Partners Cybernetix and PRN aim to aid Pittsburgh’s robotics startups and bring the cluster’s investment opportunities to global markets.

Boston Dynamics has retired the hydraulic version of its Atlas and will begin testing an all-electric humanoid robot in the coming year.

Mentee Robotics has emerged on the scene with a new AI-driven humanoid robot, planned for production release in early 2025.

Bumblebee X is a new GigE powered stereo imaging solution that delivers high-accuracy and low-latency for robotic guidance and pick & place applications.

Locus Robotics reached the three billion picks milestone just 33 weeks after it recorded its two billionth pick.

The inaugural RBR50 Gala will be on May 1 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center at the Robotics Summit & Expo.

maxon’s portfolio now includes 15 different actuators divided into two families: High Efficiency Joints and High Precision Joints.

Project CETI is using robotics, machine learning, biology, linguistics, natural language processing, and more to decode whale communications. 

NASA scientists hope to use EELS to search for signs of life in the ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s Enceladus moon. 

The 2024 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award winners, and our editor’s picks, are the topic of this week’s podcast.

Healthcare robotics, particularly surgical systems, have stringent motion control demands, and experts will review the latest options.

The igusGO app uses AI to identify optimization opportunities for robotics designers using lubrication-free motion plastics. 

Magna International’s relationship with Sanctuary is threefold: as an investor, a contract manufacturer, and an end user.

Walmart has taken a stake in Fox Robotics after the successful rollout of 19 FoxBot autonomous forklifts at a Florida distribution center.

BlackBerry and Advanced Micro Devices said they plan to address the need for ‘hard’ real-time capabilities in robotics-focused hardware.

Electric Sheep has a novel business model and agile development team that make it first winner of the RBR50 Startup of the Year.

Read profiles of the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, including the Robot of the Year, Startup of the Year, and Application of the Year winners.

Autopicker combines AI, vision-guided picking, and a mobile base to be the first winner of the RBR50 Application of the Year.

Collaborative Robotics has raised $100M to commercialize its cobot, starting with automating warehouse operations.

Universal Robots is collaborating with MathWorks to help developers build advanced applications for UR cobots.

Cruise is taking its first steps towards restarting its robotaxi operations after it paused all operations nationwide in October 2023.

Agility Robotics’ Digit is shifting the goalposts for humanoid robots by taking them out of research labs and into the real world.