Robotics Business Review

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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MAY 7, 2025

Amazon is opening new automation opportunities by deploying its first robots that leverage force and touch sensing to improve material handling tasks. One of the classic applications for robots at Amazon warehouses is centered around the goods to person (G2P) solution with the Kiva robots.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 30, 2025

The Robotics Summit & Expo is finally here! The show will bring together over 5,000 developers focused on building robots for aerospace and defense, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, and other markets. the Robotics Summit & Expo show floor will open. The show begins at 9:00 a.m. At 10:00 a.m., in Room 259AB.

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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

APRIL 7, 2025

With the rise of large language models and generative AI, researchers have spent the past few years figuring out how to apply that technology to robotics. For many, the answer is physical intelligence, the next major breakthrough for the robotics industry. In addition, Rus is a senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corp. ;

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Source: AgiBot Robot training, especially for emerging humanoids for diverse environments or applications, requires a lot of high-quality data. AgiBot today announced AgiBot World, a large-scale robotic learning dataset. The developer of humanoid robot technology said it designed the dataset to advance multipurpose robotic policies.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2022

International technical conference and expo addresses engineering challenges faced when designing and developing healthcare robotics products and services. The event comes to Boston in May 2023 and is co-located with the Robotics Summit Conference & Expo.

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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

APRIL 8, 2025

The 2024 RBR50 Gala featured Digit, the Robot of the Year, from Agility Robotics. This year at the Robotics Summit & Expo, attendees will once again have the opportunity to meet some of the top innovators in robotics at the RBR50 Gala. The gala offers a chance to connect with the worlds leading robotics innovators.

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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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Gary Mintchell

MARCH 28, 2024

Robotics news seems to present itself all the time. The guy at the table behind me is quoting a robotic packaging system to a client. I attended virtually—just could not work out the logistics to make it physically. I attended virtually—just could not work out the logistics to make it physically. Impressive event.

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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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Control Engineering

JULY 21, 2022

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) used machine vision and sensing technologies to move around freely and a key part around automation when it comes to logistics. Logistics, warehousing, and shipping organizations are struggling to operate faster. Vision-guided robotics.

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Robotics Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Robotics Summit & Expo , produced by The Robot Report , has unveiled the first look at its conference agenda for the April 30-May 1 event at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The Robotics Summit & Expo brings together 5,000+ developers focused on building robots for a variety of commercial industries.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 29, 2024

Tamim Asfour from KIT at the presentation of the RIG in Berlin. 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. At the AI-Based Robotics 2024 conference in Berlin, Prof.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Call for Presentations deadline for international technical conference and expo that addresses engineering challenges faced when designing and developing healthcare robotics products and services. The event comes to Boston in May 2023 and is co-located with the Robotics Summit Conference & Expo.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 22, 2025

A talk being given at the 2024 Robotics Summit’s Engineering Theater. For the second time, the show floor at the Robotics Summit & Expo will feature an Engineering Theater. At that stage, attendees can learn from some of the world’s leading robotics developers and component providers. on Wednesday, April 30.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 8, 2025

Last year, MassRobotics hosted students from four local schools for hands-on robotic experiences during National Robotics Week. Source: MassRobotics With National Robotics Week 2025 just around the corner, MassRobotics announced its plans to participate in the celebration. ” This year, with the support of the U.S. .

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Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

End-to-end orchestration includes production logistics, operations management software, material handling, production logistics, and consulting expertise reimagine how material moves through manufacturing lines. Tessa Myers , SVP Intelligent Devices discussed products targeted at line and plant layers. They want to be security savvy.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 16, 2025

a physical AI startup building robotics foundation models, this week said it has raised $15 million in its seed round. The company said its foundation models learn from real-world sensor data, robotic systems, and industrial workflows, unlike other generative AI models that rely on text, code, and images. Source: RLWRLD RLWRLD Inc.,

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 28, 2024

Comau is expanding from automotive manufacturing to logistics applications such as pick and place. Comau SpA recently said it is shifting from traditional robotics to software-driven systems and industry-agnostic technologies. million industrial robots today to 2.6 million industrial robots today to 2.6 million by 2029.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Estun was among the many companies showing humanoid robots at CIIF in China. Credit: Georg Stieler Over the past three years, more than half of the world’s robots were sold in China. While not historically seen as a technological leader in robotics, China is increasingly setting global trends in this industry.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 1, 2025

