Collaborative Robots

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.

Hirebotics’ Cobot Painter supports stationary painting, with parts placed in a paint booth where robots perform all spraying operations.

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

Mantis said the robot allows for new flexibility in how to configure automation in complex, real-world environments.

Vention is working with partners to make design and deployment of industrial and collaborative robots easier for manufacturers.

CreateMe said the partnership aims to demonstrate how apparel can be produced faster, more locally, and with greater supply chain resilience.

FORT Robotics and NVIDIA launch Outside-In Safety, using external sensors to improve autonomous robot productivity and worker safety.

The Navy’s industrial base review identified a projected need for 174,000 new workers. GrayMatter says robotics can fill this gap.

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.

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

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

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

Standard Bots asserted that investments in robotics are key to making U.S. manufacturing competitive on the global stage.

With the right AI, teleoperation, and safeguards, robotics can augment manufacturing opportunities, says one to ONE Holdings’ president.

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

Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training.

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

Experts from Locus Robotics, Nomagic, and RightHand Robotics will discuss progress in piece picking in this week’s webinar.

Robotic CNC machine tending is becoming more flexible as leading suppliers bring new software and integration to industry.

Matt Bush, the co-founder and CEO of Hirebotics, talks about how cobots are becoming a necessity for manufacturers and welders.