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Veteran tech exec Peggy Johnson named Agility Robotics CEO
The humanoid race is continuing to heat up. Agility Robotics kicked off the week by naming Peggy Johnson its chief executive officer. Johnson is a veteran technology leader who most recently served as...
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Mercedes-Benz testing Apollo humanoid
Apollo moving a tote at the Mercedes factory. | Credit: Apptronik Apptronik today announced that leading automotive brand Mercedes-Benz is testing its Apollo humanoid robot. As part of the agreement,...
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NVIDIA announces new robotics products at GTC 2024
NVIDIA CEO Jenson Huang ended his GTC 2024 keynote backed by life size images of all of the various humanoids in development and powered by the Jetson Orin computer. | Credit: Eugene Demaitre SAN JOSE,...
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Apptronik to integrate Apollo humanoid with NVIDIA general-purpose foundation...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (left) with the Apollo humanoid robot. Source: Apptronik SAN JOSE, Calif. — Among the highlights of GTC this week was the convergence of artificial intelligence and humanoid...
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Portescap to be a featured exhibitor and speaker at Robotics Summit & Expo 2024
Portescap and Kollmorgen will discuss motion control at the Robotics Summit & Expo. Credit: Adobe Stock Portescap, a global leader in micro-motion solutions for the robotics industry, has announced...
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Accenture invests in humanoid maker Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary’s Phoenix humanoid is being developed to support a variety of tasks. | Credit: Sanctuary AI In its Technology Vision 2024 report, Accenture said 95% of the executives it surveyed agreed that...
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Team and TAM: the keys to investing in robotics
The Robot Report Podcast · Team and TAM, the keys to investing in robotics Our featured guest on the show this week is Jamie Lee, managing partner at Tamarack Global. Tamarack Global emerged on our...
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OmniOn looks to power, network next-gen delivery robots
OmniOn supports multiple technologies, including robotics. Click here to enlarge. Source: OmniOn Power As delivery robots and autonomous vehicles spread, much of the design and development attention...
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Top 10 robotics news stories of March 2024
March 2024 was a non-stop month for the robotics industry. From events such as MODEX and GTC to exciting new deployments and product launches, there was no shortage of news to cover. Here are the top...
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Agility Robotics partners with leading WMS provider, cuts staff
Agility Arc is a cloud-based platform for managing fleets of humanoids. Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics made a couple of strategic moves this week as it continues to commercialize its Digit...
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Rainbow Robotics unveils RB-Y1 wheeled, two-armed robot
RB-Y1 mounts a humanoid-type double-arm robot on a wheeled, high-speed mobile base. | Credit: Rainbow Robotics Rainbow Robotics announced the release of detailed specifications for the new RB-Y1 mobile...
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Agility Robotics’ Digit wins inaugural Robot of the Year award
2023 was the year that humanoid robots took big strides onto the public stage, and Agility Robotics pulled ahead in that race with Digit, which is our first-ever RBR50 Robot of the Year. At ProMAT...
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Sanctuary AI enters strategic relationship with Magna to build embodied AI...
The Phoenix humanoid robot is being developed to enable embodied AI and support general-purpose applications. | Credit: Sanctuary AI Humanoid robot developer Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., or...
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Inside the 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards
The Robot Report Podcast · 2024 RBR50 Innovation Awards This week, we announced the honorees for the 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. On the podcast episode this week, the entire The Robot...
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maxon launches drive systems portfolio designed for robotics
maxon says it can provide all key components of a tightly integrated robotics drive from a single source. | Source: maxon maxon group has launched its new drive systems portfolio specifically designed...
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Mentee Robotics de-cloaks to launch new AI-driven humanoid robot
Mentee Robotics co-founders include Lior Wolf, CEO (left); Amnon Shashua, chairman (middle); Shai Shalev-Shwartz, chief scientist (right). | Credit: Mentee Robotics Mentee Robotics came out of stealth...
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Boston Dynamics debuts electric version of Atlas humanoid robot
Goodbye to the hydraulic version of Atlas and hello to the electric model designed for commercialization. That’s the message from Boston Dynamics Inc., which yesterday retired the older version of its...
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March 2024 robotics investments total $642M
Chinese and U.S. companies led March 2024 robotics investments. Credit: Eacon Mining, Dan Kara Thirty-seven robotics firms received funding in March 2024, pulling in a total monthly investment of $642...
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From the barn to the bar: AI powered robots
The Robot Report Podcast · From the barn to the bar: AI powered robots In this episode, we talk to Matt Casella from Richtech Robotics about the Adam bartending robot, and then to Chris Padwick from...
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Sanctuary AI’s latest Phoenix humanoid can learn tasks in 24 hours
Sanctuary’s seventh-generation Phoenix includes both hardware and software improvements. | Source: Sanctuary AI Sanctuary AI today unveiled the seventh generation of its Phoenix humanoid robot. The...
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