At the 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo , a panel of seasoned experts will explore the critical role of outsourcing in robotics commercialization. She oversees the growth and development of the Pittsburgh regions commercial robotics cluster, which is one of the top robotics business ecosystems in the world.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2024

Custos specializes in developing systems using the mobile robot platform from its parent company, Capra Robotics. Source: Custos Robotics Capra Robotics this week announced the formation of its new subsidiary, Custos Robotics ApS. Mads Bendt, founder and chief innovation officer of Capra, will lead the new company.

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Robotics Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2024

RoboGeorgia has helped organize events such as June’s Atlanta Robotics Meetup. Source: RoboGeorgia What are the ingredients for a successful robotics cluster? RoboGeorgia is a nonprofit positioning Georgia as a center for technology innovation, workforce development, and robotics startups and business growth.

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Robotics Automation News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Swiss 3D visual autonomy provider Sevensense Robotics says it is planning to present its Alphasense Autonomy Evaluation Kit at ProMAT 2023. The software would enable “off-the-shelf prototyping solutions” for manufacturers of autonomous mobile robots, says the company.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 27, 2024

The Optimization system generates motion plans and avoids collisions in multi-robot workcells. Source: Realtime Robotics While conventional manufacturing involves robots working along a well-defined production line, software can enable multiple robots to work together more closely without collision for more complex and flexible processes.

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Indoor mobile robots rely on autonomous navigation for safe and efficient delivery. Source: Relay Robotics When we think of autonomous navigation, the first thing that usually comes to mind is self-driving cars. Relay robots in particular, are being deployed in busy hospitals and hotels across the world.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 15, 2024

Digit at the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo. Credit: Eugene Demaitre Agility Robotics today announced changes to its executive team as it productizes and commercializes its Digit humanoid robot. Agility Robotics also said that Melonee Wise is moving from chief technology officer to the role of chief product officer (CPO).

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Robotics Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The robotics sector's "must attend" technical design and development event for producers of commercial class robotics systems returns to Boston in May 2023 with deepened coverage, an expanded expo floor, and once again co-locates with the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum.

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Robotics Business Review

JUNE 9, 2024

A robotics strategy should consider software development in parallel, says Radixweb. Source: Adobe Stock In today’s fast-tech era, robotics engineering is transforming multiple industrial sectors. Hence, software development is a critical player in building these robots. Submit your presentation idea now.

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Robotics Business Review

APRIL 22, 2024

The PUDU T300 mobile robot dis designed for use in tight aisles with heavy payloads. Source: Pudu Robotics Pudu Technology Co. said today at Hannover Messe that it is expanding from service robots into supply chain applications with the new PUDU T300 mobile robot.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 13, 2024

The robotics industry has seen major growth and maturity in the past decade. Robots also are getting cheaper and more affordable. Robots are taking a greater role and improving automation in many ways, but are humanoid robots the next step? Submit your presentation idea now.

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Robotics Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024 could be a year of building robotics momentum. Source: Adobe Stock 2023 was a year of great change within the robotics industry. We’ll see ripple effects from the latest booms in artificial intelligence and humanoid robots for years to come. Here are five robotics trends that we think will take center stage in 2024.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Source: Mobile Industrial Robots Autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, are among the systems benefitting from the latest advances in artificial intelligence. With numerous other AMRs , autonomous forklifts , and semi-autonomous pallet jacks already on the market, why did Mobile Industrial Robots decide to develop one now?

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 19, 2024

More than 15,000 attendees filled the arena in anticipation of CEO Jensen Huang’s annual presentation of the latest product news from NVIDIA. link] New foundation for humanoid robotics The big news from the robotics side of the house is that NVIDIA launched a new general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots called Project GR00T.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

MARCH 20, 2025

Teradyne Robotics and its partners unveiled a suite of advanced, AI-driven robotics solutions at NVIDIA GTC 2025 March 17-21. Or a construction site where robots assist in assembly tasks within unpredictable and changing environments.

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