Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

OpenRobOps, or ORO as shown here, is designed to enable easier fleet orchestration. Source: InOrbit Orchestrating fleets of mobile robots could be getting easier. InOrbit Inc. has been working to make the core operations layer of its software more accessible to developers. The company today released OpenRobOps, which it described as “an open-source robot operations and fleet management software designed to support scaled deployments.” “OpenRobOps gives robotics developers a production-grade, open-source foundation to escape the build trap, delivering the industry’s first ISO 21423 reference implementation and bridging the interoperability gap,” asserted Florian Pestoni, founder and CEO of InOrbit.AI. Founded in 2017, InOrbit said it is a leader in enterprise robot orchestration software and spatial intelligence. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company claimed that it pioneered federated orchestration, enabling organizations running heterogeneous fleets to bri...

Agility said it engineered Digit 5 for cooperatively safe work at scale. | Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics today unveiled Digit 5, the latest version of its humanoid robot. The news comes as Agility prepares to go public through a proposed SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp. XI. The latest version of Digit includes new legs, upgraded batteries, and a more comprehensive safety architecture. Agility Robotics told The Robot Report Digit 5 can work in close proximity to people without physical safety barriers. “Digit 5 is removing a major barrier to scaling humanoid robots in industrial environments,” said Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics. “We built it to the exact requirements our customers gave us after three years of Digit 4 working on their production floors, and the market has responded with more than $300 million in multi-year orders and a growing pipeline of customers across manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics. That’s value that...

  The September 2026 digital issue of The Robot Report looks at two of the more successful areas for automation: surgical robots and warehouse logistics. This free download shares real-world use cases to help guide commercial robotics developers, suppliers integrators, and end users. The first article looks at how clinicians at El Camino Health and Heart Vascular Institute use the da Vinci system from Intuitive Surgical for coronary artery bypass grafting. Just because the robot-assisted procedure is relatively common doesn’t mean that it is easy — on the healthcare side or on the engineering side. Precise motion control is needed to ensure that minimally invasive procedures, unlike many open surgeries, lead to faster healing with fewer complications for patients. Read how El Camino Health implemented robotic surgery to relieve the cognitive burden on its staffers and improve the consistency and accessibility of care. Like surgical systems, AMRs also require sma...

Arm recently released Total Design which brings together expertise across the technology stack to reduce integration complexity and accelerate autonomous system development. | Source: Arm Recent advances in foundation models, vision-language-action systems, and edge AI are expanding what robots can sense, reason about, and do. The next challenge, according to Arm, is turning those capabilities into autonomous systems people can trust in the real world, whether restoring mobility through intelligent prosthetics, delivering critical medical supplies, or helping workers operate more safely and productively alongside intelligent machines. Dermot O’Driscoll, VP of go-to-market for physical AI at Arm , is giving a talk at RoboBusiness called “Building Physical AI that Scales.” RoboBusiness takes place October 20-21 in Santa Clara, Calif. and is produced by The Robot Report . This year marks the 20th anniversary of RoboBusiness. As robots become more capable, engineering ...

The Gen 7 platform is designed to enhances the cobot user experience, says UR.
| Source: Universal Robots Universal Robots A/S introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform, today at the IMTS trade show. The Teradyne Inc. subsidiary said the unified system upgrade enables customers and partners to deploy advanced AI-powered applications into industrial operations with the same robot experience that operators, technicians, engineers, and integrators prefer to work with every day Anchored by the PolyScope X robot operating system, Gen 7 has a fully re-engineered control box, teach pendant, and tool flange. UR said it designed all of these to make demanding tasks and setups easier. The Odense, Denmark-based company also added three new robot arms, UR10g-1750, UR17g-1300, and UR18g-950, named after their payload (in kilograms) and reach (in millimeters), to its e-Series and UR Series lineup. They are larger than some of its previous models. “Our vision as a whole at the...

Credit: Baumis Robots (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). By Emmet Cole In our new monthly series, we showcase a selection of robotics stories from society, business, research, and culture, as we track the field’s ongoing journey from specialized industrial machines to an increasingly visible social phenomenon. Reshoring reimagined? In early August, The Information published an article that claimed U.S.-based founders, investors and startups, are travelling to an electronics market in Shenzhen to buy servomotors, sensors, controllers and gimbals. The report also claimed that Unitree and Zhiyuan robots are being bought intact, then stripped down into parts and carried back to the USA in suitcases. By late August, in a separate development, reports emerged that a US Department of Energy lab is investigating whether Chinese LiDAR sensors pose a security risk, if widely used on vehicles in the United States. According to TechCrunch , the research is being funded by one or more co...