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Participating startups will receive a free booth on the expo floor, meet with investors, network with industry leaders, and appear on The Robot Report Podcast.

“From a robotics standpoint, [the performance on America’s Got Talent is] one of the best stress tests we can run,” said Merry Frayne, director of Spot product management.

Universal Robots is offering UR Studio, which runs on desktop browsers and requires no installation, at no charge.

Major has served as Motional’s interim CEO since September 2024 when she took over for Karl Iagnemma

“We believe world models will usher a new era for robotics, enabling real-world AI agents to help with chores and physical tasks without needing astronomical amounts of robotic training data,” said Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun.

This free report provides detailed profiles of all 50 winners of the annual RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, along with historical data and trends highlighting past award recipients and industry advancements.

Based in Helsinki, Finland, Bluefors is a leading developer of cryogenic measurement systems, cryocoolers and other cryogenic product lines for quantum technology.

Boston Dynamics and DHL plan to prioritize the development of applications for Stretch beyond container unloading.

Human operators will manually drive robotaxis around Boston to map the city’s streets. The goal of the trip is to explore Boston’s unique – and chaotic – driving environment and understand the differences compared to areas where Waymo routinely operates.

In addition to enabling tech and robotics development, RoboBusiness focuses on investments and business challenges. Deadline to submit is June 12.

See who won Robot of the Year, Startup of the Year, Application of the Year, the new Robots for Good Award, and more.

RightHand Robotics and Rockwell Automation will collaborate to scale the RightPick piece-picking solution to logistics customers.

75% of survey respondents are optimistic about EV production growth in 2025, with mobile robots, cobots, humanoids and more playing a big role.

More than 60-plus leaders will be on stage at Robotics Summit & Expo (April 30-May 1 in Boston), the premier event for robotics developers.

The company said that general purpose models that can control any robot to perform any task will be the future of robotic control

The Open Source Robotics Foundation recommends Gazebo Classic users upgrade to the latest long-term release of modern Gazebo, Gazebo Harmonic.

The VDMA R+A forecasts Germany’s robotics and automation industry to drop 9% in total turnover in 2025 to 13.8 billion euros

Intel is spinning out RealSense as a standalone company in the first half of 2025. This is yet another chapter in a three-and-a-half-year saga.

Robots, especially those operating outdoors, use GNSS to determine their precise location and navigate their environment.

Kuffner spent over nine years at Toyota, co-founded Google’s robotics division, and was a member of the initial engineering team for Google’s self-driving cars.

Universal Robots has established manufacturing in Nantong, China, and is introducing two cobots exclusively to the Chinese market.

Robotics industry’s must-attend technical development event returns to Boston in 2025 with deepened coverage, an expanded expo floor and more.