Honeywell plans to complete its separation into autonomy, aerospace and defense, and advanced materials companies in the second half of 2026.
PIA demonstrates V-RAC system for drug delivery assembly
PIA Automation said it has designed the V-RAC production cell to streamline manufacturing of medical devices.
Top 10 robotics developments of January 2025
Large funding rounds, new product announcements, and highlights from CES were just some of our top robotics developments last month.
EDP partners with Comau on ‘factory on a truck’ for solar installations
Comau worked with EDP to develop and test Hyperflex, which uses a robot arm and mobile robots to safely install solar panels.
VDMA: Germany’s robotics industry ‘has lost competitiveness’
The VDMA R+A forecasts Germany’s robotics and automation industry to drop 9% in total turnover in 2025 to 13.8 billion euros
Agilent Technologies and ABB collaborate on laboratory automation
Agilent and ABB Robotics are cooperating on producing systems to improve workflows and laboratory efficiency.
LG acquires majority stake in Bear Robotics
As part of this strategic move, LG Electronics will integrate its commercial robot business with Bear Robotics.
PickNik Robotics releases MoveIt Pro 7 with 3 core improvements
PickNik said it made strides in its three core pillars: rapid development, hardware-agnostic design, and intelligent runtime decisions.
IFR predicts top 5 global robotics trends for 2025
The International Federation of Robotics expects AI, humanoids, and sustainability to be top areas for robotics in 2025.
Watch Out adds autonomy to CNC cells for precise production
Watch Out has automated precision machining for aerospace customers and is looking to help reshore production.
Bota Systems partners with Kinova to add sense of touch to AI robotics
Kinova is integrating its Gen3 lightweight, modular arm with Bota Systems’ SensONE force/torque sensors to ease robotics AI development.
Voyant Photonics launches Carbon FMCW lidar sensor
Voyant claimed that its Carbon sensor outperforms best-in-class time-of-flight lidar in operating through dust, fog, rain, and snow.
Mbodi and T-Robotics are ABB Robotics’ AI Startup Challenge winners
ABB Robotics is working with Mbodi and T-Robotics to make industrial robots easier to program and enable them to learn on their own.
How Ambi Robotics rolls out improvements for peak season
With a shorter and busier peak season than in past years, Ambi Robotics discusses how it made improvements to prepare.
Oxipital AI partners with Stäubli Robotics on food-safe picking
The two companies plan to combine Stäubli’s hygienic robots and Oxipital AI’s machine vision technology.
AMP Robotics raises $91M to accelerate deployment of recycling systems
AMP Robotics will use its latest funding to deploy AMP ONE system, which is designed to improve sortation of municipal solid waste.
COVAL releases MPXS, its smallest micro vacuum pump to date
With a width of just 12.5 mm and a weight of only 87 grams, the MPXS is the smallest vacuum pump designed by COVAL.
AWS offers accelerated robotics simulation with NVIDIA
AWS and NVIDIA said that Isaac Sim on Amazon Web Services can significantly accelerate and scale robot simulation and AI training.
Top 10 robotics developments of November 2024
In November 2024, stories about the future of robotics, big robot milestones, and new product unveilings grabbed our readers’ attention.
Realtime Robotics appoints Ville Lehtonen vice president of product
Realtime Robotics has named Ville Lehtonen, who previously worked at HighRes Biosolutions and Pickle Robot, to lead its product efforts.
ASTM developing testing standards for mobile manipulators
The ASTM International F45 committee is developing a new standard and an apparatus to test mobile manipulator precision.
Renesas launches its highest performing MPU for industrial equipment
The RZ/T2H comes with the Renesas Flexible Software Package and a Linux package that comes with long-term support.