Has Code Writing Capitulated To GenAI? What exactly just took place, and why? Suddenly this March, we all woke up one morning to find code fighting for its life. Why so fast? Why so suddenly? Why so completely? Unexpectedly and quietly code is disappearing. Why is that? Is AI’s argument that convincing? Sure seems that way. It was a little like the Berlin Wall: imposingly there for a few decades, then suddenly gone and forgotten. We’ll take a look at what happened to code, and what’s next...

Hi folks, welcome to This Is Robotics for February 2024, Episode #28. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion as we travel together through the big, wide world of modern robotics…and now, robotics is getting even better as it converges with artificial intelligence. Ah, the age of smart robots is upon us. Thanks again for making This Is Robotics the #1 robotics news podcast worldwide…for two years running.  We did some investigative journalism this month to find out why…and we were...

Hi folks, welcome to This Is Robotics, and our last episode for 2023. Next up a wild and woolly 2024. We are already planning our January show. It’s forecast to be a fabulous for robotics, logistics and automation in general.  Plus, it’s also the Year of the Dragon (2024) The dragon, one of the luckiest and most powerful symbols offering prosperity, and good fortune throughout 2024. It is the perfect time for rejuvenated beginnings and setting the foundation for long-term success. THE...

Welcome everyone to This Is Robotics, episode #26 for November, 2023. Oh, and BTW: Thanks for making us the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast for TWO YEARS IN A ROW. I’m Tom Green, your guide and companion into the wide, wonderful world of robotics. Welcome. It’s that time of year when we take a look at Time Magazine’s picks for its Global Top Inventions for the year. This year, 2023, there are 200 selections in 21 different categories.  Robotics, as usual, has its very own category, category...

Hi folks. And welcome. Question: Is it okay with everyone if we talk about 2024?  I know it’s still October of 2023, but so much is at the ready for 2024 now that it seems a shame not to give the upcoming new year some mega attention. Okay, deal. Let’s do it. Welcome again to This Is Robotics, episode #25, October of 2023. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion as we take a robotics look forward at the upcoming New Year of 2024. The word in the air and on the streets for 2024 is LOGISTICS....

Hi everyone and welcome to This Is Robotics, Episode 24. Thanks for joining us. I’m Tom Green your guide and companion for today’s journey into our global robotics news podcast. Our first story explores the reasons for Why Is There So Little Automation in America? As sci-fi writer William Gibson once remarked:  “The future is already here but it’s not evenly distributed.” Well, much the same can be said for automation in America.  Why is it that only 5 out of 50 U.S. states get 77% of all...

Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #23 I’m Tom Green, your host and companion on this incredible journey called robotics. For two years running now, we have been the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…we’re up to over 100,000 fans, and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much. And thanks for joining us today It’s August, the harbinger of September,  and the 4th and final Quarter 4 for 2023. That year went fast! Maybe because it was such a...

This summer of 2023 is one to particularly remember for robotics. We’ll remember 2023 for a long time, even as it spawns two more equally amazing and remarkable years to come 2024 and 2025. Robotics technology and sales will thunder into the quarter-century mark of this millennium’s first 100 years.   Today’s podcast looks at three bellwether happenings for robotics here in 2023…and the carryover for them through 2025. Of course, leader of the bellwether gang is generative AI or genAI...

Welcome everyone to This Is Robotics, Episode #12.  I’m Tom Green your host and fellow traveler in the wonderful world of robotics. This is our first podcast while the world is hip deep in generativeAI. In fact, much of our show today is about AI and robotics.  We lead off with our partnership blog What’s New in Robotics? with Robotiq, the automation company that helps you elevate your workforce with easy-to-use cobot solutions that do the work for you. Two of our blog posts from What’s New...

Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #20  For two years running now, we are the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much.  Thanks for joining us today  We’d really be remiss here at This Is Robotics if we didn’t put some sense into the biggest robotics story of the last several months. That story is of humanoid robots, bi-pedal humanoid robots hooking up with AI. Our next story is called Humanoid Robots and...

Hi folks, and welcome once again to This Is Robotics: Radio News, Episode #19 For two years running now, we are the #1 Robotics News Podcast worldwide…and you my dear folks put us at #1. Thank you very much. Thanks for joining us today Topping the news of the month is Walmart with its blockbuster 5-year plan filled to the brim with automation and robots.  A story we call: Walmart Goes All-In for Robots. In short, it’s a massive upside for the entire robotics industry. That’s sure to prompt...

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 meaning robots for backyards, construction sites, farms, and major infrastructure projects most...

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 Is Robotics for February Episode 17. We’re calling it Fabulous February. Because, If this is what...

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 bought would be homemade by Chinese robot makers. Today, that’s at 39%!   More worrisome still,...

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. Keeping the sheen on Deng Xiaoping’s "Big Idea"  China’s Christmas Miracle TOP 5 ROBOTICS TECH...

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 emerging for robots and cobots, and they are proving themselves up to the task, and then some.   NEW...

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 show floor, the jump-out realizations to grab onto at Pack Expo 2022 are two: More cobots doing...

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; followed by a 3D-printed cobot arm that actually “works”, and finally the 45-second pizza, robot-made...

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 fantastically adept at constructing unrivaled intellectual kingdoms. However, India has been in...

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 robots become our next gas-guzzling, fume-spewing agents of climate change? It’s going to happen,...

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 million investment, and what it means for service robotics as well as to robotics companies...

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 podcast #1 The allure, fascination and repulsion for humanity’s new best friend THE FANTASTIC FIVE...

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 Twelve Time Zone Chat: Boston, Bangkok, Delhi and San Diego crackled on last evening as...

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 cobot success. Universal Robots, Techman, and Doosan share the knack, but better keep an eye...