRs, robotics newest celebrities, autonomous mobile robots.GLOBAL ROBOTICS PATENTS: THE PATENT WARS!Patent activity is a useful indicator of technological progress and innovation in robotics. “Between 2005 and 2019, 72,618 robotics patents were granted worldwide.” Who is leading, who is on the rise, and who are the also-rans? In other words, the patent wars! Who’s winning?

Hello folks and welcome to This Is Robotics. I’m your host and fellow companion, Tom Green.The last half of 2024 is upon us, robotics-driven automation is in rapid ascendancy once again, especially now since 2024 is showing how robotics engages with GenAI, and how prompt engineering is significantly increasing the ease of adoption for robots everywhere. Last month, we gave you a longish one-hour show, which was necessary for it was meant to support my keynote address at SuperTechFT in San Francisco.  If you have yet to listen to it, it’s Episode # 31 and deals with how quickly computer code has capitulated to prompt engineering…and why. Plus, the new breed of workers on the rise who are being hailed as the “New Collar” generation of workers.This month, we are listening to our global fans for feedback. We have a global fan base in 68 countries according to Buzzsprout stats. A fangirl Celina from the Philippines wants us to reprise a woman’s show. Specifically, the rise of Alice Zhang (Verge Geno

2024: The Most Important Year in the History of Robotics!Companion podcast #31 to Keynote address at SuperTechFT 3 July 2024 Happy to be with you one and all. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion on this very special journey for 2024. We are only halfway through the year, and already 2024 has shown us that it is the most important year in the history of robotics.This podcast will show you why that is.This podcast is a companion to the live keynote address I will give at SuperTechFT in San Francisco on July 3rd 2024. I want to first thank Dr. Albert Hu, president and director of education at SuperTechFT, and to the staff and patrons of SuperTechFT for inviting me. The title of my keynote: 2024: The Most Important Year in the History of Robotics!What other year can possibly compete for top honors other than 2024?2024 eliminated the barrier to entry for digital programming by eliminating the need to code.As Tesla's former chief of AI, Andrej Karpathy put it: "Welcome to the hottest new programming language

Welcome to a special edition of This Is Robotics for a special look at the "New Collar" Workforce.Robot-Driven Automation's "New Collar" WorkforceVitally needed workers for robot-driven manufacturing, and just maybe, the revitalization of America’s middle class.They’re definitely a new breed!Don’t call them blue collar and don’t call them white collar. Blue, many perceive as life-long drudgery with a wasted body by the age of fifty, and white as onerous college debt with the worst ROI imaginable.They avoid large factories and mega warehouses where for every robot deployed three jobs go missing. Besides, those gigs are way up there on the blue-collar drudgery meter. They also shun white-collar offices that track keystrokes, screen email, and surveil worker productivity.Around them, the world is just beginning to make room for their kind and see value in their non-traditional worldview. Colleges have dropped the SAT. Law schools jettisoned the LSAT. And now employers large and small are dropping the col

Has Code Writing Capitulated To GenAI?What exactly just took place, and why?Suddenly this March, we all woke up one morning to find code fighting for its life. Why so fast? Why so suddenly? Why so completely? Unexpectedly and quietly code is disappearing. Why is that? Is AI’s argument that convincing? Sure seems that way. It was a little like the Berlin Wall: imposingly there for a few decades, then suddenly gone and forgotten.We’ll take a look at what happened to code, and what’s next for robotics. Don’t despair. The remedy is good!In early 2023, U.S. tech industries cut more than 190,000 employees from the workforce. Tens of thousands were coders. Tens of thousands of individuals who spent billions of dollars to learn how to code, so that they could get a “good” job."The new philosophy calls all into doubt," wrote the poet John Donne over 400 years ago. Indeed, GenAI's prompt engineering has done just that.Prompt engineering in AI is the process of designing and refining prompts—questions or i

