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Interview with Christina Gomez-Terry of Plus One Robotics: Why warehouse robotics succeeds or fails at scale

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Warehouse automation has entered a new phase. The question is no longer whether robotics can perform individual tasks such as parcel picking, depalletizing, sorting, or palletizing.

The technology has largely proven itself in pilot projects and controlled deployments. The bigger challenge facing the industry today is scale.

As logistics operators expand robotics systems across multiple facilities, they often discover that success depends less on peak performance and more on consistency, reliability, and operational resilience. [Read more…] about Interview with Christina Gomez-Terry of Plus One Robotics: Why warehouse robotics succeeds or fails at scale

Open source hardware for robotics: Democratizing robot building

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Most discussions about open-source robotics focus on software. The Robot Operating System (ROS) has become the best-known example, providing developers with a common framework for building and operating robots.

Yet software is only part of the story.

Over the past two decades, a growing ecosystem of open-source hardware platforms has dramatically lowered the barriers to robotics development. [Read more…] about Open source hardware for robotics: Democratizing robot building

The power of the open-source community in robotics: Collaboration and shared innovation

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For decades, robotics was viewed as a niche engineering discipline inhabited largely by researchers, academics, and highly specialized industrial automation companies.

Development was expensive, fragmented, and slow. Even simple mobile robots often required years of work and highly customized software stacks.

Today, robotics sits at the center of one of the largest technology investment waves in modern industrial history. [Read more…] about The power of the open-source community in robotics: Collaboration and shared innovation

Hello Robot unveils Stretch 4: A simply useful robot that puts people first

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Hello Robot, the team behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, have announced the release of Stretch 4.

Available now for $29,950, Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers, and application engineers building the next wave of Physical AI applications for general purpose robotics.

“In the last few years, Physical AI has brought us videos of robots doing amazing stunts. But these videos are missing something critical – the people the robots are meant to benefit,” says Aaron Edsinger, co-founder and CEO of Hello Robot. [Read more…] about Hello Robot unveils Stretch 4: A simply useful robot that puts people first

ROS 2: The next generation for robust and scalable robotics applications

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For more than a decade, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been the backbone of robotics research and early-stage development. It provided a common framework, a shared language, and a vast ecosystem of reusable components that allowed engineers and researchers to accelerate innovation.

But ROS was never designed for the realities of commercial deployment.

As robotics moves from laboratories into warehouses, factories, roads, and public spaces, the demands on software infrastructure have changed. Reliability, security, scalability, and real-time performance are no longer optional. They are prerequisites. [Read more…] about ROS 2: The next generation for robust and scalable robotics applications

AMD partners with Robotec to build ‘open ecosystem’ for autonomous systems and robotics

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AMD Silo AI is collaborating with Robotec.ai, a developer of simulation platforms for robotics applications, to optimize and scale digital twin and scenario reconstruction workloads for next-generation automotive and robotics systems running on AMD Instinct GPUs with the ROCm software stack.

Aligned with Robotec.ai’s mission, AMD Silo AI is helping to build safe, human-friendly robotics through Robotec.ai’s open-source, AI-driven digital twin simulation tools.

Building on Robotec.ai’s work with AMD Kria SOM, this collaboration combines Robotec.ai’s flagship RoSi platform – an end-to-end tool for developing, training, and testing robotics and autonomous systems – with the scalable compute platforms of AMD. [Read more…] about AMD partners with Robotec to build ‘open ecosystem’ for autonomous systems and robotics

Linux Foundation launches Newton with Disney, DeepMind and Nvidia to advance robotics AI

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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source code, has launched Newton, an open source, GPU-accelerated, extensible physics engine that enables faster, more scalable simulations to lower the barrier to robotics research.

Co-developed by Disney Research, Google DeepMind, and Nvidia, Newton was designed and built by and for robotics developers to tackle the modern-day challenges of building generalist robots.

Built on Nvidia Warp and OpenUSD, Newton delivers GPU‑accelerated simulation with a flexible, extensible architecture that supports multiple physics solvers. [Read more…] about Linux Foundation launches Newton with Disney, DeepMind and Nvidia to advance robotics AI

OpenMind launches first open-source operating system for intelligent robots

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OpenMind has released the beta version of what it says is “the world’s first open-source operating system for intelligent robots”, adding that it’s “a universal platform that allows any robot to perceive, reason, and act in the real world”.

Robotics has long been fragmented, with developers forced to choose between closed ecosystems, hardware-specific software, or steep learning curves.

This allows any developer to install fully autonomous software on their robots. [Read more…] about OpenMind launches first open-source operating system for intelligent robots

Spike Dynamics open-sources micro linear piezo actuators that enable ‘muscle-like movement’

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Spike Dynamics, an innovator in advanced actuation technology, announces the open release of its linear piezo actuators, which the company describes as “a breakthrough designed to mimic natural muscle movement in an ultra-compact form”.

By open-sourcing the design, the company aims to accelerate innovation in robotics and wearable devices, where traditional motors are often too bulky, noisy, or fragile.

Unlike traditional product launches, Spike Dynamics is taking a collaborative approach. The company has open-sourced its NASA reviewed actuator design, making it available to researchers, engineers, and startups who want to explore, test, and adapt the technology. [Read more…] about Spike Dynamics open-sources micro linear piezo actuators that enable ‘muscle-like movement’