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#Autonomous System | Applications


#Renu Robotics | Vegetation management


#Symetri | Tailored Systems


#ABB | Utility, industry, transportation and infrastructure


#Mecademic | Robotics


#Precise Automation | Industrial collaborative robots, motion control


#Universal Robots | Collaborative robots


#Cognex | Machine vision systems | Sensors | Barcode readers


#Koerber Supply Chain | Supply Chain Cloud Solution


#The Fabricator | News for metal fabrication professionals


#Spot robot | Radiation mapping autonomously | Gamma ray sensors | Personal dosimeters | Neutron detection | Alpha inspection with pancake sensors| Ability to withstand large amounts of radiation | Cabability to carry a variety of radiation detection payloads | Ongoing safe operation and eventual decommissioning of nuclear power plants | Machine learning algorithms | AI | Boston Dynamics


#Springer Professional | Computing


#Flow Robotics | Pipetting robot | Integrated magnetic deck, a coldplate, a cooling block, and a shaker with or without temperature control | Loops in washing steps for DNA purification or ELISA | Break points for protocols including incubation | Setting a timer in the program | Bottom touching the pipette after dispensing | Liquid level detection | Protocol optimization


#Sea Machines | Artificial Intelligence Recognition and Identification System | Detects, tracks, classifies and geolocates objects, vessel traffic and other potential obstacles


#Ecorobotix | Smart spraying


#Kalmar | Plans for highly automated port | Strategy for easing global supply chain congestion | Container lines reeling in record profits


#Locus Robotics | Autonomous mobile robot | AMR


#Carbon Robotics | Autonomous LaserWeeder Robot | Deep Learning | Laser | Lidar Sensor | Nvidia | Cumming


#Naio Technologies | Agricultural robotics solutions


#Boston Dynamics | Firefighting robot | Spot | Robot dog | New York City Fire Department | FDNY | Search and rescue missions | Measuring the concentration of gases and chemicals | Chemical attack | Natural disaster | Industrial accidents | Ultrasonic inspections of rotating equipment with Fluke SV600 | Early detection of bearing failures before they lead to costly breakdowns | Operators can capture critical data without the need for additional inline sensors or manual inspections | Leica BLK ARC payload | Autonomous routines | Repeatable laser scans | Precise 3D data for tasks like factory design, equipment installation, and change management | Spot can identify and avoid obstacles requiring additional caution in dynamic environments, including carts, wires, and ladders | Spot Hardware Updates | Tablet Controller Pro | Ergonomic joysticks, longer battery life, and HDMI pass-through | Spot robit operates in temperatures up to 55°C | Core I/O antenna upgrade enhances range and reliability | AI Institute | Artificial intelligence (AI) | Robotics | Intelligent machines | Cognitive AI | Athletic AI | Organic hardware design


#Industrial Omron | Sensing and control technology


#Anybotics | Manipulation payload | Autonomous maintenance tasks | Powerful and torque-controlled arm | Flexible sensor integration | Open software architecture | Access to low-level joint control for developers | System equipped with NVIDIA Jetson GPU | Onboard execution of AI models and real-time perception algorithms | Integrated platform enables advanced mobile manipulation, such as agile tool use, object handling, and real-time interaction in unstructured environments | Human–robot collaboration | Heavy payload handling | Complex tasks | Intelligent, autonomous legged robotics | Legged robotics research package | Collaboration with Duatic, an ETH Zurich spin-off | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection


#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier


#Amazone | Farming machinery


#ChcNav | Object Analysis | Object Detection | Autonomous Vehicle | Integrated IMU RTK technology | GNSS RTK engine | Calibration free high end IMU sensor | Advanced GNSS tracking capabilities | High end connectivity modules: Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC, 4G, and UHF radio modem | Base to rover surveying up to 5 km | Embedded 624-channel GNSS technology for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou signals


