A new analysis from VicOne warns that robot safety assurance must account for adversarial attacks that alter perception, decision-making, or action, citing research showing backdoor attacks on Vision-…
HowToRobot and Robotics Australia Group have partnered to accelerate automation adoption in Australia, where robot density is 134 robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees versus the world average of …
John Deere has introduced JD, a conversational AI tool for its Operations Center platform, enabling farmers to query their historical field data for insights on yield, fuel use, and operational effici…
Skild AI unveiled S1, its flagship robot foundation model, which enables robots to learn complex tasks from a single video via in-context learning. The company, founded in 2023, has raised nearly $1.7…
Physical AI robots need better end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) to handle real-world variability, according to an article on The Robot Report. The piece outlines four critical requirements for grippers: acco…
Reframe Systems, a robotics company using physical AI to industrialize home construction, has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP) to scale its microfactory networ…
Swarm robotics systems face a fundamental trade-off between centralized and decentralized power architectures, with centralized models offering synchronization precision in structured industrial setti…
John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp, discussed scaling robot fleets and building trust in public spaces on The Robot Report Podcast, where he highlighted the company's fleet of over 50,…
ExlService Holdings Inc. completed its acquisition of iMerit Technology, a leader in AI model training and evaluation, with iMerit founder Radha Ramaswami Basu joining EXL as executive vice president …
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $90 million investment over five years to establish three new Science and Technology Centers, including one focused on robotics. The Center for Human a…
Carbon Robotics has replaced its crop-specific AI vision models with a single 'large plant model' that lets farmers customize its laser weeder in the field via an iPad app, tagging plants as crops or …
Gatik AI Inc. has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless commercial freight operations across Fortune 50 retail, consumer packaged goods, and grocery supply chains. The compa…
Bedrock Robotics Inc. has deployed fully autonomous, retrofitted heavy excavators on active infrastructure projects in Texas and Nevada, marking the company's first operator-free deployments. The San …
Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026, the leading event for commercial robotics developers, ends Aug. 31, 2026, saving attendees $200 on full conference passes and $40 on expo-only passes. The eve…
Guident Corp. CEO Harald Braun said human-in-the-loop oversight remains essential for robotaxi fleet safety as autonomous vehicle companies like Zoox Inc. expand commercial services, and Guident's Gui…
NVIDIA Corp. introduced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an entry-level edge AI computer that doubles the inference performance of its predecessor, the Jetson Orin Nano Super, delivering 78 trillion operations…
Physical AI embedded in heavy equipment, not humanoid robots, is the next big AI play, according to an article on The Robot Report. The piece argues that autonomy in agriculture and construction is cr…
A report from The Robot Report finds that the limiting factor in scaling physical AI deployments is the workforce required to operate, maintain, and adapt robots, not the robots themselves. As deploym…
Dr. Roby Lynn, founder and CEO of R2 Labs, discussed software-defined manufacturing on The Robot Report Podcast Episode 258, highlighting how the company's RAC (R2 Autonomy Controller) brings AI visio…
Amazon Robotics senior manager of applied science Bhavana Chandrashekhar will speak at RoboBusiness 2026's Women in Robotics Lunch on Oct. 20 in Santa Clara, Calif., where she will join MassRobotics c…