Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid was in trials at GXO. Source: Agility Robotics As an early investor in Agility Robotics, now one of the world’s leading manufacturers of humanoid robots, I’ve watched as humanoids have evolved from a fascinating concept to reality over the past five years.

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

New Project GR00T workflows and AI world model tools are intended to help developers of robot dexterity, control, manipulation, and mobility. today announced new artificial intelligence and simulation tools to accelerate development of robots including humanoids. Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA Corp. is available now on GitHub.

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DECEMBER 26, 2024

The Robot Report Podcast Navigating the world of manufacturing logistics with FlexQube In Episode 179 of The Robot Report Podcast, we feature an interview with Anders Folgelberg, founder and CEO of FlexQube, a Swedish company specializing in modular material handling systems. greater value, asserted NVIDIA.

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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 startup said the video above demonstrates the humanoid’s mechanical design, motion control, and artificial intelligence integration. billion (U.S.)

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 12, 2025

More robots powered by artificial intelligence could soon be unloading trucks. Dexterity said it uses “physical AI” to give its full-stack systems human-like dexterity, freeing workers in logistics , warehousing, and supply chain operations from repetitive and strenuous tasks. Dexterity Inc.

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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

MARCH 1, 2025

Figure is building the Helix model and a data engine to enable a fleet of humanoid robots to learn logistics tasks. this week introduced a real-world application for its humanoid robots and Helix model: package manipulation for triage in logistics. Source: Figure AI Figure AI Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

TGW Logistics’ RovoFlex picking robot can handle a variety of items, from grocery and fashion to industrial and consumer goods. Source: TGW Logistics TGW Logistics Group GmbH said it has applied its more than 50 years of experience in developing automated systems into its latest picking robot.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The founders of Photoneo Brightpick Group, which is separating its vision and robotics units. unit, which provides vision sensors and artificial intelligence for robotics. based Brightpick won Application of the Year in the 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards for Autopicker. acquisition of its Photoneo s.r.o.

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JULY 19, 2024

Continental mobile robots are deployed in logistics operations at manufacturing facilities. Credit: Continental Continental Mobile Robots, a Frankfurt am Main, Germany-based division of Continental’s Automotive Group Sector, has developed mobile robots for use in automotive plants. ” Register now and save.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Source: Mobile Industrial Robots Mobile Industrial Robots ApS today announced the the latest addition to its growing list of MiR Go-approved products, the MC600 mobile collaborative robot. “By Mobile Industrial Robots said it can handle payloads up to 600 kg (1,322 lb.) Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Robot Report Podcast · The ABB Edge: Using AI and Robotics to Transform Industries In Episode 172 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman catch up on the news of the week, including several recent stories about self-driving vehicles.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2024

During the 2023 peak season, Ambi Robotics’ robots sorted 7.4 Source: Ambi Robotics The month between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the busiest time of year by far for logistics providers, and this year, its even shorter than most peak seasons. million packages at 410 sorts per hour. The Berkeley, Calif.-based

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Robot Report Podcast 2024 year in review: bold bets and dashed dreams In Episode 178 of The Robot Report Podcast, we present our annual end-of-the-year review show. This episode features the voices of our entire editorial staff, including Steve Crowe , Mike Oitzman , Gene Demaitre and Brianna Wessling.

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JANUARY 18, 2025

Now, NVIDIA is tearing down the walls of Flatland , ushering in the era of physical AI a world where artificial intelligence can perceive, understand, and interact with the three-dimensional world around us. Instead of producing text, it produces action tokens How is this different from traditional robotics?

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MARCH 25, 2025

. | Source: Universal Robots At NVIDIA GTC 2025 last week, Teradyne Robotics unveiled a suite of artificial intelligence-driven tools that it developed with NVIDIA. Think of a logistics operation where robots navigate through a warehouse with constantly changing layouts and obstacles.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2025

Neura Robotics offers robots for a variety of applications and industries. NEURA Robotics GmbH today said it has raised 120 million ($123.3 Cognitive robotics is expected to become bigger than the smartphone,” stated David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics. to bring cognitive robotics to manufacturing.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 5, 2025

Amazon’s warehouse robots include Sparrow, which sorts individual items for employees to package; Cardinal, which lifts packages and puts them in carts; and Robin, which lifts and sorts packages before they’re brought to the outbound dock. Parness brings robotics, AI expertise to Amazon Parness received his Ph.D.

