Robotics Business Review

APRIL 7, 2025

For many, the answer is physical intelligence, the next major breakthrough for the robotics industry. Physical Intelligence is achieved when the ability of artificial intelligence to understand text, images, signals, and other information enables physical machines such as robots to better interact with their environments, objects, and people.

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Automation Mag

JANUARY 7, 2025

Mantis Robotics, a company specializing in physical AI for robotic automation, has secured $5 million (USD) in new investments led by Emerald Technology Ventures with participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund. The investment into Mantis Robotics is another bet of Emerald on the huge potential of physical AI.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The model is a simplified physics model of Digit, running online on the computer inside the robot, calculating things like where to place a foot to balance the robot, based on measurements from the onboard inertial measurement unit and all of the position sensors. It’s incredibly powerful, but it requires us to know a lot about the world.

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Design World

APRIL 17, 2025

Miki Pulley Magnetic Couplings are shaft couplings that transmit torque from one shaft to another using a magnetic field instead of a physical or mechanical connection. These Magnetic Couplings are non-contact and rely on the attraction and repulsion of magnetic poles to generate rotational power.

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Automation World

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Koidra combines machine learning, IoT, math, and physics to automate operational precision.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The new system, called “ LucidSim ,” uses recent advances in generative AI and physics simulators to create diverse and realistic virtual training environments, helping robots achieve expert-level performance in difficult tasks without any real-world data. Today, these robots still learn from real-world demonstrations,” said Yang.

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Automation World

JANUARY 15, 2025

Virtual reality and photorealistic digital twin technologies, designed by Siemens Digital Industries Software with Sony and Nvidia, are being released in 2025.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Apptronik has developed the Apollo humanoid to perform physically demanding tasks and operate safely in industrial spaces alongside humans. The company said it has nearly a decade of experience in human-centered design and hardware designed for safety and reliability. The robot is 5 ft., cm) tall and weighs 160 lb.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“This is an important step towards a new generation of high-speed silicon quantum bits, and it’s notable that the team included researchers at all levels from undergraduate students to experienced research scientists,” said Dr Scott Liles, a postdoctoral fellow from UNSW Physics, and lead author on the latest paper.

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Design World

MARCH 4, 2025

Whether youre creating vehicles, vessels, aircraft or consumer electronics, the near-constant tension between aspirational innovation and physics or economics will be all too familiar. Simon Baggott of Q5D Technologies explains how new techniques simplify manufacturing for the automotive and aerospace industries.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 7, 2025

The robot’s capabilities are expected to improve operational efficiency, workplace safety, and reduce physically demanding tasks for human employees. We get confused sometimes between digital intelligence and physical intelligence. And that’s the physical intelligence. “And it’s a faster response rate.

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Design World

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

in Physics from Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and an M.S. in Physics… The post Interview with motor pioneer Ted Lin on his 25th patent appeared first on Design World. His 25th patent is a testament to his lasting contributions to motion control engineering. A half-century ago, Lin began his journey with a B.S.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 13, 2025

Source: Google DeepMind With the success of generative AI, there has been much discussion around the potential for bringing the kind of flexible intelligence found in large language models into the physical world. An important proof point from these models is that they have been demonstrated to be greater than the sum of their parts.

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Design World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The steering gear is physically connected to a steering wheel, and the hydraulic power is… The post Enabling More Efficient Machines in the Mining Industry appeared first on Design World. Advanced steering design is one way to improve ergonomics and safety and provide more precise machinery control.

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Robotics Business Review

MAY 10, 2025

It said the physical AI, powered by the NVIDIA Isaac platform, enables users to teach robots tasks through demonstration, eliminating the need for traditional coding or programming. ” Standard Bots asserted that its industrial robots and AI training models with a robust platform for physical AI.

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Design World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Non-contact proximity sensors detect the presence or absence of nearby objects (including animals and people) using basic physics phenomena such as capacitive and inductive electromagnetic fields, light, or sound. A light source and photosensor combine for effective, reliable, non-contact proximity detection of nearby objects.

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Robotics Automation News

JANUARY 9, 2025

The integration of QR codes in technology has revolutionized industries, and robotics is no exception. By using a qr code maker, developers, and engineers can enhance the efficiency and functionality of robots in once unimaginable ways.

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Design World

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To be competitive in the long term, it needs knowledge of production processes, physics and digital tools for new business models. Mechanical and plant engineering is an important industry, many well-paid jobs depend on it in Europe. European machines sell all over the world. However, margins are low and often one-off.

