Design / Development

Ubicept says its new toolkit uses SPAD sensors for low-light imaging and reduced motion blur in videos.

EY does not make robots, but it is working on a platform and a lab to help companies simulate and manage physical AI.

Yaskawa Electric and Softbank plan to enable human-robot collaboration and more tasks by integrating AI and communications. 

The bipedal robot expands Humanoid’s portfolio, following the wheeled Alpha platform, which has completed its first commercial POCs.

From promising startups to setbacks for iRobot and Teradyne, here are the top robotics stories of November 2025.

ROBOTERA has raised funding toward general-purpose humanoid and service robots, which it is developing with UN support.

The Physical AI Fellowship provides robotics and AI developers with access to MassRobotics, AWs, and NVIDIA resources and mentorship.

CMU and King’s College London evaluated how robots using LLMs behave when they have access to personal information.

The ARM Institute will perform research, development, testing, and evaluation to advance dual-use robotics for the U.S. Air Force.

D3 Embedded and Advantech said their integrated vision systems can help autonomous mobile robots come to market faster.

Glacier’s robots promise to help the circular economy become more efficient and to improve sustainability.

Flexion is using generative AI to build AI models that can automate tasks involving reasoning, writing, and creativity.

Sovato co-founder and CEO Cynthia Perazzo offers a forecast of telesurgery tech and her perspective on the biggest opportunities.

Physical Intelligence says Version 6 of its vision-language-action model can reduce failure rates over hours of operation.

Miniaturization offers robotics designers new levels of power efficiency, nimbleness, and precision for a range of applications.

Forterra said this latest funding round follows a year of deployments with the U.S. military, partnerships, and the acquisition of goTenna.

1X has demonstrated progress with its NEO humanoid, but teleoperation could be a better path toward household robots.

Waymo plans to more than double the number of cities it will operate a commercial robotaxi service in next year.

Foxconn and Intrinsic will develop and test robotics solutions for use across a wide variety of common manufacturing tasks.

Encord said its EBIND model, based on the E-MM1 dataset, is scalable and resource-light, allowing for the use of multiple data sources.

Agile Robots has developed the hardware and AI for Agile ONE in house and plans to manufacture the humanoid in Germany.

Zoox is accepting its first public riders in San Francisco through its Explorer program, which gives riders early access.