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Lifeward (formerly ReWalk Robotics)· 🇮🇱 Israel
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Diligent Robotics· 🇺🇸 United States
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ShippingBlackbird Robotic Aerial Security Drone
Nightingale Security· 🇺🇸 United States
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ShippingSecurity robots outdoor patrolling, video & thermal surveillance for security service companies
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Universal Robots· 🇩🇰 Denmark
✅ ISO 10218-1✅ ISO 13849-1 PLd Cat.3
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Shakey: The First Mobile Robot with Reasoning and Perception
Shakey, developed at SRI International in the late 1960s, was the first mobile robot that could perceive its environment and reason about its actions. It combined vision, planning, and locomotion in a way that laid the foundation for modern robotics and AI. This work pioneered concepts like STRIPS planning and A* search, making it a historic milestone.
Honda P2 Bipedal Robot Recognized as IEEE Milestone for Pioneering Human-like Walking
Honda's P2 bipedal humanoid robot from 1996 has been officially recognized as an IEEE Milestone, marking a historic achievement in human-like walking motion and bipedal locomotion control. This recognition highlights the foundational technology that enabled subsequent advanced humanoid robots.
Deep TAMER: Real-Time Human Feedback Enables Robot Learning
Deep TAMER allows robots to learn tasks via real-time human critique, combining deep learning with interactive training. This approach reduces the need for large datasets and enables faster, more intuitive skill acquisition.
Robot learns realistic lip sync by watching itself and online videos
Columbia Engineering researchers developed a robot that autonomously learns realistic lip movements for speech and singing by observing its own reflection and human videos, without explicit programming. This self-supervised learning approach significantly reduces the uncanny valley effect in human-robot interaction.
EgoMimic: Robots Learn Household Chores from First-Person Human Videos
Georgia Tech's EgoMimic algorithm allows humanoid robots to learn complex manipulation skills directly from first-person human videos without manual programming. This approach significantly reduces the data and training required for robots to perform household tasks like laundry and dishwashing, marking a major step toward practical home assistance.
Soft composite material achieves 900% strain and 1.3 MPa stress for soft robotics
This Nature Communications paper presents a silicone rubber-ethanol composite that simultaneously achieves ultra-high strain (900%) and high stress (1.3 MPa) with low density, overcoming a key trade-off in soft actuators. The material enables untethered soft robotic applications with improved performance and efficiency.
Soft composite material achieves 900% strain for soft actuators
This paper presents a self-contained soft composite material that combines an elastic polymeric matrix with liquid-vapor phase change, enabling electrically driven soft robots with up to 900% strain. The low-cost, simple fabrication process makes it a significant advancement for soft robotics.
MIT shows smartphone-grade LiDAR can see around corners
MIT researchers demonstrated that consumer-grade LiDAR sensors can reconstruct hidden objects via scattered light, enabling non-line-of-sight imaging. This breakthrough makes a previously lab-only capability practical for robotics, search-and-rescue, and autonomous systems.
AI breakthrough cuts energy use 100x while boosting accuracy
Researchers combined neural networks with symbolic reasoning, achieving up to 100x reduction in energy consumption while improving accuracy for robot control tasks. This hybrid approach addresses a critical bottleneck in deploying AI on resource-constrained robots.
Gemini Robotics 1.5 enables cross-embodiment skill transfer without specialization
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 1.5 allows a robot to transfer learned motions to another robot without task-specific retraining, significantly accelerating learning across different physical forms. This is a first-of-its-kind capability that bridges the gap between simulation and diverse real-world embodiments.
Programmable Actuator for Combined Motion and Connection in Modular Robots
This paper presents a novel millimeter-scale actuator using Simplified Electro-Permanent magnets that enables both connection and smooth motion in a single unit. Implemented in the DILI modular robot system, it achieves reconfigurability with fine motion control, a first-of-its-kind capability for modular robotics.
Motor-free smart actuator achieves sub-second speed with near-perfect shape recovery
Korean researchers have developed a novel actuator combining shape memory alloys and polymers that bends when heated, achieving sub-second response times and nearly 100% shape recovery without complex motors. This represents a first-of-its-kind capability in smart actuator technology, with potential to simplify robotic designs and enable faster, more efficient motion in soft robotics and automation.
