Insider Brief SkillWaze and Amplibotics AI have formed a partnership aimed at turning competitive collegiate gamers into trained remote robot operators as companies look for new ways to build a workforce around physical AI and industrial automation. According to SkillWaze, the program, developed with the National Esports Collegiate Conference and Dynamic Athlete Placement, will recruit […]
Insider Brief China made roughly 90 percent of the world’s humanoid robots last year. It operates the largest fleet of industrial robots on the planet. Its factories installed more robots over the past five years than every other country combined. And yet, at the heart of nearly every intelligent robot rolling off a Chinese production […]
British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported. The two companies’ agreement covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 robots in Schaeffler’s global manufacturing sites by 2032, according to a Humanoid spokesperson. The companies have not disclosed the contract value. The first deployment is scheduled between […]
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Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE —Hello Robot, the team behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, today announced the release of Stretch 4. Available now for $29,950, Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers, and application engineers building the next wave of Physical AI applications for general purpose robotics. Designing Stretch 4 to […]
Insider Brief SAP and robotics software company Cyberwave have deployed fully autonomous AI-powered robots inside an active SAP logistics warehouse in Germany. According to Cyberwave, the deployment is operating at SAP’s warehouse in St. Leon-Rot using SAP Logistics Management, the company’s cloud-native logistics execution platform. The robots are handling box folding, packaging and shipping fulfillment […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — As a proven case of implementing the advancement and productivity innovation of the shipbuilding industry envisioned by the MASGA initiative, HD Hyundai Robotics, the robot manufacturing and solutions subsidiary of HD Hyundai, has made a full-scale entry into the U.S. shipyard automation market and established a strategic foothold for expanding […]
Insider Brief Nyobolt has raised $60 million in series C funding to expand its ultra-fast charging and high-power battery systems for autonomous robots and AI infrastructure, with valuation topping $1 billion. The funding round was led by Symbotic, with participation from IQ Capital, Latitude, Scania Invest and CBMM. The company said revenue increased fivefold year […]
Insider Brief AI research group Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, announced it is releasing a new open-source robotics model and large training dataset aimed at improving how robots perform physical tasks in real-world environments. The updated system, called MolmoAct 2, is designed to help robots better understand spatial environments and respond to instructions while […]
Insider Brief Today’s AI safety guardrails may not be enough once robots begin operating around people in the physical world, according to a new study warning that AI-powered machines require far more context-aware safety systems than chatbots. Researchers from University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford, report finding that safety techniques […]
Insider Brief SoftBank Robotics is bringing its autonomous cooking robots to the U.S. market. The company announced it will debut its “STEAMA” and “FLAMA” cooking systems at the National Restaurant Association Show 2026 in Chicago later this month as it expands its food automation business outside Japan. “We’re excited to bring STEAMA and FLAMA the […]