Grippers

Changing robot standards provide an opportunity for designers of cobots to deliver improved safety and greater functionality, says IDEC.

OnRobot and FANUC will demonstrate common applications for automation to help manufacturers in North Texas.

Robotiq says it has combined adaptive gripping with high-frequency tactile sensing, enabling robots to generalize across objects.

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

TESOLLO said the technology it developed in house enables a smaller and lighter 20-DoF robot hand.

Universal Robots has integrated its robot arm with Robotiq’s palletizing cell and Siemens’ digital twin software to make palletizing more efficient.

Amazon was an investor in Rightbot, which developed a suction-based robot for unloading trucks and trailers.

In a 60 Minutes segment, Boston Dynamics provided a glimpse at how its Atlas humanoid is becoming more capable.

iREX 2025 included Japanese and Chinese innovations and partnerships, as well as physical AI advances, says this strategic analysis.

The companies intend to roll out up to 10,000 of 1X’s humanoid robots across EQT’s global portfolio of companies between 2026 and 2030.

Inbolt said its new guidance system on robot arms enables flexible, fast, accurate, and low-cost bin picking for unstructured environments.

Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

The bipedal robot expands Humanoid’s portfolio, following the wheeled Alpha platform, which has completed its first commercial POCs.

ROBOTERA has raised funding toward general-purpose humanoid and service robots, which it is developing with UN support.

Armstrong Robotics has already deployed autonomous dishwashing robots at restaurants for a year and a half.

Agile Robots has developed the hardware and AI for Agile ONE in house and plans to manufacture the humanoid in Germany.

Figure 03 features a redesigned sensory suite and hand system, a form factor for household operation, and lower manufacturing costs.

Festo, which is celebrating 100 years in business, is supporting training initiatives on Manufacturing Day and beyond.

NVIDIA unveiled the Newton physics engine, Isaac GR00T model, and Cosmos AI for advanced robotics at CoRL 2025.

Festo says its EHMD gripper can turn objects in small spaces, such as in lab automation, and it is showing its learning systems at Pack Expo.

The toolkit leverages imitation learning to eliminate the burdensome process of system configuration, CarbonSix said. 

Jan Zizka, the co-founder and CEO of Brightpick, will examine the latest advancements in mobile manipulation at RoboBusiness.