By Daniela Shchegelskaya, an electronics engineer at Elimpus who has spent the last two years working with Boston Dynamics’ Spot for hazard-zone inspections in live power substations When presenting my robotics work, two questions regularly emerge. Do we really need robots? What will happen to field service engineers? I can understand why people are concerned, […]
Infineon has named Italian robotics startup AdapTronics as the winner of its 2026 Startup Challenge, which focused on technologies for humanoid robots and physical AI. More than 100 startups from 29 countries entered the competition, with 15 selected to develop and present their technologies. The finalists pitched at the challenge’s Demo Day during the Electronic […]
Cerence, a developer of conversational AI-powered user experiences, has announced that its collaboration with Geely is expanding from intelligent cockpits to embodied robotics, with the two companies working together to advance multilingual human-machine interaction for robotics applications. The collaboration with Geely – one of China’s largest automakers – brings Cerence AI’s production-proven speech and conversational […]
Seventy years after the inaugural Canton Fair opened for global sample-based procurement, the 140th edition lays bare a pivotal shift within robotics and automation. International buyers are no longer chasing eye-catching showroom prototypes. They are sourcing production-grade robotic systems built for continuous real-world deployment. This transition gains further momentum amid the fair’s overarching themes of innovation-driven […]
Dream Labs says its Dream-1 AI model works across robots from different manufacturers and will allow robots to transfer their learning. The post Dream Labs raises $90M and launches Dream API appeared first on The Robot Report .