#Iviso | Software Engineering


#Ansys | Automated design reliability analysis software


#RocketDNA | Broad Area Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Self-Assessment Trial | Groundbreaking self-assessment capability gained | Faster Drone-in-a-Box deployments | The first commercial operator approved under CASA new self-assessment trial | Capability to self-assess and commence operations within days | Enterprises operating across multiple sites - particularly in mining, agriculture, and industrial sectors - new projects can start faster, site expansions supported immediately, autonomous drone benefits realised quicker | RocketDNA operated BVLOS missions from Remote Operations Centre (ROC) since 2022 | Developed robust safety management systems | Refined operational procedures through thousands of flights | Built deep expertise in risk assessment and mitigation | Established proven track records with the regulator | Operating safely around active industrial sites and infrastructure | Navigating overlapping safety frameworks (aviation, mining, workplace safety) | Working seamlessly with existing site operations and security protocols | Meeting the uptime and performance standards enterprise customers demand | Deployment and installation at client site | Remote operations from certified Operations Centre | Maintenance and compliance for all equipment | Data processing and delivery in preferred formats | Drone capability can move with operational priorities, not lag weeks behind them | Ability to quickly deploy drone to new locations | Running comparative trials across different sites | Autonomous drones can handle mine stock pile flights automatically on a set schedule | Volume calculations and 3D models are ready within hours | Automated flight patterns give consistent image overlap and quality. | Better data for planning | Fewer surprises at end of month | Docked drone systems sit in weatherproof unit that houses drone and its charging and communications systems | Base station arrives on site pre-mounted on a skid to make installation simple | Off-grid power options like hybrid solar, battery, and diesel | When scheduled or triggered manually, roof slides open, drone takes off, flies a pre-set route, and returns to recharge | Data uploads automatically, streaming live to team via Starlink, LTE/5G, or site network | SurveyBot start from around $50–60k | Rio Tinto Gudai-Darri mine designed around autonomous haulage and remote operating centres | Mine planning, drill and blast, environmental, and geotechnical teams all needed regular surveys and imagery to support their work | Autonomous haulage fleet is running continuously | Reducing the number of manual vehicle movements into the pit | Giving multiple departments faster access to survey imagery and data | Freeing surveyors from routine flying | With more than 190 square kilometres of mine to cover | Automating routine missions with docked drone system, but retaining manual flights for specialised jobs | Satellite connections with Starlink meant system could be brought online with a simple antenna


#Supplychain247 | Online community of supply chain


#Adexa | Supply chain planning


#Port Automation | Supply chain automation | Software assisted cranes | Autonomous vehicles | Digital checkpoints | Metrics: average minutes to unload a container, hours a ship spends in port to complete delivery of its cargo | Container Port Performance Index | Fully automated cargo handling equipment | Automated terminals | Automated cranes | More than 300 seaports in USA contributed $5.4 trillion to the economy before the pandemic | Los Angeles and Long Beach, California Ports | American Association of Port Authorities | Blomberg Business News


#ECA GROUP | Robotics | Automated Systems | Simulation Industrial Processes


#Lodige Industries | Elevating transfer vehicles | Three directional automated ULD storage and handling system for storage positions | International export goods supervision warehouse


#DNV | Certificates


#Argo | Improving float lifetimes | Powered by lithium or hybrid batteries | Iridium transmitters | Mission parameters can be transmitted | Floats carry GPS devices | Ice detection | Ice Sensing Algorithm | Ice sensing algorithm parameters locally tuned to reflect the regional sea ice | New float design to dive all the way to the ocean floor (6000 m) | Floats with spherical shapes | Hulls made of glass | CTD sensor on the float for temperature, salinity and pressure measurements | Measuring biogeochemical (BGC) parameters | Oxygen, pH, nitrate, chlorophyll a, backscattering and irradiance sensing


#JAKA Robotics | Graphic Programming | Set and adjust positions and tasks with ease | Drag Teaching | Moving the cobot to any position, and it will memorize it instantly | JAKA APP | Teaching the robot | Remote Monitoring | Monitor robot tasks and set alerts


#Bosch Rexroth | Autonomous construction, agriculture, mining, and municipal vehicles | Electric and hydraulic actuators | Automation functions on demand | Over-the-air updates for entire fleets | Virtual Walls: Protect defined areas within reach of the vehicle.for Excavator, Wheel loader Telehandler | Smart Hydraulics | Components equipped with intelligent and integrated sensors, and control functions | Comprehensive portfolio of smart components | Mobile off-highway machines with eOC and eCC | eoC: intelligent hydraulic components with a standardized and modular software architecture, allowing to create a customized solution for work functions of mobile machine | eOC BODAS Valve Control | eOC BODAS Pump Control | The combination of both, the eOC System Solutions | eOC BODAS Valve Control: customizable valve actuation functions, CAN joysticks, pedals, and EH-controlled main valves | eOC BODAS Pump Control: CAN communication between pump and diesel engine | eOC system solutions: combining eOC BODAS Valve and Pump Control in a single electronic control unit | eCC: hydromechanical control functions to electromechanical components and thus to software | eCC BODAS Pump Control: reduce hydraulic hardware to the essentials and control hydromechanical functions such as pressure cut-off and various control functions using software


