This Is Robotics: Radio News #16

CHINA TO AMP UP ROBOT USAGE 2023-2025Already 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 registered more deaths than births last year, marking 2022 as the first time the country’s population has dropped since the 1960s. Fewer workers mean a need for more automation; robots primary substitute.China’s new plan for 2023: “Robot + Application Action Plan”INTERVIEW PT. 1: MARK MESSINA CEO ADDVERB: FIRST YEAR IN NA & MICROLOGISTICS That’s followed by the Top 5 Robotics Tech Trends for 2023. It’s our What’s New in Robotics? column from our partnering with Robotiq. The experts have made their forecasts, and we’ve got the Top 5. They’re awesome picksWHAT’S NEW IN ROBOTICS? AFTERMATH OF CES2023 GOOD FOR ROBOTICS? CES for 2023 came and went quietly this year (January 5 to 8, Las Vegas), minus much of the online-hoopla that for weeks preceding its opening usually attends the world’s largest consumer electronics show.Attendees looking for robots at CES2023 also got a quiet show. Post-COVID (since 2021), CES simply has yet to fully recover and return to its heady times of years past. A half-day’s rambling about would have been enough to see all the robots at CES2023 that really mattered.As Brian Heater of TechCrunch remarked: “At some point when we weren’t looking, CES became a car show.”Isn’t it time we asked ourselves: “Should Robotics Events Have an Exclusive Online TV Network?”There’s the Travel Channel, the Cooking Network, HGTV, Court TV, the Golf Channel, and myriad others. Why not a 24x7 Robotics TV Network?See also Robotiq’s blog: See also: What’s New in Robotics? 13.01.2023INTERVIEW PT#2: MARK MESSINA CEO ADDVERB: 5G & CYBERSECURITY FOR LOGISTICS Mark’s insights and outlook for how logistics will deal with 5G and Cybersecurity in 2023. Mark offers up a fascinating insider’s look at 5G and protecting logistics assets from his twin viewpoints as both a logistics engineer and an executive business leader delivering intra-logistics automation for Addverb Technologies.  Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast