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Boston Dynamics settles patent suit with military robotics firm Ghost

Roughly two and a half years after their patent battle began, Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics have settled the dispute on reasonably amicable terms. The robotics firms on Wednesday issued a joint release announcing the end of the dispute. “We are pleased to resolve this dispute on mutually advantageous terms,” Boston Dynamics Chief Legal Officer […]

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Meet Mirumi: an adorable robot that sits on your purse, from CES 2025

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Yukai Engineering is no stranger to cute, but somewhat odd, little robots. And at CES 2025, they revealed Mirumi, a robot that’s made to “delight bystanders” by turning its head to greet them. The robot has a few different modes to choose from, between a comfort mode in which it looks around after not being

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Watch this robot vacuum pick up your dirty socks at CES 2025

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

At CES 2025, Roborock unveiled a feature that it hopes could help its vacuums dethrone the Roomba: an arm. This is Saros Z70, the autonomous vacuum that comes equipped with a five-axis arm that unfolds from the top of the vacuum to pick up obstacles using onboard cameras and sensors. The S70 starts shipping on

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Nvidia details Mega, a fleet manager for warehouse robots

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most still lack significant automation. Companies like Locus Robotics have made significant headway in

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Toyota is teaching robot arms to fold t-shirts the Japanese way

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Monday’s Toyota CES press conference was all about Woven City, the carmaker’s planned community at the base of Mt. Fuji. Robotics will undoubtedly play a major role in the company’s bid to automate as much of the 2,000-person city as possible, including autonomous cars and drones designed to chaperone people back home after dark. One

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Samsung says its home robot, Ballie, will roll out this year

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Tech companies love rolling a robot out onstage. These systems serve as shorthand for consumer electronics brands branching out into more bleeding-edge category. On occasion we get an Amazon Astro or Sony Aibo that actually hit in the market in some form. More often than not, however, the robots only exist in the land of

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John Deere’s new robot lawnmower is coming for landscapers’ jobs

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

John Deere has a bunch of new products that it just showed off at CES 2025, including an electric robot lawnmower meant for commercial-grade landscaping. Powered by a 21.4kWh battery — roughly a quarter the size of what you’d find on a passenger EV — the company says the mower is supposed to be able

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RoboForce raises $10 million to create a robot workforce

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Last summer, when RoboForce founder Leo Ma visited a solar farm outside Phoenix, the ground was hot enough to cook an egg on. Ma watched as workers traversed uninhabitable lands to spend hours securing millions of solar panels. Over the years Ma has visited hundreds of factories, from chip makers to underground drilling sites. Each

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This fuzzy, purse-mounted robot is designed to ‘delight bystanders’

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Best known for its Qooba cat pillow, Yukai Engineering has made a name for itself with some of the strangest little robots around. Who could forget, for example, Amagami Ham Ham, whose sole purpose is to gnaw on fingers, offering a “somewhat pleasing sensation.” At CES 2025, Yukai unveiled its latest, Mirumi, and it follows

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Roborock’s Roomba competitor gets a robot arm

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

iRobot’s on-going financial crisis aside, the world of robot vacuums is still humming along. At CES Sunday, Roborock announced the Saros Z70. The Roomba competitor showcases what the company believes will be the next big step in robovac evolution: an arm. The idea of mounting a a manipulator is no doubt as old as robot

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