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How to minimize Wi-Fi roaming interruptions for autonomous mobile robots
Dedicated Wi-Fi scan architectures can improve robot mobility, reliability, and performance, says Synaptics. The post How to minimize Wi-Fi roaming interruptions for autonomous mobile robots appeared first on The Robot Report.
Can Agentic Robotics Solve Robotics’ Data Scaling Problem?
Robotics companies are investing heavily in the belief that data will solve the most difficult problems in robotics. Once AI systems have ingested enough data from human demonstrations, the thinking goes, robots will be able to perform the…
Video Friday: Spot Plays to Show Its Whole-Body Manipulation
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
Churchill Capital XI shareholders approve $2.5B Agility Robotics humanoid SPAC
Deal is expected to provide approximately $465 million in gross capital as Agility expands deployments of its Digit humanoid with industrial customers. The post Churchill Capital XI shareholders approve $2.5B Agility Robotics humanoid SPAC…
How did Agility Robotics perform on its first day on the stock market?
Humanoid developer Agility Robotics ended its first day of trading on the Nasdaq just 2% above where it started, at $11.49. The post How did Agility Robotics perform on its first day on the stock market? appeared first on The Robot Report.
Agility Robotics begins trading on Nasdaq
Agility Robotics becomes the first U.S.-based legged humanoid company to be publicly listed. The post Agility Robotics begins trading on Nasdaq appeared first on The Robot Report.
Chinese regulators block SoftBank’s $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics
Chinese authorities blocked the deal over concerns about robot data being transferred overseas and used to train AI models. The post Chinese regulators block SoftBank’s $5.4B acquisition of ABB Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.
How Ambi Robotics helps its customers prepare for peak season
Ambi Robotics' co-founder and COO Stephen McKinley says the company is installing eight new systems at customer sites before peak season. The post How Ambi Robotics helps its customers prepare for peak season appeared first on The Robot Rep…
ARM Institute consortium grows to more than 500 organizations
The ARM Institute reached the milestone as it prepares to host its 10th annual member meeting in Pittsburgh. The post ARM Institute consortium grows to more than 500 organizations appeared first on The Robot Report.
Video Friday: Quadruped Robot Solves Giant Rubik’s Cube by Itself
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
Uber says it alone can make robotaxis pay, hours after Waymo quit its app
Oh, the irony, as platform players fight
Are Drone Ports the Next Annoying Tech Neighbor?
Rick and Marcia LeCompte loved to watch the Cooper’s hawks that frequented a sweet-gum tree in their yard in Baton Rouge, La. But this October, the hawks were gone. Marcia LeCompte is convinced the birds were scared away by the same flying…
Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot
Who needs a humanoid to pick up after you when you can suspend an AI-powered claw from cables near your ceiling?
LiberAI Unveils Liber-0, a World Action Model That Grounds Human Experience in Robot Action
LiberAI introduces Liber-0, a world action model pretrained on more than 2.2 million hours of human experience to support zero-shot robot manipulation. The post LiberAI Unveils Liber-0, a World Action Model That Grounds Human Experience in…
How GlobalLogic helped Haystack Robotics build a UV disinfection robot
When designing the robot, GlobalLogic said it didn't want to just quickly design a robot for one use case or environment. The post How GlobalLogic helped Haystack Robotics build a UV disinfection robot appeared first on The Robot Report.
Robotics Startup Radar 2026
The 2026 Startup Radar presents innovative young companies developing hardware, software, and business models for the next generation of commercial robotics. The post Robotics Startup Radar 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report.
Video Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid Robots?
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes
This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early co…
Video Friday: Meet Microduck
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball
On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot roll effortlessly over rocks, gravel,…
Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers
This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp. In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate,…
Video Friday: Digit Redecorates
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now
You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your ar…
Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
This article is brought to you by VicOne. A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass. Each response depends on information about the r…
Robots Are Learning to Feel
Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress. This is now starting…
Video Friday: Humanoid Robot Takes On Monkey Bars
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe
Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding. There are some good reasons…
Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI
This article is brought to you by VicOne. Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, deci…
Robot integration brings high-precision production to midmarket manufacturers
Properly integrated industrial and collaborative robots can help midmarket manufacturers, according to a columnist. The post Robot integration brings high-precision production to midmarket manufacturers appeared first on The Robot Report.
Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics
Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too. After starting her career as a biologist, a chance opportunity sa…
Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform
In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics laboratories. The resourc…
Video Friday: Life’s Better With a Little Robot Goose
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support g…
Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Humanlike Designs
Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot. The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thous…
Video Friday: Albatross Falls, Spins, Self-Rights, and Sails Away
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction
This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning. It also shows how policies trained on the dataset transfer to a…
This Disembodied Hand Is All the Robot You Need
A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn’t have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic hand into a completely self-contained robot…
Video Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Fun Turn
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
Video Friday: When Two Robots Become One
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclus…
The Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build
Agility Robotics, the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5. It’s designed to be the first humanoid robot that can safely and economically do useful work at scale, allowing…
New ISO interoperability standard covers collaboration among mobile robots from multiple vendors
The ISO 21423:2026 interoperability standard is intended to allow mobile robots from multiple vendors to communicate and coordinate. The post New ISO interoperability standard covers collaboration among mobile robots from multiple vendors a…
Ben Waters on the latest wireless charging strategies
Ben Waters discusses opportunity charging, battery life, and the infrastructure needed to keep growing robot fleets running. The post Ben Waters on the latest wireless charging strategies appeared first on The Robot Report.
Industry experts discuss China blocking SoftBank acquisition of ABB Robotics
China's prohibition of SoftBank's purchase of ABB Robotics reflects wider concerns about data and AI, say experts. The post Industry experts discuss China blocking SoftBank acquisition of ABB Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.
Boston Dynamics built Stretch Gen 2 for reliable, consistent performance
Brian Donnelly, the VP and GM of logistics robotics at Boston Dynamics, said the new version of Stretch has been in the works for two and a half years. The post Boston Dynamics built Stretch Gen 2 for reliable, consistent performance appear…
How Point One turned GPS accuracy Into a robotics platform
Aaron Nathan explains how precise location technology like GPS is enabling robots to navigate, coordinate, and scale across real environments. The post How Point One turned GPS accuracy Into a robotics platform appeared first on The Robot R…