Opinion

For the first time in Indy Autonomous Challenge, or IAC, history, four autonomous race cars competed on an oval track at the same time.

Chris Savoia, head of ecosystem success at Universal Robots, shares his perspective on the success of the UR+ partner ecosystem.

Artem Sokolov, the founder of Humanoid, shares his insights on how the humanoid robotics industry developed in 2024.

The Robot Report’s top trends of 2024 highlight some of the industry’s biggest highs and lows from the past year.

The labor vs. automation debate, the importance of human-robot collaboration, market consolidation, and the fate of robotics foundation models are some trends to watch in 2025.

Recent gatherings in the San Francisco Bay Area affirmed the region’s AI leadership and strong prospects for the robotics industry.

In this episode, we catch up with FlexQube CEO and founder Anders Fogelberg to learn about automating carts on the manufacturing floor.

The Robot Report Podcast reflects on the successes and challenges that defined the robotics industry in 2024.

Humanoids empowered by AI are coming, and the long-term market could be huge, Persona AI’s Nic Radford tells columnist Oliver Mitchell.

Ben Wolff takes us through the reincarnation of Sarcos into an pure software and AI-based solution called Palladyne AI.

Episode features conversations with two VC’s and explores robotics and AI investment trends.

Peter Brown, author and illustrator of the award-winning The Wild Robot books, shares his storytelling techniques and what it was like seeing Rozzum 7134 come to life on the big screen.

Andrew Clare, CTO of Nuro, discusses the current state of self-driving vehicles and software and the road to Level 5 autonomy.

Manufacturing was once the backbone of Chicago’s South Suburbs, and the Metals HUB initiative is bringing it back with automation.

Healthcare applications for robots, from surgery to companionship, are growing for innovators and entrepreneurs, says Research Nester.

Amir Bousani, CEO of RGO Robotics, and Jacob Petersen, Chief Commercial Officer from Wheel.Me, discuss the importance of perception and AI for mobile robotics.

ABB Robotics is leveraging AI to help make robotics smarter and easier to setup and program across all of the industries served by ABB.

Europe is more fragmented a market than the U.S. or China, but it hosts numerous innovators, from industrial automation to humanoids.

Swiss-Mile is productizing a robot that puts wheels onto a four legged robot, and XPENG released a video of of its humanoid at work.

Discussion about the latest Boston Dynamics humanoid video and an interview with Gili Ovadia from BionicHive warehouse robotics.

We recap the the 2024 FIRA event and sit down with Russ Tedrake from Toyota Research Institute and Scott Kuindersma from Boston Dynamics.

In this episode, we recap the highlights of the 2024 RoboBusiness event, which took place in Santa Clara, Calif.