Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)

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 OMROM project manager.

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.

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

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

Gecko Robotics is using the new NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform to ensure the secure autonomous control of systems.

The new facility will produce products that power Amazon’s fulfillment and robotics network across North America.

Labor availability, costs, productivity, and efficiency are common concerns of farmers that technology can address, according to CNH. 

ANYbotics partnered with dormakaba and LEGIC Identsystems to enable the ANYmal quadruped to gain access like a badged employee.

Learn practical strategies for building reliable outdoor robots from WiBotic, Burro, and Nextpower at RoboBusiness in Silicon Valley.

The real robotics opportunity isn’t a humanoid in every home—it’s packaging robots for the jobs businesses need done today.

OpenRobOps gives robotics developers a foundation to deliver a fleet manager with support for the upcoming interoperability standard.

Learn from a surgical robotics case study and a discussion of how to best deploy mobile robots in the warehouse in this issue.

CEO Salar al Khafaji introduces podcast listeners to how Monumental is using robotics to build walls.

The construction industry is rife with opportunity for robotics, but the technology hasn’t broken in at scale yet.

Dynamic Creatures plants to create its own line of characters, and to re-create characters for specific brands and environments.

MassRobotics has found that companies were split on the FCC ban on new foreign-produced mobile robots.

Eric Sivertson, vice president of security business at Lattice Semiconductor, explains how FPGAs can act as deterministic guardrails for robotic systems.

Robot.com says college campuses will continue to be an important part of its strategy as it scales sidewalk delivery robots.

August 2026’s top 10 stories included large funding rounds, updates in the humanoid robot industry, and the latest physical AI models. 

A robotic swarm typically relies on centralized or decentralized power management, but a hybrid approach could offer the best of both.