Robotics
Johnson & Johnson Receives FDA Market Authorization in the U.S. for its OTTAVA Robotic Surgical System
Johnson & Johnson - Johnson & Johnson announced that the FDA has granted De Novo authorization for the OTTAVA Robotic Surgical System, the world’s first table-integrated soft tissue robotic system. The system received marketing authorization for multiple procedures in general surgery, including Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, gastrectomy, cholecystectomy, splenectomy, gastric sleeve, small bowel resection, appendectomy, lysis of adhesions, fundoplication, and hiatal hernia repair.
KUKA first in robotics to achieve Security Level 2 certification in accordance with IEC 62443-4-2
KUKA - With its new iiQKA.OS2 operating system and the KR C5 controller platform, the KUKA robot system has been certified to Security Level 2 according to IEC 62443-4-2 and already meets the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 Cyber Resilience. It also fully meets the requirements of EN ISO 10218-1:2025 – a decisive milestone for secure, future-ready automation.
Unitree Announces H2 Plus, an NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot for Academic Research
Unitree - Unitree today announced the H2 Plus, the first humanoid robot reference design built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform. The reference design helps democratize frontier humanoid robotics research by providing access to advanced hardware and an open software stack without requiring proprietary platforms.
BASF Coatings future proofs Automotive Refinish through application expertise in robotics
BASF - BASF Coatings is strengthening its role in robotics-enabled Automotive Refinish by combining coatings expertise, digital color management and application process know-how. Through close collaboration with OEMs and automation partners, the company aims to help shape the future of automated paint application in body shops.
Schindler expands elevator installation robot fleet as global demand continues to rise
Schindler - Schindler is expanding its fleet of construction robots, adding two new units of its Robotic Installation System for Elevators (Schindler R.I.S.E). The expansion comes amid growing global demand for high-tech construction solutions that enhance safety, boost efficiency, and reduce the physical strain of on-site labor. The company is now operating seven robots worldwide, delivering time savings of up to 40% during elevator shaft preparation and installation.
NEURA Robotics and Dassault Systèmes Announce Partnership to Scale Physical AI Through Virtual Twins and Real World Learning
Neura Robotics - NEURA Robotics (NEURA), the European pioneer in cognitive robotics and Physical AI, and Dassault Systèmes, a global leader in virtual twin technology, today announced a partnership to connect virtual worlds with real world robotics at scale. This marks a major step in positioning European technology as a global benchmark for industrial AI.
Hexagon Robotics and Schaeffler deploy a fleet of AEON humanoids
Hexagon Robotics - Hexagon Robotics’ Division and the motion technology company Schaeffler today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to accelerate the rollout of humanoid robots, AEON, across factories worldwide, following the successful completion of a joint pilot program in 2025.
NEURA Robotics and Amazon Web Services Enter Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Physical AI at Scale
Neura Robotics - NEURA Robotics (NEURA) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced a strategic agreement to accelerate Physical AI at scale – bringing cognitive robots that can perceive, reason, and act alongside humans from development into global deployment. The collaboration combines NEURA’s cognitive robotics platform with AWS’s cloud and AI infrastructure to help train, validate, and deploy the next generation of intelligent robots.
RobCo Enters the Next Phase of Industrial Robotics with Autonomous Alfie
RobCo - RobCo today announced a strategic expansion of its industrial robotics with Autonomous Alfie, representing one of the largest untapped opportunities in industrial automation as manufacturers look to automate tasks that involve variability and sensitivity.
Labor for 2 dollars per hour: Humanoid robots as the next trillion-dollar-industry
Roland Berger - Humanoid robots are on the verge of moving from the prototype phase to industrial-scale rollout. The current Roland Berger study "Humanoid Robots 2026 – The Convergence Moment for a New Market" shows that advances in AI and robotics hardware could enable humanoid systems to operate at running costs of around two US dollars per hour in the future. This would make them a decisive lever in high-wage countries to safeguard competitiveness and foster new industries.
Festo Introduces the HPSX Universal Adaptive Gripper for Faster, Gentler and More Hygienic Picking
Festo - Festo has introduced the HPSX Universal Adaptive Gripper, a pneumatic soft gripper engineered to improve speed, hygiene and flexibility in demanding food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics applications. Combining robust design, food-safe materials and adaptive silicone fingers, the HPSX directly addresses long-standing automation challenges where rapid, precise and gentle product handling is essential.
FieldAI Accelerates Industrial Customers’ Adoption of AI in Collaboration with NVIDIA
FieldAI - FieldAI, the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, today announced further collaboration with NVIDIA, deepening its use of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to accelerate the industry's most extensive real-world data flywheel operating on industrial customer sites across the globe. What used to take customers months of manual effort can now happen in hours as a natural byproduct of robots doing their jobs.
Boston Dynamics and FieldAI Partner to Bring Robots Into Uncharted and Dynamic Environments
FieldAI - Today, Boston Dynamics and FieldAI announced a partnership to advance robotics in construction and other complex, ever-changing environments. The collaboration combines Boston Dynamics’ world-class robotic platforms and software stack with FieldAI’s Field Foundation Models (FFMs) for uncharted exploration, extending autonomous operations into spaces previously considered too unpredictable for robots.
Hardware for humanoid robots: New perspectives for industrial value creation in Europe
Fraunhofer - Together with the management consultancy P3, Fraunhofer IPA has investigated how component manufacturers could benefit from producing hardware components for humanoid robots. The results are available free of charge in the white paper “The Humanoid Hardware Value Chain: Can the European Manufacturing Industry Capitalize on the Humanoid Momentum?”
BMW deploys the humanoid robot AEON in production sites in Germany
Hexagon Robotics - BMW Group becomes the first company to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany. The BMW Group is consistently advancing the digitalization of its production operations and the use of artificial intelligence. A key element in this effort is so-called “Physical AI”, which combines digital artificial intelligence (AI) with real machines and robots. Intelligent systems such as humanoid robots can thus be integrated into real production processes.
LimX COSA, the First-of-Its Kind Agentic OS for Humanoid Robots
LimX Dynamics - LimX Dynamics officially announces the release of LimX COSA (Cognitive OS of Agents), the first-of-its-kind physical-world-native Agentic OS. By deeply integrating high-level cognition with whole-body motion control, COSA enables robots to have a "neural system", with both the ability to perceive and move, to "think while working" in real-world environments.
SCHUNK establishes technology spin-off for humanoid robot hands
Schunk - With the spin-off of a new company at the beginning of January 2026, SCHUNK is consolidating its activities in humanoid robotics and positioning itself as a key player in the growing market. The new company aims to develop modular humanoid robot hands for industrial applications, thereby systematically expanding the availability and use of humanoid systems.
Italian-designed humanoid robot marks a milestone in human-centric Physical AI
Generative Bionics - Generative Bionics, an Italian company developing Physical AI powered humanoid robots, unveiled its first concept at CES 2026, GENE.01. Presented on the global stage during the AMD opening keynote, GENE.01 marks the first appearance of the company’s humanoid robot concept that defines the visual, physical and technological identity of the company’s future products.
Boston Dynamics Unveils New Atlas Robot to Revolutionize Industry
Boston Dynamics - Boston Dynamics, the global leader in mobile robotics, unveiled the product version of its new Atlas robot at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today. The fully electric humanoid was revealed during Hyundai’s global CES media day presentation, which also featured a live stage demonstration of the prototype version of Atlas, in addition to a rousing dance performance by a troupe of its famous Spot robots.
Delta Unveils the Delta D-Bot Robotics Platform at SPS 2025
Delta - Delta, a global leader in power and smart green solutions, will unveil its new Delta D-Bot Robotics Platform at SPS 2025 in Nuremberg, offering scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable smart factory automation to global enterprises and SMEs (small to mid-sized enterprises). Developed for seamless integration across production, logistics, and assembly, the Delta D-Bot Platform Series unites all systems under one common architecture.
