Healthcare Robotics

Queue is developing automated pharmacies to expand access to prescriptions in hospitals, retail sites, and underserved communities.

Cobot founder and CEO Brad Porter said Proxie Gen 2 can determine when materials are ready to move, identify destinations, and create tasks without human intervention.

Instead of adapting the robot from industrial technology, Kinova said it designed KIMA from the ground up for clinical use.

Lovell Government Services will become Microbot’s service-disabled veteran-owned small business vendor to supply federal programs.

Pegasus and CYBERDYNE will invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems.

PSYONIC is combining its Ability Hand with ABB Robotics’ GoFa cobot arm to apply data from prosthetics users to robotic grasping.

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

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

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

The robotics developer is focusing on providing emergency care in active war zones and beyond.

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

Petal said its incisionless surgery method could create a new standard of care, making advanced treatments safer, more accessible and less traumatic for patients worldwide.

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.

As robots enter more unconstrained environments, software and security are becoming higher priorities, a QNX survey found.

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.

Over the next two days, the Robotics Summit & Expo will bring thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors to Boston.

Patient mobility in hospital settings is ripe for automation, with Rovex and Sphaira among the innovators taking different approaches.

Opentrons says that 10,000 laboratory robots deployed worldwide can comply with strict FDA regulations thanks to its new software.

A3 said its Q1 data reinforces a broader industry trend: robotics adoption is expanding well beyond traditional automotive manufacturing.

Cirtronics is exhibiting and presenting an expert panel at the Robotics Summit & Expo on how to successfully commercialize robotics.