Hi folks, welcome to This Is Robotics for February 2024, Episode #28. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion as we travel together through the big, wide world of modern robotics…and now, robotics is getting even better as it converges with artificial intelligence.Ah, the age of smart robots is upon us.Thanks again for making This Is Robotics the #1 robotics news podcast worldwide…for two years running. We did some investigative journalism this month to find out why…and we were surprised at what we found. You will be as well. An article series on the topic we published in Asian Robotics Review titled Why So Little Robot Automation in America? got over 10,000 hits. Our email response from our readership attested to the fact that we were not the only ones surprised by our findings. It’s accompanied by a news report from CBS which also covered the strange state of robotics in the U.S.Then we’ll dip off into What’s New in Robotics? What’s New in Robotics? is the blog we write in partnership with R

Hi folks, welcome to This Is Robotics, and our last episode for 2023. Next up a wild and woolly 2024. We are already planning our January show. It’s forecast to be a fabulous for robotics, logistics and automation in general. Plus, it’s also the Year of the Dragon (2024)The dragon, one of the luckiest and most powerful symbols offering prosperity, and good fortune throughout 2024. It is the perfect time for rejuvenated beginnings and setting the foundation for long-term success.THE STATS ARE IN FOR 2023! Our podcast host just gave us the best-ever Christmas present from our listeners:Once again, we are #1 worldwide for a robotics news podcast.Across 12 time zones and 63 countries, This Is Robotics podcast was downloaded by over 3,000 fans per week!Yearly, over 150,000 touchpoints with our listeners.Every hour of every day 18 pairs of ears somewhere in the world seek us out for the very best news in robotics. Thank you so very much!This closing episode for 2022, we highlight robots converging with artifi

Welcome everyone to This Is Robotics, episode #26 for November, 2023.Oh, and BTW: Thanks for making us the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast for TWO YEARS IN A ROW. I’m Tom Green, your guide and companion into the wide, wonderful world of robotics. Welcome.It’s that time of year when we take a look at Time Magazine’s picks for its Global Top Inventions for the year. This year, 2023, there are 200 selections in 21 different categories. Robotics, as usual, has its very own category, category #18, but my oh my, robotics, now with its new partnership in convergence with AI, has it ever seeped its way into nearly every other category. We’ll take a look at Time’s picks, plus we’ll pull one out and showcase it. It’s an amazing 5-year-old developer called Shift Robotics, from Pittsburgh. Shift has taken robotics, AI, and automation and brought them into the shoe business. Footwear!What caught my eye was its founder, Xunjie Zhang, and his 3-minute description of the company’s design process, the "ask i

Hi folks. And welcome.Question: Is it okay with everyone if we talk about 2024? I know it’s still October of 2023, but so much is at the ready for 2024 now that it seems a shame not to give the upcoming new year some mega attention.Okay, deal. Let’s do it.Welcome again to This Is Robotics, episode #25, October of 2023. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion as we take a robotics look forward at the upcoming New Year of 2024.The word in the air and on the streets for 2024 is LOGISTICS. Yes, warehouses large and small, especially the small ones, DCs, and last-mile micro-warehouses have been in the news lately. And if you go back a few months, all the way to Walmart’s big meeting, big things have been brewing for a while.So, without more ado, Happy New Year 2024.From the Walmart shareholders meeting back in May, it was announced that Walmart was going all-in for robots and automation for 42 distribution centers in the U.S. and Canada. The lucky vendor is Symbotic, who Walmart has been working with for

Hi everyone and welcome to This Is Robotics, Episode 24. Thanks for joining us. I’m Tom Green your guide and companion for today’s journey into our global robotics news podcast.Our first story explores the reasons for Why Is There So Little Automation in America?As sci-fi writer William Gibson once remarked:  “The future is already here but it’s not evenly distributed.” Well, much the same can be said for automation in America. Why is it that only 5 out of 50 U.S. states get 77% of all industrial robots? Those states are Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Kansas. While the remaining 45 states average 175 industrial robots apiece.  Those are definitely places that are "underautomated". Three recent reports explain why, and the whys are not good for America.The reports also answer the question: Do robots take jobs? Yes, they do! For every one robot deployed in this 5-state region, 3.3 jobs are lost. The reports also tell us what happens to the health of those individuals who lose their jobs

Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #23I’m Tom Green, your host and companion on this incredible journey called robotics.For two years running now, we have been the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…we’re up to over 100,000 fans, and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much.And thanks for joining us todayIt’s August, the harbinger of September,  and the 4th and final Quarter 4 for 2023. That year went fast! Maybe because it was such a rollicking year for GenAI converging with everything, especially robotics.August observed National Kiss & Make Up Day. Did You? If not, and you’re still angry, indecisive, or ready to move on, we have a special segment that just may be of help. Sex Robots.Could falling in love with a robot friend be such a bad thing?Dr Helen Driscoll of the University of Sunderland says "The point is, people already fall in love with fictional characters, even if there is no chance to meet and interact with them." How many humans readi

This summer of 2023 is one to particularly remember for robotics. We’ll remember 2023 for a long time, even as it spawns two more equally amazing and remarkable years to come 2024 and 2025. Robotics technology and sales will thunder into the quarter-century mark of this millennium’s first 100 years.  Today’s podcast looks at three bellwether happenings for robotics here in 2023…and the carryover for them through 2025.Of course, leader of the bellwether gang is generative AI or genAI that bull-rushed the world this spring sowing fear, chaos, glee, elation…and even adulation as it blindly fast changed most everything around us…and continues to do so. Then there was the rise of general-purpose robots and cobots. Oh my, these smart robots and cobots change everything and are the future of everything. Like Google and DeepMind’s RoboCat.  We’ll take a look at the RoboCat effect on robotics going forward. Plus, from a real-world look at smart robots in action, we’ll look at Lockheed’s use of

Welcome everyone to This Is Robotics, Episode #12.  I’m Tom Green your host and fellow traveler in the wonderful world of robotics.This is our first podcast while the world is hip deep in generativeAI. In fact, much of our show today is about AI and robotics. We lead off with our partnership blog What’s New in Robotics? with Robotiq, the automation company that helps you elevate your workforce with easy-to-use cobot solutions that do the work for you.Two of our blog posts from What’s New in Robotics? talk about an “inflexion point” arriving in 2023 heralding exponential advances in AUTONOMY and ADAPTIVITY. Both advances are arriving simultaneously with gererativeAI, which should make for an interesting year.Following that one of our main AI articles this episode: Does AI Need a Body?GenerativeAI, say the experts, is limited while AI is disembodied, but give it a body… and whamo! With a body, AI explore the world on its own. Because of that, look for bi-pedal humanoid robots in 2023 to get a lot

Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #20 For two years running now, we are the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much. Thanks for joining us today We’d really be remiss here at This Is Robotics if we didn’t put some sense into the biggest robotics story of the last several months. That story is of humanoid robots, bi-pedal humanoid robots hooking up with AI.Our next story is called Humanoid Robots and AI Cross the Rubicon…together. The point of no return!Where once people were frightened of humanoid robots taking jobs and more, they now seem to be frozen in fear over generative AI.And with humanoid robots and AI converging, the spectre of a twin fear of humanoids high on AI running amok is scaring more than a few.Let’s make some sense of what is really going on in this fast-paced world where the benefits from the convergence far outweigh the negatives.Here also are two new articles courtesy of What’s New in

Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #19For two years running now, we are the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much.Thanks for joining us todayTopping the news of the month is Walmart with its blockbuster 5-year plan filled to the brim with automation and robots.  A story we call: Walmart Goes All-In for Robots.In short, it’s a massive upside for the entire robotics industry.That’s sure to prompt other retailers to follow suit. Some already have and are ahead of Walmart. Even Walmart’s suppliers are sure to speed things up as well. Got to get those gazillions of cans of Campbell’s soup shipped to Walmart’s 4700 stores either fast or faster.Walmart vendors winning out: Symbotic, GreyOrange & Alert Innovation. Check out the Robotiq blog for the full storyThen we’re off to a factory automation story circa 1803, the world’s very first automated factory, from which the reverberations, here 200 years later, s

Hi everyone and welcome, I’m Tom Green, your host for this episode of  This Is Robotics, and your fellow companion on one of the most incredible journeys in human history: robotics.Thanks so much for tuning us in today.  March 20th, at 5:24 p.m. EDT) spring rolled in. It’s that time of year when the ground begins to thaw, birds return, and many vendors introduce their outdoor robots. Outdoors meaning robots for backyards, construction sites, farms, and major infrastructure projects most everywhere. In short, it’s springtime for robots.In honor of March, we’ll review some of these new spring robots for 2023. Renovate Robotics, Swap Robotics, Built Robotics, and GlüxKind.  Then, we’re off to Korea as Korea makes its $177 billion move at becoming a robotics kingpin: trying to be the third or fourth-largest producer of robots worldwide, as well as making a strong move on leadership in artificial intelligence. Big things are happening in Korea, and robotics will be a direct beneficiary of Korea’s

