The robotics business began 2025 with giant funding rounds, new product releases, and well-known manufacturers discovering new houses. If January is any indication, 2025 can be a nonstop yr for the business.
Listed here are the ten hottest tales on The Robotic Report prior to now month. Subscribe to The Robotic Report E-newsletter and take heed to The Robotic Report Podcast to remain updated on the robotics developments it is advisable to find out about.
10. NEURA Robotics raises $123M to proceed creating cognitive, humanoid robots
NEURA Robotics GmbH raised €120 million ($123.3 million U.S.) in Sequence B funding. The Metzingen, Germany-based firm mentioned the funding validates its management in “cognitive robotics” and in European robotics because the area collaborates and competes with the U.S. and China. Learn Extra
9. Symbotic to amass Walmart robotics unit for $200M and construct new methods
Symbotic Inc. mentioned it’ll purchase Walmart Inc.’s Superior Techniques and Robotics enterprise. The availability chain robotics firm mentioned the transaction expands its relationship with Walmart with the purpose of “creating an built-in provide chain.” Learn Extra
8. RIC Know-how debuts robotic 3D printer that may print as much as 3 tales excessive
RIC Know-how debuted its most superior and largest development robotic 3D printer, named RIC-PRIMUS. With the aptitude to print three-story constructions as much as 32 ft. tall, RIC-PRIMUS expands upon the improvements of its predecessor, RIC-M1 PRO. Learn Extra
7. NVIDIA heralds ‘bodily AI’ period with Cosmos platform launch
For too lengthy, AI has been trapped in Flatland, the two-dimensional world imagined by English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Whereas chatbots, picture turbines, and AI-driven video instruments have dazzled us, they continue to be confined to the flat surfaces of our screens. Now, NVIDIA is tearing down the partitions of Flatland, ushering within the period of “bodily AI” — a world the place synthetic intelligence can understand, perceive, and work together with the three-dimensional world round us. Learn Extra
6. Watch Out provides autonomy to CNC cells for exact manufacturing
Producers face widespread shortages of expert labor, however extra clever automation might alleviate the issue, in keeping with Watch Out. The corporate has developed extremely automated workcells to make manufacturing extra versatile and fewer labor-intensive. Learn Extra
5. IFR predicts prime 5 international robotics developments for 2025
The worldwide market worth of commercial robotic installations has reached an all-time excessive of $16.5 billion (U.S.), in keeping with the Worldwide Federation of Robotics, or IFR. Future demand can be pushed by quite a few technological improvements, market forces, and new fields of enterprise, it predicted. Learn Extra
4. CES 2025 recap: Noteworthy robots at this yr’s present
The annual Shopper Electronics Present brings collectively the newest in know-how product bulletins. Final month, Las Vegas was as soon as once more filled with robotics and AI-based methods. Whereas CES 2025 catered primarily to shopper electronics and robotics, we hunted down the industrial robotics merchandise sprinkled all through the occasion. Learn Extra
3. LimX Dynamics demonstrates newest humanoid robotic motions
Humanoid robots are getting extra agile and doubtlessly extra helpful. LimX Dynamics Inc. launched a video (see above). It reveals a full-sized humanoid mendacity down, doing parallel squats, rotating on the waist, and lifting itself right into a standing place by rotating its legs in a means that human hips can not. Learn Extra
2. 5 greatest robotics developments of 2024
With 2024 within the rearview mirror, we’re trying again at a few of the greatest robotics developments of the yr. Whereas the yr was filled with thrilling improvements and new applied sciences, we additionally noticed the business climate dips in funding and slower gross sales. Listed here are our 5 greatest developments for 2024. Learn Extra
1. Intel spinning out RealSense as standalone firm
Intel is spinning out RealSense as an unbiased firm. Intel mentioned this can be accomplished within the first half of 2025, with the brand new enterprise being an Intel Capital portfolio firm. Intel informed The Robotic Report that spinning out RealSense just isn’t a direct results of the corporate’s current monetary struggles. Learn Extra
