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.

RBR50 Robotics Innovation AwardsFor 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:

1Business and Management Innovation – Business and management initiatives or practices that enhances a company’s commercial standing, fosters robotics sector growth or improves society.

2Technology, Products and Services Innovation – New commercial solutions that that have the potential to positively impact markets or the robotics sector as a whole.

3Application 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.).

RBR50 2021WTWH Media’s Robotics Group is pleased to showcase the 2021 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award honorees – see table below.

To download The Robot Report June 2021 Digital Edition featuring the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards click HERE.

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

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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.