A logistics giant, a LiDAR maker and Ohio's smart-mobility office argued that the next decade of transport depends as much on data, energy and public trust as on the vehicles themselves.
SYNCERE raised $11M in pre-seed funding led by a16z Speedrun to accelerate LUME deliveries, scale manufacturing and expand its physical AI capabilities.
At EVIS America, UToledo's Robotics Club showed NASA Lunabotics plans, combat robots and a Siemens PLC Rubik's Cube solver during a Nov. 3 campus tour.
EVIS America debuts in Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 3-5, linking EVs, fuels, AI and autonomy. Speakers include RoboSense, Nissan, Uber AI and Lincoln Electric.
North American firms ordered 10,989 robots worth $723.5M in Q3 2026, up 24.8% in units, led by semiconductors, auto components and life sciences, per A3.
Robbyant’s first Embodied AI Challenge, built on LingBot-VLA 2.0, closes qualifiers with 1,800+ teams from 13 countries ahead of a Shanghai real-robot final.
Viam SVP Shannon Bradshaw on BoxBot at IROS 2026, where VLA policies belong, what sim-to-real misses, and free Viam Education robotics courses.
Intrinsic CTO Brian Gerkey talks about open-sourcing Intrinsic Core, automation for high-mix machine shops, and where AI can help robots reach production.
Peking University's IROS 2026 paper fuses vision-language models, 3D Gaussian Splatting and physics-aware scoring for task-aware dual-arm grasping.
RobotToday's 2027 robotics events preview: CES, NVIDIA GTC, Hannover Messe, Automate, ICRA, automatica, WRC, IROS and iREX, with dates and cities.
JHTV's Myra Norton on how Johns Hopkins picks inventions to back, what still separates labs from industry, and why investors are eyeing Baltimore.
ARM Institute CSO Suzy Teele on a decade of U.S. robotics: why few small manufacturers use robots, how physical AI helps, and the honest-broker model.
CASIA Ph.D. candidate Peiyan Li co-authored two IROS 2026 papers on VLA models for long robot tasks. We also cover his BridgeVLA and SpatialVAM work.
Ten papers made the IROS 2026 Best Paper and Best Student Paper shortlist, four from South Korea. What each one does and what it means for industry.
From humanoid tennis to bin picking and farm robots: the 22 finalists for IROS 2026's eight category awards, and what each one means for industry.
RobotToday analyzed all 1,933 IROS 2026 papers: acceptance fell to 36.5%, the U.S. overtook China, and VLA titles jumped from 4 to 65.
IROS 2026 closes in Pittsburgh with 1,900+ papers and 186 exhibitor listings. Humanoids, dexterous hands, tactile sensing and robot data led the show.
PTC's Darren Henry shows Onshape's FeatureScript MCP Server turning a supplier PDF into a parametric CAD tool in 34 minutes, and what it means for robots.
SimScale’s Engineering AI Agent runs CFD, thermal, EMag and FEA from one prompt inside PTC’s Onshape, starting from CAD that isn’t simulation-ready.
58 health, deep tech and robotics startups pitched at Innovation Works Venture Expo 2026 in Pittsburgh. Full company list, program and 2025 funding data.
Of 131 announced robot models, 33 publish no price. US makers withhold at twice the rate of Chinese ones — and the reason is stage, not strategy.
Stratasys is rolling additive out across 20+ GM plants while Toyota prints robot grippers. Booth build data, the F870, and where the cost case breaks.
IMTS 2026 opens in Chicago with 1,788 exhibitors and record H1 machine tool orders. What the USMTO data says about automation, and the booths to see.
Berlin's Ailoys brings acoustic industrial AI to IMTS 2026, Booth 237629. Edge sensors catch process drift on existing machines before scrap appears.
Pittsburgh companies raised $2.29 billion last year, but the region's own investors have just $23.2 million left to deploy, less than one average deal. StartUP PGH 2026, opening September 14 with 250-plus robotics exhibitors and 65-plus pitching startups, is built to bring outside investors to town.
Teradyne Robotics filed two European IP actions against Chinese cobot makers Elite Robots and JAKA within six months of 2026. This briefing maps the timeline, the differences between the cases, each side’s position, and what it signals about collaborative robot market competition.
47 WRC 2026 exhibitors supply robot software, compute or interaction — but only 19 call themselves software companies. Five open artefacts, licence-checked.
