Artificial Intelligence / Cognition

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%.

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.

Today, the Robotics Summit & Expo will be full of insightful talks, hands-on robot demos, and interesting conversations.

Making machine perception reliable enough for real deployment requires more than better AI; it requires properly calibrated sensors, says an Orbbec co-founder.

Certis is collaborating with IntBot to add humanoids to its existing service robot offerings as the partners start to expand in Singapore.

With the new facility, Sortera has increased its annual processing capacity to an estimated 240 million lbs.

The vice president of physical AI at Hailo explains why the next wave of AI will run locally on specialized machines designed for real-world tasks.

The AI collaboration with UC San Diego builds on Brain’s operational footprint, including more than 50,000 robots deployed globally.

Since FANUC released its physical AI system at IREX in Tokyo, customer interest has grown rapidly, and it is working with Google and NVIDIA.

Verobotics said its robot turns vertical surfaces from risky, one-off access zones into repeatable, data-rich robotic workspaces.

FANUC is integrating its robots and teach pendant with NVIDIA simulation and AI technology for smoother, smarter action.

Combined with the $45 million financing announced in April, Faraday Future has secured a total of $70 million over the past two months.

Learn how agentic AI enables robotic navigation by combining perception, SLAM, reasoning, and planning in dynamic environments.

Havoc claims that defense technology is entering a new era where national security priorities are demanding unified, all-domain autonomy.

Mind Robotics has become a ‘unicorn’ as it scales toward applying physical AI to manufacturing, starting with partner Rivian.

Giovanni Campanella, the general manager of robotics at Texas Instruments, will provide a technical roadmap for building smarter humanoids.