Category: The Robot Report

Figure AI’s humanoid general-purpose robot. Figure is one of many robotic companies racing to get humanoid robots out into the market. | Source: Figure AI Something’s been forgotten in the … Read More

Figure.AI is one of several startups pursuing the development of a general-purpose humanoid form robot. | Credit: Figure.AI Figure.AI, an robotics company building general-purpose humanoid robots, today announced a $9 … Read More

[See image gallery at www.therobotreport.com] The age of humanoids is just around the corner. Humanoids are a subset of robotics that feature a bipedal (two legs) design, functional arms and … Read More

The new legged robotics subcommittee from ASTM International is seeking participation from experts in the field. The goal is to have as many voices contributing to this work as possible. … Read More

The Woodside Energy team received training on the Valkyrie robot. | Source: NASA/JSC NASA’s humanoid robot, Valkyrie, is starting a new mission in Australia. The robot will put its skills … Read More

Between new applications for large language models (LLMs) in robotics, to big acquisitions, there was no shortage of robotics news to cover this month.  Here are the top 10 most … Read More

NASA’s Ingenuity Mas Helicopter in a picture taken by Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument on April 16. | Source: NASA/JPL NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has officially completed its 52nd flight after losing … Read More

Breaking down the different types of robots and how they can work for you Manufacturers use a variety of robots in their operations, each with its own specific capabilities and … Read More

By Nick Longworth, Business Consultant – Industrial Robotics Robots are being utilized in numerous applications in the manufacturing space. While robotics has been around for some time, recent advancements in … Read More

A tomato-picking robot designed by ChatGPT. | Source: Adrien Buttier / EPFL A team of researchers at the Technical University in Delft, Netherlands and the Swiss technical university EPFL used … Read More

evoBOT, an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, completed its first test run at the Munich Airport. With its unique design … Read More

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on OLogic’s website and was reprinted with permission. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a much more natural interaction with robots? Well, maybe … Read More

You can give surgeons greater dexterity and control In robot-assisted procedures, surgeons value the ability to place multiple instruments in a nearly parallel orientation. Learn how to design compact robotic … Read More

Between big events like the Robotics Summit & Expo and Automate, acquisition news, and big funding announcements, there was no shortage of exciting robotics news to cover in May.  Here … Read More

Lite 3: new technology for increased strength, agility, mobility, speed, navigation, and endurance DEEP Robotics Co., a global pioneer in the development and industrial application of quadrupedal robots, has announced … Read More

Figure, a Calif.-based company building general-purpose humanoids, has closed $70 million in Series A funding. The company, founded by Brett Adcock, will use the funding to develop its Figure 01 … Read More

Anybotics ANYmal quadruped is an autonomous mobile robot designed for indoor and outdoor operations in a variety of use cases. | Credit: Anybotics Anybotics announced a $50M series B investment … Read More

The newly unveiled Sanctuary AI Pheonix humanoid robot is the sixth generation of solutions from Sanctuary AI. The company was formed in 2018 with the mission to develop a general-purpose … Read More

A research team at MIT’s Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab, part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), taught a Unitree Go1 quadruped to dribble a soccer ball on … Read More

Agility Robotics is unveiling at ProMat the next generation of its Digit humanoid. Most humanoids to date have been designed for research labs. Digit, on the other hand, is being … Read More

The PR2 is one of the most beloved robots in the robotics industry. It was the state-of-the-art mobile manipulator when it was launched in 2009 by Willow Garage. The PR2 … Read More

From seeing Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot at work in a DHL facility to Alphabet closing down one of its robotics subsidiaries, there was no shortage of robotics news in February … Read More

The OMRON TM20 cobot features a 20 kg payload and 1300 mm reach. | Credit: OMRON OMRON extended its collaborative robot product line with the addition of the OMRON TM20 … Read More

Jacqueline Hannan, a PhD student in industrial and operations engineering, demonstrates walking with an ankle exoskeleton in Stirling’s lab. Photo credit: Brenda Ahearn, University of Michigan Engineering Researchers at the … Read More

Microsoft researchers controlled this robotic arm using ChatGPT. | Credit: Microsoft By now, you’ve likely heard of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s language model that can generate somewhat coherent responses to a variety … Read More