Robotics · Page 4
humanoids, drones, self-driving vehicles and machines that move on their own

Industrial robots are booming outside car factories, new data shows
North American robot orders jumped 21% in value in Q2 2026, and the biggest growth came from chip makers, life sciences firms and food producers, not the car companies that once dominated the industry.

The US Army's $15.9 Million Robot Supply Truck Is Built to Reach Soldiers Without Getting Anyone Killed
A Colorado robotics firm just won a contract to build TALUS, an autonomous supply system designed to keep frontline troops fed, fuelled and armed without sending a driver into enemy territory.

DAF Trucks and Einride team up to put self-driving electric lorries on Europe's roads
A Swedish autonomous driving startup and a Dutch truck giant are combining their technology to move heavy freight without a human at the wheel. Here is what they are building and when it could happen.

Cambridge Aerospace raises $300 million to scale drone-interceptor production
The UK defence start-up, founded just last year, is now valued at $3.4 billion and holds contracts with the British Armed Forces to shoot down low-cost attack drones.

Self-driving truck startup PlusAI hits new safety milestones ahead of 2027 launch
Three key measures of readiness are all moving in the right direction, and the company says driverless commercial trucks are now a 2027 target, not a distant dream.

Humanoid robots could become a $370 billion market by 2040. Here is what is slowing them down
McKinsey puts the general-purpose robotics market on track for massive growth, but the software tools used to design these machines are still stuck in the past.

When Robots and Warehouse Workers Share the Floor, Safety Doesn't Have to Mean Shutdowns
A free webinar on 26 August brings together robotics and logistics experts to tackle the real problem nobody talks about: how to keep people safe around robot fleets without grinding operations to a halt.

RoboStore Spins Up a U.S. Manufacturer Called Robo Inc. to Build and Deploy Robots on American Soil
The company behind more than 1,500 robot sales in North America is opening a Long Island factory and promising to assemble, integrate and service robots locally, partly to get ahead of trade restrictions on Chinese hardware.

Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion to Build AI-Powered Defense Factories Across the US
The automated manufacturing startup, valued at $7.87 billion after the round, now controls nearly three million square feet of factory space and plans to expand into munitions and autonomous weapons production.

A data-center parts maker replaced all hand welding with 58 robots. Here's what happened.
Tate Inc. says a 12-times jump in per-welder output and an end to costly rework followed its shift to cloud-connected robotic welding across three U.S. factories.

Analog Devices doubles down on robotics startups with renewed MassRobotics sponsorship
The semiconductor giant is giving Boston-area robotics founders direct access to its engineers, sensor technology and seed funding through its internal startup incubator.

Meet the robots learning to survive real warehouse chaos
A conversation with Nomagic's North America chief reveals how AI-guided robot arms are moving from controlled demos to the messy reality of order fulfilment, and what that shift means for the warehouses that run our online shopping.

Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots
The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.

Meet Robin, the Kid-Sized Robot Helping Patients Stay Calm in Hospitals and Dental Clinics
A small, armless robot with a backstory about missing outer space is showing up in around 30 healthcare facilities and convincing children to eat, breathe, and sit still for the dentist.

Warehouse Robots Are Getting Smarter. Here Is What Is Driving the Boom.
Two new market forecasts show the autonomous mobile robot industry doubling or tripling by 2030, pushed by labour costs and better AI-powered navigation.