#MassRobotics | Ori | Ikea | Boston Seaport District | Amazon | Google | Mitsubishi Electric | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT | Cybernetix Ventures


#VARTA | Application Specific Batteries (ASB) | Energy Solutions


#GAM | Robotic and servo gear | GPL Robotic Planetary | GCL Cycloidal | GSL Strain Wave | Precision Rack & Pinion | Linear Mount Products for Cartesian Robots


#AiFi | Autonomous retail | Cashierless AI powered retail solution | AiFi app | Computer vision | AI learning about scenarios | Simulated environments to train the AI algorithms and the models | Calibration algorithms allowing to recreate the shopping environment in 3D | Cameras tracking customers throughout their shopping journey


#Bayraktar | Bayraktar TB2 | Tactical Armed UAV System Platform | Ground Control Station | Ground Data Terminal | Remote Display Terminal | Advanced Base with Generator and Trailer modules | Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE), Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle | Conducting Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and armed attack missions | Onboard avionic suite with a triple redundant avionic system | Fully autonomous taxiing, take-off, landing and cruise | 18,000 Feet Operational Altitude | 27 Hours Maximum Airtime | Fully Automatic Flight Control | 3 Redundant Autopilot System (Triple Redundant) | Fully Automatic Landing and Take-off Feature Without Dependence on Ground Systems | Navigation with Internal Sensor Fusion Without Dependency on GPS | 25,000 Feet Max Altitude | 105 Hp Internal Combustion Injection Engine | 300 Liters Gasoline tank | 4 Laser Guided Smart Ammunition | 150 kg payload | 70 knot - 120 knot speed | <300 km communication range | Baykar Real Time Imagery Transmission System (BGAM) | BGAM allows users to watch live broadcasts securely on the network or on tablets using the mobile application via internet | Users can take multi tag notes on the system | Saved tags and labels will facilitate the search through archive videos | Mission log can be created and then exported


#Carling Technologies | electronic switching | electromechanical controls | electromechanical switches


#Jetson Orin Nano | Nova Orin reference platform for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) | 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance | NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU | Arm based CPU | Deep learning and vision accelerators | ultimodal sensor support


#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)


#Harmonic Drive | Precision servo actuators | Gearheads | Gear component sets


#QC Conveyors | Automation Series Conveyors


#Boston Dynamics | Stretch robot | NFI | Third party logistics provider (3PL) | Unloading trucks and containers | Moving freight through facilities | Inbound and outbound distribution centers


#NVIDIA | GPU Deep Learning | GPU acting as the brain of computing | Robots and self driving cars can perceive and unferstand the world | Accelerating the entire AI workflow | AI agents designed to reason, plan, and act | Conversational AI: multilingual speech and translation AI | Vision AI: multimodal real-time insights | AI factories: manufacturing intelligence at scale | Purpose-built AI factories | AI life-cycle | Humanoid robotics research and development platform | Machine Learning | Neural networks | Natural language processing | Speech recognition | Recommender systems | Biomedical image segmentation | Object detection | Image classification | Reinforcement learning


#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems


#Catepillar | Cat Command for Excavating | Remote control system | Cat Command station | Non line of sight remote control | Improving machine productivity | Fast restart of operations | Virtual cab with familiar controls and machine displays | Up to five different machines controlled by one user | Access to machine setting just like in the machine | Solution to workforce shortages | Training advantages for newer operators | Opportunities to those with physical limitations | Attracts a new generation of workers | Increases the longevity of experienced operators


#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT


#Jetson Orin Modules | NVIDIA | Advanced robotics and edge AI applications | Manufacturing | Logistics | Retail | Service | Agriculture | Smart city | Healthcare | Life sciences


#Deep Mind | Gemini Robotics | Vision language action | Multimodal reasoning | Real-world understanding | Gemini Robotics On-Device VLA model is optimized to run locally on robotic devices | Strong general-purpose dexterity and task generalization | Optimized to run efficiently on the robot itself | Gemini Robotics SDK | MuJoCo physics simulator | Foundation model for bi-arm robots | Completes highly-dexterous tasks like unzipping bags or folding clothes — all while operating directly on the robot | Trained model for ALOHA robots first | Adapted model to bi-arm Franka FR3 robot and Apollo humanoid robot by Apptronik | Generalist model can follow natural language instructions and manipulate different objects


