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Iván Hernández Dalas: GENISOM AI debuts deployable robotics platforms at ICRA 2026

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At ICRA 2026, GENISOM AI may have been new to many international attendees — but it is not a concept-stage robotics startup. Founded in December 2023, the company said it has already produced and delivered more than 10,000 units, making it one of the few robotics companies to reach production scale in under three years. GENISOM AI said that milestone puts it in a different position than many early-stage physical AI companies entering the global market. Like Unitree, GENISOM AI is building around manufacturable platforms designed to move beyond laboratory demonstrations and reach customers at scale. However, the Beijing-based company said it puts greater emphasis on industry deployment, combining robotics hardware and software, in-house core technologies, and real-world application capabilities. M1, the company’s industrial-grade quadruped robot GENISOM AI builds platforms for real-world deployment At ICRA in Vienna last week, GENISOM AI showcased its M1 and L1 -series robots ...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Robot Talk Episode 159 – Robot sensing and manipulation, with Maria Koskinopoulou

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Claire chatted to Maria Koskinopoulou from Heriot-Watt University about autonomous robotic manipulators for surgery, industry, and beyond. Maria Koskinopoulou is an Assistant Professor in Robotics and Computer Vision at Heriot-Watt University. She co-leads the ARM²Lab – Autonomous Robotic Manipulation & Multi-Agent Systems Lab at Heriot-Watt and the National Robotarium, alongside Ignacio Carlucho. Her research interests include robotic manipulation, perception, robot vision, medical robotics, human-robot interaction, and machine learning. She is involved in major UKRI and EU-funded research projects advancing robotic manipulation, surgical and underwater robotics, autonomous assembly, and waste sorting. View Source
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Mitsubishi Electric opens Serendie Street Boston digital transformation hub

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Serendie Street Boston is designed to enable co-creation, real-world testing, and scalable solutions across industries. Source: Mitsubishi Electric Global enterprises know where to put innovation centers to gain access to partners, customers, and research expertise. Mitsubishi Electric US Inc. yesterday celebrated the grand opening of Serendie Street Boston, its first Western digital transformation hub. “Serendie” combines “serendipity” and “digital engineering” (DX), and the company first launched the co-creation initiative last year in Yokohama, Japan. Mitsubishi said it is evolving into a “circular digital-engineering” company and that the center will enable continuous improvement as it “integrates devices, systems, and multi-domain services into unified solutions.” “Serendie Street Boston represents a significant step forward in our global strategy to integrate digital intelligence with physical systems and create last...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Can surgical robots fly? SS Innovations discusses challenges, solutions

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A concept design illustration of the Vimana Aero drone. | Source: SS Innovations Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, CEO of SS Innovations International Inc., said he hopes the medical device company will have a functional, flying surgical robot sometime in mid-2026. SS Innovations unveiled its conceptual plan for the Vimana Aero drone in April, raising two questions: Can it be done? And if so, why? Srivastava told Medical Design & Outsourcing  that the Indian Army approached SS Innovations with a predicament. Hemorrhage is the leading cause of death among soldiers because the wounded cannot be evacuated out of war zones quickly enough. Inspired by U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) research in the 1980s, Srivastava developed a concept design that combined SS Innovation’s technology and teleconnectivity, which could minimize the time between the point of injury and medical care. SS Innovations pushes the envelope for robotics in healthcare A concept design of the A...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Proteus gets natural-language ability as Amazon expands European robot deployments

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Amazon plans to deploy the Proteus mobile robot across Europe. Source: Amazon Robots are becoming better co-workers, particularly as they scale across large deployments. At its Delivering the Future event in London today, Amazon.com Inc. introduced the next generation of its Proteus autonomous mobile robot, or AMR. The Seattle-based  company  said Proteus can now understand natural-language commands, allowing it to take on more tasks. “You tell it what needs to be done. It figures out the priority, the route, the timing,” said Scott Dresser, vice president of  Amazon Robotics . “It becomes your assistant for material movement.” Amazon is also expanding deployments of its Vulcan picking robot and STARK collaborative tote-handling system in Europe. Proteus can take on more tasks Amazon first  unveiled  Proteus in 2022, a decade after it  acquired  automated guided vehicle ( AGV ) maker Kiva Systems. It designed the  AMR  to move carts weighing nearly 400 kg (881.8 lb.) and relieve ...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Generalist raises $400M to scale its general-purpose AI models

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From left to right, Generalist’s co-founders: CEO Pete Florence, Chief Scientist Andy Zeng, and CTO Andrew Barry. | Source: Generalist Generalist AI Inc., a company creating AI for a range of robot form factors, today said it has raised $400 million in new funding. This latest round brings Generalist AI’s total funding to more than half a billion dollars. Millions of robots are operating in the world today. Generalist asserted that billions more are coming to factories, warehouses, laboratories, restaurants, farms, homes, and space. These robots will take many forms, but they will share one need: intelligence that can understand and act in the physical world. Founded in 2024, Generalist AI said it is building embodied foundation models for general-purpose robots. In November 2025, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company released GEN-0, which it said “brought robots into the pretraining era.” Generalist said its models, trained on large-scale, real-world data, de...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Voyager Technologies acquires Astrobotic to advance lunar initiatives

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Voyager is a defense technology and provider of mission‑ready systems for space. | Source: Voyager Technologies Voyager Technologies this week entered into an agreement to acquire Astrobotic Technology Inc. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic provides commercial lunar delivery, lunar power, and reusable rocketry. Under the agreement, Astrobotic will become a core pillar of Voyager’s strategic lunar initiative, providing the hardware, systems, and operational capabilities required to land on the moon, sustain life there, and perform critical work on the surface. The transaction marks a major milestone in Astrobotic’s nearly two‑decade mission to make the moon accessible and to build the infrastructure needed for a continuous U.S. presence on the lunar surface. “From Day 1, Astrobotic set out to prove that commercial companies can deliver to the lunar surface,” stated John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic. “Joining Voyager provides the scale, resources, and long-term commitment our mission c...
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