Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

AMD’s Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGA family. | Source: AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc. yesterday introduced the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGA family. This latest family of midrange field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, modernizes memory, I/O, and security to meet the growing demands of industrial automation, AMD claimed.  AMD said it engineered the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs to meet increasingly complex system requirements across industrial and medical markets. It features scalable sensor connectivity that improves diagnostic clarity and responsiveness in machine vision , industrial automation , medical imaging, and robotic systems. Additionally, high-speed transceivers and PCIe Gen4 support 4K AV-over-IP, multi-stream capture, and frame-accurate transport for professional broadcast and remote audiovisual production. Increased memory bandwidth helps accelerate pattern generation, fail capture, and timing-critical workloads, said AMD. The new system also features int...

MedOS combines smart glasses, cobots, and AI. Source: Stanford University Developers are finding ways to combine artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and robotics for useful applications. The Stanford-Princeton AI Coscientist Team today launched MedOS, which it claimed is “the first AI – XR -cobot system designed to actively assist clinicians inside real clinical environments.” More than 60% of physicians in the U.S. have reported symptoms of burnout, according to recent studies. The Stanford and Princeton researchers said they designed MedOS to alleviate burnout, not by replacing clinicians, but by reducing cognitive overload, catching errors, and extending precision through intelligent automation and robotic assistance. “The goal is not to replace doctors. It is to amplify their intelligence, extend their abilities, and reduce the risks posed by fatigue, oversight, or complexity,” stated Dr. Le Cong, co-leader of the interdisciplinary project and an associa...

Bedrock automates large excavators, including loading and digging tasks. | Credit: Bedrock Robotics Bedrock Robotics Inc., a developer of autonomous construction equipment, today said it has raised $270 million in Series B funding. This round brings the company’s total funding to more than $350 million. Bedrock said the investment will accelerate its efforts to transform how general contractors build, from deploying individual autonomous machines to orchestrating fully connected fleets to reshape productivity and safety. In July 2025, the San Francisco-based company emerged from stealth with $80 million in Series A funding  to begin building retrofit kits for excavators. Boris Sofman, co-founder and CEO of Bedrock, told The Robot Report : “We’re in development, testing, and working towards our first, fully operator-out, complete operatorless deployments later this year. That’s a really huge milestone. That’s the kind of 0 to 1 where your autonomy capabilities are mature, your...

Conventional motors feature copper wrapped around steel, but ETM’s steel stator is wrapped around the outside of the low-resistance copper coil. | Source: ETM Electric Torque Machines, or ETM, last week entered the robotics and advanced actuator market with its transverse flux motor technology. The company said it is offering its TFM technology through a flexible partnership model that allows OEMs to retain manufacturing control, protect margins, and accelerate development timelines. The robotics industry faces converging pressures: aggressive performance targets, thermal management constraints, supply chain volatility, and the need for product differentiation, according to ETM. It said its TFM technology addresses these challenges at the system level, enabling manufacturers to simplify mechanical designs, reduce costs, and achieve performance benchmarks previously requiring significant tradeoffs. “The era of sacrificing thermal performance for torque density is over,” stated Chu...

LimX demonstrates its Tron 1 legged robot skiing in -20°C (-4°F). Source: LimX Dynamics Humanoid robotics developers are continuing to get capital to bring their systems to market. LimX Dynamics Inc. this week said it has completed a $200 million (U.S.) Series B financing round. The company said the funding will further accelerate research and development and market expansion with new and existing shareholders, as well as ecosystem partners. “LimX Dynamics is driving innovation in general-purpose humanoids and foundational platform for modular robots,” stated the Shenzhen, China-based company . “Through continued product engineering optimization and supply chain development, the company is scaling its expansion across both domestic and global markets.” Founded in 2022, LimX said it is developing full-size humanoid robots and embodied AI , with a mission of bringing artificial general intelligence (AGI) into the real world. The company added that it is focused on three core techno...

Developers using OpenRobOps can move up to InOrbit Ground Control as they scale. Source: InOrbit For fleets of mobile robots to scale, they need robot operations tools. InOrbit Inc. today said it will contribute OpenRobOps to the open-source community. The company has also appointed industry veteran Steve Cousins to its board of directors to guide this effort. Robotics developers have had to choose between building proprietary  fleet management  tools or sacrifice control in a “build vs. buy” dilemma, according to InOrbit.AI. “I’ve talked to too many founders in robotics who are reinventing the wheel and failing to scale,” stated Florian Pestoni, founder and CEO of InOrbit. “By open-sourcing the core operations layer, we empower developers to own their data and infrastructure. End users can more easily orchestrate robots across vendors by using InOrbit Space Intelligence, our award-winning, AI-powered platform.” OpenRobOps to help developers operate robots at scale InOr...