Industrial Robots

Promise Robotics has signed a multi-year partnership with America’s largest homebuilder by volume to bring physical AI to construction.

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.

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. 

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.

China still leads the world in industrial robot installations, but the U.S. and Germany are also significant markets, found the IFR.

Helicon has obtained seed funding to use automation to cut composite manufacturing lead times from months to weeks.

Qualcomm plans to integrate the Dragonwing and Arduino platforms with the MoveIt open-source manipulation framework.

With Intrinsic Core, the company is making key parts of its manipulation platform available to robotics developers.

Hirebotics said these new capabilities extend the working range of the cobots, giving manufacturers greater flexibility.

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

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

A3 said that Q2 2026 robotics orders in food, electronics, and healthcare helped offset soft demand from automotive manufacturing.

Celona launched Celona Orion, a unified agentic platform merging private 5G, Wi-Fi, cellular, and satellite into one network for physical AI.

Tate decided to move from traditional hand welding to an agile, cloud-connected automation network powered by Hirebotics.

The latest agreement expands HII’s HYPER Program, which Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics joined earlier this year.

igus says its new twisterchain energy chain provides cable management for challenging industrial robotics applications such as palletizing.

Magmotor has been providing motors for demanding use cases for decades and offers custom systems for robotics.

Discover how time series databases help robotics teams manage high-volume sensor data, power AI insights, and keep systems running at scale.

NEURA Robotics has partnered with a German university for NEURA Gym RWTH Aachen, one of 10 facilities for training physical AI.

A report looks at how physical AI is increasingly enabling autonomous systems to perceive their environments, make decisions, and act in the real world.

Real-world robotics success requires building infrastructure-free systems that thrive in unpredictable, harsh outdoor environments.