Humanoids, autonomy, and robotic systems.
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Humanoid developer Agility Robotics ended its first day of trading on the Nasdaq just 2% above where it started, at $11.49. The post How did Agility Robotics perform on its first day on the stock market? appeared first on The Robot Report .
Ambi Robotics' co-founder and COO Stephen McKinley says the company is installing eight new systems at customer sites before peak season. The post How Ambi Robotics helps its customers prepare for peak season appeared first on The Robot Report .
Chinese authorities blocked the deal over concerns about robot data being transferred overseas and used to train AI models. The post Chinese regulators block SoftBank’s $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report .
Agility Robotics becomes the first U.S.-based legged humanoid company to be publicly listed. The post Agility Robotics begins trading on Nasdaq appeared first on The Robot Report .
Rick and Marcia LeCompte loved to watch the Cooper’s hawks that frequented a sweet-gum tree in their yard in Baton Rouge, La. But this October, the hawks were gone. Marcia LeCompte is convinced the birds were scared away by the same flying robots that have been vexing the couple
The 2026 Startup Radar presents innovative young companies developing hardware, software, and business models for the next generation of commercial robotics. The post Robotics Startup Radar 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .
When designing the robot, GlobalLogic said it didn't want to just quickly design a robot for one use case or environment. The post How GlobalLogic helped Haystack Robotics build a UV disinfection robot appeared first on The Robot Report .
LiberAI introduces Liber-0, a world action model pretrained on more than 2.2 million hours of human experience to support zero-shot robot manipulation. The post LiberAI Unveils Liber-0, a World Action Model That Grounds Human Experience in Robot Action appeared first on The Robot
Ben Waters discusses opportunity charging, battery life, and the infrastructure needed to keep growing robot fleets running. The post Ben Waters on the latest wireless charging strategies appeared first on The Robot Report .
The ISO 21423:2026 interoperability standard is intended to allow mobile robots from multiple vendors to communicate and coordinate. The post New ISO interoperability standard covers collaboration among mobile robots from multiple vendors appeared first on The Robot Report .
Deal is expected to provide approximately $465 million in gross capital as Agility expands deployments of its Digit humanoid with industrial customers. The post Churchill Capital XI shareholders approve $2.5B Agility Robotics humanoid SPAC appeared first on The Robot Report .
Tutor Intelligence has raised funding to further develop its picking robots, networked intelligence, and commercial deployments. The post Tutor Intelligence raises Series B to scale model training, robot deployments appeared first on The Robot Report .
ThermAffyx addresses secure positioning and heating of patients for robot-assisted surgical procedures with a minimal OR footprint. The post Gentherm designs ThermAffyx to secure, heat patients during robotic surgeries appeared first on The Robot Report .
Last month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of RoboBusiness, whic is being rebranded to Robotics Summit & Expo West. The post Top 10 robotics developments of October 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .
Connie Bowen, the founding general partner of Farmhand Ventures, discusses the importance of return on investment for AgTech developers. The post What AgTech founders get wrong about ROI appeared first on The Robot Report .
VicOne identified an initial set of 28 zero-day findings in less than two days using AI-assisted research across software and tools supporting the Physical AI ecosystem. The post 28 Zero-Day Findings in Less Than Two Days: What AI-Speed Discovery Means for Robotics appeared first
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This article is brought to you by VicOne . A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass. Each response depends on information about the robot or its surroundings: a distance re
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Agility Robotics , the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5 . It’s designed to be the first humanoid robot that can safely and economically do useful work at scale, allowing us to bring tens of thousands of human
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On 11 October , the Perseverance rover completed a drive that brought its total distance traveled on Mars to 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers). This is a new record for Mars rovers, enabled in large part by Perseverance ’s ability to drive with much more autonomy than its predecesso
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A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn’t have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic hand into a completely self-contained robot that walks on its fingertips while usin
This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning. It also shows how policies trained on the dataset transfer to a real humanoid robot. What you will learn
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Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot . The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Switching from research hardware
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support greater independence. In this Robots Guid
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AKB School has marked a significant milestone in educational innovation by introducing Tara, a fully automated AI-powered humanoid teacher, making it the first school in Tamil Nadu to deploy a fully automated AI humanoid teacher as part of its learning ecosystem.
Manappuram Jewellers has introduced Tara, an advanced AI-powered Indian humanoid robot developed by iHub Robotics, at its Bengaluru showroom — engaging customers in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English with real-time product info and recommendations.