Robotics Automation News

JULY 1, 2025

This article is part of a series of articles based on common questions in robotics. The previous article dealt with the question: What is a robot? Robots are machines designed to perform tasks – ranging from simple, repetitive actions to complex decision-making processes. But how do they actually work?

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 21, 2025

Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Engineers are designing robotic helpers that can “learn from demonstration.” Learning-by-doing robots usually train in just one of these three demonstration approaches.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 1, 2025

Meanwhile, humanoid robot developments continue to grab our readers’ attention. Here are the 10 most popular articles on The Robot Report in the past month. Subscribe to The Robot Report Newsletter and listen to The Robot Report Podcast to stay up to date on the latest robotics developments.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Versius Surgical System is a small, modular robotic system used to perform minimally invasive procedures such as cholecystectomy or gallbladder removal. based company said this milestone solidifies its position as the second most-used soft-tissue surgical robot on the market. Source: CMR Surgical CMR Surgical Ltd.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2025

Instead of producing text, it produces action tokens How is this different from traditional robotics? Traditional robots are typically pre-programmed to perform specific, repetitive tasks in controlled environments. That is a very sensible thing for the future of robotics, and the technology is right around the corner.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 26, 2025

A 3D-printed robotic arm holds a pencil as it trains using random movements and a single camera — part of a new control system called Neural Jacobian Fields (NJF). Credit: MIT In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Interact Analysis here discusses two new growth areas it has identified from its research and conversations with manufacturers: smart conveyance technology and robots with machine-integrated control. Steady growth is forecast for machine-integrated robots over the next five years.

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Modern Machine Shop

APRIL 29, 2025

When these slow-moving robots are activated in the coming months, they will serve as active transport systems, using optical navigation and laser scanning technologies to guide DMG MORI’s universal turning centers through different stages of the assembly process. Robots and cobots are nearly ubiquitous.

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 7, 2025

In an opinion piece published on the Forbes website, Romain Moulin, CEO of Exotec, argues that specialized robots, designed for specific tasks, are more efficient and cost-effective than humanoid robots. Moulin […]

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levines Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip.

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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. Editor’s note: This article was syndicated from The Robot Report sibling site MassDevice.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 12, 2025

Workers Want Robots To Help - automatica Report 2025 Visit [link] for further information Survey of 1,000 employees in the US 06/12/25, 06:31 AM | Automation & IIoT , Engineering US workers welcome robot technology in the workplace: About 70% think that robots help manufacturers to deal with the lack of factory workers ensuring competitiveness.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 24, 2025

While Apptronik will continue to focus on Apollo and push the boundaries of humanoid robotics, Elevate will reshape the future of heavy-duty industrial-scale work. "We We founded Apptronik to build general purpose robots that empower humans.

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Modern Machine Shop

JULY 15, 2025

From simplifying setups with adhesive fixturing to fully automating workholding changeovers, these articles explore how shops are rethinking how they hold parts to improve efficiency, accuracy, and throughput. This article takes us through some workholding basics. Let this article “guide” your decision.

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DO Supply

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The article delves into the important attributes distinguishing the Mitsubishi drive: wide power ranges for diverse uses, sophisticated motion control for smooth accuracy, and integrated safety measures to guarantee operational security. kW to 1 kW) is perfect for precise applications like micro-machining and tiny robots.

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DO Supply

JANUARY 10, 2025

Motion control and robotic equipment Position sensors, accelerometers, and gyroscopes are deployed on robotic arms to monitor motion, i.e., position, speed, and acceleration. If you would like to learn more about machine-to-machine communication, feel free to check this article out here.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JUNE 24, 2025

By combining Wandelbots robot-agnostic control and developer-first tools with SoftServes strength in AI, simulation, and scalable cloud systems, the partnership delivers a new standard for flexible, intelligent, and high-impact automation. See the blogpost for more details.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 23, 2025

Cambrian Robotics demonstrated vision-guided automotive assembly at Automate. Source: Oliver Mitchell May and June were big months for robotics in the U.S. Our data across a 30-year period tells us that robots are helping to save and create jobs,” said Jeff Burnstein, A3’s president, when asked about the impact of robots on jobs.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2025

A computer-generated image of futuristic aerospace assembly with swarm robotics. As industries adapt to meet these challenges, one area of exploration has emerged as a frontrunner: swarm robotics. As with many great ideas, the concept for swarm robotics for large, complex manufacturing came from necessity.

