Summary

ロボットは労働者の高齢化や労働力不足による課題やビジネスチャンスのために進化が加速している。今後3-4年は、現在の倉庫や製造業の拠点における自動運転ロボットが主流となり、共働ロボットや産業用ロボットと、位置情報技術などのアクセサリが産業用ロボット分野の採用を拡張するだろう。米国調査会社ABIリサーチの調査レポート「【PT：最新技術の革新者レポート】産業ロボット、共働ロボット、商業用ロボット」は、ロボット産業を促進する15社の企業を特定し、これらの企業の進歩から多くの動向を導き出している。これらの動向には、

• どのような乗物も自動運転にできるプラットフォームにとらわれない自律ソリューションプルーバ(PerceptIn、Sevensense、Nuro)の急増
• 従来市場にはないモバイルロボット用途、例えばこれらのロボットのセキュリティにおけるOneberryの使用
• 高度位置情報技術と接続性の発展による正確性、モビリティ、ロボットのカバレッジ(GNSS、UWB、4G LTE、5G)の改善
• AWS Robomakerなどのクラウドプラットフォームによるロボット採用と付加価値サービスの拡大　　など

Robots are evolving at an accelerating rate to address the challenges and opportunities faced by aging workforces and labor shortages. The next 3 to 4 years will witness the mainstreaming of autonomous mobile robots outside of their current strongholds of warehousing and manufacturing, whilst advances in collaborative robotics, industrial robots and accessories like location technologies will further strengthen the deployment of robotics in the industrial space. In this presentation, ABI Research identifies 15 companies that are pushing the robotics industries forward, and deduces a number of trends from their advances. These trends include: 

a. Proliferation of platform-agnostic autonomy solution provers (PerceptIn, Sevensense, Nuro) who can make any vehicle autonomous.

b. Application of mobile robotics outside of traditional markets, an example being Oneberry’s use of these robots for security.

c. Development of advanced location technologies and connectivity to further improve the accuracy, mobility and coverage of robotics (GNSS, UWB, 4G LTE and 5G).

d. Leveraging of Cloud platforms (such as AWS Robomaker) to scale up the deployment of robotics and to enable value-added services

e. Industrial robotics players diversifying their portfolios to enable robotic solutions across all verticals, an example being Comau’s development of exoskeletons and an advanced IoT solution

f. Hardware advances to make mobile and collaborative robotics superior, and to enable cohabitation with humans; as evidenced by ANYbotics and Precise Automation

This short presentation will narrow in on a handful of companies considered to be providing, pursuing, and developing exciting robotic solutions to a variety of business cases and across a range of sectors. These include;

• Anybotics
• Amazon
• Comau
• Houston Mechatronics
• Humatics
• IAM Robotics
• MIR (ROEQ + Nord Modules)
• Nuro
• Oneberry Solutions
• OTTO Motors
• PerceptIn
• Precise Automation
• Sevensense
• UBTECH
• Ubiquity Robotics