Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)

Avride uses vision-language models, or VLMs, to improve the environmental awareness of its delivery robots.

Humanoid robots made many headlines in June 2026, whether it be for companies going public, new deployments, or hitting production milestones.

MBody AI has deployed its hardware-agnostic Orchestrator platform to Florida and California, with a pilot in Ontario.

AGIBOT has rolled out 15,000 wheeled semi-humanoid robots as it moves from embodied AI from development and production to deployment.

Cobots are quickly shaping the future of warehousing, with their use rising 10-fold from 2018 to 2025, Kassow said.

Orbbec presented industrial-grade 3D cameras for challenging automation scenarios, as well as AI integration for enhanced robotic perception.

Aptiv provides sensor fusion from radar and vision using AI to enable Robust.AI’s Carter robot to move safely around people.

ExRobotics says its ExR-2.5 inspection robot is certified for safe operations in explosive environments in North America.

While vision and language are key parts of physical AI, physical state recovery will enable robots to interact with the world, says a columnist.

Kinisi’s KR1 humanoid robot, its Bristol-based engineering team, and its physical AI capabilities will be integrated into Bear Robotics.

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.

The D585 Pro is powered by a proprietary Gen 5 system-on-chip and delivers more than 2x better depth quality than the previous generation of RealSense cameras.

Fennec Engineering has obtained certification confirming that its automated traceability platform meets strict safety standards.

Genesis plans to begin Eno’s production and targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026, with home deployments coming later.

xLAB and Built Robotics partner to capture additional data, advancing AI models to improve construction site safety.

The 44 hp Burro Grande brings more than 1 million hours of real-world experience to industrial towing, site logistics, and facilities operations.

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

NEURA Robotics plans to expand its platforms for robot learning and global production of humanoids and other systems.

Amazon says Proteus needs no special commands as it plans to deploy the mobile robot, as well as STARK and Vulcan, across Europe.

NVIDIA has released open-source physical AI agent skills and tools, as well as an Isaac GR00T humanoid reference robot.

ANSCER Robotics has raised $5.4 million to scale its hybrid industrial automation robots in North America and globally.

May 2026 was a busy month full of robotics news, and it was topped off by the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston.