SoftBank announced in early October 2025 that it has agreed to acquire Swiss industrial giant ABB's robotics business for US$5.375 billion, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026.

In an agribusiness setting, Spot is "an extra set of eyes and ears" that can inspect operations and catch potential hazards.

“Boston Blue” opens on an unassuming evening in the New England city. Two 20-something guys, Sean and his best friend Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner), are out on the town. As the pair chat up a couple ...

Global food major Cargill has adopted a robotic dog named Spot. Developed by Boston Dynamics, the company’s new pet does more than ‘sit’ and ‘stay’ – Spot patrols Cargill’s multiseed crush and ...

Foundation models and vision systems enable robots to handle unstructured tasks instead of single preprogrammed motions, accelerating real-world deployments. The robotics market could reach anywhere ...

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With Figure 03, we see images of a humanoid robot doing the dishes, serving drinks, or working at a hotel reception desk and our minds tend to fill in the gaps and assume the robot is acting like a ...

In small factories across America, agile automatons are making everything from parts for AI supercomputers to the hulls of America’s future autonomous naval weapons. Once a luxury reserved for big ...

What makes a humanoid hand so fascinating? Imagine a robotic gripper delicately assembling intricate components on a factory floor or carefully holding fragile medical instruments during surgery.

China-based DEEP Robotics has unveiled the DR02, an industrial-grade humanoid robot that it says is the first in the world to achieve full-body IP66 waterproof and dustproof protection. The robot can ...