The robotics trade began the yr with giant funding rounds, new product releases, and well-known manufacturers discovering new houses. If January is any indication, 2025 might be a nonstop yr for the trade.
Listed below are the ten hottest tales on The Robotic Report prior to now month. Subscribe to The Robotic Report Publication and take heed to The Robotic Report Podcast to remain updated on the robotics developments that you must find out about.
10. NEURA Robotics raises $123M to proceed creating cognitive, humanoid robots
NEURA 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 provision chain robotics firm mentioned the transaction expands its relationship with Walmart with the objective 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
In January 2025, RIC Know-how introduced its most superior and largest development robotic 3D printer, named RIC-PRIMUS. With the potential to print 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, synthetic intelligence has been trapped in Flatland, the two-dimensional world imagined by English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Whereas chatbots, picture mills, and AI-driven video instruments have dazzled us, they continue to be confined to the flat surfaces of our screens. Now, NVIDIA is ushering within the period of “bodily AI” — a world the place AI can understand, perceive, and work together with the three-dimensional world. 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, based on Watch Out. The corporate has developed extremely automated workcells to make manufacturing extra versatile and fewer labor-intensive. Learn extra.
5. IFR predicts high 5 world robotics tendencies for 2025
The worldwide market worth of business robotic installations has reached an all-time excessive of $16.5 billion (U.S.), based on the Worldwide Federation of Robotics, or IFR. Future demand might be pushed by a lot of 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 expertise product bulletins. In January 2025, Las Vegas was as soon as once more filled with robotics and AI-based methods. Whereas CES catered primarily to shopper electronics and robotics, we hunted down the business robots 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 displaying 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’t. Learn extra.
2. 5 largest robotics tendencies of 2024
With 2024 within the rearview mirror, The Robotic Report seems again at a few of the largest robotics tendencies of the yr. Whereas there have been many thrilling improvements and new applied sciences, we additionally noticed the trade climate dips in funding and slower gross sales. Listed below are our 5 largest tendencies for 2024. Learn extra.
1. Intel spins out RealSense as standalone firm
Intel Corp. is spinning out RealSense as an impartial firm. It plans to do that within the first half of 2025, with the brand new enterprise being an Intel Capital portfolio firm. Intel instructed The Robotic Report that spinning out RealSense is just not a direct results of the corporate’s current monetary struggles. Learn extra.
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