The robotics business began the yr with massive funding rounds, new product releases, and well-known manufacturers discovering new houses. If January is any indication, 2025 will likely 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 hearken to The Robotic Report Podcast to remain updated on the robotics developments you should learn 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 stated 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. stated it’ll purchase Walmart Inc.’s Superior Techniques and Robotics enterprise. The availability chain robotics firm stated 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
In January 2025, RIC Know-how introduced its most superior and largest development robotic 3D printer, named RIC-PRIMUS. With the potential to print buildings 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 turbines, 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, in response to 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 traits for 2025
The worldwide market worth of commercial robotic installations has reached an all-time excessive of $16.5 billion (U.S.), in response to the Worldwide Federation of Robotics, or IFR. Future demand will likely be pushed by various 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. In January 2025, Las Vegas was as soon as once more stuffed with robotics and AI-based methods. Whereas CES catered primarily to client electronics and robotics, we hunted down the industrial robots sprinkled all through the occasion. Learn extra.
3. LimX Dynamics demonstrates newest humanoid robotic motions
Humanoid robots are getting extra agile and probably extra helpful. LimX Dynamics Inc. launched a video exhibiting 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 method that human hips can not. Learn extra.
2. 5 greatest robotics traits of 2024
With 2024 within the rearview mirror, The Robotic Report appears to be like again at a few of the greatest robotics traits of the yr. Whereas there have been many 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 traits 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 shouldn’t be a direct results of the corporate’s latest monetary struggles. Learn extra.
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