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Iván Hernández Dalas: Transitive Robotics announces Transitive 2.0 open-source robotics framework

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Transitive Robotics is announcing a new major version of Transitive, the open-source framework for full-stack robotics. Version 2.0 adds significant new integrations and features: storage of historic and time-series data in ClickHouse, visualization in Grafana, and custom alerting via Alertmanager. Together with the release of some capabilities, like the free Health Monitoring capability, robotics companies already use these features, providing added value to robotics companies with growing fleets. Fleet operation at scale Until now, Transitive has been very much focused on transactional features needed for the operation of robot fleets . This includes popular capabilities like WebRTC Video streaming , Remote Teleop , and ROS Tool . These capabilities are particularly empowering to robotics companies that have not yet deployed more than 50 robots. Transitive’s open-source MQTTSync data protocol, its realization of full-stack packages , and the built-in fine-grained authentication...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Locus Robotics launches Locus Array for fully autonomous fulfillment

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Locus Array combines an omnidirectional base, vision, and a robot arm for mobile picking. Source: Locus Robotics Mobile manipulation is starting to scale in response to supply chain challenges. Locus Robotics today announced at MODEX the global launch of Locus Array. The system combines a mobile robot, an integrated picking arm, and AI-powered perception for autonomous execution. “The No. 1 problem facing supply chains today is uncertainty,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “Whether it’s COVID-19, peak seasons, or tariffs, costs have climbed while productivity hasn’t.” “Warehouse operations are facing increasing pressure from labor constraints, rising costs, and constant variability that traditional systems can’t absorb,” he said. “Locus Array brings autonomy into real-world operations at scale, introducing a fundamentally different, system-level approach designed to solve these challenges at their core.” “Array is a step toward a facility that runs itself, a holy grail ...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Binghamton researchers create robotic guide dogs that walk — and talk

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Scientists have developed a robotic guide dog that communicates with the visually impaired and provides real-time feedback during travel. Source: Jonathan Cohen, Binghamton University Guide dogs are powerful allies, leading the visually impaired safely to their destinations, but they can’t talk with their owners — until now. Using large language models (LLMs), a team of researchers at Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York, has created a talking robot guide dog. The system can determine an ideal route and safely guide users to their destinations, offering real-time feedback along the way. “For this work, we’re demonstrating an aspect of the robotic guide dog that is more advanced than biological guide dogs,” said  Shiqi Zhang , an associate professor at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science’s School of Computing. “Real dogs can understand around 20 commands at best,” he noted. “But for robotic guide dogs, you can just put GP...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Transforming asset management with physical AI

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The Robot Report Podcast · The future of Real Sense 3D vision with Chris Matthieu Episode 239 of The Robot Report Podcast features Christian Pedersen, chief product officer at enterprise software provider IFS. Christian Pedersen, chief product officer, IFS. He drives the strategic vision for industrial AI and amplifies the technology leadership at IFS . In this role, Pedersen inspires customers about transformative possibilities, steers critical partnerships and strategic deliveries, and ensures that market insights directly inform IFS’s innovation roadmap. His impressive track record includes serving as SAP’s global chief product officer, as well as 14 years in key positions at Microsoft, including general manager of enterprise resource planning. Throughout his career, Pedersen has ensured that products deliver industry-leading functionality that customers need, partners can proudly promote, and competitors cannot match. This same drive extends to his personal pursuits, wit...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: AGIBOT unveils Genie Envisioner 2.0 to advance world models into scalable simulators for embodied AI

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Genie Envisioner World Simulator takes video data to help control robots. 2.0 Source: AGIBOT AGIBOT today announced the release of Genie Envisioner 2.0, or GE 2-Sim, which it said marked a significant step forward in the evolution of world models — from world action models to fully interactive “world simulators.” The new system introduces what the company described as a “physical evolution engine” for embodied AI . It is a model-based environment where robots can be trained, evaluated, and optimized at scale, without relying solely on costly real-world trial and error. From understanding the world to learning within it In 2025, AGIBOT introduced what it claimed was the industry’s first action-driven world model, Genie Envisioner. The open-source platform enabled robots to understand the world through integrated modeling of vision, language, and action, said the Shanghai-based company. With Genie Envisioner 2.0, AGIBOT said it has shifted the paradigm further, from enabling ro...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: SCSP launches National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing

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A plenary session of the new National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing convened on Capitol Hill. Source: SCSP, via X Robotics and AI are increasingly viewed as not just important for U.S. economic competitiveness, but also key to the future of national security. The Special Competitive Studies Project, or SCSP, this week announced the National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing. The organization said the new group is intended “to restore American industrial preeminence by mastering the convergence of physical AI and automation, ensuring that U.S. manufacturing capacity becomes a durable national security asset against our adversaries.” SCSP President Ylli Bajraktari, Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) are co-chairing the year-long commission. “We are at a hinge point in history where ‘physical AI’ — powered by robotics — will determine the next era of geopolitical and economic power,” stated Bajraktari. “The ...
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Iván Hernández Dalas: Robot Talk Episode 151 – Robots to study the ocean, with Simona Aracri

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Claire chatted to Simona Aracri from National Research Council of Italy about innovative robot designs for oceanography and environmental monitoring. Simona Aracri is a researcher in the Institute of Marine Engineering at the National Research Council of Italy. Previously, she was a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh, working on the award winning project ORCA Hub and focusing on offshore robotic sensors. Her research uses innovative sensors and robotic platforms to push the boundaries of observational oceanography and environmental monitoring. She has spent more than 6 months at sea on oceanographic sampling campaigns, in the Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean and the North Sea. View Source
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