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Skydio Unveils F10 Lightrunner Fixed-Wing Drone and MegaDock at Ascend 2026 ↗
The company’s first fixed-wing aircraft flies up to 100 mph across a 30-mile radius from a five-aircraft robotic dock, alongside two new industry-specific software platforms.
Matternet Unveils M3 Autonomous Drone Delivery Platform for Rooftop Micro-Hubs ↗
The next-generation system pairs a new aircraft, dock and drop-box portal so restaurants, retailers and hospitals can send packages without staff on site, with commercial service targeted for the second half of 2027.
How Manufacturers Use CMMS Software to Prevent Equipment Downtime ↗
Unexpected equipment failures can disrupt an entire production day.
Why RAID Failures Are Becoming a Bigger Risk in Automated Manufacturing ↗
Automation has quietly made storage failure an operations problem, not just an IT one.
Blue Marble Moves Toward an End-to-End Geospatial Workflow ↗
New Global Mapper subscription brings geospatial tools together as Blue Marble builds deeper connections between drone data, desktop analysis and field operations For drone mapping professionals, collecting data is only…
DIU Launches $100 Million Challenge for Low-Cost ISR Aircraft ↗
U.S. and international manufacturers invited to compete, with up to $250 million more budgeted for development and scaled production The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has launched a $100 million competition to identify…
Meet Flourish One, the Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid built for busy parents ↗
Flourish is releasing a $3,555 phone-trainable home robot, targeting busy parents with personalized, cloud-trained chore automation.
State of Robots in Manufacturing ↗
The Robot Report looks at recent advances in automation for manufacturing, from improvements in technologies and use cases to the potential of humanoids and AI.
ENCY Software launches Onshape Connector for direct CAD-to-CAM workflow ↗
ENCY Software has released Onshape Connector for ENCY 3.0.
Panasonic to introduce new welding solutions at FabTech ↗
Manufacturers across North America are accelerating adoption of automation technologies to address persistent labor shortages and increasing production complexity.
Daimon Robotics launches tactile AI model to give robots a sense of physical interaction ↗
Daimon Robotics has launched Daimon-TWM, a new tactile-grounded world model designed to enable robots to interpret physical interactions such as force, friction, deformation and slippage rather than relying primarily on…
Nvidia launches Isaac ROS 5.0 with AI agents for robotics development ↗
Nvidia has released Isaac ROS 5.0, introducing AI agent capabilities designed to help developers build, customize and deploy robotics applications more quickly using the open-source Robot Operating System ecosystem.
Apple’s foldable iPhone puts precision manufacturing and laser technology to the test ↗
Apple is expected to unveil its first-ever foldable iPhone on September 9, which will have to clear one of the foldable industry’s toughest hurdles: building a smartphone that can fold hundreds of thousands of times…
Bauhaus automates container unloading and palletizing with XYZ Robotics ↗
Home-improvement retailer Bauhaus has deployed an automated inbound logistics system from XYZ Robotics at its logistics center in Krefeld, Germany, combining container unloading, carton identification and palletizing in…
Matternet unveils new M3 drone with 11-pound payload and 10-mile service radius ↗
Drone delivery has spent years trying to answer a deceptively simple question: What happens when you want to move from a handful of pilot programs to thousands of deliveries every day?
How Modern Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms Use Automation ↗
Modern cryptocurrency platforms have developed a reputation for making cryptocurrency trading accessible, and one of the key ways they do so is through automation.
Wheel Balancers: Key Features to Look for Before You Buy ↗
Maintaining tire health and ensuring smooth vehicle operation requires specialized shop equipment designed for modern automotive standards.
Powered by muscle cells, a paper-thin robot swims through watery maze ↗
MIT engineers’ new aquabot offers a way to design small, efficient “biohybrid” robots.
A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp ↗
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them.
Space junk crisis: The robots and technologies being developed to clean up Earth’s orbit ↗
When China’s Yaogan 50-02 satellite broke apart this year, it added at least 43 tracked fragments to an orbital environment already crowded with tens of thousands of satellites, spent rocket bodies and pieces of debris.
GalvaHub starts operations at region’s largest galvanizing facility in Abu Dhabi ↗
GalvaHub has officially commenced hot-dip galvanizing operations at Metal Park in the Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi (Kezad), marking the start of production using what the company describes as “the largest…
PrePass and Kodiak integrate autonomous truck inspections into roadside enforcement systems ↗
PrePass, a provider of toll payment and compliance solutions, and Kodiak AI, an autonomous driving technology company, have announced a new collaboration to integrate “enhanced inspections” of Kodiak’s autonomous…
Elroy Air secures fresh funding to scale Chaparral drone production ↗
Elroy Air is getting a much bigger financial runway as it prepares to turn its autonomous cargo drone into a production aircraft.
ABB launches E-Device to let users control robots from their own tablets and PCs ↗
ABB Robotics is expanding its programming tool and user interface portfolio with the launch of E-Device, a compact safety interface that enables customers to use their own tablet or PC to operate, program and monitor…
Opinion: What embodied AI must prove before it has its ‘GPT moment’ ↗
By Steven Yang, founder and editor, RoboSkin.ai Consider an assembly robot that encounters resistance while inserting a component.
Visual Components launches Nvidia-powered FactoryLens for industrial digital twins ↗
Visual Components, a specialist in 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming, has announced FactoryLens, a new viewport built directly into its simulation platform, powered by the Nvidia Omniverse…
Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control ↗
Gecko Robotics is using the new NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform to ensure the secure autonomous control of systems.
Fugro deploys AUV for ultra-deepwater geohazard survey off Malaysia ↗
Fugro has executed the geohazard site survey contract by Petronas Carigali for the Megah and Limbayong fields off the coast of Sabah, offshore East Malaysia.
European Patent Office upholds Carbon’s key dual-cure 3D printing patent ↗
Carbon, a specialist in 3D printing technology, has announced that a Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected a competitor’s challenge to one of Carbon’s foundational dual cure patents, upholding…
IBM files patent for wireless charging through humanoid robots’ feet ↗
IBM has developed a concept for enabling humanoid robots to autonomously recharge by standing on specially equipped floor tiles, according to a recently published US patent application highlighted by patent analysis…