Unitree (STAR 688836) trades near 410x earnings after a 46% drawdown; Intuitive Surgical sits at 42.5x. A definition-aligned comparison of both companies.
The third report in the WRC 2026 series. Report 1 mapped all 248 exhibitors by category and Report 2 covered the 139 that build finished robots. This one covers the 137 that build what goes inside them.
149 of the 248 classified WRC 2026 exhibitors build finished robots. 93 build humanoid or legged machines. The audited humanoid sales number is one unit.
We classified 248 WRC 2026 exhibitors with the RobotToday taxonomy. Motion & Actuation leads at 75 companies, Humanoid at 72, and compute stays thin at 12. (Modified 2026-08-27)
Saga Robotics CPO Damian Flynn on the Thorvald platform's UVC treatment system, its jump from UK strawberries to California wine grapes, and why he's “incredibly bullish” on applying automation and robotics into industries “most chaotic environment.”
WRC 2026 opens August 19 in Beijing with 300+ exhibitors, a first-ever SOE pavilion and a new Procurement Day, days after Unitree priced China's first mainland-listed humanoid robot IPO at a $9.04 billion valuation.
From 530+ AGVs at a Singapore port to robots on Apple's line, WAIC 2026 speakers shared concrete data on where embodied AI robots are actually working today.
At WAIC 2026, world-model and VLA camps staked rival paths to generalist robots; Zhiyuan, SenseTime and NVIDIA predict a robot 'ChatGPT moment' in 2-5 years.
UCL and HKUST researchers, plus robotics CEOs, challenged embodied AI hype at WAIC 2026, citing generalization limits and no third-party evaluation standard.
China's embodied AI sector raised $12.5B in H1 2026, but WAIC 2026 speakers detailed ROI demands, power bottlenecks, and the mass-production-to-sales gap.
WAIC 2026 named ten Flagship Exhibits from 3,000+ products — spanning domestic AI superclusters, humanoid robots, general-purpose agents, AI wearables, and protein design AI. Engineering breakdown by RobotToday.
WAIC 2026 in Shanghai (July 17–20) saw 200+ embodied intelligence companies, 300+ live robots, and first confirmed humanoid deployments in logistics and pharmacy. RobotToday engineering analysis.
Guident CEO Harald Braun on the RMCC architecture, IRLS risk identification system, and why California’s 2026 AV mandates validate six years of platform development.
Piaggio Fast Forward showcases kilo®, an infrastructure-free collaborative AMR (300 lb payload, 360° LiDAR), at Automate 2026 booth #17054.
Discover the ultimate directory of global robotics events in 2026. Tailored briefings for engineers, investors, and founders on humanoid robots, AI, and industrial automation by RobotToday.
At Automate 2026, Covestro brought Makrolon, Bayblend, Baysafe BEF and Vulkollan to robotics — tackling weight, heat, sensing and sustainability for humanoids and AGV/AMRs.
Faraday Future unveils its full six-series EAI Robot World portfolio at Automate 2026, featuring the $89,900 All-New Futurist humanoid and the commercial release of the Faber mobile manipulator.
Ubicept demonstrated single-photon SPAD imaging at Automate 2026, achieving 140 dB HDR and >10 dB SNR gains for industrial robotics edge AI.
RobotToday interviews A3 President Jeff Burnstein post-Automate 2026 on sector diversification, China’s 10x robot installation lead, a proposed U.S. national robotics strategy, and global cooperation through the IFR.
At Automate 2026, the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance convened nine robotics firms — most spun out of Carnegie Mellon — spanning materials, perception and AMRs.
XELA Robotics unveiled five major uSkin® tactile sensor advances at Automate 2026 — including a force-sensitive nail fingertip, UMI AI integration, and fragile object handling. Full product report by RobotToday.com.
Vention reveals AI-powered platform partnerships with FANUC America and Teradyne Robotics at Automate 2026, enabling software-defined automation across collaborative and industrial robot deployments.
OMRON Robotics introduces the next-generation LD-150 and LD-300 autonomous mobile robots at Automate 2026, featuring higher payloads, 30-minute wireless charging, 360° safety scanning, and FLOW Core fleet integration for high-throughput manufacturing.
RSF defines a common language for robot service capability, lifecycle operations, certification pathways, and service-provider networks.
