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Festo launches lightweight pneumatic gripper and tests GripperAI

Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training. The post Festo launches lightweight pneumatic gripper and tests GripperAI appeared first on The Robot Report .

Meet the robot dogs helping with World Cup security

Boston University team wins MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge at Robotics Summit

MassRobotics awarded prizes to university teams and showcased healthcare innovators, physical AI developers, and startups. The post Boston University team wins MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge at Robotics Summit appeared first on The Robot Report .

Global robotics technology roadmap

Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0. Henrik I Christensen, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at University of California San Diego, has recently released a global robotics technology roadmap. This position paper focuses on Asia, Europe, and America and outlines the current state-of-the-art in robotics, and highlights the main opportunities. The […]

Investors bet humanoid robots will transform industry and homes over the next decade

Pudu Robotics eyes Hong Kong listing amid geopolitical risks

2026 Robotics Summit & Expo recap

Listen to the podcast this week as The Robot Report editorial staff recaps the recent Robotics Summit & Expo from Boston. The post 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo recap appeared first on The Robot Report .

Petal Surgical adds more funding for incisionless surgical robot

Helsing launches Europe’s first robotics research platform, called RX-1

Watch: Vietnam’s first humanoid robot Dyno targets security and household roles

LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details

Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you're asked to help a new trainee learn the basics of their job. The catch: It's a robot. To teach them, you might want to play a game of "show and tell"—that is, physically showing how to do something a few different ways, while also explaining what you're doing.

RoboChem Flex: democratisation of the autonomous synthesis robot

Image credit: HIMS / Nature Synthesis. In a paper published in Nature Synthesis, researchers led by Professor Timothy Noël of the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present an advance in autonomous laboratory systems for synthesis optimisation. A versatile, modular design and the option for “human-in-the-loop” analytics, RoboChem Flex caters to […]

Watch ABB Robotics on Nvidia Partnership, Physical AI

Robot patrol dogs could be coming to Taiwan's South China Sea islands

Chengdu Robotics Company Sets Sights on Hong Kong IPO

Silicon Valley's New Slogan: Let's Get Physical

ANSCER Robotics closes Series A round for industrial material handling

Sam Altman is quietly backing a stealth startup that's building software for robots and cars

This Robot Might Have The Best Hands Of Any Humanoid Ever

NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, chip-fab tools and humanoid robot platform

Top 10 robotics stories of May 2026

Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble

As the U.S. faces a worsening shortage of care for the elderly, can robots fill the gap?

NVIDIA launches Unitree-based humanoid robot system for research

Humanoid robot trialed as soldier in deadly Ukrainian battlefield

Nvidia to work with US, European humanoid robot makers in addition to China's Unitree

Even Robots Need Style As Catwalk Shows Off Humanoid Fashions

Exclusive: Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones

Unitree clears Shanghai IPO hurdle as China’s humanoid robot wave gathers pace

A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?

After outliving Booker T. Bones, their second service dog, Brenda and Brian Marquis still needed help with some of the more difficult parts of daily life.

World of humanoid robots set for new blueprint as Nvidia teams with Asian firms

Nvidia picks Unitree for humanoid robot platform as Chinese startup eyes IPO

Dual-mode magnetic elastomer moves on command, vanishes on demand

The rapid expansion of soft robots and smart electronic devices is driving demand for materials that can not only move and adapt, but also complete their missions without leaving behind unwanted traces. As these technologies are increasingly explored for health care, environmental monitoring, infrastructure inspection, and security applications, robots and devices are expected to operate in places where human access is limited—such as narrow pipes, sealed spaces, underground facilities, and h…

This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors

In 1987, Richard Greenhill , a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn’t convince anyone there to build such a machine, so he set about building one himself, in his attic. To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a dozen or so like-minded folks. Every Wednes…

Why robotic arms are now being integrated with CNC machines

How a Humanoid Made of Wood Sparked Today’s Most Dexterous Robot Hands

An industry targeting Australia’s ageing population is growing, but can AI deliver more humanity in aged care?

Humanoid robots join human models in rampwalk at futuristic Seoul fashion show

‘Arms race’: why investors can’t let go of robotic hand developers in China

This creepy blob robot will keep going even if you break its legs

China deploys humanoid robots to sort 1,200 parcels per hour in massive postal hub

This Trump-linked startup plans to put humanoid robots in the military

Can Robots Be Considered "Cyborg Species" If They're Not Like Humans?

A tiny underwater antenna is changing how robots talk in dark, murky seas

From the shallow shores of Lake Wahlberg to the salty depths of the ocean, University of Florida researchers are dropping robots in the water and training them to communicate more efficiently in murky conditions.

Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot

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 inclusion. ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO Enjoy today’s videos! What is the right number of legs for a robot…

A stair-climbing robot that catches itself when it falls

SUTD researchers have developed a reinforcement-learning-based safety system that teaches a stair-traversing service robot to brace itself mid-fall, addressing one of the biggest barriers to deploying autonomous robots on staircases.

Robot Talk Episode 158 – Autonomous robot deliveries, with Ahti Heinla

Claire chatted to Ahti Heinla from Starship Technologies about their AI-powered delivery robots that operate independently on streets and pavements. Ahti Heinla is the co-founder and CEO of Starship Technologies, the world’s leading autonomous delivery company building AI-powered robots that operate fully independently in real-world environments. One of the original engineers behind Skype’s billion-dollar success, […]

This startup wants to clean your dirty dishes and clutter for free to help train AI

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW