Robots / Platforms

How better data and human judgment can help robots move beyond demos toward reliable real-world performance.

The Robot Report spoke with Alberto Rodriguez, the director of robot behavior for Atlas at Boston Dynamics, about the humanoid’s new hand.

Groceryshop 2026 not only featured mobile robots for taking inventory, but it also showed how retail automation is evolving.

Jabil, which is working with robot developers such as Apptronik, provides a design perspective on humanoid progress.

Helm.ai trained its foundation models using its unsupervised ‘deep teaching’ methodology to master the structure of the physical world itself.

The Schneider Electric acquisition of PTC gives it a ‘digital thread’ from design through operations, but it needs to integrate data and software, says Interact Analysis.

Teradyne Robotics and Elite Robots have settled their software dispute, ending the legal case without disclosing the terms of the agreement.

Before Boston Dynamics, Prasad served as senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and artificial general intelligence at Amazon.

FireDome builds autonomous wildfire defense systems to protect communities and infrastructure before firefighters arrive.

The companies plan to integrate Teradyne robotics and test technologies with the Bright Machines manufacturing platform. 

Cyber and physical security threats are rapidly evolving, but robotics and AI can evolve to meet them, writes a columnist.

In mobile robotics, software, safety, and fleet management are becoming just as important as the robot itself, according to an OMRON project manager.

When Runway does release Praxis-1 publicly, it plans to ship it with open weights rather than as a closed model. 

In September 2026, live events such as IMTS, ROSCon, and iROS brought a flood of robotics developments.

Boston Dynamics engineers taped their pinkies and ring fingers together for a day to learn what they weren’t able to do.

With the $100 million it raised earlier this month, Maven Robotics is looking towards mass producing its mobile manipulator robot.

ANYbotics designed Shift to help maintenance teams run industrial inspections, detect failing equipment, and turn data into work orders.

Innodata uses Vicon cameras to measure movements with sub-millimeter accuracy and to collect real-world training data for robots.

ASI and SoftBank join forces with $225M to scale brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment across infrastructure projects.

Attendees will learn about the many ways they can use force and torque sensors in humanoids and how to avoid breaking them while doing it.

Flourish is releasing a $3,555 phone-trainable home robot, targeting busy parents with personalized, cloud-trained chore automation.

The Robot Report looks at recent advances in automation for manufacturing, from improvements in technologies and use cases to the potential of humanoids and AI.