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The Smart Event, comprising in-person and online platforms, to convene thousands of engineers, business leaders, disruptive companies, and innovative thinkers to design powerful solutions to today’s most pressing challenges.

The Germany-based robotics company Magazino won technology group ZF as a customer for a pilot project with the SOTO robot.

The new Association for Advancing Automation (A3) report shows $2 billion in sales (39,708 units) in 2021–up 28% over 2020 and 14% ahead of previous high in 2017.

IDTechEx has recently released “Mobile Robotics in Logistics, Warehousing and Delivery 2022-2042," a market research report exploring the technical, regulatory and market factors that are shaping the emerging industry around logistics mobile robotics.

We are now seeing the awareness and utilization of RPA expand into traditionally non-IT domains, promoting exponential growth of RPA across the organization.

UiPath, a leading robotic process automation (RPA) software company, announced it has become a Builder sponsor of The Smart Factory @ Wichita, a new Industry 4.0 immersive experience center by Deloitte.

Mobile Industrial Robots experienced a 42% increase in sales in 2021 over 2020. December alone was a record month for the company, with close to 300 robots shipped, which is more than any previous month.

Universal Robots, the Danish producer of collaborative robots, has reported record annual revenue of USD 311M, 41% up on 2020 and 23% up on pre-pandemic results in 2019.

Kassow Robots is strengthening its sales team with the appointment of Ulrich Möller as sales manager for the DACH region. In taking this step, Kassow Robots reinforces its sales presence, which is an established goal for 2022.

Caja Robotics, a leader in robotic and flexible goods-to-person solutions for order fulfillment announces today they will be working closely with Bastian Solutions, a Toyota Advanced Logistics company, to integrate Caja robotic systems in the USA.

The new 5-year plan for the robotics industry in China focuses on promoting innovation, making China a global leader for robot technology and industrial advancement.

Helmut Schmid will take over as CEO in January 2022, as successor to the previous CEO Franz Humer.

The new investments will help Formic accelerate deployments of robotics-as-a-service for U.S. manufacturers.

With the huge shift towards automation across industries all around the world as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to explore the effects this may have on the way business is conducted during the next twelve months. To kick off the new year, Meili Robots has compiled a list of the seven biggest trends and predictions for the robotics industry in 2022.

Robot battles build passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).

The German robotics and automation industry expects industry growth of 10% in 2022.

The use of industrial robots in factories around the world is accelerating at a high rate: 126 robots per 10,000 employees is the new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industries–nearly double the number five years ago (2015: 66 units).

New solutions will combine MiR’s autonomous mobile robot (AMR) navigation and software expertise with Logitrans’ decades of material handling knowledge to fill the gap in ground-to-ground pallet movement.

New research from global market intelligence firm Interact Analysis shows that the market for industrial robot components will enjoy strong double digit growth in 2021, marking a clear turnaround after two years of disruption.

This overview highlights why people so often bring up AI as they talk about the most useful and compelling ways to create an Industry 4.0 factory.