April 2026

New to Robotics?

Start with These Fundamentals

Industrial robotics is transforming industries from manufacturing and logistics to automotive, pharmaceuticals, and more, enabling rapid adoption of modern automation systems that increase efficiency, productivity, safety, quality, and cost effectiveness. As industrial robotics grows, more job functions than ever before will require an understanding of the key principles of robotics. If you are completely new to the industry or thinking about implementing automation into your processes for the first time, developing a system-level understanding of how industrial robots function is crucial.

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AGE OF AUTOMATION SERIES: GOOGLE

How AI Technology Is Helping Deaf Students Learn Their Way

Sign language helped Erin Filton to communicate with her deaf father, and now it’s important for her to invest back into the deaf community. Now a teacher at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, she’s using a potentially life-changing new technology in her classroom. With the help of Google’s AI-powered accessibility tool, she’s helping her deaf students learn in a way that works for them, helping to increase access to this important technology that is changing lives.

Produced for Google as part of the Age of Automation series.

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Ranjay Krishna: Why Robots Still Fail in the Real World and the Data Problem Holding Them Back

Robotics is advancing quickly, but real world deployment is still far more difficult than most people expect.

In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Ranjay Krishna about the fundamental challenges preventing robots from working reliably outside controlled environments, and why solving the data problem is key to unlocking the next wave of robotics.