RBR50

The World Economic Forum has honored Hello Robot, whose Stretch system provides mobile manipulation to older adults and people with disabilities.

May 2026 was a busy month full of robotics news, and it was topped off by the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston.

The RBR50 gala at the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo offers a chance to honor and connect with the world’s leading robotics innovators.

2026 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards will recognize the leading technologies, businesses, startups, and applications of the past year.

Locus Robotics recorded its 6 billionth pick at a customer in Germany, as mobile robot and AI adoption continues to accelerate.

Beewise said the latest funding will accelerate its mission to save bees in order to secure the global food supply.

The RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards recognized HEBI Robotics’ flexible and scalable mobile manipulator, which builds on its modular platform.

The 2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards recognize the top startup, robot, application, and robot for good from the past year.

End the first day of the Robotics Summit with the RBR50 Gala, which offers a chance to connect with the world’s leading robotics innovators.

The editorial team recaps some of the most innovative robotic solutions in the 2025 cohort of RBR50 winners.

See who won Robot of the Year, Startup of the Year, Application of the Year, the new Robots for Good Award, and more.

Brightpick says its Giraffe high-reach mobile manipulator can triple warehouse storage density compared with manual operations.

MIT engineers developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle that mimics its beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts.

In August 2023, autonomous mobile robot developer Locus Robotics surpassed 2 billion warehouse picks, which it has doubled since then.

Neya Systems aims to push its autonomy software beyond existing automotive security by using the AICA reference architecture.

Robust AI introduced its Carter autonomous mobile robot in 2022 and quickly landed a commercial deal with DHL.

Ukraine-based Gardarika Tres is converting existing heavy equipment into autonomous demining machines to clear farm fields of mines.

Discussion about the latest Boston Dynamics humanoid video and an interview with Gili Ovadia from BionicHive warehouse robotics.

evoBOT from Fraunhofer IML has a seemingly simple design that doesn’t resemble any other mobile robot on the market today.

2025 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards will recognize the leading technologies, businesses, startups, and applications of the past year.

The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, generated oxygen aboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover.

Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering developed a soft exoskeleton to help a person with Parkinson’s walk without freezing.