Opinion & Briefings

Industry briefings, distilled for engineers

Daily industry briefings distilled from robotics research and industrial automation news — each links back to its original source.

BriefingOpinion · Feb 3, 2026

New York Robotics Launches as Regional Startup Count Tops 160

Non-profit launches to unify NYC's robotics ecosystem, citing over 160 startups and strong investment and talent.

BriefingOpinion · Feb 2, 2026

Waabi Raises $1B to Accelerate Autonomous Trucking and Expand into Robotaxis

Waabi closes $750M Series C plus Uber milestone investment to scale its physical AI platform across trucking and robotaxis.

BriefingOpinion · Feb 1, 2026

Microsoft Research unveils Rho-alpha robotics model combining vision, language, and touch

Microsoft's Rho-alpha VLA+ model integrates tactile sensing and synthetic data to improve bimanual manipulation in unstructured environments.

BriefingOpinion · Jan 31, 2026

Serve Robotics to Acquire Diligent Robotics, Expanding Autonomy into Hospitals

Serve Robotics acquires Diligent Robotics, adding hospital robot Moxi to its platform and moving beyond sidewalk delivery into indoor healthcare environments.

BriefingOpinion · Jan 30, 2026

Oversonic Robotics Partners with NantWorks, Opens LA Office for US Expansion

Italian humanoid robotics firm Oversonic teams with NantWorks to advance cognitive robots in healthcare and aerospace, opening a new LA office.

BriefingOpinion · Jan 29, 2026

Locus Robotics and Radial Hit 25 Million Picks Milestone

Locus Robotics and Radial surpass 25 million picks at a single warehouse, showcasing scalable AMR automation and RaaS model.

BriefingOpinion · Jan 28, 2026

Standard Bots Adopts Cognibotics Calibration for Next-Gen AI Cobots

Standard Bots selects Cognibotics' CogniCal calibration to boost accuracy and scalability of its AI-driven cobots, including a new 30 kg, 2 m reach model.

BriefingOpinion · Jan 28, 2026

Siemens Launches Digital Twin Composer for Industrial Metaverse at Scale

Siemens' new Digital Twin Composer builds large-scale industrial metaverse environments, enabling virtual validation and optimization of products and factories.

BriefingOpinion · Jan 25, 2026

XELA Robotics Showcases uSkin Tactile Sensing for Humanoid and Industrial Robots

XELA Robotics presents uSkin 3D tactile sensing at CES 2026, enabling robots to detect contact forces, object shape, and movement for enhanced manipulation.