Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

Nominations are solicited for the 2027 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award . This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGAI from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. The recipient of the award will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, and will be invited to present a plenary talk at the AAMAS 2027 conference. How to nominate Anyone can make a nomination. Nominations should be made by filling out this google form , and should consist of a short (< 1 page) statement that emphasizes not only the research contributions that the individual has made that merit the award but also how the individual’s current work is an important influence on the field. Note: a candidate can only be considered for the award if they are explic...

Aaron Parness, director of applied sciences at Amazon Robotics, and Bhavana Chandrashekhar, the senior manager of applied science at Amazon Robotics, speaking at the 2026 RBR50 gala. The Robot Report is seeking nominations for its 2026 TRR50 Robotics Innovation Awards. The RBR50 has recognized the most innovative organizations and robots since 2012, and this year we’re rebranding to The Robot Report 50 (TRR50). Here are the winners from 2026 , 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  Friday, Jan. 5, 2027 . Submit your nomination(s) below. The TRR50 winners will be celebrated at an awards gala during the Robotics Summit & Expo , which will be held on June 2 and 3, 2027 in Boston. Some of the winners will also be demoing their robots on the Robotics Summit expo floor in the TRR50 Pavilion. TRR50 Awards categories To be eligibl...

Today marks the start of RoboBusiness 2026! This year, we’ll be celebrating the 20th anniversary of RoboBusiness with the community that made it possible and looking ahead to more years of collaboration and growth. The event will start at the Santa Clara Convention Center at 9:15 a.m. PT with the opening keynote, “The Next 20 Years of Robotics.” As RoboBusiness marks its 20th anniversary, industry leaders will reflect on the breakthroughs that defined the past two decades and explore the technologies, markets, opportunities, and challenges that will shape the next 20 years. This year, all keynotes will take place in the theatre on the second floor. This talk will include Rodney Brooks, the co-founder and CTO of Robust AI ; Jonathan Hurst, the co-founder and chief robot officer of Agility Robotics ; and Ken Goldberg, the William S. Floyd Jr Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley . At 10:00 a.m., the RoboBusiness show floor will open. There, attendees ca...

Gecko’s suite of technologies ensures data integrity by collecting and integrating full-coverage, high-fidelity data layers. | Source: Gecko Robotics Gecko Robotics this week said it has earned an additional $300 million its contract with the U.S. Navy and General Services Administration. With the increase, the U.S. Navy and GSA have quadrupled the ceiling value on Gecko’s contract for slashing maintenance delays and improving fleet readiness. The news came just six months after an initial $71 million IDIQ contract award. This fourfold expansion will accommodate rapid robotic deployment across the Navy and is one of the strongest public endorsements yet of operational AI and robotics in defense, claimed Gecko Robotics. The Pittsburgh-based company claimed that this showed the Pentagon’s confidence that it is delivering a core military capability of producing results, not experimental technology. “The conversation around AI and robotics in defense is no longer about experime...

Credit: Daimon Robotics Vision has become central to modern robotics, but cameras alone cannot tell a robot everything it needs to know about physical contact. When handling flexible objects, inserting components, or manipulating delicate items, robots need information about forces, slippage, and contact that visual systems may miss.  Daimon Robotics wants to provide the infrastructure to help robots develop that capability.  Rather than focusing exclusively on tactile sensors or developing a single foundation model, the company is building a pipeline that connects tactile sensing, data collection, simulation, and AI models. Its goal is to turn physical interactions into useful training data that helps robots perform manipulation tasks more reliably.  “By building tactile intelligence, we’re actually playing the role as an infrastructure provider,” Daimon’s Partner & VP of Technology Dr. Zhu told The Robot Report . “We’re not aiming to be a foundation...

Kodama initially focused on wildfire risk reduction in the western U.S., but it is now focusing on the timber industry in the southeastern U.S. | Source: Kodama Kodama Systems today said it has raised $7 million to bring physical AI to forestry. The company said it will use the latest funding to support commercial deployments, deepen OEM partnerships, and continue development of supervised autonomy capabilities for complex off-road environments. “Right now, we’re working with different forestry companies across the southeastern U.S,” Ben Pinfield, a go-to-market associate at Kodama, told The Robot Report . “Our system is really at a point where we’re able to sell it as a product, and we’re at a point where we’re scaling, trying to delve into new machines, and really focusing on the autonomy piece of forestry .” Kodama’s technology is already deployed in commercial logging operations across the southeastern U.S. Over the past six months, machines equipped with the company’s technolog...