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Manifest 2026 recap

An Apptronik robot picking up a bin.

Apptronik brings in another $520M to ramp up Apollo production

Fox Robotics' FoxBot autonomous forklift.

Symbotic acquires autonomous forklift maker Fox Robotics

SpaceX Flight 11 takes off from Earth. Aerospace manufacturing requires fine tolerances and flexibility.

What the SpaceX acquisition of xAI means for industrial robotics

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maxon expert shares insights

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State of robotics industry report 2026

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Thomas Pilz on robot safety

The iRobot Roomba i7+ with Imprint Smart Mapping gives users control to choose which rooms are cleaned and when.

iRobot emerges from Chapter 11 as restructured Picea U.S. subsidiary

A humanoid robot such as this is one platform that the Microsoft Rho-alpha model is intended to make more autonomous.

Microsoft Research reveals Rho-alpha vision-language-action model for robots