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Precision In Motion. Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG) to Showcase Custom Sensing Capabilities for Humanoid Robotics at RoboBusiness 2026 ↗
As humanoid robots move from research labs into factories, warehouses, homes, and other shared spaces, accurate physical feedback becomes crucial.
Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies? ↗
A robot can follow its safety rules and still act on manipulated information.
How Maven Robotics plans to automate industrial work, one task at a time ↗
With the $100 million it raised earlier this month, Maven Robotics is looking towards mass producing its mobile manipulator robot.
ANYbotics launches Shift to streamline robot fleet operations, scale inspections ↗
ANYbotics designed Shift to help maintenance teams run industrial inspections, detect failing equipment, and turn data into work orders.
The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform, events for engineers navigating AI ↗
The initiative for engineers includes a news desk, a conference, research, and an advisory board, grounded in trusted editorial brands.
Innodata opens motion-capture lab to help humanoids move more like people ↗
Innodata uses Vicon cameras to measure movements with sub-millimeter accuracy and to collect real-world training data for robots.
Tackling construction labor shortages: ASI and SoftBank partner on autonomous fleets ↗
ASI and SoftBank join forces with $225M to scale brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment across infrastructure projects.
ForceN to give a crash course on force and torque sensing for humanoids at RoboBusiness ↗
Attendees will learn about the many ways they can use force and torque sensors in humanoids and how to avoid breaking them while doing it.
Meet Flourish One, the Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid built for busy parents ↗
Flourish is releasing a $3,555 phone-trainable home robot, targeting busy parents with personalized, cloud-trained chore automation.
State of Robots in Manufacturing ↗
The Robot Report looks at recent advances in automation for manufacturing, from improvements in technologies and use cases to the potential of humanoids and AI.
Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control ↗
Gecko Robotics is using the new NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform to ensure the secure autonomous control of systems.
Robonomics on the threshold: Economic autonomy, smart cities, and crypto wallets for humanoids ↗
Economics is both a robotics impetus and a constraint, as systems make deliveries on streets or do chores in households.
Raise Robotics to discuss scaling field robots at RoboBusiness ↗
Raise Robotics said attendees will learn a decision rule for allocating engineering capacity and a vocabulary for two hidden failure modes.
Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe ↗
Asimov's fictional Three Laws of Robotics famously set safeguards, and tech observers today raise similar concerns about AI.
From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis? ↗
While robotaxis prove their driving ability, scaling the industry globally requires solving the unglamorous challenge of fast, local vehicle servicing.
Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility ↗
The new facility will produce products that power Amazon's fulfillment and robotics network across North America.
General Robotics is betting on modular intelligence, not one robot brain ↗
Rather than training one model to do everything, General Robotics composes specialized capabilities—helping robots adapt across tasks and form factors.
Agility Robotics, maker of Digit humanoid, exploring wheeled robots ↗
Agility Robotics is exploring a range of robot designs and form factors, including wheels, to address different operating environments and customer needs.
Farmers are facing more pressure; CNH says robotics can help ↗
Labor availability, costs, productivity, and efficiency are common concerns of farmers that technology can address, according to CNH.
5 million robots are now at work in factories worldwide, reports the IFR ↗
China still leads the world in industrial robot installations, but the U.S.
Why you should look beyond the spec sheet when choosing motion architecture ↗
Choosing the right motion architecture is about understanding how the entire system will behave in use, explains Kollmorgen.
Epson introduces AX6 cobot with compact design, no-code programming ↗
Epson Robots has expanded its six-axis robot line with the AX6, a lightweight force- and power-limited arm.
ANYbotics opens the door for inspections with ANYmal robots ↗
ANYbotics partnered with dormakaba and LEGIC Identsystems to enable the ANYmal quadruped to gain access like a badged employee.
With the new VENTUNO Q board, Arduino hopes to make robotics development easier ↗
While this is the first intentional step by Arduino into robotics, the company has over 20 years of experience working with robotics developers.
Helicon brings automation to high-volume composites manufacturing ↗
Helicon has obtained seed funding to use automation to cut composite manufacturing lead times from months to weeks.
State of Humanoids keynote brings industry leaders to RoboBusiness ↗
At RoboBusiness, industry leaders will discuss the state of humanoids as the robots transition from demos to real industrial deployments.
Qualcomm to acquire PickNik Robotics and keep MoveIt open-source ↗
Qualcomm plans to integrate the Dragonwing and Arduino platforms with the MoveIt open-source manipulation framework.
Intel to discuss the infrastructure needed to scale physical AI at RoboBusiness ↗
Intel's Nagesh Puppala will discuss why the next phase of robotics innovation depends on more than bigger models or better simulations.
Why outdoor robots fail (and how to build systems that survive) ↗
Learn practical strategies for building reliable outdoor robots from WiBotic, Burro, and Nextpower at RoboBusiness in Silicon Valley.
Isaac ROS 5.0 brings AI agents to robotics development, says NVIDIA ↗
The release brings new agentic workflows and platform support to NVIDIA Isaac ROS to help developers deploy robotics applications faster.