FABULOUS FEBRUARYHi everyone and welcome to This Is Robotics for February. It’s been a mere two months into 2023 and already big things, major innovations, are happening in robotics.And some of them are quite fabulous and are the harbinger of follow-on innovations that are even more fabulous.Because of what’s popped to the surface these last  2 months, we’re going into full-stop mode for This Is Robotics for February Episode 17. We’re calling it Fabulous February.Because, If this is what the first two months of 2023 are like for robotics, the remaining 10 months may well be the best in years.We’ll take a look at Service robotics, logistics, then cobots x3 with one of them being  the arrival of the ultimate, affordable, and simple-to-use cobot for SMEs at $9k.I’ve been writing about cobots for ten years, and this is the first to come along that’s tailor-made for SMEs and its not from an old-line robot maker or a new-line cobot maker; it’s from a 50-year-old, German company that makes high-pe

CHINA TO AMP UP ROBOT USAGE 2023-2025Already the world’s largest buyer of industrial robots for 9 straight years. A country that buys on average 21,000 industrial robots a month!Does that sound like a country that needs to “Amp Up” its robot usage?Yes, and there’s good reason for it.China’s got a failing grade for its “Made in China 2025” plan in which it promised 50% of all industrial robots bought would be homemade by Chinese robot makers. Today, that’s at 39%!  More worrisome still, China registered more deaths than births last year, marking 2022 as the first time the country’s population has dropped since the 1960s. Fewer workers mean a need for more automation; robots primary substitute.China’s new plan for 2023: “Robot + Application Action Plan”INTERVIEW PT. 1: MARK MESSINA CEO ADDVERB: FIRST YEAR IN NA & MICROLOGISTICS That’s followed by the Top 5 Robotics Tech Trends for 2023. It’s our What’s New in Robotics? column from our partnering with Robotiq. The experts have mad

CHINA’S CHRISTMAS MIRACLE & BEST GIFT EVER! How China went from 88% of its people in utter poverty, making $2.06 per day, to having the largest middle class in human history. Larger than the entire population of Europe. And it’s all due to one man: Deng Xiaoping, the diminutive (5’2”) paramount leader of the People's Republic of China, who in 1978, at the age of 74, changed China forever. Keeping the sheen on Deng Xiaoping’s "Big Idea" China’s Christmas MiracleTOP 5 ROBOTICS TECH TRENDS FOR 2023That’s followed by the Top 5 Robotics Tech Trends for 2023. It’s our What’s New in Robotics? column from our partnering with Robotiq. The experts have made their forecasts, and we’ve got the Top 5. They’re awesome picksWhat’s New in Robotics? Robotiq Blog 30.12.2022KRISPY KREME GOES BIG TIME FOR ROBOTS With cobots elbowing themselves into the food business like with White Castle burgers and Chipotle’s Chippy, the tortilla-chip-making cobot, both from Miso Robotics, what about confections and

ROBOTS, COBOTS AND PHARMA 4.0Robots and cobots,  more and more, are beginning to exert an outsized impact on life-saving and disease-preventing new drug discoveries, medicines, and therapeutics. From drug discovery, to the manufacturing and packaging of new pharmaceuticals, the marriage of AI and robotics has been crucial to the process.In what’s now being called Pharma 4.0, a new world is emerging for robots and cobots, and they are proving themselves up to the task, and then some. NEW WORKPLACE LAW: NYC LAW 144UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2022. New workplace law: NYC Law 144, which takes effect in 40 days or less, January 1, 2023. The new law covers the use of AI in hiring and promotions. Businesses in NYC will hire approximately 90,000 people in 2023 and all hiring will have to adhere to Law 144. There are over 200 robotics, AI and automation companies in NYC, which this law will most definitely impact. An adverse impact will have a definite ill-effect on innovation. What can be done, if anything, to avoid troubl

