2021 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award Honorees – Robotics Business Review
For over a decade, Robotics Business Review’s RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards have highlighted the most creative and influential innovations from around the world that have advanced the state of robotics. Widely recognized throughout the world as a leading indicator of robotics innovation leadership, the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards are also a critical measure of robotics sector growth.
For the robotics sector, the role, importance and impact of innovation has never been greater. Moreover, it is multiple innovation determinants – technological, business, and market – that act in confluence to accelerate robotics sector growth overall. As a result, the RBR50 awards celebrate robotics innovation in all its range of forms including:
Business and Management Innovation – Business and management initiatives or practices that enhances a company’s commercial standing, fosters robotics sector growth or improves society.
Technology, Products and Services Innovation – New commercial solutions that that have the potential to positively impact markets or the robotics sector as a whole.
Application and Market Innovation – Sector specific, newly developed applications that deliver value, provide entry to new markets, or improve performance over existing approaches (i.e. improve productivity, increase quality, reduce cost, etc.).
WTWH Media’s Robotics Group is pleased to showcase the 2021 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award honorees – see table below.
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2021 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award Honorees
| Organization | Location | Innovation Type | Innovation Subclass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accerion | The Netherlands | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Ambi Robotics | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| American Robotics | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| AutoStore | USA | Application & Market | Retail / Wholesale |
| AutoX | China | Application and Market | Transportation |
| BMW / IDEALworks | Germany | Business & Management | Business Models |
| Boston Dynamics | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Canvas | USA | Application & Market | Construction / Demolition |
| DreamVu | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Embodied | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| FarmWise | USA | Application & Market | Agriculture |
| FedEx | USA | Application & Market | Logistics |
| Ford / U Michigan | USA | Business & Management | Leadership |
| GreyOrange | USA | Application & Market | Logistics |
| Hello Robot | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| inVia Robotics | USA | Technology & Services | Services Introduction |
| Material Handling Systems (MHS) | USA | Application & Market | Logistics |
| ModalAI | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Monarch Tractor | USA | Application & Market | Agriculture |
| Motus Labs | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| NASA JPL | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Oculii | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Open Robotics | USA | Application and Market | Healthcare |
| Opteran Technologies Limited | England | Technology & Services | Primary or Applied Research |
| Orica | Australia | Application & Market | Mining / Quarrying |
| Ottonomy | USA | Application & Market | Consumer |
| Photoneo | Slovakia | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Plus | USA | Application & Market | Transportation |
| Prophesee | France | Application & Market | Manufacturing |
| QLayers | The Netherlands | Application & Market | Construction / Demolition |
| Qualcomm Technologies | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| RE2 Robotics | USA | Application & Market | Energy |
| READY Robotics | USA | Business and Management | Social Good |
| rideOS | USA | Application & Market | Transportation |
| Rocos | New Zealand | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| ROEQ | Denmark | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| SBG SYSTEMS | France | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Seoul Robotics | South Korea | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| SCHUNK | Germany | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| SICK | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Siemens Digital Industries Software | Germany | Technology & Services | Servies Introduction |
| SLAMcore | England | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Smith & Nephew | England | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Tevel Aerobotics Technologies | Israel | Application & Market | Agriculture |
| ULC Technologies | USA | Application & Market | Utilities |
| Universal Robots | Denmark | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
| Vention | Canada | Application & Market | Manufacturing |
| Verizon | USA | Technology & Services | Primary or Applied Research |
| Waymo | USA | Application and Market | Transportation |
| WiBotic | USA | Technology & Services | Product Introduction |
About WTWH Media
WTWH Media LLC is an integrated media company serving engineering, business, and investment professionals through more than 50 Web sites, five print publications, and many other technical and business events. The “WTWH Robotics Group” includes The Robot Report, Collaborative Robotics Trends, Mobile Robot Guide, and Robotics Business Review, online technical, business, and investment news and information portals focused on robotics and intelligent systems. WTWH Media also produces leading in-person robotics conferences, including the Robotics Summit & Expo, RoboBusiness, and the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum, as well as the RoboBusiness Direct online webinar program.