Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2025

UR and MiR consolidated R&D facilities and headquarters in 2024. Source: Universal Robots Economic uncertainty has taken a toll on the robotics industry, including leading vendors. ’s robotics group laid off 10% of its global workforce this week. Teradyne Inc.’s based company.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Source: Rainbow Robotics Samsung Electronics Co. today announced that it is increasing its stake in Rainbow Robotics to 35% to accelerate the development of robots such as humanoids. to market its collaborative robots in the U.S. to market its collaborative robots in the U.S. Samsung first acquired a 14.7%

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JANUARY 6, 2025

The third-generation Serve Robot is designed to be more rugged, safer, and capacious. Source: Serve Robotics Serve Robotics Inc. today said it secured $86 million in December, bringing its total gross proceeds raised in 2024 to $167 million. The third-generation robots can hold four large 16-in.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Apollo robot combines humanoid hardware and AI. Source: Apptronik A year full of humanoid robot news is ending with more developments. today announced that it has partnered with the Google DeepMind robotics team. Its team has worked on 15 previous robots, including NASA’s Valkyrie Robot. Apptronik Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Robot Report is seeking nominations for its 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. The RBR50 has recognized the most innovative and influential organizations in robotics for the past dozen years. Here are the winners from 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , and 2021. The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 20, 2024.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2025

Da Vinci systems offer surgeons high-definition 3D vision, a magnified view, and robotic and computer assistance. this week announced preliminary fourth-quarter results that highlight significant da Vinci surgical robot procedure growth. Intuitive Surgical reported 17% growth in worldwide da Vinci procedures in 2024.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Fifty-four producers of robots and robotics enabling technologies raised funding in September 2024, pulling in a total of $3.7 This is the highest monthly funding amount for 2024. The total investment targeted to robotics companies for January through September 2024 equals approximately $14.6

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Source: Slip Robotics For more than a century, truck trailers have been loaded and unloaded in the same way, leading to wasted time for drivers and dangerous bursts of activity for forklift operators. Slip Robotics is driving a level of change in the supply chain industry not seen since the containerization of sea freight.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2025

Humanoid robots are getting more agile and potentially more useful. “With ongoing advancements in system engineering, @LimXDynamics full-size humanoid robot features a hollow actuator design and high torque-density actuators, enabling full-body balance for a wide range of motion,” with the company on LinkedIn.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Europe is a major center of robotics development and use, according to Humanoid. and Asian companies in the humanoid robotics race, a silent revolution is brewing in the tech hubs of Europe, where cutting-edge startups are making remarkable strides in developing human-like robots. In the realm of autonomous vehicle , the U.K.-based

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2025

. | Source: Cornerstone Robotics Cornerstone Robotics Ltd., a surgical robotics developer, Monday today said it has raised $70 million in Series C financing. The company said the funding will advance its efforts toward commercialization, development of surgical robotics products, clinical trials, and regulatory approvals.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The UR20 cobot with its increased payload at the 2024 China International Industry Fair. Credit: Universal Robots Universal Robots A/S is looking to significantly expand its presence in China, the world’s largest market for industrial robots. UR told The Robot Report that the UR7e has a 7.5

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Editor’s Note: Join us on January 21, 2025 for a free State of the Robotics Industry webinar. Erik Nieves (Plus One Robotics), Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley), Aaron Prather (ASTM), and Mike Oitzman (The Robot Report) will examine the latest market trends, cutting-edge technologies, and emerging applications shaping the future of robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Just this month, Citis leading investment analysts published The Rise of AI Robots: Physical AI is Coming for You. Robots are hardly new, but theres a number of new developments that are happening,” he stated. ” Wenyan and Garlick identified 50 humanoid robot developers around the world.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Robot Report Podcast · AI at the Edge: How perception and AI are shaping mobile robotics In Episode 173 of The Robot Report Podcast , co-host Steve Crowe and I catch up on the news of the week, including several recent stories about mobile manipulators. Featured interview with RGO Robotics and Wheel.Me Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Organization: Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics Country: Germany Website: [link] Year Founded: 1981 Number of Employees: 500+ Innovation Class: Technology, Product & Services evoBOT is the kind of robot that stands out the moment you look at it. Explore the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards 2024.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2025

Source: RIC Technology RIC Technology last week debuted its most advanced and largest construction robotic 3D printer, named RIC-PRIMUS. RIC-PRIMUS is a monumental step forward for the 3D construction industry toward real commercialization, said Ziyou Xu, founder of RIC Technology and chief architect of the Robotic Construction Program.

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Design World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

ABB Robotics has announced T-Robotics and Mbodi the winners of its 2024 ABB Robotics AI Startup Challenge, marking a significant milestone in advancing artificial intelligence solutions for industrial robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

At Agility Robotics, we are working with our humanoid robot Digit, which balances actively at all times, can recover from unexpected bumps, and can lift and move heavy things. Training Digit in simulation through NVIDIA’s tools designed for robotics. There are 28 degrees of freedom and quite a few sensors.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2025

The robotics industry started the year with large funding rounds, new product releases, and well-known brands finding new homes. Here are the 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report in the past month. NEURA Robotics raises $123M to continue developing cognitive, humanoid robots NEURA raised 120 million ($123.3

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Source: Duke Robotics Duke Robotics Corp. The the robotics and drone company said the IEC Agreement establishes it as a provider of aerial cleaning systems designed to enhance the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of utility maintenance operations. “We Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Field robotics is redefining industries with technologies that perform complex tasks in unstructured and often dynamic environments – out of the warehouse, facing the weather, and potentially working alongside the public. He is also co-host of The Robot Report Podcast , the top-rated podcast for the robotics industry.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Robot Report Podcast Funding the next wave of robotics The Robot Report Podcast Nuro navigates to fully autonomous driving In Episode 176 of The Robot Report Podcast, we feature an interview with venture capitalists Juliette Chevallier, Principle at Scale Ventures, and Jasmeet Singh founder of JMOON Ventures.

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Design World

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

KUKA Robotics will spotlight a pair of innovative mobile robots March 11-14 in booth B4003 at MODEX 2024 in Atlanta. The KUKA KMP 1500P autonomous mobile platform revolutionizes automation for intralogistic optimization.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Source: Universal Field Robotics Sandvik AB today said it has acquired Universal Field Robots, or UFR, a developer of autonomous systems for the surface and underground mining markets. In the financial year that ended in June 2024 , Universal Field Robots generated revenue of approximately SEK 80 million ($7.2

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Lately, hardly a week goes by without some humanoid robotics news. Last week, London-based Humanoid offered a first look at its HMND 01 robot in action. The company , also known as SKL Robotics Ltd., said its mission is to develop commercially scalable, safe, and general-purpose humanoid robots. billion (U.S.)

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 17, 2025

ABB Robotics makes industrial systems such as this IRB robot demonstrating friction stir welding. ABB Group announced during its earnings call today that it plans to spin off its entire robotics division. “Only robotics and discrete automation declined from last year. Source: ABB ABB Robotics is global No.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 9, 2025

Ainos and ugo have partnered to give a sense of smell to service robots. Source: Ainos Not only are robots getting smarter, but they are also becoming more perceptive, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and new sensors. to integrate its AI Nose technology with ugo’s autonomous robot. 15, 2024. .

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In March 2024, Abhishek Gupta, Jackson Jesionowski, and Ashish Gupta founded Open Droids around the idea of creating an open-source robot platform. The San Francisco-based company launched the R1D1 single-arm mobile manipulator in August 2024 and had a booth in the startup zone at RoboBusiness 2024. reach and 3 kg (6.6

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Design World

DECEMBER 19, 2023

ABB to supply over 1,300 robots including functional packages to Volvo Cars for the next generation of electric vehicles. ABB’s new family of energy-efficient large robots and OmniCore controllers will help Volvo Cars deliver energy savings of up to 20% and achieve its ambitious sustainability targets.

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Robotics Automation News

DECEMBER 22, 2024

ABB Robotics has selected T-Robotics and Mbodi as the winners of its 2024 ABB Robotics AI Startup Challenge, marking what the industrial giant says is a significant milestone in advancing artificial intelligence solutions for industrial robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 1, 2025

Source: Agility Robotics At ProMat last month, Agility Robotics Inc. unveiled new capabilities for Digit that the company said expand the humanoid robot’s utility for its growing user base. based Agility Robotics said its robot is designed to augment the human workforce. Salem, Ore.-based

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2025

The latest version of the HYTRON cleaning robot uses NVIDIA hardware and software. last week said it has integrated an NVIDIA system on module, or SoM, in its latest HYTRON bathroom cleaning robot. NVIDIAs technology enables us to achieve remarkable efficiency and precision, further distinguishing our HYTRON robots in the market.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stereotaxis said GenesisX is its most accessible robotic system to date. today announced that it has secured the first order for its latest-generation robotic system, GenesisX. The surgical robot developer said the system is geared towards minimally invasive endovascular intervention. Source: Stereotaxis Stereotaxis Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Nauticus Robotics’ flagship Aquanaut robot. Source: Nauticus Robotics Nauticus Robotics and Leidos have partnered to advance the state of autonomous underwater robots. The companies plan to combine their complementary expertise to develop robots capable of tackling increasingly complex missions.

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Automation Mag

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

According to new data, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) reported that the North American robotics market demonstrated minor overall growth in 2024, reflecting resilience and adaptability as automation strengthened its role across industries. percent in units and 0.1 percent in revenue over 2023.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2025

Manufacturers need to master data analytics and robotics to adapt to demographic changes, says ABI Research. Source: Adobe Stock In January 2024 , the U.S. ABI Research last week predicted that the global installed base of commercial and industrial robots could reach 16.3 Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that U.S.

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