Ivan Hernandez Dalas - Mechatronics

A small sample of Amazon’s vast deployed warehouse fulfillment fleet. Source: Amazon Swarm robotics systems rely on power architecture because energy distribution influences coordination efficiency and fault tolerance in multi-agent environments. Centralized models depend on unified infrastructure and coordinated energy management. Meanwhile, decentralized approaches distribute power control and operational decision-making across individual robotic units within the swarm. These architectural differences create significant operational trade-offs involving communication latency, synchronization precision, and adaptive responsiveness. They make power topology an important consideration for robotics engineers, artificial intelligence researchers, and industrial automation professionals. Power architecture is a core layer in swarm intelligence Power topology is central to swarm coordination because autonomous decision-making and scalable task execution depend on how robotic agents d...

Danny Bernstein (l) from Reservoir and Sean Sundberg (r) from John Deere announced a partnership at the Ruggedize event. | Credit: Reservoir Deere & Co. last week posted Q3 2026 net income of $1.379 billion, or $5.10 per share, outperforming market expectations despite headwinds in its Production and Precision Agriculture division—the primary unit driving revenue from the company’s autonomous machinery, smart targeting systems, and precision technologies.   Production and Precision Agriculture Q3 breakdown: Small Agriculture and Turf sales increased for the quarter. Net sales were up 12%, and profit was up 28%.   Production and Precision Agriculture sales decreased for the quarter as a result of lower shipment volumes, partially offset by favorable price realization and foreign currency translation. Net sales were down 6%, and profit was down 9%. The revised outlook signaled that the multi-year downturn in global farm machinery demand may finally be reaching its floor...

Radha Basu, EVP and head of iMerit (left), and Rohit Kapoor, CEO of EXL (right). Credit: Mark Liflander, EXL The actions of physical AI, including robots, are only as good as the human expertise and data used to build the AI models that train them. ExlService Holdings Inc. this month completed its acquisition of iMerit Technology, a leader in AI model training, evaluation, and reinforcement learning. Founded in 1999, EXL offers services and solutions to industries including insurance, healthcare , banking and capital markets, retail, communications and media, and energy and infrastructure. The New York-based company has about 68,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 2012, iMerit provides data annotation for robotics, autonomous mobility, healthcare AI , and other high-tech industries. The San Jose, Calif.-based company said its subject-matter experts and proprietary Ango Hub platform enable customers “to collaborate on complex multimodal data to generate highly curated and val...

NeuraGrasp can grasp a wide range of items, from small containers to porous polybags and cloth items. | Source: Locus Robotics Locus Robotics Corp. has successfully tackled many robotic challenges in real working environments. Its autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, have navigated countless miles in a variety of facilities, and they have aided in more than 6 billion picks. Now, its targeting manipulation. The company entered the robotic picking space in March 2025 when it unveiled Array , a mobile manipulator equipped with a custom-developed, vision-guided picking arm. Over a year later, Locus acquired Nexera Robotics, which is known for its NeuraGrasp gripping technology. According to Roy Belak, the senior vice president of robotic grasping at Locus and former CEO of Nexera , by the time it came in contact with Locus, Nexera had already spent years refining its unique, soft end effectors. It had already gone through at least six different product generations, he said. “Just a...

Action from the 11 vs 11 humanoid match at RoboCup 2026. Photo credit: RoboCup Federation. RoboCup 2026 saw history made, as two teams of 11 humanoids took to the soccer field, the first time a full complement of robots has competed. The game saw B-Human (Bremen, Germany) take on HTWK Robots (Leipzig, Germany), with both sides using machines designed by Booster Robotics. You can watch highlights of the match below: Back in 1997 , RoboCup’s founders set the lofty goal of developing a team of autonomous robots that could beat the human World Cup champions by 2050. There has been significant progress since those early days, and this match saw another step towards that ambition. “This match shows how far humanoid robotics has come,” said Ubbo Visser, President of the RoboCup Federation. “We have seen increased teamwork and advanced skills over the years already, but the new humanoid hardware paired with the new level of intelligence provided by AI puts humanoid robot soccer o...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Teradyne Robotics has had enough compliments for one year. Teradyne Robotics, the parent company of cobot arm maker Universal Robots , has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a German subsidiary of Chinese robotics company JAKA. The case alleges that JAKA infringed patents covering both hardware and software used in Universal Robots’ collaborative robots . The lawsuit is Teradyne Robotics’ second major case involving a Chinese robotics company in Europe this year. In February 2026, the company sued Elite Robots’ German subsidiary over alleged copyright infringement. In April, the Regional Court of Hamburg issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Elite Robots Germany from offering the disputed software and products containing it in Germany. The case is still ongoing. The JAKA case is different. “This is a patent case where the other one was about copyright,” David Brandt, vice president of rese...