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i4.0 today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Dr. Richard Ahlfeld, CEO and Founder of Monolith, said: “This partnership combines leaders in physical and AI-driven test and validation processes. The combined offer will provide a complete system level optimisation toolchain, accelerating the development of sustainable transport solutions through data-driven insights.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Physical Intelligence raises $400M for foundation models for robotics Foundation models promise to give robots the ability to generalize actions from fewer examples than traditional artificial intelligence approaches. Physical Intelligence today announced that it has raised $400 million to continue its development of AI for a range of robots.

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Automation Mag

MAY 13, 2025

Deepu Talla, vice president of robotics and edge AI at NVIDIA, unveiled a number of physical AI and industrial autonomy solutions NVIDA is currently developing during his Tuesday keynote address at Automate 2025, titled Industrial Autonomy in the Era of Physical AI. May 13, 2025, Detroit, Mich.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

NVIDIA Isaac Lab to help train humanoids Isaac Lab is an open-source robot learning framework built on NVIDIA Omniverse , a platform for developing OpenUSD applications for industrial digitalization and physical AI simulation. million models, datasets, and applications.

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Gary Mintchell

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

For example, Metso automated their Engineering Change Notice process, so engineers were no longer physically collecting signatures from various departments. Greater process efficiency and improved management tools have led to cost savings for Metso. I am sometimes compensated for work for Quickbase.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This has made it a challenge to source parts for physical prototyping especially electric motor and motion systems. These motion systems are not limited to physical prototyping. To beat the competition, engineers must shrink development times, optimize product performance and traverse an ever-growing number of supply chain issues.

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Robotics Automation News

MAY 19, 2025

Dexterity, a specialist in physical AI and robotics, has agreed a strategic partnership with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, one of the worlds largest robotic arm manufacturing companies, to produce high-performance robot arms for Dexteritys hardware platform: the Mech.

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Robotics Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Over time, researchers can use Digit 360 to develop AI that can better understand and model the real world, including the physicality of objects, human-object interaction, and contact physics. Digit 360 can detect miniature changes in spatial details and capture forces as small as 1 millinewton.

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Robotics Business Review

MARCH 21, 2025

” In other words, IntuiCell created a physical AI agent capable of autonomously learning in a manner that mimics a biological nervous system. Ultimately, the company’s goal is to enable the software platform to equip any agent, physical or digital, with lifelong learning and adaptation to the unknown capabilities.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 25, 2025

Preloading side actions are a great example of innovative solutions that provide compensation for flex, compression, elasticity and thermal effects on movable cores. Source (all images) | PFA Inc. Elasticity and thermal expansion are two material properties affecting mold performance.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2024

However, Open Droids did not have a physical robot at the show. The San Francisco-based company launched the R1D1 single-arm mobile manipulator in August 2024 and had a booth in the startup zone at RoboBusiness 2024. R1D1 features a six degree-of-freedom (DoF) robotic arm with a 62.2 reach and 3 kg (6.6 payload.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2024

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said the future of AI is physical AI, embodied by robotics including self-driving cars. These robots might someday retrieve all known knowledge, reason over long time horizons, and physically respond with agility. AI is merging with and embodied by robotics here. About the author Albert Hu , Ph.D.,

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 3, 2025

Fends data diode technology creates a secure one-way communication channel, allowing data to flow from one network to another while physically blocking reverse transmission.

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Automation World

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With manufacturers’ initial investments in digital transformation behind them, they’ll soon be looking to mature their systems to derive even more value using AI, the cloud, containers and cyber-physical risk management.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Traditionally, documentation for an enclosure, such as wiring plans and control system details, is stored in a physical pocket attached to the back of the enclosure door. This method requires manually retrieving and managing physical paperwork. km North East Link Tunnels.

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Robotics Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Isaac Sim is a reference application built on NVIDIA Omniverse for developers to simulate and test AI-driven robots in physically based virtual environments. What is ‘physical AI?’ ’ According to NVIDIA, “ physical AI ” describes AI models that can understand and interact with the physical world.

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Robotics Automation News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Nvidia has unveiled its Cosmos World Foundation Model platform for the development of physical AI systems such as autonomous vehicles and robots. Physical AI models are costly to […]

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MAY 15, 2025

Quantum technologies offer revolutionary approaches to computing, sensing and communications with features unachievable in conventional machines based on classical physics. Reaching a level of ubiquity and performance where quantum computers are capable of outperforming computers based on classical physics is still some decades off.

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Gary Mintchell

JANUARY 17, 2025

This capability also enables teams to collaborate in a secure, digital twin environment using their live 3D data, reducing errors and data discrepancies while streamlining workflows and decision-making.

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