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May 2026 Robotics Recap
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…motion control, robot interaction, teleoperation, manipulation and embodied AI. The company said that its platform is intended to help more builders move from simulation and software development into real humanoid robot testing. “Humanoid robotics should not only be available to large companies with large budgets,” said Takuzen Lu, founder of Rotaku. “Domo is built for people who want to test,…
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…expands the company’s autonomous mobile manipulation capabilities and broadens what Locus Array can handle across end-to-end fulfillment workflows. Nexera Robotics is now part of Locus Robotics Per the announcement, Nexera Robotics will be wholly owned and operated as part of Locus Robotics. The full Nexera team and leadership will join Locus Robotics to accelerate integration of NeuraGrasp into the Locus…
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…organization behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, announced the release of Stretch 4. The company said that Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers and application engineers to build the next wave of physical AI applications for general-purpose robotics. A pathway to robots in everyday life Since its founding in 2017, Hello Robot has said that…
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…to give robots human-level physical manipulation capabilities. Alongside it, the company also introduced what it said is a first-of-its-kind system to unlock unlimited amounts of data and train GENE-26.5 at scale. Gensis AI said that the system combines two proprietary components: a human-scale dexterous robotic hand that enables direct skill transfer from humans to robots, and a powerful new data…
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…stereo camera engineered for robotic manipulation, imitation learning and high-throughput data collection in the physical AI era. Built for the robotic arm: smaller, tougher, faster As robotics teams scale imitation learning and reinforcement learning for manipulation tasks, Ouster said that RGB image quality and end-to-end capture latency have become critical bottlenecks. Legacy cameras rely on USB connectivity, capture low-resolution 720p…
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…for unstructured environments, autonomous mobile manipulation, and tightly integrated orchestration layers that unify hardware and software into adaptive, data-driven systems. These innovations are driving a shift toward more resilient, scalable and continuously optimized logistics networks. Youngmok “Mok” Yun, Co-Founder & CEO, Contoro Robotics Mok Yun, Co-Founder & CEO, Contoro Robotics What are you most looking forward to at MODEX and…
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…Germany. Warehouse automation with mobile manipulation Brightpick said that 75% of today’s automated storage and picking market is handled by legacy shuttle systems, despite many new technology entrants. At the same time, the company said that shuttle systems require time-consuming installation, high capital costs and considerable infrastructure. In response to this market gap, Brightpick envisioned Gridpicker as a new paradigm…
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…improved support for complex, dexterous manipulation. AGIBOT, Humanoid, LG Electronics, NEURA Robotics and Noble Machines are also adopting NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N models to accelerate industrial deployments of their humanoids. NVIDIA announced that GR00T N1.7 is now available in early access with commercial licensing, which the company said brings generalized robot skills, including advanced dexterous control, to production-ready robot deployments.…
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…demonstrating dexterity, coordination and contact-rich manipulation in a real-world environment. The demonstration showed how scaled, high-quality training data combined with frontier model architectures can enable robust physical AI systems beyond the lab. “Generalist is building embodied foundation models that deliver industry-leading dexterity and reliability,” said Pete Florence, co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI. “This demonstration on Universal Robots’ trusted industrial…
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…first company to deploy intelligent, manipulation-capable robots at scale in real-world environments will kick start a powerful data flywheel, creating a compounding advantage in capturing the long tail of real-world edge cases,” said Sandesh Patnam, managing partner at Premji Invest. “At Premji Invest, we take a long-term view and are highly selective in where we partner. We invest only when…
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…for observation, but for physical manipulation at the production scale. In autonomous truck loading, Foresight powers Dexterity's Mech dual-armed “superhumanoid” robot, with a 4D box packing agent that reasons across three spatial dimensions plus time, determining where to place each package onto an evolving wall of freight. Dexterity said that this is a combinatorial problem far more complex than the…
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…focused on advancing on-orbit robotic manipulation capabilities and supporting NASA’s broader In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) objectives. Motiv, PickNik continue NASA collaboration Motiv said it is developing the robotic system for the FFR mission to demonstrate autonomous and ground-supervised manipulation tasks in low Earth orbit. As part of this effort, PickNik will provide robot motion planning and arm control…
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…perception, reasoning, and physical world manipulation to diverse robotic hardware configurations.” The company said that the AI Skill Suite features a rapidly growing library of autonomous robot capabilities, including item intelligence, inspection, dexterous picking and precision placement. These skills are powered by PRIME-1, the company’s vertically-integrated AI foundation model. By utilizing advanced 3D reasoning, Ambi Robotics said that PRIME-1 achieves…
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…KinetIQ can achieve complex goals that require fleet orchestration, reasoning, dexterous manipulation, dynamic recovery and stability control. The company said that KinetIQ’s fully-agentic design, which embraces recent breakthroughs in the field of AI is one of the key factors behind Humanoid’s rapid progress towards solving Physical AI.
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Cybernetix Ventures’ event kicks off Robotics Tech Week 2026 slate of events
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