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The article discusses the development of robots specifically designed to withstand the demanding conditions of warehouse environments. These robots must be durable and reliable enough to operate continuously in high-pressure logistics settings.
Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot
Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints
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Chinese robotics company Unitree has priced its initial public offering at a valuation of approximately $9 billion, becoming the country’s first mainland-listed humanoid robot manufacturer and h
Brain Corp, a provider of operating systems for robots, has announced “strong global fleet momentum for the first half of 2026”. This milestone underscores the growing role of autonomous robots as dai
Analog Devices has renewed its commitment as a strategic sponsor of MassRobotics, the Boston-based robotics accelerator. Central to this partnership is Analog Garage, ADI’s internal corporate venture
Regal Rexnord has formed a strategic collaboration with robotics and automation company Fanuc to deliver a fully integrated collaborative robotics solution that combines expertise from many of its bra
Multiway Robotics has completed the deployment of an intelligent warehouse automation system for a manufacturing company in Malaysia, combining autonomous forklifts with warehouse management software
Hirebotics, a provider of collaborative robot solutions for the metal fabrication industry, has announced that data center infrastructure company Tate, has deployed a fleet of 58 Hirebotics Cobot Weld
VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances
A System for Train Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Assessment of Rail Vehicles
Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures
Unified Planning-Learning Framework for Robust UUV Navigation Under Partial Observability
World-to-Wrist: Task-Conditioned Future Wrist Modeling for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots
ARGUS: Aligning Robot Scene Geometry Under Shifting Views with Large 3D Vision Models
PathCover: A Fast Convex Decomposition along a Path via Randomized Iterative Space Partitioning (RISP) on Point Clouds
Search-Aided Joint Agent-Environment Reinforcement Learning for Robust Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding with Rotations
KILVO: Kinematic-Inertial-LiDAR-Visual Odometry with Robust Multimodal Adaptation for Humanoid Robots
As governments and private companies accelerate plans for commercial space stations, orbital manufacturing and eventually lunar infrastructure, one question is becoming increasingly important: who – o
HII signs up to $900M agreement with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics
Digitizing the shop floor has moved from a nice-to-have to a genuine competitive need for small and mid-sized manufacturers. Picking the right software, though, is a real fork in the road that can sha
Matthäi Schlüsselfertigbau, a subsidiary of the German construction giant Matthäi, has established its own construction 3D printing division. The decision followed the successful completion of the com
Robin is a robotic companion designed to help keep patients calm during hospital visits. The robot provides comfort and support to reduce anxiety in healthcare settings.
PIA Automation is developing a highly automated assembly line for E-Drive units at the BMW Group plant in Steyr, Austria. Featuring 78 processing stations, 27 robotic cells and 46 industrial robots ac
Report looks at advances in autonomous mobile robots
Indian startup Sarla Aviation is using the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of industry software to accelerate the development of its next-generation electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraf
For direct-to-consumer brands shipping across the US and Canada, the doorstep is where margins are won or lost. ABI Research attributes approximately half of all shipping costs to the final mile, whic
Connected products fail at the application layer now, where firmware telemetry, cloud pipelines, and the user-facing app are often built with different assumptions about the data. This gap has grown a
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