Listen to this articleThe New York Robotics Network is building a community in the metro area and worldwide. Credit: Adobe Stock. As robots spread from factories and warehouses around the world, robotics clusters are popping up wherever there’s a critical mass of industrial need, skilled workers, and innovative entrepreneurs. Since 2021, the New York Robotics Network has been growing and organizing events to help startups, engineers, investors, and end users connect. The organization said it is in the “fastest-growing tech ecosystem in the U.S.”

RoboBusiness: learn how remote interventions can accelerate robot deployments. By The Robot Report Staff | August 20, 2024Listen to this articleIn the past, robotics companies turned to remote edge case handling either as a last step in the refinement of their product or not at all. Instead, they relied on customers to hire, train, and staff operators to be able to intervene when the robots fail. These groups typically do a small number of expensive pilot deployments with customers, with trained staff on-site to rescue the robots when they fail, and would spend years eliminating bugs before finally getting to 99.9999% reliability and being able to massively scale deployments. But autonomous vehicles changed the way roboticists look at remote edge case handling – we now see remote interventions as a way to accelerate mass adoption of our robots by several years. Modern robotics companies today are starting with large-scale deployments immediately when the hardware exists, using remote interventions to enable reliability, and fixing bugs as they arise