#Nscale | UK-headquartered AI infrastructure provider | Nscale AI Campus in Loughton | UK largest AI supercomputer | Microsoft’ Azure services | 23,040 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs | Nscale, OpenAI and NVIDIA are together establishing Stargate UK


#Figure AI | Designing robots for the real world | Helix generalist humanoid Vision-Language-Action model reasoning like a human | Figure Exceeds $1B in Series C Funding at $39B Post-Money Valuation | Accelerating efforts to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into real-world environments at scale | Round led by Parkway Venture Capital | Significant investment from Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, Salesforce, T-Mobile Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures | Unlocking the next stage of growth for humanoid robots | Scaling AI platform Helix and BotQ manufacturing | Scaling humanoid robots into homes and commercial operations | Building next-generation GPU infrastructure to accelerate training and simulation | Powering Helix core models for perception, reasoning, and control | Launching advanced data collection of human video and multimodal sensory inputs


#Solinftec | AI based solutions for agriculture


#AkzoNobel | Aerospace Coatings | Digital, data driven service | Tailoring and optimising coating replacement | Manual and drone operated inspections | Database of every aircraft in a fleet | Drone machine learning algorithm analyses photos and identifies issues on paint surface | Aircraft repainted only when needed


#Synthesia | Using AI for the process of content creation | Make video content without cameras, microphones or studios | Turning text into a professional video with an AI Avatar | Creating high quality training videos easily | Converting subject matter experts written text to spoken content in over 120 languages, dialects and tone | Keeping video library up to date without rerecording | Speeding up reviews and communication by tagging teammates and leaving comments | Embedding synthetic videos in existing learning and training tech stack


#Hexagon | AEON humanoid | Dexterous hands | Multimodal sensor suite | Mission control system | Top speed: 2.4m/s | Weight: 60kg | Height: 165cm | Battery: Auto-swap | Payload: 15 kg short-term, 8 kg constant carry | Degrees of freedom: 34


#LUCID | Automated Wood Surface Inspection Using Machine Vision Cameras


#Ecorobotix | Precision smart sprayer | AI software system | Targeted Treatment with Size | Differentiation between monocot and dicot weeds | Crop row recognition | Customizable safety zones


#BrainChip | Licenses AI accelerator hardware designs combined with state-of-the-art development tools and advanced neural network models | Bringing on device intelligence to any chip design | Processor IP uses sparsity to focus on the most important data, inherently avoiding unnecessary computation and saving energy at every step | State-space model architecture tracks events over time instead of sampling at fixed intervals, skipping periods of no change to save energy and memory | Edge AI audio processing | Enablinging real-time video and image processing directly on-device | Processing data from sensors like accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones, radar, and environmental monitors directly on-device | Continuous health tracking that fits Into small wearables | In cabin sensor-based occupant detection system | No unending cloud fees | Support real-time streaming data | Keeps working, even without a network connection | Data stays on device, not in cloud | No transmissionsvmeans less risk of interception | Akida Development Environment (MetaTF) machine learning framework | Processor IP simulator | Python API for neural networks | Conversion Tool (cnn2snn) to convert models to a binary format for model execution on an Akida platform | PCIe Development Board featuring AKD1000 neuromorphic processor in standard PCIe form factor | Akida AKD1000 card features built in capabilities to execute networks without host CPU | BrainChip and VVDN created Akida Edge AI Box for applications such as video analytics, face recognition, and object detection | Event-based neural processor | Models include audio denoising, automatic speech recognition, and language models | Building edge hardware systems that can execute LLMs to provide domain-specific intelligent assistance at the Edge | Building models using an extremely compact LLM topology | Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs) based on state-space models combined with pre-processing information in a RAG system | Stand-alone, battery-powered AI assistant that covers huge amount of information


#movu | Automated warehouse solution


#Encoder | Industrial automation connectivity | EtherNet/IP ready encoders | Wiegand Sensors, converting motion to electrical energy for consistent pulses without a power source


#Retro Biosciences | Autonomous Research System | Automating key experiments to increase research velocity | Parameterized algorithmic wetlab methods in Python | Micro LIMS (Lab Information Management System) | Robotic scheduler | Computational Biology | Computational biology tools (scVI, Scanpy) | ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX) | Systems programming languages (Rust, C++) | Lab robotics (e.g. Opentrons, Hamilton, Tecan, MGI