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Plataine

JUNE 1, 2025

It’s easy to feel like we're one upgrade away from being replaced by robots. In this article we will discuss what dark factories really are, how humans and machines can (and should) work together, the benefits and challenges of AI in manufacturing, and why—despite the hype—people remain irreplaceable in the production process.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JULY 31, 2025

The deployment is expected to substantially enhance pick rates by transitioning G10s current manual picking process into an automated, autonomous mobile robot (AMR)-assisted picking operation. This more efficient, collaborative approach will improve service delivery and the companys ability to meet stringent service level agreements.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While Johnson & Johnson has mostly kept its Ottava surgical robot under wraps, it said the system offers surgical teams the freedom and flexibility to adapt to clinical workflows and individualize patient needs. Food and Drug Administration granted its Ottava surgical robot investigational device exemption, or IDE.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

AUGUST 5, 2025

08/05/25, 05:37 AM | Automation & IIoT , Engineering | PI USA (Physik Instrumente) Subscribe to Newsletter More Automation & IIoT News | Stories | Articles Featured Product Quality assurance in the manufacturing industry Efficiency and precision with CSP software.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 29, 2025

The robot continually updates its understanding of the world to handle the parts effectively. “In this particular clip, the search behavior is manually triggered,” said Scott Kuindersma, senior director of robotics research at Boston Dynamics,” told The Robot Report.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JULY 29, 2025

By integrating FANUCs industry-leading robotics with innovative tooling and process expertise, ASYST delivers systems that maximize production efficiency, ensure flawless quality control, and empower manufacturers to strategically redeploy. High Precision: Robots perform delicate insert loading, overmolding, and part removal with +/-.02

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

AUGUST 12, 2025

New data from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) shows robot orders increased by 4.3% Life Sciences and Electronics Drive Q2 Growth In Q2 alone, companies ordered 8,571 robots worth $513 million, marking a 9.0% and revenue rose 7.5% Automotive OEMS led industry growth with a 34% year-over-year increase in units ordered.

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Robotics Business Review

JULY 31, 2025

July 2025 brought fresh funding rounds, new milestones in robotics, and exciting new deployments. In addition, The Robot Report launched a new program geared toward highlighting interesting startups. Here are the 10 most popular articles on The Robot Report in the past month. and HD Hyundai Robotics Co.

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i4.0 today

JUNE 13, 2025

Humanoid robots, widely perceived as embodied AI, are projected to grow rapidly over the next 10 years. This surge is fueled by major players like Tesla and BYD, who plan to expand humanoid deployment in their factories more than tenfold between 2025 and 2026, aiming for over 25% cost reduction per humanoid robot.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JULY 28, 2025

Smart Manufacturing Solutions That Fit the Way People Work Before this change, the company had already started using robotics inside its warehouse. Dynamics Square made sure that these tools could speak to each other by enabling smooth robotics and ERP integration.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JULY 16, 2025

07/16/25, 09:18 AM | Automation & IIoT , Engineering Subscribe to Newsletter More Automation & IIoT News | Stories | Articles Featured Product PI USA - Hexapod for Industrial Alignment This new compact 6-axis hexapod was designed with 24/7 industrial precision alignment tasks and easy serviceability in mind.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JULY 16, 2025

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JULY 24, 2025

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21st Century Tech

JUNE 9, 2025

In her last posting, Tarina wrote about robotic cleaners. In this article, we focus on three trades where digitization and AI are changing the nature of blue-collar work. Welders Working With CAD And Robots Computer-aided design (CAD) software has been around for a while. They can program robotic welders using CAD.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

AUGUST 1, 2025

08/01/25, 10:46 AM | Automation & IIoT , Supply Chain Subscribe to Newsletter More Supply Chain News | Stories | Articles Featured Product Rapid Prototyping with the Modular Motor Series Quick to configure. Quick to build. Quick to deliver.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2025

Researchers at NVIDIA are working to enable scalable synthetic generation for robot model training. Source: NVIDIA A major challenge in robotics is training robots to perform new tasks without the massive effort of collecting and labeling datasets for every new task and environment.

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Manufacturing Tomorrow

JULY 17, 2025

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Manufacturing Management

JULY 16, 2025

3D Printing, originally synonymous with prototyping and “one off” part production has been undergoing a quiet revolution over the last few years, with the latest production technologies being used increasingly for batch production in quantities and quality ready for end use parts. “We

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