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Product Focus: Zebra Technologies Showcases New Intelligent Automation Solutions

Zebra Technologies Corporation (Lincolnshire, IL) presented its newest solutions to advance intelligent automation across manufacturing and warehouse...

Physical AI and Simulation Advances Accelerate Industrial Automation

In the rapidly evolving landscape of advanced manufacturing, the convergence of physical AI and high-fidelity simulation technologies is ushering in a transformative era...

Tech Focus: Robots That Think and Act on the Fly at Moving Assembly Line Speeds

In the race to bring automotive manufacturing back home, the general assembly shop, the most manual and unpredictable stage of vehicle production, remains the...

Safety in Motion: Setting the Standard for Humanoid Robots

With AI advancements, hardware improvements, and a lot of media attention, humanoid robots are gaining significant momentum in the industry. Safety of these robots, however, is too...

Tech Focus: Translating Business Orders into Actionable Robot Missions

InOrbit.AI (Mountain View, CA) is unveiling the InOrbit Business Execution System™ at Automate 2025. This key addition to InOrbit Space Intelligence™ transforms how...

Product Focus: Sonair Unveils 3D Ultrasonic Sensor Designed to Boost Safety

Developed by a Norwegian sensor startup Sonair, a safe 3D ultrasonic sensor — ADAR — designed to boost safety in spaces shared by humans and robots debuted at...

Product Focus: Olis Launches a Diagnostic Tool That Runs on Any Android Device

Olis (Seattle, WA) has launched a remote automation monitoring, diagnostic and error recovery app that turns Android smartphones and tablets into gateways for...

Product Focus: Güdel Introduces Swiss Quality Tracks for Cobots

At Automate 2025, Güdel Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI), is highlighting two new technologies — Cobomover™ and a modular track system — that demonstrate its ability to solve...

Tech Focus: Advancing Inline Quality Control with High-Precision 3D Metrology

A new state-of-the-art robot-assisted 3D inspection and metrology system designed for real-time quality control in manufacturing, is being showcased by senswork...

Product Focus: An AI-Ready Automation Controller with Built-In Cellular Connectivity

Montreal-based Vention, creator of the full-stack software and hardware automation platform, recently announced the commercial availability of its powerful...

A Compact, Mid-Infrared Pulse Generator

Physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but...

Knowing the Right Trigger Strategy Ensures Capture of High-Speed Application With Precision

In the field of technical imaging, the term “trigger” is often used synonymously with the term frame-synchronization (or f-sync) signal. In the...

Tying Overlapping Laser Beams into Stable 'Optical Knots'

A beam of light doesn’t sound like a material that can create a knot. Until now.

Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an...

Engineering a Robot That Can Jump 10 Feet High — Without Legs

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, Georgia Tech engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone...

RoboBee Comes in for a Landing

The Harvard RoboBee has long shown it can fly, dive, and hover like a real insect. But what good is the miracle of flight without a safe way to land? A storied engineering achievement by the Harvard...

A Lighter, Smarter Magnetoreceptive Electronic Skin

Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water — this and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team...

New Atom-Based Thermometer Measures Temperature More Accurately

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand...

Advancing Semiconductor Devices for Artificial Intelligence

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated that a single, standard silicon transistor, the fundamental building block of microchips used in...

New Wearable Tech Simulates Realistic Touch

When it comes to haptic feedback, most technologies are limited to simple vibrations. But our skin is loaded with tiny sensors that detect pressure, vibration, stretching, and more. Now,...

A Robust and Adaptive Controller for Ballbots

A Ballbot is a unique kind of robot with great mobility, which possesses the ability to go in all directions. Obviously, controlling such a robotic device must be tricky. Indeed, ballbot systems...

New Research Sheds Light on Using Multiple CubeSats for In-Space Servicing and Repair Missions

As more satellites, telescopes, and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for service spacecraft to...

Exploring Earth Science with a New Navigational System

NASA and its partners recently tested an aircraft guidance system that could help planes maintain a precise course even while flying at high speeds up to 500 mph. The instrument is...

MIT Engineers Develop a Fully 3D-Printed Electrospray Engine

An electrospray engine applies an electric field to a conductive liquid, generating a high-speed jet of tiny droplets that can propel a spacecraft. These miniature engines are...

A Springtail-Like Jumping Robot

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and...

Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage

From mountain goats that run up near-vertical rock faces to armadillos that roll into a protective ball, animals have evolved to adapt effortlessly to changes in their environment....

Robot Works Inside E-Waste Recycling Facility

A researcher from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science is using robotics to improve e-waste recycling.

MIT Engineers Help Multirobot Systems Stay In the Safety Zone

Drone shows are an increasingly popular form of large-scale light display. These shows incorporate hundreds to thousands of airborne bots, each programmed to fly in paths that...

New Microactuator Driving System Could Give Microdrones a Jump-Start

An innovative circuit design could enable miniature devices, such as microdrones and other microrobotics, to be powered for longer periods of time while staying...