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Iván Hernández Dalas: Comau introduces MyCo cobot products

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The MyCo line includes six lightweight robots with payload capacities ranging from 3 to 15 kg and reaches of 590 to 1300 mm. | Credit: Comau Comau S.p.A. continues to expand its collaborative robotics portfolio with MyCo, a new family of six cobot arms designed to support safe, flexible, and efficient human-robot teaming across a wide range of industries. “With the launch of the MyCo robot family, Comau is taking yet another concrete step in accelerating its diversification strategy,” stated Stefania Ferrero, chief marketing officer at Comau. “We estimate that the global collaborative robotics market will see a CAGR [compound annual growth rate] of 15% from 2024 to 2028.” “This growth is driven by rising demand in non-traditional sectors such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy, and logistics, as well as increased adoption by small and medium-sized enterprises,” she added. “MyCo is a cost-effective and versatile response to these trends, offering a highly flexi...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

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By Perla Maiolino , University of Oxford Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch something gently, safely or meaningfully, and the limits appear instantly. As a researcher in soft robotics working on artificial skin and sensorised bodies, I’ve found that trying to give robots a sense of touch forces us to confront just how astonishingly sophisticated human touch really is. My work began with the seemingly simple question of how robots might sense the world through their bodies. Develop tactile sensors, fully cover a machine with them, process the signals and, at first glance, you should get something like touch . Except that human touch is nothing like a simple pressure map. Our skin contains several distinct types of mechanoreceptor , each tuned to different stimuli such as vibration, stretch or texture. Our spatial resol...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Robotics in review: Editors look back at 2025

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 The Robot Report Podcast · Robotics in Review: Editors look back at 2025 In this annual Year in Review podcast (Episode 225), host Steve Crowe is joined by the entire Robot Report editorial team—Mike Oitzman, Eugene Demaitre, and Brianna Wessling—to break down the most impactful events in robotics from 2025. The team discusses the highs and lows of the robotics industry from the past year, including major bankruptcies, significant acquisitions, and the geopolitical factors reshaping manufacturing and defense. The episode also features insights from industry leaders on the explosion of humanoid robots, advancements in physical AI, and the evolution of autonomous systems. A recap of an eventful year in robotics Here are some of the topics that Steve, Mike, Gene, and Brianna discuss: iRobot bankruptcy: A deep dive into iRobot filing for Chapter 11 and its subsequent acquisition by a Chinese creditor, including the roles played by regulators and internal management. Zebra T...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Galbot brings in $300M to scale mobile manipulator deployments

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Galbot’s G1 robot at work in an automotive plant. | Source: Galbot Galaxy General Robot Co., also known as Galbot, late last week said its latest funding round has surpassed $300 million. This brought the company’s total funding to $800 million and followed a $153 million round from earlier this year. It also brought Galbot’s valuation to $3 billion. The Beijing-based company said the funding will help it scale deployments, develop new technologies, and expand its global reach. Founded in May 2023, Galbot uses simulated synthetic action data sets for pre-training and real data for post-training. The company  said this approach leads to the rapid iteration of embodied large model technology worldwide. “Galbot is the world’s first company to fully achieve full-stack in-house development across hundreds-of-billion-scale high-quality datasets, embodied foundation models, and robotic hardware,” it asserted. “The company’s self-developed key technologies, including its embodied i...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: TE Connectivity launches 3D industrial application tool

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TE Connectivity’s 3D Application Tools include 53 applications and more than 120 different product cards. | Source: TE Connectivity TE Connectivity PLC last week launched a 3D Industrial Applications Tool. The company designed the tool to provide customers with an immersive and intuitive way to navigate through realistic industrial settings and see TE’s products in action within the various environments. “The latest 3D tool is designed to be an intuitive journey that allows users to explore TE solutions through familiar applications and terminology, bridging the gap between their needs and our comprehensive portfolio,” said Vincent Menager, an integrated marketing analyst at TE Connectivity. “It’s not just a selection guide; it’s a gateway to understanding how TE’s solutions can be integrated into our customers’ designs and processes,” he added. TE focuses on nine applications Galway, Ireland-based TE Connectivity offers a range of connectivity and sensor systems that it has tes...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Last day to enter the 2026 RBR50 Awards

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The Robot Report is seeking nominations for its 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. The RBR50 has recognized the most innovative organizations and robots since 2012. Here are the winners from 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , and 2021 .  Each year, The Robot Report selects the most interesting and important robotics innovations from around the world. The deadline for submissions is Monday, December 22, 2025 . Submit your nomination(s) below. The RBR50 winners will be celebrated at an awards gala during the Robotics Summit & Expo , which will be held on May 27-28, 2026 in Boston. Some of the winners will also be demoing their robots on the Robotics Summit expo floor in the RBR50 Pavilion. RBR50 Awards categories To be eligible, all nominations must be for innovations that were initiated, released, or executed between Jan. 1, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2025. The RBR50 is looking for submissions in the following categories: Startup of the Year: The nominee must be less than five ye...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Bio-hybrid robots turn food waste into functional machines

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Demonstration of the robotic gripper made from langoustine tails. 2025 CREATE Lab EPFL CC BY SA. By Celia Luterbacher Although many roboticists today turn to nature to inspire their designs, even bioinspired robots are usually fabricated from non-biological materials like metal, plastic and composites. But a new experimental robotic manipulator from the Computational Robot Design and Fabrication Lab ( CREATE Lab) in EPFL’s School of Engineering turns this trend on its head: its main feature is a pair of langoustine abdomen exoskeletons. Although it may look unusual, CREATE Lab head Josie Hughes explains that combining biological elements with synthetic components holds significant potential not only to enhance robotics, but also to support sustainable technology systems. “Exoskeletons combine mineralized shells with joint membranes, providing a balance of rigidity and flexibility that allows their segments to move independently. These features enable crustaceans’ rapid, high-torq...
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