Trending News in the Robotics Field for January 2022

What's the trending news in the robotics field for January 2022? Welcome to the 28th installment in our monthly series, What's Trending in Robotics News! We cover all the breaking news, hot issues, trending stories, and cool stuff that's happening — or has happened — in the robotics industry.

There were plenty of amazing things happening in the robotics industry throughout January. Let's see what caught our attention this month with the trending news in the robotics field for January 2022!

CES 2022

• PurrSong (a big thing for every cat owner)
• Ameca, the humanoid robot
• SkyDrive — the next generation of personal air travel
• Bemoni 1.0, the human-like robot with artificial intelligence
   

   

In the Medical Field

In the Servicing Field

In the Space Field

In the Agriculture Field

In Movies, Media, and Culture

 Quick Hits

• Another article on Ameca, the humanoid robot, from Cnet.
• From Reuters, an avatar robot is helping out an ill student in Germany.
• SCMP profiles a mind-reading factory bot from China 
• From Robohub, a story on robots helping to pick up underwater litter
   

   

What's To Come?

There is a lot of news out there — but these are the stories that caught our eyes this month. If we could give one big theme for the month, it would be "anew." We head into another year after yet another tumultuous twelve months, with an uncertain future ahead of us. It's scary and intimidating — but there's so much significant advancement in the robotics field that it's hard not to feel optimistic. We face so many challenges as a species and as a planet as we go into 2022, but the world of robotics is helping us all to get through them. 

The bottom line: Robotics, as a whole, are on a roll. They're adapting to every aspect of our lives and touching every element of what we do, from how we eat to where we will go as a species. Our best advice? Sit back, enjoy the ride and enjoy every second of it. One more thing, readers — if you have anything we should add for the next edition, let us know! What caught your attention in the robotics world throughout January? Comment below, and we might feature it in our next issue!