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Cobot Robotics News — Cobot Industry Updates

Collaborative robots and human-robot interaction — curated from top sources.

Humanoid

Video Friday: An Earthbound Mars Rover for the Moon

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 3, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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AMR

How compact cobot integration enhances autonomous mobile robot applications

The Robot Report·Jun 27, 2026

Cobots are quickly shaping the future of warehousing, with their use rising 10-fold from 2018 to 2025, Kassow said. The post How compact co…

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Cobot

Hirebotics offers no-code, explosion-proof cobot for painting

The Robot Report·Jun 25, 2026

Hirebotics' Cobot Painter supports stationary painting, with parts placed in a paint booth where robots perform all spraying operations. Th…

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Cobot

Vention collaborates with FANUC and Universal Robots on software-defined automation

The Robot Report·Jun 23, 2026

Vention is working with partners to make design and deployment of industrial and collaborative robots easier for manufacturers. The post Ve…

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Manipulation

Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation

The Robot Report·Jun 22, 2026

Cobot founder and CEO Brad Porter said Proxie Gen 2 can determine when materials are ready to move, identify destinations, and create tasks…

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Humanoid

Video Friday: Do Robots Even Need Legs?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 19, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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Manipulation

PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to robot dexterity

The Robot Report·Jun 16, 2026

PSYONIC is combining its Ability Hand with ABB Robotics' GoFa cobot arm to apply data from prosthetics users to robotic grasping. The post…

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Manipulation

Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 13, 2026

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of dexterity an…

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Manipulation

Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 12, 2026

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elem…

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Manipulation

Festo launches lightweight pneumatic gripper and tests GripperAI

The Robot Report·Jun 3, 2026

Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training. The post F…

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Cobot

The evolution of cobots in metal fabrication and construction

The Robot Report·May 28, 2026

Matt Bush, the co-founder and CEO of Hirebotics, talks about how cobots are becoming a necessity for manufacturers and welders. The post Th…

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Humanoid

Home Robot Safety Is All About Relationships

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 19, 2026

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is updating its 12-year-old safety requirements for personal care robots. A lot ha…

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Manipulation

What Makes a Job Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 18, 2026

For years, the field of robotics has used the terms “dull, dirty, and dangerous” (DDD) to describe the types of tasks or jobs where robots…

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Cobot

Agentic AI for Robot Teams

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 18, 2026

This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic…

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Humanoid

iRobot Founder Wants to Put a Robotic Familiar Into Your Home

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 4, 2026

Two years ago, Colin Angle stepped down as CEO of iRobot, the company that he co-founded and the most successful home robot company the wor…

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Cobot

Closing the latency gap: Why physical AI requires edge-first architectures

The Robot Report·May 3, 2026

Madhu Gaganam, founder and CEO of Cogniedge.ai, said the industry’s shift toward true cobots demands more than safer cages or slower speeds…

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Cobot

ABB Robotics launches PoWa cobot family targeting industrial tasks

The Robot Report·Apr 25, 2026

ABB Robotics said its new PoWa family of cobots addresses a long‑standing gap in the market between traditional cobots. The post ABB Roboti…

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Cobot

From sci-fi to reality: Physical AI’s future with Dr. Jan Liphardt

The Robot Report·Apr 24, 2026

Dr. Jan Liphardt discusses the impact of modular AI systems on robotics, emphasizing the importance of transparency and safety in human-rob…

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Cobot

German court rules in favor of Teradyne Robotics, issues injunction against Elite Robots

The Robot Report·Apr 21, 2026

Teradyne has obtained an injunction from a German court as it pursues a claim against Elite Robots for copying its UR cobot software. The p…

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The USC Professor Who Pioneered Socially Assistive Robotics

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Apr 20, 2026

When the robotics engineering field that Maja Matarić wanted to work in didn’t exist, she helped create it. In 2005 she helped define the n…

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