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By Brianna Wessling | October 13, 2026

NYSOFA expands partnership with Intuition Robotics to bring ElliQ to more seniors

A man and young girl playing a game using the ElliQ robot.

With the expansion, NYSOFA and Intuition Robotics established a new three-year, $2.1 million agreement to keep rolling out ElliQ.

By The Robot Report Staff | October 13, 2026

Hello Robot, A&K Robotics to discuss how robots navigate crowded indoor spaces at RoboBusiness

On the left, Hello Robot's Stretch 4, and on the right, A&K Robotics' Cruz autonomous pod.

As robots move beyond warehouses and other controlled environments and into everyday life, navigation challenges will be critical.

By Eugene Demaitre | October 13, 2026

Promise Robotics partners with D.R. Horton on physical AI for homebuilding

A robot arm assembling a house component. Promise Robotics says it can accelerate homebuilding by standardizing component manufacturing.

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

By Cecile Dick-Calmes | October 12, 2026

Closing the reality gap: Why real-time execution has become the new competitive advantage

A robot arm palletizing packages.

Daifuku’s Cecile Dick-Calmes said success is no longer measured solely by automation density or equipment utilization.

By Ron Zukerman | October 11, 2026

Will ‘boring’ robots win in the real world? Why robotic form should follow workflow

Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot doing a cartwheel.

If we want to move physical AI from social media feeds to a sustained commercial level, we must reverse our current approach.

By Nicolas Sauvage | October 10, 2026

Why dexterity is physical AI’s real bottleneck

Nicolas Sauvage, the founder and president of TDK Ventures, with ANYbotics' quadruped robot.

The next major challenge in robotic dexterity is making the entire system reliable enough to turn capabilities into useful work.

By The Robot Report Staff | October 9, 2026

Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test

Headshot of Jeanine Sinanan-Singh and podcast logo.

How better data and human judgment can help robots move beyond demos toward reliable real-world performance.

By Brianna Wessling | October 9, 2026

Boston Dynamics gives more insight into its redesigned humanoid hand

Boston Dynamics' new robot hand compared to a human hand.

The Robot Report spoke with Alberto Rodriguez, the director of robot behavior for Atlas at Boston Dynamics, about the humanoid’s new hand.

By Georges Mirza | October 9, 2026

Groceryshop 2026 shows that retail robots are ready to scale, use AI

Diagram of how retail robots can perceive, understand, and act.

Groceryshop 2026 not only featured mobile robots for taking inventory, but it also showed how retail automation is evolving.

By Brianna Wessling | October 8, 2026

SafeWorld emerges from stealth to build, deploy robot safety simulation technologies

A robot arm picking a box from a conveyor belt.

SafeWorld’s platform provides testing and simulation software to help enterprises evaluate and deploy robots safely and responsibly.

By Eugene Demaitre | October 8, 2026

Jabil discusses the pace of humanoid robot development and production

apollo humanoid robot in a kitting application.

Jabil, which is working with robot developers such as Apptronik, provides a design perspective on humanoid progress.

By Brianna Wessling | October 8, 2026

Helm.ai reaches $70M in signed commercial contracts for its foundation models

An image of a car driving on a simulated road next to simulated trucks.

Helm.ai trained its foundation models using its unsupervised ‘deep teaching’ methodology to master the structure of the physical world itself.

By Steve Crowe | October 8, 2026

AWS launches open-source Physical AI Toolchain for robotics

Amazon Vulcan Robot

The toolchain combines AWS and NVIDIA tools for synthetic data generation, model training, simulation and validation, edge deployment, and continuous improvement.

By Eugene Demaitre | October 7, 2026

PTC acquisition positions Schneider Electric to challenge Siemens

PTC’s Creo CAD, shown here modelling a helicopter, supports complex 3D product design and is also available through Creo+, its SaaS offering.

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.

By Steve Crowe | October 7, 2026

Teradyne Robotics, Elite Robots settle cobot dispute

Elite Robots makes collaborative robots such as this one.

Teradyne Robotics and Elite Robots have settled their software dispute, ending the legal case without disclosing the terms of the agreement.

By The Robot Report Staff | October 7, 2026

Harmonic Drive to share how integrated actuators can reduce engineering at RoboBusiness

Harmonic Drive's RSF-5B IDT Sumpermini actuator with an integrated servo drive.

Attendees will learn how integrated actuators can reduce engineering effort by simplifying system integration.

By Brianna Wessling | October 6, 2026

Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon exec Rohit Prasad as new CEO

Rohit Prasad.

Before Boston Dynamics, Prasad served as senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and artificial general intelligence at Amazon.

By Eugene Demaitre | October 6, 2026

Pegasus 1.6 brings video understanding to physical AI, says TwelveLabs

By providing temporal context, spatial reasoning, and judgement on whether a task was completed, Pegasus allows for physical AI training at scale, says TwelveLabs.

TwelveLabs says its Pegasus 1.6 model understands first-person video and supports workflows including labeling for robotics developers.

By Anurag Gurtu | October 6, 2026

Sovereign AI, same landlord — thoughts on the physical AI race

NVIDIA has the most repos and the second-most homegrown models on Hugging Face.

While physical AI architecture alternatives are growing in number, NVIDIA has taken a sovereign strategy to ensuring its role.

By Mike Oitzman | October 6, 2026

FireDome builds autonomous ‘artillery’ for wildfire defense

hero image of the firedome autonomous launcher.

FireDome builds autonomous wildfire defense systems to protect communities and infrastructure before firefighters arrive.

By Brianna Wessling & Eugene Demaitre | October 6, 2026

Overview AI launches OV Spark line of AI inspection cameras

The OV Spark in production at MEC.

The OV Spark and OV Spark Pro AI inspection cameras are available now through Overview AI and its distribution partners.

By Brianna Wessling | October 5, 2026

Teradyne invests in Bright Machines to bring robotics to AI infrastructure manufacturing

Bright Factory is an intelligent manufacturing platform connecting design, automation, and data. | Source: Bright Machines.

The companies plan to integrate Teradyne robotics and test technologies with the Bright Machines manufacturing platform. 

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