Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

The AAMAS 2026 best paper awards were presented at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems , which took place from 25-29 May 2025 in Paphos, Cyprus. The winners and nominees in the three categories (best paper, best student paper, best blue sky paper) are as follows: Best Paper Award Winner Developing Guidelines for Human-LLM Agent Teams: A Multi-Stakeholder Lens , Mireia Yurrita, Davide Dell’Anna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Catholijn M Jonker, and Pinar Yolum Nominees UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles , Neel P. Bhatt, Po-han Li, Kushagra Gupta, Rohan Siva, Daniel Milan, Alexander Todd Hogue, Sandeep P. Chinchali, David Fridovich-Keil, Zhangyang Wang, and Ufuk Topcu Ratio-Based Signaling for Source-Victim Separation in Swarm Fault Detection , Longyin Cui The Impossibility of Strategyproof Rank Aggregation , Manuel Eberl and Patrick Lederer Gene...

Participants in the challenge tested and debugged robots working on different tasks. | Source: AGIBOT AGIBOT Innovation Technology Co. last week hosted the AGIBOT World Challenge 2026 alongside ICRA 2026 in Vienna. The company brought together 526 research and enterprise teams from 27 countries to compete across two embodied AI tracks: “Reasoning to Action” and “World Model.” Shanghai-based AGIBOT said the competition highlighted a key shift in how embodied  AI is evaluated . The company said it showed that the industry is moving beyond simulation scores toward closed-loop testing on real robots, real tasks, and standardized benchmarks. The competition adopted a benchmark-driven format that combined online automated evaluation with an offline real-robot final in Vienna. With AGIBOT’s EWMBench and Genie Sim Benchmark, the consistent framework enabled automated testing, standardized metrics, and reproducible results. During the offline final, finalist teams ...

The Dawn cafe, in which people with disabilities teleoperate robots, shows the possibility of human-robot collaboration across industries. Source: OryLab In Japan, robot cafes remotely run by people with disabilities reveal a side to the automation story that is not often talked about: Robots can bring people into the workplace rather than replace them. We are now seeing this concept in manufacturing. This is an important counterpoint to the common misconception that robots will replace human workers. In 2024, 542,000 robots were installed, more than double the number 10 years prior, according to the International Federation of Robotics ( IFR ). Robots’ role is being increasingly viewed as a value generator beyond time efficiency. A little over half of global manufacturers are adopting robots for quality improvement. Manufacturers should not focus on whether AI will replace humans. The most important questions they should be asking are: Into which processes should AI be i...

The Robot Report Podcast · Why deterministic real-time systems are more critical than ever in robotics Episode 245 of The Robot Report Podcast features Winston Leung, senior strategic alliances manager at QNX. Podcast guest: Winston Leung of QNX Winston Leung | Credit: QNX Leung is a seasoned innovation strategist with more than a decade of experience in both public and private sectors across North America and Asia. He has led initiatives in autonomous, connected, and electric vehicles, developed policies and strategies to support their adoption, and spearheaded Canada’s first connected vehicle testbed. He has also guided go-to-market strategies for transformative technologies, including quantum and 5G, collaborating with international stakeholders, influencing government policies, and driving startup success. By combining deep technical expertise with business strategy, Leung continues to shape the future of autonomous systems and robotics through impactful leadership and ...

At ICRA 2026, GENISOM AI may have been new to many international attendees — but it is not a concept-stage robotics startup. Founded in December 2023, the company said it has already produced and delivered more than 10,000 units, making it one of the few robotics companies to reach production scale in under three years. GENISOM AI said that milestone puts it in a different position than many early-stage physical AI companies entering the global market. Like Unitree, GENISOM AI is building around manufacturable platforms designed to move beyond laboratory demonstrations and reach customers at scale. However, the Beijing-based company said it puts greater emphasis on industry deployment, combining robotics hardware and software, in-house core technologies, and real-world application capabilities. M1, the company’s industrial-grade quadruped robot GENISOM AI builds platforms for real-world deployment At ICRA in Vienna last week, GENISOM AI showcased its M1 and L1 -series robots ...

Claire chatted to Maria Koskinopoulou from Heriot-Watt University about autonomous robotic manipulators for surgery, industry, and beyond. Maria Koskinopoulou is an Assistant Professor in Robotics and Computer Vision at Heriot-Watt University. She co-leads the ARM²Lab – Autonomous Robotic Manipulation & Multi-Agent Systems Lab at Heriot-Watt and the National Robotarium, alongside Ignacio Carlucho. Her research interests include robotic manipulation, perception, robot vision, medical robotics, human-robot interaction, and machine learning. She is involved in major UKRI and EU-funded research projects advancing robotic manipulation, surgical and underwater robotics, autonomous assembly, and waste sorting. View Source