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The 2022 BT Robotics Festival was held at Adastral Park in Ipswhich, United Kingdom. BT AND ADASTRAL PARK... Ad Astra Adastral Park is where BT do all their "top secret research" into future technologies like 5G, 6G, 7G, etc. We learned that "Ad Astra" means "To the Stars" in Latin... and on another note, there's a space film with the same name, for anyone interested in yet another Brad Pitt movie (link). The "Robotics Festival" was highly marketed as the place to be. And with BT backing it, we had high hopes from the second we added our details on...

STIQ Ltd (a publisher of free-to-download robotics market reports) organised it's third #3 in-person free robotics networking event on November 16th, 2022 hosted at Shoosmiths inspiring offices in central London. The Audience Nearly 100 people attended the event from around the UK and abroad.  Companies in attendance included well known names, such as Airbus, Arrival, Asda, BT, Covariant, Deepmind, Dyson, Flexqube, Gillespie Manners, Goldman Sachs, Legal & General Investments, maxon, Ocado, Shoosmiths, Softbank Robotics, Tesco, and QinetiQ just to mention a few. In addition there were multiple startups & scaleups, postgraduate students and other professionals. This event was kindly sponsored by Shoosmiths,...

The TESLA BOT In August 2021, TESLA announced they would be building a humanoid robot - the TESLA OPTIMUS BOT. The real reason for doing so may be different to the publicly announced reason: "Tesla is arguably the worlds largest robotics company... because our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels... neural nets recognising the world, understanding how to navigate through the world... it kinda makes sense to put that on to a humanoid form." [Elon Musk, Aug 2021] TESLA BOT Announcement August 2021 Arguably, the TESLA BOT has already earned TESLA a few additional column inches in media (this included) so there...

Trade show report: Groceryshop, Las Vegas, US, Sep 19-22, 2022 Groceryshop is as it sounds, a trade show & conference specifically for the grocery & CPG/FMCG industry. The event was spun out from Hyve's popular Shoptalk events about 4-5 years ago. Organisers acknowledged the 2022 event was the largest Groceryshop to date and we concur the event was busy. Las Vegas is a super location (albeit a bit expensive) for events with hotels and conference venue in the same building complex. It was STIQs first visit to the city and we were pleasantly surprised to find that everything worked very well... similarly to German trade shows. Check in is...

Amazon just announced they acquired Cloostermans, a Belgian mechanial innovation outfit, in a recent blog post (AboutAmazon - thanks to TechCrunch for highlighting this @ source). Cloostermans will apparently be integrated in Amazon Robotics and their European innovations team... What is Cloostermans? D.Cloostermans-Huwaert (aka "Clostermans"), founded in 1884, is a Belgian mechanical/mechatronics consulting firm building bespoke machinery for a variety of customers. The company had 138 staff according to their LinkedIn page in Sep 2022. This is not exactly the M&A profile for Amazon's many startup acquisitions in the automation & robotics sector. Image from Cloostermans website  It is highly likely that Cloostermans developed...