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The International Federation of Robotics is a global industry association representing robotics manufacturers and organizations, best known for publishing annual statistics and reports on industrial robot installations and operating stock worldwide.
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The Houston startup says energy and construction come next after shipbuilding and steel, though its Korean work so far amounts to two proof-of-concept projects and a $2 million investment from POSCO DX.
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The International Federation of Robotics counted humanoids as their own category for the first time and found about 7,000 sold worldwide last year, most of them to research institutions and AI developers buying machines to generate training data.
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Viabot's $24m Series A funds a sweeper whose route-planning cameras and lidar also identify loitering, with staff pulled in only when the machine notifies them. Deployments include retailers, universities and healthcare sites.
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Viabot's $24m Series A funds an outdoor sweeper whose navigation sensors are also sold as "soft security" that flags loitering for human monitors. The litter case behind the pitch runs on a 2020 count and a 2009 cost figure.
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542,000 industrial arms went in during 2024 and 4.66 million are already running. The near-term case for flexible factories runs through smarter conventional robots.
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