Iván Hernández Dalas: 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards

For 15 years, the RBR50 awards have recognized the world’s leading robotics organizations in terms of technology and business innovation. This year’s cohort includes several repeat winners, as well as first-time honorees, and it is a prestigious list of the leading commercial robotics developers and suppliers from around the world.

This download provides profiles of the 2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award honorees, as well as a look at past and repeat winners.

The Robot Report received numerous nominations, but these 50 businesses, associations, and academic institutions stood out for their new products, use cases, and influence over the wider robotics ecosystem.

Organizations that represent and lead that ecosystem are among this year’s honorees. The Association for Advancing Automation is helping Congress recognize the need for a national robotics strategy, and MassRobotics is helping global startups get into the U.S. market.

From increasing AI advances to mobile manipulators and wearable systems, the 2026 RBR50 winners reflect the breadth and depth of innovation. We were impressed by the range, including new materials and processors, full solutions for manufacturing and logistics, a novel approach to creating garments, and a rover on Mars.

Not surprisingly, the world’s leading suppliers of industrial automation, components such as sensors, and autonomous vehicles are represented. In addition, Physical Intelligence, the Startup of the Year, represents a growing subset of developers finding ways to make robots smarter and more adaptable.

Not only do we look for interesting technologies; we also seek technologies that can improve people’s lives in the real world. With Harvard University’s Application of the Year and Tatum Robotics’ Robots for Good awards, the 2026 RBR50 recognizes robotics designed to help people with impaired arm motion and the deafblind.

This year’s RBR50 winners will celebrate at a gala dinner at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston, and they will receive continuing coverage on The Robot Report throughout this year and beyond. Past honorees have raised millions of dollars, progressed in commercialization, and even returned to the list with more innovations.

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