Posts by founder@asianroboticsreview.com (Tom Green)

News briefs for the week take a look at robotics at tradeshows FABTECH and PACK EXPO taking place near-simultaneously this September 11 through 14; then a robot team that monitors and maintains the world’s largest radio telescope, a flying and on-wire robot for overhead power lines that predicts wildfires, a robotic surgeon as a cancer patient’s only hope for his inoperable tumor, and how a young, promising surgical robot company suddenly went out of business.

News briefs for the week take a look at Squishy Robotics and its soft-landing robots that went from NASA Moon project to first responder aids on Earth; then how Locus Robotics upgraded its product line of LocusBots to offer new-age solutions to ever-accelerating warehouse demands; then China’s newly developed, robot-assisted, laparoscopic surgical system scheduled to compete with industry leader Intuitive Robotics using 3D glasses instead of a traditional monitor and hood; and finally, why is it that robots have been so slow to disrupt the garment industry?