IN A NUTSHELL AT PACK EXPO INTERNATIONAL 2022Post-COVID, tradeshows have been slowly lumbering back into the global event circuit this past year or so, most to highly receptive audiences. One of the biggest returnees, PACK EXPO International (Chicago, October 23-26), absent since 2018, promised to return larger than ever with a flurry of new looks, staging, and attendee outreach.Upon hitting the show floor, the jump-out realizations to grab onto at Pack Expo 2022 are two: More cobots doing more things better and more flexibly than ever; and then, upon closer inspection of those same cobots, the fact that integration of cobot systems is the next great advance in robotics.  If that’s all you took away from the show, you would have, in a nutshell, seen the future of packaging and packing. PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE WORLD OF AI, ROBOTICS AND BIG DATA We’ll visit the resumes of philosophy majors to see how they are uniquely qualified for the world of AI, robotics and big data. Yes, you heard right: philosophers.Ac

WHAT’S NEW IN ROBOTICS?What’s New in Robotics? Travels to an Indonesian village, the Czech Republic, then Sweden, and finally California News briefs take a look at an exosuit or wearable robot to manage spastic muscles for those afflicted with multiple sclerosis (MS) and cerebral palsy (CP), followed homemade ingenuity in service robots with a service robot that has a rice cooker for a head; followed by a 3D-printed cobot arm that actually “works”, and finally the 45-second pizza, robot-made in a moving truck…only in CAROBO AI NEWS (NEW WEBSITE)We have launched a new website that’s rapidly building itself out and nearing completion. It’s called RoboAINews (roboainews.com), and it’s located at roboainews.com. As its name denotes, it’s a website all about “smart robots” the convergence, that we see happening day by day, the inevitable convergence between robots and artificial intelligence. It’s a major step up for both robots and the rest of us, as “smart robots” are already changing

HONORING INDIA’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE (1947-2022) India: An Unexpected Revolution in RoboticsThere’s a revolution in robotics just emerging in India that bears watching.An unexpected revolution!No one expects robotics revolutions to take place in India, no one ever has. Why?Cerebral more than mechanical has been the rap most often heard about India. India has always shown itself fantastically adept at constructing unrivaled intellectual kingdoms.However, India has been in search of its own, indigenous, mechanical realm in which to tinker and fashion, innovate and invent. Robotics just might be that magical realm. The long-awaited intersection of the cerebral with the mechanical.The five Indian co-founders of Addverb Technologies have taken on the mission of bringing machine building, as robotics, to IndiaIndia: An Unexpected Revolution WORLD ROBOTICS THROUGH THE YEAR 2030Boston Consulting Group has put an interesting lens to the next decade of robotics, highlighting “seven unfolding develo

Will Farm Robots Become Our Next Gas-Guzzling, Fume-Spewing Agents of Climate Change?Farm Robots…and the coming explosion in their numbers. As the world moves toward an additional 2 billion people, going from 7 to 9 billion total, the global food supply, according to the UN, will need 70% more food. Farm robots are the only way that will happen. But, with millions of new farm robots, will farm robots become our next gas-guzzling, fume-spewing agents of climate change? It’s going to happen, but there is a solution.Is This the Beginning of "Womb-to-Tomb" Algorithms?Hiring algorithms, says a recent study, mistakenly reject certain men, women, and handicapped. What does that mean for future of robotics and tech staffing? Algorithms sift through our resumes; algorithms scrutinize our job interviews. They are also part of our annual performance reviews and raises, weigh in on our promotions, layoffs…even firings. New York City is cracking down on them, others may follow. See what we uncovered.Nationwide Impl

KOREA’S ROBOT TECHNOPOLIS A fascinating piece on the rise of Daegu City, which will be, by 2028, the biggest and most important robot city in all of Asia.  Decade of work pays off in high-tech victory as Daegu City wins nationwide competition as mega-site for Korea’s Robot TechnopolisDaegu City ProspectusMOXI AND THE WOMEN WHO BUILT HER  A well-deserved shout to Diligent Robotics scoring a $30 million investment, and what it means for service robotics as well as to robotics companies founded by womenCLASH OF TITANS: HACKING ROBOTS With all that’s going on in the world today, how do we cyber-harden our industrial robots from malicious interventions? With 3-million industrial robots deployed worldwide, protecting them is becoming a very real problem. The newest game in town for robots is defending themselves from hacking and cybercrime.FANTASTIC FIVE Showcasing five ways to save big on robots, cobots and automation, while streamlining productivity on the cheap.ELON AND HIS ROBOT HOMBRE Elon Musk, a