🎓 Robotics Education
Robotics degree programs worldwide — ranked
Robotics Engineering
Northeastern University
📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Master's Program in Robotics
Stevens Institute of Technology
📍 Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Robotics Master's Program
Stevens Institute of Technology
📍 Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Mechatronics and Automation), PhD
Arizona State University
📍 Tempe, Arizona, United States
Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Master of Science in Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
🎯 Robotics Talent
Latest robotics jobs — direct apply links to company careers
Head of Research China Robotics
Siemens Ltd., China
📍 Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Robotics Engineer
Surface Intelligent Science and Technology
📍 Shanghai and Shenzhen, China
Research Scientist, Robotics
Google DeepMind
📍 Unknown
Research Scientist
Robotics and AI Institute
📍 Cambridge, MA, USA
Research Scientist, Robotics
Google DeepMind
📍 United States
Research Associate / Doctoral Researcher in Data-Driven Autonomous Mobile Robotics for Aquatic Biodiversity Monitoring
Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich
📍 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
🔬 Robotics research
Latest most-cited arXiv papers — full directory + patents at /research
Good Token Hunting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Selection for Visual Geometry Transformers
Shuhong Zheng, Michael Oechsle, Erik Sandström +3 more
2026
Robotic Strawberry Harvesting with Robust Vision and Deep Reinforcement Learning based Sim-to-Real Control
Al Bashir, Shao-Yang Chang, Partho Ghose +3 more
2026
Point Tracking Improves World Action Models
Jiarui Guan, Wenshuai Zhao, Yue Pei +3 more
2026
Instrumentation for Imitation Learning: Enhancing Training Datasets for Clothes Hanger Insertion
Remko Proesmans, Thomas Lips, Francis wyffels
2026
SFG-ROS: A Resource-Aware Framework for Dense Multi-Agent Perception
Constantin Blessing, Elias Geiger, Jakob Häringer +2 more
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Direct Dynamic Retargeting for Humanoid Imitation Learning from Videos
Constant Roux, Ludovic De Matteïs, Armand Jordana +4 more
2026
The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will be held June 1–5, 2026 in Vienna, Austria, bringing together leading researchers and industry figures from around the world. The conference is the flagship academic event for robotics and automation, covering topics from manipulation and perception to human-robot interaction. Attendance is expected to be record-breaking given the current surge of interest in physical AI.
Read more →The Robotics Summit & Expo is scheduled for May 27–28, 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts, drawing over 6,000 robotics developers and engineers. The event covers applications across aerospace, defense, healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing. It is one of the premier North American gatherings for professionals building and buying commercial robot systems.
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Read more →📊 Robotics Industry Intelligence
Live IFR data on global installations, market size, and manufacturer share.
- 🇨🇳China276,00047%
- 🇯🇵Japan50,0008.5%
- 🇺🇸USA44,0007.5%
- 🇰🇷South Korea43,0007.3%
- 🇩🇪Germany25,0004.2%
Source: IFR World Robotics Report 2024.
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Boston Dynamics
Quadruped robot dog used in construction, oil & gas, and public safety.
Fun fact: Spot can open doors, climb stairs, and has been used by police departments worldwide.
Atlas
Boston Dynamics
Full-size humanoid that does parkour, backflips, and construction work.
Fun fact: Atlas can do a running backflip and pick up and throw heavy tools on a construction site.
PARO
PARO Robots
Therapeutic baby harp seal robot used in dementia care.
Fun fact: PARO is classified as a medical device in Japan and is used in over 30 countries.
LOVOT
Groove X
Soft furry companion robot designed purely to be loved.
Fun fact: LOVOT has no practical purpose — it exists only to make you feel love. It has a body temperature of 98.6°F.
Aibo
Sony
AI-powered robot dog with genuine personality and memory.
Fun fact: Each Aibo develops a unique personality over time based on how you interact with it.
Pepper
SoftBank Robotics
Humanoid with emotion recognition and a tablet chest.
Fun fact: Pepper can detect human emotions from facial expressions and voice tone in real time.
Ameca
Engineered Arts
World's most expressive humanoid face robot.
Fun fact: Ameca's facial expressions are so realistic that people instinctively feel uncomfortable — it's the uncanny valley made physical.
Sophia
Hanson Robotics
AI humanoid robot and Saudi Arabian citizen.
Fun fact: Sophia became the first robot to receive citizenship of any country (Saudi Arabia, 2017) and has addressed the UN.
Digit
Agility Robotics
Warehouse humanoid with backwards bird-like knees.
Fun fact: Digit's legs are designed like an ostrich — the backwards-bending joints make it far more energy efficient than human-style legs.
Cassie
Agility Robotics
Ostrich-legged bipedal runner.
Fun fact: Cassie completed a 5K run in 53 minutes on a single battery charge — the first bipedal robot to do so.
Nao
SoftBank Robotics
58cm programmable humanoid used in 70+ countries for education.
Fun fact: Nao has been used to teach programming to over 500,000 students worldwide and can dance in perfect synchronization with dozens of other Naos.
RoBear
RIKEN
Bear-shaped nursing robot that lifts patients out of bed.
Fun fact: RoBear was deliberately designed to look like a bear so patients would feel safe being lifted by it — cuteness as engineering.
83+ Robotics Startups Worldwide
Updated daily by AI agents — filter by funding stage, region, and robot type.
Waymo
World's only fully commercial driverless robotaxi — 50,000+ rides/week
⭐ 50,000+ weekly rides with zero human driver — only true commercial driverless service
Backed by: Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz
Boston Dynamics
Atlas + Spot — world's most recognized robots
⭐ 10,000+ Spot robots deployed in 90+ countries — 500M+ YouTube views
Backed by: Hyundai Motor Group
Figure AI
General-purpose humanoid for warehouses and homes
⭐ Figure 02 deploys at BMW Spartanburg — first humanoid in a real auto plant
Backed by: Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI
Physical Intelligence (π)
Foundation models for general robotic dexterity
⭐ π0 can fold laundry, bus tables, pack boxes — zero task-specific training
Backed by: Sequoia, OpenAI, Jeff Bezos
Apptronik
Apollo humanoid deployed at GXO and Mercedes-Benz
⭐ Apollo deployed at GXO warehouses and Mercedes-Benz factories
Backed by: Google, Mercedes-Benz, NASA collaboration
Pudu Robotics
70,000+ restaurant robots in 60+ countries
⭐ 70,000+ units in 60+ countries — largest restaurant robot fleet in the world
Backed by: Meituan, Sequoia China
Skild AI
A generalist robot brain that runs across any robot body
⭐ $300M raised at $1.5B valuation before shipping a single product
Backed by: Lightspeed, SoftBank, Amazon
Unitree Robotics
World's most affordable quadruped and humanoid robots
⭐ 10,000+ quadrupeds deployed globally — cheapest capable legged robot at $2,700
Backed by: Sequoia China, Meituan
Agibot
Fastest founding-to-factory deployment in Chinese robotics
⭐ Founded 2023, in SAIC factory by 2024 — fastest humanoid deployment in China
Backed by: SAIC, Sequoia China
Agility Robotics
Digit — first bipedal humanoid operating at Amazon scale
⭐ Digit is the only bipedal humanoid operating inside Amazon facilities today
Backed by: Amazon, DCVC
Sanctuary AI
Phoenix humanoid learns any task via teleoperation
⭐ Carbon AI system learned 200+ tasks through human teleoperation demonstrations
Backed by: Microsoft, Accenture
1X Technologies
Norwegian humanoid building NEO for everyday households
⭐ First OpenAI-backed humanoid company focused on domestic home use
Backed by: OpenAI, EQT Ventures
🌍 Global Robotics World Map
Where the world's industrial robots are deployed. Click a country to drill down.
- 🇨🇳China47%
- 🇯🇵Japan8.5%
- 🇺🇸USA7.5%
- 🇰🇷South Korea7.3%
- 🇩🇪Germany4.2%
Source: IFR World Robotics Report 2024.
198+ Robotics Institutes & Labs Worldwide
Updated daily by AI agents — filter by region, institute type, and robot type.
Carnegie Mellon University — Robotics Institute
📍 Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The world's largest and oldest dedicated robotics institute, founded in 1979. CMU RI covers every robotics subfield and has produced more robotics PhDs than any other institution on Earth.
MIT — Computer Science & AI Lab (CSAIL)
📍 Cambridge, MA, USA
MIT's flagship AI and robotics lab, home to groundbreaking work in manipulation, soft robotics, and autonomous systems. CSAIL researchers have founded dozens of robotics startups.
Stanford Robotics Lab / Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)
📍 Stanford, CA, USA
Pioneer of robotic surgery and mobile manipulation, with deep ties to Silicon Valley. Stanford robotics alumni have founded companies including Intuitive Surgical, Willow Garage, and many others.
UC Berkeley — Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) & Robotics
📍 Berkeley, CA, USA
Global leader in robot learning and reinforcement learning for robotics. Berkeley's DexNet grasp planning system and deep RL for manipulation have transformed how robots learn from data.
University of Pennsylvania — GRASP Lab
📍 Philadelphia, PA, USA
One of the world's most respected robotics centers, famous for pioneering drone swarm research and agile aerial vehicles. The GRASP Lab's quadrotor swarms have been viewed hundreds of millions of times worldwide.
Georgia Tech — Institute for Robotics & Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
📍 Atlanta, GA, USA
One of the most interdisciplinary robotics institutes in the US, spanning 47 faculty across 8 departments. Known for social robotics, eldercare robots, and human-robot teaming research.
MIT — Biomimetic Robotics Lab
📍 Cambridge, MA, USA
Home of the MIT Cheetah — the fastest legged robot of its era. Prof. Sangbae Kim's lab pioneered impact-aware control and energy-efficient locomotion, directly influencing Boston Dynamics and the entire legged robot industry.
