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Iván Hernández Dalas: Amazon CEO says robotics is key for faster delivery, lower costs

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On the left, the RIVR TWO robot, and on the right, Fauna Robotics’ Sprout. | Sources: RIVR, Fauna Robotics Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon.com Inc., today gave insight into his company’s robotics strategy in his 2026 letter to shareholders. Amazon is always looking to make its costs lower and its deliveries faster, and it sees robotics as a promising part of this goal, he said. “While we continue to work on productivity and inventory levels, robotics provides a step-level change for how we can deliver faster, reduce the cost of carrying more selection, and automate movements that cause strains and injuries to our teammates,” Jassy wrote . Amazon now has more than 1 million robots operating in its fulfillment centers, helping with stowing, picking, sorting, and intra-facility transport. Despite this, Jassy said he believes the company is still in the early stages of figuring out how it will fully use robotics. Amazon plans to invest in rural and rapid deliveries Last month, Amazon ac...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: AGIBOT releases GO-2 foundation model for embodied AI

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AGIBOT compares GO-2’s performance against other leading models. | Source: AGIBOT AGIBOT today introduced GO-2, its next-generation foundation model for embodied AI. The company said GO-2 bridges the “last mile” from logical reasoning to precise execution within a unified architecture. Building on its predecessor, GO-1, GO-2 introduces a unified architecture that integrates logical reasoning and action execution within a single system. This enables AI robots not only to plan correctly but also to execute reliably in real-world environments, said AGIBOT. GO-2 brings together tens of thousands of hours of interaction data, claimed the company , marking a transition from “black-box exploration” to a “true unity of reasoning and action.” GO Series evolves from perception to actuation A year ago, AGIBOT released the Genie Operator-1 (GO-1) foundation model. Featuring the ViLLA architecture, it unified modeling of vision, language, and action. Today, AGIBOT integrated the model into ...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Robotics Summit rolls out limited time National Robotics Week discount

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National Robotics Week seeks to celebrate the robotics community across the U.S. This week seeks to showcase the robotics industry and its real-world impact while inspiring the future workforce. To celebrate National Robotics Week, for a limited time, attendees can save on All Access Passes for the Robotics Summit & Expo with the exclusive discount code: ROBOWEEK26 . Please note: This offer applies to new registrations only and cannot be applied retroactively. The code expires Saturday, April 11. Registration is open now . Robotics Summit features keynotes from robotics visionaries The Robotics Summit & Expo is the world’s leading technical event for commercial robotics developers. The event is produced by The Robot Report and WTWH Media. The show’s keynote talks include: Building Reliable Robots at Scale — Safety, Determinism, and Real-Time Performance.  QNX and other industry-leading robotics manufacturers, including Amazon and Locus Robotics , will share how t...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions

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MIT researchers utilized specially trained generative AI models to create a system that can complete the shape of hidden 3D objects, like the ones pictured. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers . By Adam Zewe MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items. Now, the researchers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to overcome a longstanding bottleneck that limited the precision of prior approaches. The result is a new method that produces more accurate shape reconstructions, which could improve a robot’s ability to reliably grasp and manipulate objects that are blocked from view. This new technique builds a partial reconstruction of a hidden object from reflected wireless signals and fills in the missing parts of its shape using a specially trained generative AI model....
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Iván Hernández Dalas: IFR reports robot density increase across Europe, Asia, and the Americas

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Industrial robot deployments have continued to climb across much of the world. Click here to enlarge. Source: International Federation of Robotics. Factories worldwide are implementing more automation, according to the “World Robotics 2025” report from the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. The organization said the robot density, or number of units per 10,000 employees, has risen across three continents. The IFR noted that Western Europe in particular increased its robot density to 267 robots per 10,000 employees in 2024 — ahead of North America with 204 units and Asia with 131 units. “The robot density metric provides a uniform basis for comparison by relating the total number of robots used in a country to its economic size, as measured by its workforce,” stated Takayuki Ito, president of the IFR. The Frankfurt, Germany-based organization previously reported that average global robot density had doubled from 2014 to 2024. The IFR explained that its measurement ca...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: AGIBOT introduces Genie Sim 3.0 simulation platform for embodied AI

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AGIBOT says Genie Sim 3.0 signals a shift toward treating simulation not as a tool, but as a foundation for developing and evaluating embodied AI at scale. Source: AGIBOT While recent progress in robotics has been driven by advances in models and algorithms, real-world deployment continues to be constrained by high data collection costs, limited scenario diversity, and fragmented benchmarking standards, according to AGIBOT. The company today said it has upgraded its Genie Sim 3.0 development environment. AGIBOT said its platform now addresses three long-standing bottlenecks in embodied AI : environment generation, data scalability, and standardized evaluation. The Shanghai-based company  said it designed Genie Sim 3.0 to integrate scene generation, simulation, data, and evaluation into a unified, reusable infrastructure. Genie Sim World generates environments from language Genie Sim 3.0 introduces a spatial world model that allows users to generate fully interactive 3D envi...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: OLogic to share the keys to balancing hardware and software at the Robotics Summit

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Robots that OLogic has consulted on, from left to right, Bear Robotics, JIBO, Friendly Robot Co., and Cobalt Robotics. | Source: OLogic In a world where software dominates the headlines, robotics remains one of the few industries where hardware still truly matters. At the Robotics Summit & Expo , which takes place on May 27 and 28 in Boston, attendees can learn from OLogic how to balance hardware and software for real-world success. Drawing on over two decades of experience helping companies from startups to Fortune 500s bring their ideas to life, Ted Larson, the co-founder and CEO of OLogic, will share what makes a great robotics company and what separates successful robots from those that never make it past the prototype stage. This session, “Balancing Hardware and Software for Real-World Success,” will explore how the best robotics companies think about design, collaboration, and manufacturability from Day 1. Attendees will learn why hardware and software must evolve togeth...
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