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ANYbotics launches Shift to streamline robot fleet operations, scale inspections
ANYbotics designed Shift to help maintenance teams run industrial inspections, detect failing equipment, and turn data into work orders.
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ANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create
Swiss legged-robot maker ANYbotics has released Shift, a four-module platform that plans robot inspection rounds, analyses the readings and pushes findings into plant systems such as SAP and IBM Maximo. The company says Shift already analyses more than 120,000 inspections a month across over 1,000 industrial assets.
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Runway turns its video models into robot control with Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model
Runway announced Praxis-1 on 30 September 2026, an open-weight world action model that converts its large-scale video pretraining into control for real robots. Early tests run with Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra on bimanual, six-axis arm and mobile-base hardware, and public weights are promised in the coming months.
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Sharpa brings a touch-covered robot, a lighter 21-joint hand and a haptic glove to IROS, building its own data loop for dexterity
Singapore-based Sharpa launched three products at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh: the D01 robot with whole-body electronic skin, the W02 hand with 21 active degrees of freedom at under 750 grams, and the AE01 haptic glove for teleoperation and data capture. Together they give the company the hardware to collect, replay and learn from touch-rich manipulation data.
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NVIDIA launches an open safety platform for AI agents; Figure, Skild AI and Gecko are building on it
The Open Agent Safety Platform pairs open-source OpenShell software with a Sentry reference design. NVIDIA names three robotics companies using it to put safety limits on physical systems.
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Video Friday: Life’s Better With a Little Robot Goose
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.
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Epson launches AX6 cobot with 6 kg payload, 900 mm reach and cleanroom rating
Epson Robots has released the AX6, a collaborative robot arm with a 6 kg payload and 900 mm reach built on a lightweight carbon-fiber structure. The arm runs on Epson's RC-A1010 controller, accepts both 100-240 V AC and 48 V DC power and meets ISO Class 5 cleanroom requirements, which the company said fits life-science work and mounting on autonomous mobile robots. Programming is handled in the browser-based AX Portal software, which offers a no-code interface, a Python environment and a 3D simulator for testing programs. The AX6 is available now through Epson's distribution partners; no price was given.
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Universal Robots launches Gen 7 cobot platform as Teradyne takes its fight with Chinese rivals to Europe's patent court
Universal Robots unveiled its seventh-generation platform on September 14, 2026, with three new g-Series arms, a CB7 controller offering 40% more compute in a 30% smaller footprint, and native ROS 2 support. Two weeks earlier its parent Teradyne Robotics sued the German subsidiary of China's JAKA at the Unified Patent Court, its second European IP action against a Chinese cobot maker this year.
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FANUC to ship AI Welding Agent that reads drawings and writes robot weld programs, built on Google's Gemini Enterprise
FANUC said on Sept. 11 it will begin shipping an AI Welding Agent at the end of December 2026. The system photographs a part drawing with the CRX tablet teach pendant and generates welding conditions and robot motion without manual teaching, using Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise. Price was not disclosed.
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Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2, taking its robot models to whole-body humanoid control
Google DeepMind on July 30 released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of three models covering whole-body humanoid control, high-level embodied reasoning and on-device inference. The reasoning model ER 2 is available to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, while the action models remain limited to early-access partners and trusted testers.
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NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge on July 20, the smallest member of its Cosmos 3 physical-AI model family, as open weights on Hugging Face. The 4-billion-parameter model runs on Jetson Thor and generates 32 robot actions per inference, and Doosan Robotics, Siemens, Agile Robots and Skild AI are evaluating it.
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Hugging Face ships LeRobot 0.6 with world models and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, deepening an open robotics alliance
Hugging Face released version 0.6.0 of its open-source LeRobot robotics library on July 7, adding three world-model policies, five vision-language-action models including NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, two reward models and six simulation benchmarks. NVIDIA said a day earlier that it is bringing GR00T, Isaac Teleop, Isaac Lab-Arena, Jetson Thor support and, soon, Cosmos 3 into LeRobot.
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NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain
NVIDIA announced at GTC Taipei on June 1, 2026 an Isaac GR00T reference humanoid for academic research, built on Unitree's H2 Plus body with two 22-degree-of-freedom Sharpa Wave tactile hands and a Jetson AGX Thor T5000 computer. Unitree will sell it from late 2026; Ai2, ETH Zurich, Stanford and UC San Diego are the first named research users. No price was given.
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AgiBot says 2025 revenue topped RMB1 billion as it launches the Expedition A3 humanoid and a robot rental network
Shanghai-based AgiBot told its 2026 partner conference on April 17 that revenue grew from RMB300,000 in 2023 to more than RMB1 billion in 2025, and that its ten-thousandth robot had rolled off the line this year. The company launched four hardware lines including the full-size Expedition A3, six models and a five-year ecosystem programme worth more than RMB2 billion.
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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 teaches robots to read gauges, lifting accuracy to 93% with Boston Dynamics' Spot as first showcase
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 on April 14, 2026, an embodied reasoning model built on Gemini 3.0 Flash and offered as a preview through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. DeepMind said the model reads industrial instruments correctly 86% of the time, or 93% with an agentic zoom and code execution step, against 23% for ER 1.5. Boston Dynamics is using the capability for Spot facility inspections.
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NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
NVIDIA used its GTC keynote on March 16, 2026 to preview Isaac GR00T N2, a robot foundation model built on its DreamZero world action model research that it says succeeds at new tasks in new environments more than twice as often as leading VLA models. It also put the 3-billion-parameter GR00T N1.7 into commercial early access and announced Cosmos 3 and Isaac Lab 3.0, with N2 due by the end of 2026.
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Boston Dynamics starts building the production Atlas as Hyundai targets 30,000 robots a year and a Georgia line debut in 2028
Boston Dynamics unveiled the production version of its electric Atlas humanoid at CES 2026 on January 5 and said manufacturing begins immediately in Boston, with all 2026 units already committed to Hyundai Motor Group and Google DeepMind. Hyundai set a goal of a production system able to build 30,000 robots a year by 2028, when Atlas is due to start parts sequencing at its Georgia Metaplant, moving into assembly by 2030. Hyundai Mobis will supply the actuators and Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models are to supply the cognition.