Dec 27, 2024 · Scarcely a week has passed in 2024 without some company entering the race to commercialize humanoid robots. EngineAI Robotics this week unveiled the PM01, which it described as a “lightweight, highly dynamic, and fully open universal embodied intelligent robot.”

By The Robot Report Staff | January 29, 2025. Webinar to provide automated storage and retrieval adoption advice Automated storage and retrieval systems can increase warehouse efficiency, and a free webinar will share tips on how to adopt them.

Dec 31, 2024 · Editor’s Note: Join us on January 21, 2025 for a free State of the Robotics Industry webinar.Erik Nieves (Plus One Robotics), Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley), Aaron Prather (ASTM), and Mike Oitzman (The Robot Report) will examine the latest market trends, cutting-edge technologies, and emerging applications shaping the future of robotics.

Dec 29, 2024 · Humanoids take steps toward commercial use. Over the past two years, the number of companies working on humanoids has grown, as has the supporting ecosystem of software and artificial intelligence for locomotion, navigation, and dexterous manipulation. However, only a few have moved into pilots and commercialization.. In August 2024, Figure AI said that BMW Group had tested Figure 02 for ...

Dec 30, 2024 · Photoneo Brightpick Group today announced that it has agreed to Zebra Technologies Corp.’s acquisition of its Photoneo s.r.o. unit, which provides vision sensors and artificial intelligence for robotics. “Zebra is the perfect partner to support Photoneo in its next chapter as a company ...

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Sep 24, 2024 · Since its commercial release in 2020, Boston Dynamics Inc.’s Spot robot has evolved to become more capable at facility inspection tasks.In that time, the quadruped robot as achieved greater autonomy and an ever-growing set of sensor payloads. In 2022, Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics won an RBR50 innovation …

Dec 5, 2024 · In this special episode of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and I talk to author and illustrator Peter Brown to discuss his children’s books series The Wild Robot.. Peter takes us through his creative writing process, the background research he did about robotics, and how he pulled the plot together for a robot named Roz that finds itself shipwrecked on an island filled with wild animals.

Dec 27, 2024 · 10. 1X unveils NEO Beta as it prepares to deploy humanoids into home pilots. When will humanoid robots be ready for household chores? While many robotics experts take a long view on the topic, 1X Technologies unveiled the NEO Beta prototype of its humanoid as it prepared for pilot deployments in select homes The company has been working on humanoids for more than a decade and has been an ...

Dec 17, 2024 · NVIDIA released the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit today. The new software release increases generative artificial intelligence workload performance from 40 trillion operations per second, or TOPS, to 67 TOPS and memory bandwidth from 68 GB/s to 102 GB/s.