This Is Robotics: Radio News

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 m...

FABULOUS FEBRUARY Hi 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...

CHINA TO AMP UP ROBOT USAGE 2023-2025 Already 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...

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....

ROBOTS, COBOTS AND PHARMA 4.0 Robots 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 emer...

IN A NUTSHELL AT PACK EXPO INTERNATIONAL 2022 Post-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...

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; foll...

HONORING INDIA’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE (1947-2022) India: An Unexpected Revolution in Robotics There’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 fa...

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 ro...

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 Technopolis Daegu City Prospectus MOXI AND THE WOMEN WHO BUILT HER   A well-deserved shout to Diligent Robotics scoring a $30...

The Very Best of This Is Robotics: Radio News  Fan Favorite Top 5 podcasts  THE TROUBLE WITH COBOTS  from 9/2021 podcast #2 Arguably 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 podc...

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...

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...

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...

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 Lenard IS THIS THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMRS? Unless you’ve been under a...

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 ROOMS Is 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 w...

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 COBOTS Arguably 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...

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...

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...