Industrial Robots News Coverage of industrial robots at The Robotics Media includes news on robotic arms, welding and assembly systems, palletizing, machine tending, and factory automation deployments. Readers find reporting on manufacturers such as ABB, FANUC, KUKA, and Yaskawa, plus funding rounds, product launches, safety standards, and integration case studies. We also track trends in cobots, AI-driven vision systems, and smart manufacturing across automotive, electronics, and logistics sectors.
Ultra Robotics Raises $62 Million to Put a Forklift-Armed Humanoid in Every Warehouse Dock — Oct 12, 2026 — Ultra Robotics has raised $62 million, including a $50 million Series A led by Framework Ventures, to scale its OP1 Operator robot for unloading and p...Amazon Commits $100M To Build Fulfillment And Robotics Gear In Greenwood, Indiana — Sep 27, 2026 — Amazon will spend more than $100 million on a 585,000-square-foot factory in Greenwood, Indiana that starts producing fulfillment and robotics equipme...RobotPlusPlus Brings HighMate Robots to SMM 2026 in Hamburg — Sep 26, 2026 — RobotPlusPlus unveiled an expanded HighMate line of coating, cleaning and surface-preparation robots at SMM 2026, days after closing its Series C.Seyond Pushes Hummingbird D1R LiDAR From Cars Into Robots At IROS 2026 — Sep 26, 2026 — The former Innovusion, having shipped 1M+ automotive LiDARs, scales the compact D1R for AMRs, forklifts and humanoids.CNH Bets Autonomous R4 Robot Can Ease Farmers' Labor And Cost Squeeze — Sep 26, 2026 — CNH's Luca Ferrari says agentic AI machines like the R4 vineyard robot can help farmers do more with fewer resources.Modal Motors Bids To Cut China Out Of Drone And Actuator Motors — Sep 26, 2026 — US electric-motor startup Modal Motors unveiled its rare-earth-free Hybrid Enigma Drive at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on September 23 as a supply-chain a...Nexterity Debuts Bolted-Flange Robot To Automate Dangerous Pipefitting — Sep 26, 2026 — Ex-ExxonMobil engineer Lindsey Elliott unveiled Nexterity's battery-powered bolted-flange robot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to take on the physically b...5 Million Industrial Robots Now In Factories Worldwide, IFR Says — Sep 25, 2026 — IFR says 5 million industrial robots are now installed globally, with China at 354,000 new units in 2025 and the US passing Japan for the number-two s...Epson Debuts AX6 Cobot With Cleanroom Class-5 Design And No-Code Programming — Sep 25, 2026 — Epson's new AX6 six-axis collaborative arm carries 6 kg, reaches 900 mm and ships ISO Class 5 cleanroom-ready with the RC-A1010 controller for no-code...Volvo Autonomous Solutions Passes 3 Million Tonnes Hauled Driverless — Sep 24, 2026 — VAS tripled its haulage milestone in 15 months as nine driverless articulated trucks moved 3 Mt of limestone and mining rock at Bronnoy Kalk and Bolid...Amazon Commits $100M For Greenwood Indiana Robot-Making Plant — Sep 24, 2026 — Amazon will spend $100M+ on a 585,000-sq-ft advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana that will make robots and components for its fulfill...Arduino unveils VENTUNO Q, a 40-TOPS dual-brain robotics board — Sep 24, 2026 — Arduino, now a Qualcomm subsidiary, opened preorders for the VENTUNO Q — a dual-brain single-board computer that pairs a 40-TOPS Qualcomm Dragonwing I...PitPro's tire-changing robot goes live at Kal Tire in Calgary — Sep 24, 2026 — PitPro Automation's oven-sized robotic system swaps four tires in under 15 minutes and just launched at Kal Tire's Calgary retail store, its first com...Google's Intrinsic Open-Sources Core Robotics Stack Under Apache 2.0 — Sep 24, 2026 — Intrinsic has released Intrinsic Core, a ROS-compatible open-source robotics software suite covering motion planning, grasping, calibration and simula...Pickr.AI Bolts Modular Picking Robots Onto Existing Warehouses — Sep 23, 2026 — Norway's Pickr.AI is shipping PickrMate, a rail-mounted 3D-picking robot that slides into existing shelving and cube storage instead of forcing a full...X Square's QUANTA X1 Pro Starts Work At Lululemon's Wuhan Warehouse — Sep 21, 2026 — Shenzhen embodied-AI startup X Square Robot has deployed its wheeled dual-arm QUANTA X1 Pro humanoid on live parcel-sorting lines inside lululemon's n...Geekplus Opens Its First European Innovation Lab In Dusseldorf — Sep 19, 2026 — The Beijing-based mobile-robot maker turns its Dusseldorf EMEA HQ into a full showcase and testing lab for goods-to-person, tote-to-person and Gino 1...Hirebotics Adds Line Tracking And Linear Rails To Its Cobots At IMTS 2026 — Sep 19, 2026 — Hirebotics unveiled line-tracking and modular 5-foot linear-rail extensions for its no-code cobot cells at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, letting painters and...Tutor Intelligence Puts Second-Gen Cassie And Sonny On A 100-Robot Classroom Floor — Sep 17, 2026 — Cambridge, Massachusetts startup Tutor Intelligence has unveiled a second-generation warehouse robot lineup — the single-arm Cassie and dual-armed sem...Universal Robots Unveils Gen 7 Cobot Platform With UR10g, UR17g, UR18g And PolyScope X At IMTS — Sep 16, 2026 — Universal Robots' seventh-generation platform pairs three new cobot arms with a compact CB7 controller, a 20% lighter TP7 teach pendant and an AI-read...