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News, analysis and buying guides for industrial robotics.
Cobot Payload vs Weight: A 50 kg Cobot That Weighs 990 kg
We checked payload-to-weight across all 18 collaborative robots in our database. The 50 kg FANUC CR-35iB weighs 990 kg; the UR10e hits a 7x better ratio.
Helix: Revolutionizing Humanoid Robotics with Vision-Language-Action Integration
Figure AI's Helix model fuses vision, language and action into a single neural network, letting a humanoid robot understand spoken requests and manipulate objects it has never seen before.
Grok 3: xAI's Latest AI Model Brings Advanced Reasoning and Deep Search
xAI's Grok 3 pushes reasoning and search further — and the more interesting question for robotics is what large reasoning models mean for on-robot autonomy.
Tesla Optimus Gen 2 With Grok 3
Pairing Tesla's Optimus Gen 2 humanoid with xAI's Grok reasoning hints at a combined hardware-plus-AI play for general-purpose robots.
Get Ready for the Figure 03 Humanoid Robot
Figure's next-generation humanoid targets real production lines, with BMW among the early manufacturing partners trialing the platform.
Introducing the HMND 01: A Leap in Humanoid Robotics
A new entrant joins the humanoid race with the HMND 01, promising a cost-optimized, deployable platform for labor-intensive tasks.
NEO Beta: More Than Just a Machine
1X's NEO Beta reframes the humanoid as a domestic helper — soft, quiet and safe around people, prioritizing human living over factory throughput.