The Very Best of This Is Robotics: Radio News Fan Favorite Top 5 podcasts THE TROUBLE WITH COBOTS from 9/2021 podcast #2Arguably the most important advance in robotics in the last 50 years has got a problem: sales. Why is that? Important and far-reaching consequences of those puny sales are a major concern for manufacturing and productivity.SEX ROBOTS WILL NEVER MAKE YOU CRY from 8/2021 podcast #1 The allure, fascination and repulsion for humanity’s new best friendTHE FANTASTIC FIVE OF ASIA from 9/2021 podcast #2Five fascinating robot innovations from Asia, each with a massive upside for the global robotics industry.IS THIS THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMRs? from 11/2021 podcast #4Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere, you’ve undoubtedly heard the noise of their wheels and the rush of their whizzing by you, either on TV news, YouTube, or better, in person. What you’re seeing and hearing is the future arriving in a hurry. They’re called AMRs, robotics newest celebrities, autonomous mobile robots.FINDI

PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #7 of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. #1 Global Robotics News Podcast. You’re Going to Love What You Hear! The lineup for podcast #7 Robotics for February 2022! WELCOME TO THE AMERICAS: ADDVERB TECHNOLOGIES“We Change the Way Things Move” says Addverb Technologies. A Twelve Time Zone Chat: Boston, Bangkok, Delhi and San Diego crackled on last evening as Asian Robotics Review was introduced to Addverb Technologies for a chat with its new CEO for the Americas, Mark Messina. And we recorded it all!  WHERE THE ROBOTS ROAMAfter all those heady numbers of AMRs are bought, sold, and shipped; and then step off the gangplanks to work, where the hell do they go? Join us in the Lehigh Valley, south of Chicago, and in LA for a look at the fantastic, cavernous halls of commerce “Where the Robots Roam”FANTASTIC FIVE #2Five Fantastic Robots That Are Transforming Industries and Chang

PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #6 of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. #1 Global Robotics News Podcast. You’re Going to Love What You Hear! The lineup for podcast #6 Robotics for the New Year: 2022! THREE HALLMARKS DEFINING COBOT SUCCESS  Three tech attributes showing themselves to be necessary for cobot success. Universal Robots, Techman, and Doosan share the knack, but better keep an eye on newcomer ELITE ROBOT.ROBOTS TO KEEP WINTER OLYMPICS SAFE The Winter Games are right around the corner. The massive Wukesong Arena is getting ready to host the ice hockey events for February’s Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 (February 4 to 20). For 16 days, over 30 robots will be deployed to help keep the players, staff, and thousands of fans safe from COVID.ASK ANY COBOT: HUMAN WORKERS COST MORE THAN WAGES  Renting cobots: From Capex to Opex. Rent, lease, contract for, or Robots as a Service (RaaS)…whatever!  Not

PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #5 of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. #1 Global Robotics News Podcast. You’re Going to Love What You Hear! The lineup for podcast #5 The People Program includes: THE IMPORTANCE OF AN END-OF-YEAR “PEOPLE PROGRAM” This Is Robotics: Radio News proudly concludes its 2021 podcast programming season with The People Program: Robotics and Automation Are Really All About People, Unless We Give Up On Ourselves! ...Will We?CHINA’S CHRISTMAS MIRACLE AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR ROBOTICSThe first story in today’s People Program is as fantastic as it is true. It’s called China’s Christmas Miracle.  What this event meant for robotics and automation is incalculable. Funny things happen when you give people hope. This is a story about hope. China’s best-ever Christmas gift, December 1978: Deng Xiaoping and the birth of modern China.YES, ROBOTS TAKE JOBS (NOW WE KNOW. WHAT NEXT?)In Hono