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Robotics Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Kiva mobile robots and mini shelves in a warehouse. Source: Kiva Systems / Logistics Hall of Fame In 2003, Mick Mountz, Dr. Peter Wurman, and Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea invented a mobile robot for fulfillment in intralogistics, founded Kiva Systems, and created a category of automation that has grown over the past two decades.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AWS and Isaac Sim can help accelerate robotics development, says NVIDIA. today announced at AWS re:Invent enhanced tools for robotics developers, as well as the availability of NVIDIA DGX Cloud on Amazon Web Services and offerings for artificial intelligence and quantum computing. NVIDIA Corp. SoftServe Inc. ,

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Robotics Automation News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the logistics industry, enabling companies to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance customer satisfaction.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2025

Credit: Yiping Wang Thanks to the rapid progress of information technology and artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle technology has been taking off. In fact, AVs are now advanced enough that they are being used for logistics delivery and low-speed public transportation. Register today to save 40% on conference passes!

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 28, 2025

The Robot Report Podcast Ali Kashani on the Future of Last-Mile Logistics In Episode 189 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre interview Ali Kashani, co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics. He also talks about plans to scale their fleet of delivery robots significantly.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2023

It’s time to reflect upon the trends from the past 12 months while looking ahead at what 2024 has in store for the world of robotics. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including generative AI, captured global attention and dominated headlines. This image was created using Microsoft Bing Image Creator.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The MassRobotics Form and Function Challenge pavilion at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. MassRobotics will be returning to the Robotics Summit & Expo this year as exclusive strategic partner. The 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo takes place on April 30 and May 1 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Service robotics vendor Pudu Technology Inc. this week launched the PUDU MT1, a robotic sweeper designed to autonomously clean large-scale industrial environments such as home improvement stores, warehouses, and manufacturing plants. The robot is also instantly convertible to manual operations when needed, said the company.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 1, 2024

We’re halfway through 2024, and for the past six months, the robotics industry has continued to progress rapidly. From novel deployments and humanoid robotics developments to emerging partnerships, there was no shortage of news to cover in June 2024. Here are the top 10 most popular stories on The Robot Report last month.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Source: Nimble While warehouse automation today is limited to a few functions, improvements in artificial intelligence promise to change that. ” Founded in 2017, Nimble’s services include robotic fulfillment and transportation. .” Nimble said its AI technology has picked, packed, and handled millions of items.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Robotic Crew founders at RoboBusiness 2023. Robotic Crew offers staffing in Latin America for robot development, as well as operations and fleet management. “About two years ago, we spun out of WeDevelop, a company that was providing software engineers,” said Ricardo Petrazzini , founder and CEO of Robotic Crew.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Robot Report Podcast · Who Let the Robodogs Out? Meet Swiss-Mile’s wheeled quadruped In Episode 171 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman examine the latest video from XPENG, showing the Iron humanoid robot operating on the floor of XPENG automation manufacturing plant.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The company said it will primarily use the new funding to support the deployment of robots and artificial intelligence in the U.S., Brightpick spun off in 2021 from Bratislava, Slovakia-based Photoneo , a developer of 3D robotic vision sensors and intelligence software. appeared first on The Robot Report.

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 22, 2024

I’m not in love with predictions and I realize January is about gone, but here are some thoughts I picked up from Anders Billesø Beck, VP of Innovation and Strategy at Universal Robots. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as generative AI, captured global attention and dominated headlines.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 24, 2024

Magna International will manufacture more delivery robots. Source: Serve Robotics Serve Robotics Inc. to increase production of Serve’s sidewalk delivery robots. Serve Robotics builds on IPO The announcement came less than a week after Serve Robotics went public , raising $40 million.

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JUNE 29, 2024

Also present: ARMAR-7 robot from KIT. Source: BMBF/Hans-Joachim Rickel Germany’s leading robotics centers are coming together to establish the Robotics Institute Germany, or RIG. Participants said they want RIG to become the central contact point for robotics in Germany. Angela Schoellig from TUM and Prof.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The company said it designed this new program to equip aspiring artificial intelligence developers with the synthetic data skills needed to create advanced AI vision models. They have more than over 70 patents across robotics, simulation, and visualization. ” Apply to speak.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

GXO Logistics, one of the world’s largest contract logistics companies, is expanding its technology partnership with Robotic Assistance Devices, a subsidiary of Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions. Thomas Nelson, senior director of security at GXO, says: “GXO’s […]

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