Design / Development

Allison Okamura and Ayoung Kim won MassRobotics’ 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star Medal, which honor women in robotics.

At the Robotics Summit & Expo, experts weighed in on humanoid robotics today — and the ability to achieve a $20,000 price point tomorrow.

The partnership focuses on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, where it moves products daily from site to site.

The World Economic Forum has honored Hello Robot, whose Stretch system provides mobile manipulation to older adults and people with disabilities.

X Square Robot has open-sourced XRZero-G0, a framework that reduces real-robot training data requirements by up to 20x.

NEURA Robotics plans to expand its platforms for robot learning and global production of humanoids and other systems.

Standard Bots asserted that investments in robotics are key to making U.S. manufacturing competitive on the global stage.

AGIBOT said the industry is moving beyond simulation scores toward closed-loop testing on real robots with real tasks.

With the right AI, teleoperation, and safeguards, robotics can augment manufacturing opportunities, says one to ONE Holdings’ president.

At ICRA 2026, GENISOM AI may have been new to many international attendees — but it is not a concept-stage robotics startup.

Mitsubishi Electric opened Serendie Street Boston, its first Western digital transformation hub dedicated to collaboration and innovation.

Amazon says Proteus needs no special commands as it plans to deploy the mobile robot, as well as STARK and Vulcan, across Europe.

Generalist claims its system improves average success rates to 99% on tasks where previous models achieved 64%.

RoboBusiness 2026, the premier event for developers of commercial robotics and those building robotics businesses, is seeking expert speakers.

Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training.

MassRobotics awarded prizes to university teams and showcased healthcare innovators, physical AI developers, and startups.

While FORT has traditionally worked with technology in industrial environments, Mapless AI brings experience in more unstructured settings. 

NVIDIA has released open-source physical AI agent skills and tools, as well as an Isaac GR00T humanoid reference robot.

May 2026 was a busy month full of robotics news, and it was topped off by the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston.

Experts from Locus Robotics, Nomagic, and RightHand Robotics will discuss progress in piece picking in this week’s webinar.

MISUMI Americas combines MISUMI’s precision components with Fictiv’s digital manufacturing platform for an entire bill of materials.

NIST has proposed a standardized performance benchmark and testing procedures to help developers and evaluators of humanoids.