This Is Robotics: Radio News

Welcome to Our Halloween Program 2025 Yes, it’s Halloween, when people dress up like someone or something else, and when the dead come back to visit the living. Which, in a way is kind of apropos of today’s podcast. ABB Sells to SoftBank The recent sale of ABB’s robotics division to Japan’s SoftBank. Was that a normal sale of one company to another, or was it something else? Was it part of a disguise? Was it part of an elaborate plan for Japan’s moribund AI and smart robotics industry to retu...

Listening to Our Fans We get lots of fan interest in our online news platform and podcast. To recognize and honor all that attention, June’s podcast is dedicated to replying to some of the email and queries that our fans sent to Asian Robotics Review, This Is Robotics, Robo AI News, and LinkedIn. First off, thank you one and all for your interest in what we do. You are important to us, and we honor the time you take out of your busy day to send us what’s on your mind. Here are three of the mo...

THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT OVERARCHING ROBOT-BASED THEMES FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2025 DON’T MISS THIS PODCAST! The one podcast that will catch you up, inform you, and get you ready for the future of manufacturing, jobs and careers, robotics, artificial intelligence, and Gen Z, the generation that is the most aware, well-adapted, and emotionally ready to create an out-sized impact on the future. Any new technology that happens along that ends up amplifying industrial robotics is a ben...

INTRO: Here at This Is Robotics, we have our very own March Madness championship series with teams vying for the GenAI Trophy. The brackets of contenders are set: ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, Alibaba’s Qwen, Tencent’s T1, and of course the Cinderella team of the playoffs, DeepSeek, which has already crashed Wall Street for a trillion dollars. Our lead story for March is one that generated a ton of email both pro and con plus a pile of commentary. It was a special report just la...

This Is Robotics: End-Of-Year Program, 30 December 2024 What Was the Most Important Story in Robotics for 2024? Yes, there Was Only One. And no, it wasn’t bipedal humanoids. Not by a long shot. Not as long as there’s gravity and Mother Nature to contend with. The hype and investment millions going into bipedal humanoid robots these days feels a lot like the over-hyped, over-heated, craziness of the multi-billion-dollar market that was self-driving cars back in 2009-2017. Remember? Google inve...

Hello folks and welcome to This Is Robotics. I’m your host and fellow companion, Tom Green. The last half of 2024 is upon us, robotics-driven automation is in rapid ascendancy once again, especially now since 2024 is showing how robotics engages with GenAI, and how prompt engineering is significantly increasing the ease of adoption for robots everywhere. Last month, we gave you a longish one-hour show, which was necessary for it was meant to support my keynote address at SuperTechFT...

Welcome to a special edition of This Is Robotics for a special look at the "New Collar" Workforce. Robot-Driven Automation's "New Collar" Workforce Vitally needed workers for robot-driven manufacturing, and just maybe, the revitalization of America’s middle class. They’re definitely a new breed! Don’t call them blue collar and don’t call them white collar. Blue, many perceive as life-long drudgery with a wasted body by the age of fifty, and white as onerous college debt with the worst ROI ...

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 sur...

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, categ...

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% ...

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...

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 Huma...