Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2025

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. However, Teradyne Robotics says on its website that it has 1,400+ employees worldwide. Teradyne Inc.’s based company.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

Source: AMP Robotics AMP Robotics Corp. based company plans to use its latest funding to accelerate deployment of its AMP ONE systems, which uses artificial intelligence and robotics to sort municipal solid waste, or MSW. Last month, AMP Robotics entered into an agreement with Waste Connections Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Physical Intelligence demonstrates the application of foundation models to training robots for tasks such as assembling boxes and folding laundry. Source: Physical Intelligence Foundation models promise to give robots the ability to generalize actions from fewer examples than traditional artificial intelligence approaches.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2025

Source: MassRobotics MassRobotics has announced the fourth cohort of its Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Program, marking a record-breaking year with an unprecedented number of applicants. This years cohort includes six innovative companies selected for their cutting-edge solutions in healthcare robotics.

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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

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.

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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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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Source: Boston Dynamics Last year, Boston Dynamics made waves in the robotics industry by retiring its hydraulic Atlas and announcing its new, electric Atlas. Now, the company will be giving an inside look at its robot at the Robotics Summit & Expo. Saunders is a dedicated expert in innovative robot development.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The technological revolution that has brought about artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning can play a quintessential role in reinforcing the once-great American manufacturing sector and transforming it into advanced manufacturing. manufacturing faces worsening labor shortages in coming years.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2025

The KURAVIZON robot integrates Flexiv’s Rizon arm with Kurabo’s sensing technology. Source: Flexiv Flexiv Robotics Inc. based Flexiv plans to integrate its force-control technology with Kurabo’s KURASENSE 3D vision sensing technology to develop the KURAVIZON adaptive robot. Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2025

The latest version of the HYTRON cleaning robot uses NVIDIA hardware and software. Source: Primech AI Primech AI Pte. last week said it has integrated an NVIDIA system on module, or SoM, in its latest HYTRON bathroom cleaning robot. HYTRON uses AI to autonomously clean commercial and industrial facilities.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2025

Kinova is offering its Gen3 robotic manipulator with the Bota Systems’ SensONE force-torque sensor. Source: Kinova Advances in perception promise to advance machine learning and robotic manipulation. The Boisbriand, Quebec-based company has developed the lightweight and portable Gen3 robotic manipulator. Kinova Inc.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Nala Robotics Inc. At Nala Robotics, we’ve combined the power of AI with the cultural heritage of one of the world’s most cherished dishes,” said Ajay Sunkara, the CEO of Nala Robotics. “At this week announced its latest kitchen automation, BIRYANIMAN. BIRYANIMAN promises to deliver consisten flavors each time.

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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

MARCH 25, 2025

States Logistics in California was an early user of Contoros truck-unloading robot. Contoro Robotics today said it has raised $12 million in Series A funding to scale its artificial intelligence-powered robots. Contoro is a spinoff from Harmonic Bionics, he told The Robot Report. after a week.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Since the 1970s, the field has evolved from writing sophisticated programs to using deep learning, teaching robots to learn directly from human behavior. To improve, robots need to encounter scenarios that push the boundaries of their capabilities, operating at the edge of their mastery. But a critical bottleneck remains: data quality.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 2, 2025

Rosendin Electric tested solar module installation with robots it contracted ULC to build. Source: ULC Technologies Construction of photovoltaic cells requires heavy lifting, precise assembly, and repetitive placement at scale, making it a good use case for robotics. ULC Technologies LLC last week said Rosendin Electric Inc.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Source: Meta AI GelSight, a developer of tactile technology, and Meta AI announced Digit 360, a tactile sensor for robotic fingers. Digit 360 will advance the digitization of touch and unlock new applications in robotics with its ability to capture omnidirectional deformations on the fingertip surface.” Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 25, 2025

Shanghai-based Fourier Intelligence provides one example of humanoid robot development in China. Source: IFR While other countries debate the best mix of public policy, academic research, and private investment to advance their economies, the People’s Republic of China is focusing on robotics. Click here to enlarge.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 26, 2025

Source: Flexxbotics Flexxbotics today announced the latest release of FlexxCORE, the patent-pending technology at the center of its Flexxbotics system. The company said the new release delivers more powerful capabilities for machine tending, quality control, and robotic production.

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Robotics Business Review

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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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 31, 2025

Chef Robotics targets high-volume, high-mix food assembly applications, one of the hardest problems to train AI for. Source: Chef Robotics Chef Robotics Inc., which has developed robotic systems for meal assembly, today announced that it has raised $43.1 Robotics is really having a moment right now.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The project is being spearheaded by the National Local Joint Humanoid Robot Innovation Center and various Chinese humanoid companies. As humanoids mature , they will require vast amounts of training data to enable the intelligence to autonomously execute everyday tasks. The NLJIC was established in May 2024 in Shanghai. Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

From left: HAI Co-Director James Landay and Stanford Robotics Lab Director Oussama Khatib. Source: Madeleine Wright The Stanford Robotics Center and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence last week launched a partnership to identify responsible uses for AI. ” Apply to speak.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The founders of Photoneo Brightpick Group, which is separating its vision and robotics units. Source: Photoneo Photoneo Brightpick Group today announced that it has agreed to Zebra Technologies Corp.s unit, which provides vision sensors and artificial intelligence for robotics. acquisition of its Photoneo s.r.o.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Source: Citi GPS Eight years ago, not even $1 million went into startups focused exclusively on humanoids. 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.

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Robotics Business Review

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

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Waste Robotics uses FANUC robot arms to enable reliable and precise picking, it said. Source: Waste Robotics Greyparrot and Waste Robotics partnered earlier this year to enhance Waste Robotics’ sortation capabilities. So robots kind of come and really replicate what humans are doing.

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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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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

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Ozmo, Skyline Robotics’ flagship robot, uses force sensors to calculate how much pressure it can use when cleaning windows. Source: Skyline Robotics Alimak Group and Skyline Robotics are creating an automated building maintenance unit (BMU).

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Move Digital plans to expand from AI and blockchain into robotics. Source: Adobe Stock Move Digital Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies, this week announced its strategic expansion into the field of robotics manufacturing. ” Northampton, U.K.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 13, 2025

Googles RT-X is an example of a general-purpose robotics model that can control many different types of robots and perform basic reasoning about complex tasks. The road to a ChatGPT for robotics has a number of speedbumps, and new breakthroughs are required for the idea to become a reality. Register now so you don't miss out!

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Oxipital AIs inspection and picking solutions and Stublis hygienic robot were demonstrated at Pack Expo 2024. Source: Oxipital AI Oxipital AI, a developer of machine vision technologies for robotic automation and product inspection, is teaming up with Stubli Robotics. The Duncan, S.C.-based

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