#Forterra | Autonomous Driving System | AutoDrive Software Suite | Manages dynamic driving tasks in real time across operational and tactical functions | Localization | Perception | Behavior generation | Command and control communications with base vehicle drive-by-wire to accomplish complex missions | On-site or remote operators can direct, re-direct or suspend autonomous traffic | Remote monitoring of multiple vehicles, remote driver assistance, and remote driver take-over | Autonomous applications for logistics and distribution | Distribution Centers | Natural Resource Harvesting and Processing | Autonomous applications for defense | Resupply Platoons/Convoys | Surveillance | Reconnaissance | Last Mile Tactical Logistics


#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters


#ARM Institute | Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) | Funded by Office of Secretary of Defense | Part of Manufacturing USA Network


#Croq | AI inference technology | Language Processing Unit (LPU) | Email AI agent | Answer Engine | CroqChat


#Google DeepMind Technologies Limited | Creating advanced AI models and applications | Artificial intelligence systems ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart | Helping robots perform complex tasks that require dexterous movement | Two-armed manipulation tasks | Simulations to improve real-world performance on multi-fingered robotic hand | Helping robots learn from human demonstrations | Translating images to action | High level of dexterity in bi-arm manipulation | Robot has two hands that can be teleoperated for training and data-collection | Allowing robots to learn how to perform new tasks with fewer demonstrations | Collectung demonstration data by remotely operating robot behavior | Applying diffusion method | Predicting robot actions from random noise | Helpung robot learn from data | Collaborating with DemoStart | DemoStart is helping new robots acquire dexterous behaviors in simulation | Google collaborating with Shadow Robot


#Agile Cold Storage | Cold Storage | Swisslog client


#Formant | Cloud platform for robotics companies


#Neptune Labs | neptune.ai | Tracking foundation model training | Model training | Reproducing experiments | Rolling back to the last working stage of model | Transferring models across domains and teams | Monitoring parallel training jobs | Tracking jobs operating on different compute clusters | Rapidly identifying and resolving model training issues | Workflow set up to handle the most common model training scenarios | Tool to organize deep learning experiments


#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard


#Slack | Workplace messaging app | Hosts agents from platforms its customers use | Suite of AI agents | Agentforce lets people talk to their data on Salesforce and take action on tasks


#UC Berkeley, CA, USA | Professor Trevor Darrell | Advancing machine intelligence | Methods for training vision models | Enabling robots to determine appropriate actions in novel situations | Approaches to make VLMs smaller and more efficient while retaining accuracy | How LLMs can be used as visual reasoning coordinators, overseeing the use of multiple task-specific models | Utilizing visual intelligence at home while preserving privacy | Focused on advancements in object detection, semantic segmentation and feature extraction techniques | Researched advanced unsupervised learning techniques and adaptive models | Researched cross-modal methods that integrate various data types | Advised SafelyYou, Nexar, SuperAnnotate. Pinterest, Tyzx, IQ Engines, Koozoo, BotSquare/Flutter, MetaMind, Trendage, Center Stage, KiwiBot, WaveOne, DeepScale, Grabango | Co-founder and President of Prompt AI


#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia


#Wealth Catalyst | AI powered Cryptocurrency Trading Platform | Cloud-based Time Leap feature gives software a 0.01-second headstart in the market |.VPS technology ensures excellent real-time order execution | Analyzing data from over 22 technical, fundamental, and sentimental analysis tools to generate highly profitable trading signals | Low starting capital of $250 | Supporting major Credit/Debit cards, eWallets, and local Bank Wire, with no fees attached to deposits and withdrawals | Demo Account | Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, BAT, and IOTA | Forex pairs (e.g. EURUSD) | Commodities (Oil...) | Stocks (Coca-Cola....)


#Omega | Dark Side of the Moon | Breakthrough ceramic technology | Completely redesigned cases, crowns, dials and pushers crafted from advanced black, grey or white ceramic | Co-Axial Master Chronometer Calibres, certified to resist magnetic fields up to 15,000 gauss and visible through sapphire casebacks | Official Timing Partner of the U.S. Olympic Team | Since 1932 brought its renowned precision, expertise, and technical innovation to Olympic Games, separating the margins between gold, silver, and bronze, and serving each athlete during their career-defining moments