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Custom-made protection by Eclore Actuators adopted by Stäubli Robots

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Eclore Actuators, a specialist in protective bellows for demanding industrial environments, announced the integration of its custom protective bellows across Stäubli’s SCARA robot lineup.

The result of a two-year partnership, this innovation was presented for the first time at Interpack earlier this year in Düsseldorf, Germany, addressing the strict hygiene requirements of the food processing industry and other controlled environments. [Read more…] about Custom-made protection by Eclore Actuators adopted by Stäubli Robots

Intrinsic open sources core industrial robotics technology

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Intrinsic, Google’s industrial robotics and physical AI software company, has open sourced foundational parts of its robotics platform, giving developers access to technologies for robot control, motion planning, vision, simulation and hardware integration.

Announced at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, Intrinsic Core is a set of ROS-compatible capabilities intended to provide developers with much of the underlying software infrastructure needed to build industrial robotics and physical AI applications.

Intrinsic says the technology is based on capabilities and services it uses in manufacturing deployments and is designed to reduce the amount of software and integration work robotics teams have to build from scratch. [Read more…] about Intrinsic open sources core industrial robotics technology

Epson launches AX6, its first collaborative robot

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Epson Robots has launched the AX6 collaborative 6-axis robot, marking the company’s entry into the collaborative robot market and expanding its range of robotic safety technologies.

The new AX6 is part of Epson’s AX Series and is designed to work in applications requiring greater interaction between robots and human workers.

The robot incorporates power- and force-limiting features that, subject to an appropriate risk assessment, can allow it to operate without traditional safety barriers. [Read more…] about Epson launches AX6, its first collaborative robot

Robotiq launches open-source software tools for physical AI and robot manipulation

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Robotiq has launched three open-source software releases for its adaptive grippers: a C++ SDK, an official ROS 2 package, and updated Nvidia Isaac Sim assets. All three are maintained and optimized by Robotiq and available now on github.com/robotiq.

Robotiq adaptive grippers have run in ROS 2 and Isaac Sim for years, mainly driven by the community of robotic developers who wrote the drivers, built the simulation models, and maintained the grippers packages on their own time so the hardware would work inside the tools they already used. That work carried the ecosystem a long way, and a good deal of it is still visible in what shipped this month.

“What changed is the demand. A physical AI application asks far more of a gripper than a conventional one ever did,’’ said Vincent Duchaine, CTO AI at Robotiq. [Read more…] about Robotiq launches open-source software tools for physical AI and robot manipulation

Nvidia launches Jetson Orin Nano 2 for entry-level robotics and edge AI

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Nvidia has introduced Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new compact robotics computer designed to provide higher AI inference performance and lower power consumption for robots, drones, vision systems and other physical AI applications.

The new module delivers 78 trillion operations per second of AI compute and features 8 GB of memory and an eight-core Arm CPU.

Nvidia says Jetson Orin Nano 2 provides twice the inference performance of the previous Jetson Orin Nano Super, using improved Tensor Cores and higher memory bandwidth while retaining the same form factor. [Read more…] about Nvidia launches Jetson Orin Nano 2 for entry-level robotics and edge AI

Icarus Robotics to fly ISS-bound robot in true microgravity for the first time

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Icarus Robotics is flying JOY, the free-flying robot it is sending to the International Space Station, on four parabolic flights from September 9 to 11. This will be the first time the hardware operates in true microgravity.

JOY is a free-flying robot with two high-dexterity robotic manipulators, built to move through the pressurized interior of a space station and handle the cargo and logistics work that consumes astronaut time. It flies to the ISS in 2027 as JOYRIDE-1, under a mission management agreement with Voyager Technologies announced in March.

JOY is the most computationally powerful free-flying robot ever to reach the International Space Station, running its intelligence entirely on the edge. [Read more…] about Icarus Robotics to fly ISS-bound robot in true microgravity for the first time

Universal Music and ElevenLabs partner to develop AI music platform

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Universal Music Group (UMG), one of the world’s biggest music companies, and ElevenLabs, an AI audio development company,have has announced a multi-year licensing agreement and wider strategic collaboration to launch a new “AI-powered music platform” for fans as well as to jointly develop AI audio products for artists and songwriters.

The groundbreaking agreement – ElevenLabs’ first with a major label – encompasses licensing and product development. It reflects the companies’ shared commitment to the principles that AI-enabled music innovation should be built responsibly, respect human artistry, and enable artists and songwriters to share in the value created.

The ElevenLabs-UMG relationship will begin with a new AI-powered music creation platform built on licensed music and artist participation. [Read more…] about Universal Music and ElevenLabs partner to develop AI music platform

Skild AI reaches $100 million in annual recurring revenue after 10 months

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Skild AI says it has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue just 10 months after beginning commercial deployments of its robotics AI technology.

The company now has more than 60 paying customers using its technology for applications including material movement, deliveries, site inspection, security, food preparation, warehouses, factories and data centers.

Deepak Pathak, co-founder and CEO of Skild AI, and Abhinav Gupta, co-founder and president, say the company has also recognized $50 million in revenue since deployments began 10 months ago. [Read more…] about Skild AI reaches $100 million in annual recurring revenue after 10 months

Skyports secures nine Japanese advanced air mobility projects

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Skyports Infrastructure, a provider of vertiport infrastructure and operations for advanced air mobility (AAM), has secured all nine Japanese subsidy projects it participated in during 2026, achieving a 100 percent application success rate.

Working alongside leading Japanese corporations including Kanematsu Corporation and Mitsui Fudosan, the nine project wins span six prefectures and reinforce Skyports’ position as a leading partner for vertiport development and AAM network planning in Japan.

The geographic spread and growing scale of these projects also point to accelerating momentum in Japan’s AAM market. Local authorities and industry partners are increasingly looking beyond aircraft development milestones towards the infrastructure, networks and commercial planning required to make future AAM services a reality. [Read more…] about Skyports secures nine Japanese advanced air mobility projects

Subsense develops AI-powered nanoparticle brain-computer interface without implanted electrodes

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Subsense, an AI-native neurotechnology company developing non-surgical, nanoparticle-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), has announced “a major expansion” of its AI-driven NanoBCI strategy, bringing together AI, nanotechnology and neural interfaces to advance a new category of BCI technology.

Unlike traditional approaches that either rely on implanted hardware or capture neural activity from outside the skull, Subsense is developing a nanoparticle-based interface intended to eventually enable neural activity to be read or stimulated without permanently implanted electrodes.

Subsense is developing what it describes as the first AI-native NanoBCI, designed to eventually enable neural activity to be read or stimulated without permanently implanted electrodes. [Read more…] about Subsense develops AI-powered nanoparticle brain-computer interface without implanted electrodes

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