Cornell University — Robotics
📍 Ithaca, NY, USA
Leader in soft robotics and novel fabrication methods. Cornell's Creative Machines Lab pioneered self-replicating robots and soft pneumatic actuators now used in grippers worldwide.
University of Southern California — Robotics & AI
📍 Los Angeles, CA, USA
Known for socially assistive robotics — robots that help autistic children, stroke patients, and elderly people through social interaction. A world leader in HRI for healthcare.
University of Michigan — Robotics Institute
📍 Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Home to Cassie and Digit robot development research, and deep partnerships with the automotive industry for autonomous vehicle research. MCity is a world-unique autonomous vehicle test facility.
Harvard University — Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
📍 Cambridge, MA, USA
Invented the Octobot — the first fully autonomous soft robot — and Harvard RoboBee micro aerial vehicle. World leader in soft robotics, exoskeletons, and bio-inspired design.
University of Maryland — Maryland Robotics Center
📍 College Park, MD, USA
Ranked #11 globally in robotics research, with 47 faculty across 8 departments. Specializes in aerial vehicles, multi-robot coordination, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
📖 Robot Wiki
Manufacturers, robot models, technologies — bilingual encyclopedia
Curated Catalog
Curated Catalog is an editorial directory platform dedicated to indexing real, commercially available robot products from leading global manufacturers. Rather than producing hardware itself, it serves as a curated reference resource, with each listed product entry linking directly to the manufacturer's official page for authoritative specifications and purchasing information. The platform's location and founding date are not publicly on file. Its product index spans multiple robotics categories — including robotic arms, mobile robots, motors, sensors, and controllers — drawing from well-established brands active in industrial, research, and service robotics markets worldwide.
Bear Robotics
Bear Robotics is a United States-based robotics company specializing in autonomous service robots designed for the hospitality and food-service industries. The company develops robots intended to assist restaurant and hospitality staff by handling repetitive tasks such as food and beverage delivery, bussing, and runner duties. Bear Robotics is best known for its Servi line of autonomous service robots, which are deployed in restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality venues. Headquartered in the United States, the company positions itself at the intersection of artificial intelligence and practical service automation.

G1
The Unitree G1 is a general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Hangzhou. Standing approximately 1.32 meters tall and weighing around 35 kilograms, the G1 features 23 degrees of freedom and is capable of walking, running, recovering from falls, and performing dexterous manipulation tasks. It ships with SDK access, making it accessible to researchers and small-business operators seeking an affordable entry point into humanoid robotics. The G1 is widely regarded as one of the most competitively priced serious humanoid platforms available as of public reporting, positioning Unitree as a disruptive force in a market historically dominated by far more expensive systems. Its combination of mobility, recoverability, and open software access has attracted attention from academic institutions, robotics developers, and automation-focused startups worldwide.

Universal Robots UR5e
The Universal Robots UR5e is a six-axis collaborative robot arm (cobot) belonging to Universal Robots' e-Series product line. Designed for light-to-medium industrial and laboratory tasks, it is widely used in assembly, pick-and-place, machine tending, quality inspection, and lab automation workflows. Universal Robots, a Danish company and a subsidiary of Teradyne, is one of the most recognized names in the collaborative robotics market. The UR5e is programmed using Universal Robots' PolyScope graphical interface on a teach pendant, making it accessible to operators without deep robotics expertise. Its built-in force/torque sensing, tool-center-point control, and a broad ecosystem of certified end-effectors and accessories (the UR+ platform) have made it a popular mid-range cobot choice across manufacturing, electronics, food handling, and research sectors.

Quicktron M100
The Quicktron M100 is a heavy-duty autonomous mobile robot (AMR) belonging to Quicktron Robotics' M-Series product line. It is designed for demanding material handling tasks in warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing environments, using an integrated lift mechanism to transport shelves and pallets autonomously across facility floors. Quicktron Robotics, a company with roots in China and a global commercial presence, positions the M100 as a high-capacity solution for operations that require moving heavier loads than lighter AMR models can accommodate. The M100 targets logistics operators and manufacturers seeking to automate goods-to-person or pallet-movement workflows at scale.

NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX
The NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX is a compact, SO-DIMM form-factor edge AI compute module designed for robotics, autonomous machines, and embedded vision applications. Manufactured by NVIDIA, it is available in 8 GB and 16 GB memory configurations and pairs an Ampere-architecture GPU with an 8-core Arm Cortex-A78AE CPU to deliver high-throughput on-device inference without relying on cloud connectivity. Positioned within NVIDIA's broader Jetson Orin family, the Orin NX targets developers and system integrators who need a balance of performance and power efficiency in a small footprint. It is commonly used in applications such as industrial inspection, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), drone navigation, and smart edge devices where real-time AI inference is critical.