AI
Amazon unveils latest warehouse robot as tech giants do AI layoffs
Amazon has unveiled its latest warehouse robot that can take commands in conversational language, underscoring how AI-powered automation is advancing as companies continue to slash their corporate workforce in AI-driven efficiencies.
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties
What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents can apparently figure out a training regimen that teaches the robots to successfully cut zip ties and even insert GPUs into thin sockets on motherboards.
Innovation
How collaborative robots are slowly transforming auto manufacturing
In the ever-evolving world of automotive manufacturing, a new and game-changing technology is emerging: collaborative robots, or cobots, which interact directly with employees within shared spaces. Joerg Reger, managing director of global business line automotive for ABB Robotics, explains how cobots are reshaping auto manufacturing – and why cobots won’t make factory employees obsolete.
HD Hyundai Develops Shipbuilding Robots with Nvidia
It has been confirmed that HD Hyundai is developing Physical Artificial Intelligence (AI) robots based on Nvidia's robot simulation platform, Isaac Sim. HD Hyundai plans to deploy these robots across core shipbuilding processes, including welding.
Technology
Fences down, human-robot collaboration up for Sensory Robotics
Sensory Robotics, a corporate partner of the University of Cincinnati’s 1819 Innovation Hub, has broken through the “fence line” for industrial robots with a next-generation safety solution according to Robot Today.
Sensory Robotics’ SR-1 system installs 3D-vision technology and sensors onto existing industrial robotic arm production cells to create invisible safety zones. It’s a form of real-time safety software with a smart control system that understands its surroundings.
Nvidia unveils Halos for Robotics to improve robot AI compute and safety
Agility, a leading humanoid robotics and physical AI company, is the first to use Nvidia Halos for Robotics to build safety into its humanoids working in factories, warehouses and logistics operations for customers including Amazon, GXO, Schaeffler and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.
Cobot's Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation
Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) unveiled the second-generation version of its Proxie mobile robot, adding greater payload capacity, self-swapping batteries, autonomous task identification, and a new two-armed manipulation option as the company looks to expand deployments across healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing.
HD Hyundai turns to Nvidia AI robots for shipyard automation
HD Hyundai is developing artificial intelligence-powered robots capable of performing shipyard tasks autonomously as part of its drive to create a fully digitalised “Future Advanced Shipyard” by 2030.
According to Korean media reports, the South Korean shipbuilding giant is using Nvidia’s Isaac Sim robot simulation platform to train so-called Physical AI robots that will eventually be deployed across core shipbuilding processes including welding, painting and plate bending.
Research
Maryland dairy farm turns to robots amid labor shortage
At a family-run Frederick farm, automated milking is reshaping daily work while helping crews monitor herd health.
AI robots could soon care for the elderly
Ever thought of having a robot take care of a loved one? What once seemed like a whimsical trope of science fiction may soon become part of our everyday reality.
Meet Codey — a three-foot humanoid robot with glowing eyes and a friendly smile.
Trends
How Mobile Robot Platforms Are Reshaping Logistics and Transportation Automation
Over the past eighteen months, the global logistics automation sector has crossed an important inflection point. Companies are no longer asking whether to introduce robots — they are asking what kind of mobile robot platform is best suited to my specific operational environment?
A New Store in Hong Kong Has No Human Employees, Just a Single Humanoid Robot
Let's see how "convenient" the store manages to be.