This Is Robotics: Radio News #17

FABULOUS FEBRUARYHi 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 the first two months of 2023 are like for robotics, the remaining 10 months may well be the best in years.We’ll take a look at Service robotics, logistics, then cobots x3 with one of them being  the arrival of the ultimate, affordable, and simple-to-use cobot for SMEs at $9k.I’ve been writing about cobots for ten years, and this is the first to come along that’s tailor-made for SMEs and its not from an old-line robot maker or a new-line cobot maker; it’s from a 50-year-old, German company that makes high-performance plastics. The company is named igus, and the cobot is called the ReBel. And it could easily revolutionize the use of cobots for SMEs. How about a personal robot as family historian?All the elements to build one exist, there needs only a company smart enough to take it on. Perfect for ancestry.com.Instead of a family scrap book or memory sticks of media loaded with a family’s life events and special occasions, what about an undying, self-repairing home robot as family historian that records and stores everything.  A family robot that would record (audio and video) of the good, bad, and ugly of a family all year long, and then with the help of generative AI, organize it all into an annual movie co-narrated by Orson Wells and Lauren Becall (both deceased but with AI anything is possible)? Narrator choice is up to you.It's the ultimate hand-me-down, like the grandfather clock of robots.OKAY, LET’S GET ON WITH Fabulous February. Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast