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The Robotics Summit & Expo has introduced a limited-time National Robotics Week discount on All Access Passes, a small but timely signal of how industry events are competing for audience attention in a crowded robotics

A Robotics Summit session led by Robust.AI’s Anthony Jules will examine how to bring automation into complex warehouses in ways that people can work alongside effectively.

The Royal Navy has introduced a new uncrewed minehunting system called Adventure, a program described in candidate metadata as a $500 million effort to modernize naval mine warfare.

Venture firm Eclipse has closed $1.3 billion in fresh capital and says it will use the money to back and build startups that apply AI to transportation, energy, infrastructure, compute, and defense.

Researchers at Southern Methodist University say they have developed a magnetic coil system that can guide microrobots without relying on cameras or tracking systems, aiming to simplify control at very small scales.

A partnership between Thrive Logic and Asylon is positioning AI agents and autonomous security systems as a more active layer in enterprise perimeter protection.

Scientists have created tiny living robots with functional nervous systems, a development that points toward biological machines able to guide their movement and behavior through embedded neurons.

A US-led team says it has introduced a framework aimed at improving the safety of connected machine networks, including self-driving cars and delivery robots.

Generalist AI says its new GEN-1 system is a general-purpose model for physical AI and a major step toward its goal of building general intelligence for the physical world.

PickNik Robotics says its MoveIt Pro 9.0 release adds stronger perception-to-motion and teleoperation capabilities, with a particular focus on commercial cleaning, sanitation, and vehicle-washing robots.

BrainOS Clean 2.0 introduces SelfPath AI, a feature designed to let Tennant cleaning robots map and adapt routes on their own instead of relying on manual training.

A new bipedal robot highlighted by IEEE Spectrum stands out for its multi-modal movement, switching between one-wheel and two-wheel travel instead of following the more familiar humanoid template.

Unitree Robotics filed for a $610M IPO after posting $248M in revenue and 674% profit growth in 2025 — but 50-70% of enterprise humanoid revenue still comes from reception and tour-guide duties.

Russ Tedrake, MIT roboticist and former SVP at Toyota Research Institute, will publicly unveil a stealth AI startup at the Robotics Summit in May with a focus on physical AI for adaptive robots.

Palladyne AI has successfully integrated its SwarmOS platform with Draganfly's drone hardware in a simulation trial that demonstrated coordinated autonomous flight across multiple vehicles, marking a significant step toward next-generation defense swarm applications.

South Korean company Tesollo has introduced the DG-5F-S, a five-finger robotic hand with 20 degrees of freedom designed for humanoid robots, offering human-scale dexterity in a package weighing under 900 grams.

At GTC 2026, Nvidia announced major expansions to its physical AI platform, with autonomous vehicles launching in Los Angeles through an Uber partnership, FANUC and ABB industrial robots getting Nvidia brains, and new foundation models targeting humanoid robotics.

The Allen Institute for AI has demonstrated that robots trained in virtual simulations can transfer that learning to real-world manipulation tasks, offering a cheaper and more scalable alternative to expensive manual data collection.

BMW has begun deploying humanoid robots on the production floor of its German manufacturing facilities, marking one of the highest-profile integrations of bipedal robots into a major automotive assembly operation.

As humanoid robots approach commercial deployment, developers face a difficult challenge: the form factor promises versatility across industries, but no single vertical provides enough volume to justify development costs alone.