Serve Robotics, the maker of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, announced a new business unit called Physical AI Services aimed at supplying connectivity and data tools to other robot developers. The move follows its 2021 spin‑out from Uber’s Postmates acquisition and its 2024 IPO. Early customers include Bedrock Robotics, which builds self‑driving systems for construction equipment, and a partnership with T‑Mobile to bring edge AI computing closer to robots. Physical AI Services will launch three products: Serve Link, [...]

Agility Robotics, a Salem‑based developer of the Digit humanoid robot, began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker “AGLT” after completing a merger with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp XI. The stock opened at $11.26, above the $10 per share SPAC price, and was $10.30 at press time. The deal raised roughly $465 million, including $201 million from a PIPE led by Foxconn. Agility’s CEO highlighted the company’s role in integrating AI into physical work and its plans to expand robot [...]

Agility Robotics is going public via a SPAC, raising $465 million to fund its next‑generation Digit 5 humanoid robot. The Oregon‑state‑spun‑out, founded in 2015, currently operates nine industrial customers with its original Digit, moving over 100 000 totes at a GXO logistics hub and generating $174 000 in revenue in the first half of 2026 while posting a $362 million loss. The capital raise is aimed at securing $300 million in contracts for Digit 5, which can work alongside humans and will be showcased [...]

LiberAI launched Liber-0, a world action model pretrained on over 2.2 million hours of human activity, including video and glove‑recorded hand motion. The model was tested on 60 GPT‑6‑proposed tasks—20 pick‑and‑place, 20 non‑pick‑and‑place, and 20 long‑horizon challenges—without task‑specific robot demonstrations. It achieved 63.5% success on pick‑and‑place, 34.0% on non‑pick‑and‑place, and 10.5% on long‑horizon tasks, yielding a 36.0% overall success rate across 600 trials. The approach blends visual, kinematic, and embodiment alignment to translate human manipulation into robot actions. [...]

GlobalLogic partnered with Haystack Robotics to create an autonomous mobile UV disinfection robot for hospitals. Developed during the COVID‑19 pandemic, the robot uses real‑time perception, edge intelligence, and navigation to deliver hospital‑grade sanitization with minimal human intervention. Designed as an expandable platform, its modular architecture separates the mobility track from the UV payload, enabling future adaptations. The system includes autonomous navigation and a “follow‑me” mode for caregivers, addressing the complex, human‑dense environments of healthcare facilities. [...]

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) released ISO 21423:2026, an international standard that defines communication protocols for industrial mobile robots (IMRs) such as AGVs and AMRs, regardless of vendor or model. Developed by ISO Technical Committee 299, the specification details how robots, fleet managers and supporting equipment exchange data on location, speed, direction, condition, tasking and availability. By providing a common language, the standard aims to prevent path conflicts, improve fleet availability and boost overall system efficiency. It also [...]

Ben Waters, CEO of WiBotic, explained on The Robot Report Podcast that as mobile‑robot fleets expand, wireless charging strategy has become a critical operational factor. He noted that WiBotic is now serving diverse sectors—including floor‑care, medical carts, space, defense, automotive AMRs, and outdoor inspection—while legacy robotics customers see significant volume growth. Waters highlighted “opportunity charging,” where robots receive brief power boosts at points they naturally pause, reducing the downtime caused by traditional dock‑and‑charge cycles. He argued that [...]