PITTSBURGH: HOW ROBOTICS SAVED A CITY By 2000, 29 steel companies in Pittsburgh had declared bankruptcy, cratering its middleclass, and any future upon which the great city might have had hopes to grow and thrive. How did robotics bring the city back from the dead?Pittsburgh: From Dying Steel Town to Global Robotics Hub by Henry LenardIS THIS THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMRS? Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere, you’ve undoubtedly heard the noise of their wheels and the rush of their whizzing by you, either on TV news, YouTube, or better, in person. What you’re seeing and hearing is the future arriving in a hurry. They’re called AMRs, robotics newest celebrities, autonomous mobile robots.GLOBAL ROBOTICS PATENTS: THE PATENT WARS! Patent activity is a useful indicator of technological progress and innovation in robotics. “Between 2005 and 2019, 72,618 robotics patents were granted worldwide.” Who is leading, who is on the rise, and who are the also-rans? In other words, the patent wars! Who’s winnin

PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #3 of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. The lineup for podcast #3 includes: AMAZON, ASTRO AND OUR LIVING ROOMSIs Amazon about to crack the code on how to make a mobile robot a part of the family? Amazon shocked the robotics world in 2012 with Kiva, then again in 2015 with Alexa, and maybe now is gearing up for a trifecta.PHILOSOPHY MEETS THE WORLD OF AI, ROBOTICS AND BIG DATAWe’ll visit the resumes of philosophy majors to see how they are uniquely qualified for the world of AI, robotics and big data. Yes, you heard right: philosophers. INTERNATIONAL INTERNET DAY: WRONG DATE, WRONG PEOPLE…Every October 29th International Internet Day is celebrated around the world, but did you know that it’s the wrong date, the wrong people, and the wrong computers? Larry Roberts and Tom Marill did it first in February of 1966, three years earlier than 1969 event celebrated widely. And the re

PLEASE JOIN US for podcast #2 of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. The lineup for podcast #2 includes: THE TROUBLE WITH COBOTSArguably the most important advance in robotics in the last 50 years has got a problem: sales. Why is that? Important and far-reaching consequences of those puny sales are a major concern for manufacturing and productivity.THE FANTASTIC FIVEFive fascinating robot innovations from Asia, each with a massive upside for the global robotics industry.CHINA AND ITS INLAND TRADING PARTNERS: ITS SUPERCITIES!Morgan Stanley fanned out 30 researchers across China to take the automation pulse of five unique regions. The results are fascinating.WORLD ROBOTICS THROUGH THE YEAR 2030Boston Consulting Group has put an interesting lens to the next decade of robotics, highlighting “seven unfolding developments that will influence the direction of robotics in the next ten years.”AND MORE... Join us at

PLEASE JOIN US for the podcast premier program of This Is Robotics: Radio News, a fresh, new and lively look at our wonderful world of global robotics...technology, business and people. The lineup for our premier show includes: BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH SURGICAL ROBOTS Oh, boy, new millionaires will be made WHEN THE ROBOT BURNS THE TOAST Toyota Research Institute’s kitchen robots THE DEMISE OF DUMB The rise of “smart” robots for factory and warehouseUNINTENDED COINCIDENCE has our premier program coinciding with National Kiss & Make Up Day (seriously, look it up) https://lnkd.in/de6xpbFF In honor of NKMU Day, Radio News will take a look at the human fascination & repulsion for sex robots. SEX ROBOTS WILL NEVER MAKE YOU CRY The allure, fascination and repulsion for humanity’s new best friend THE FOUR MOST REVOLUTIONARY ROBOTS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM We have our picks. What about yours? FUTURE REVOLUTIONARIES: THREE TOP ROBOT CONTENDERS Three contenders for the “most revolutionary” list ten years f

This Is Robotics: Radio News (trailer)                         (Launch date: August 2021)This Is Robotics: Radio News is a new and very different robotics news program. One that we’re very excited about, and know that you’re going like a lot…and also find super useful. Radio News is a compilation of the best in robotics news, views and interviews gathered worldwide and presented as a 30-minute podcast. The global best in robotics!Now you can consume the best in global robotics news while driving to work, waiting to board a plane, or at the breakfast table. Miss something? Stream it again. Want to go deeper? Go online to the This Is Robotics news page for the very same articles, as text, a bit longer, with links and references.The overriding theme of Radio News is the same as the first three words everyone encounters at our website: Robotics, Automation and People. That’s our global news beat.And we’re fun, never stuffy, and always on point. A refreshing news format and program coverin