Dracula Technologies announces its new ‘Green MicroPower Factory’ – a state-of-the-art, fully automated facility. The largest of its kind in Europe (2,500m²), this factory will produce up to 150 million cm² of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices per year, using inkjet…
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BlackBerry to segment IoT division and go for IPO
BlackBerry announced earlier this month its intention to divide its IoT and cybersecurity divisions. It is hoping to target a subsidiary initial public offering for the IoT business next fiscal year. The former smartphone producer, which at its peak owned…
World Robotics Report: Asia ahead of Europe and the Americas
The new World Robotics report recorded 553,052 industrial robot installations in factories around the world – a growth rate of 5% in 2022, year-on-year. By region, 73% of all newly deployed robots were installed in Asia, 15% in Europe and…
Swedish startup using AI and IoT to improve elderly care
Måna Care AB is a new Swedish start-up focused on delivering an intuitive digital communication and care platform Måna in the first quarter of 2024. By combining the latest advances in generative AI and industrial IoT technology, Måna will simplify care and…
RoboFab: world’s first factory for humanoid robots
Agility Robotics, creator of the bipedal robot Digit, revealed that the company is opening RoboFab, a robot manufacturing facility in Salem, Oregon with the capability to produce more than 10,000 robots per year. Initial construction of Agility’s 70,000 square foot…
Vodafone and Amazon extend Africa connectivity
Vodafone and Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite (LEO) communications initiative, have announced a collaboration through which Vodafone and Vodacom will use Project Kuiper’s network to extend the reach of 4G/5G services to more of their customers in Europe…
ABB to invest $280m in its European Robotics hub in Sweden
ABB announced an investment of $280 million to expand its manufacturing footprint in Europe and build a new state-of-the-art ABB Robotics European Campus in Västerås, Sweden. The Campus will serve as the hub for ABB Robotics’ offering in Europe, providing…
Smart robot integration in the world: focus on robotic applications for human assistance
A smart robot is a machine stimulated by AI, fictionally it was portrayed as a super advance machine that is programmed to perform a complete task and functions beyond human capabilities. In reality, the smart robots ecosystem also entails robots…
Treon closes €5.5m Series A with Ventech as it expands into US
Treon, a company specialised in intelligent Edge products for massive IoT, successfully closed a €5.5 million Series A round led by Ventech, to further boost Treon’s international growth following Ventech’s initial investment in Treon’s Seed funding back in 2019. Treon…
Rockwell Automation signs agreement to acquire Clearpath Robotics
Rockwell Automation has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ontario, Canada-based Clearpath Robotics Inc., a leader in autonomous robotics for industrial applications. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are the next frontier in industrial automation and transformation, and this…