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Robotics & Automation in review 2025: the stories, signals and shifts that shaped the year

John Thornton — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:16:59 +0000

If 2024 was the year robotics and automation proved it could scale, 2025 was the year the conversation moved on to how it scales: skills, integration, capital, regulation and measurable [...]

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Google DeepMind to open automated AI lab in UK under new government partnership

John Thornton — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:09:51 +0000

Google DeepMind has agreed a new three-year strategic partnership with the UK government that will see it open its first fully automated research laboratory in the country and expand collaboration [...]

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Abu Dhabi university-led team sets out roadmap for AI-robotics ‘self-driving’ labs

John Thornton — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:11:44 +0000

A Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)-led group of global experts has set out how AI, robotics and lab automation could accelerate discovery across chemistry, biology and materials [...]

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North American robotics industry sees growth in first half of 2025

Michelle Mooney — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:28:47 +0000

The North American robotics industry reported continued growth in the first half of 2025, with both robot orders and revenue showing year-on-year increases, according to new data from the Association [...]

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Google DeepMind introduces Genie 3 with implications for robotics simulation

Michelle Mooney — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:01:46 +0000

Google DeepMind has released Genie 3, the latest version of its generative world model, marking a potential advance in the development of interactive, physics-consistent virtual environments. While the official announcement [...]

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MIT researchers develop vision-based control system that teaches robots bodily awareness

Michelle Mooney — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:43:26 +0000

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have unveiled a new robotic control system that enables machines to understand and control their own “bodies” using only visual [...]

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Scientists develop cannibalistic robots

Michelle Mooney — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:49:25 +0000

A team of researchers at Columbia University has developed a new class of robots capable of physical growth and self-repair by incorporating material from their environment or from other robots. [...]

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Zimmer Biomet to acquire Monogram Technologies in US$177m deal

Michelle Mooney — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:46:04 +0000

Medical technology giant Zimmer Biomet Holdings has announced a definitive agreement to acquire orthopaedic robotics firm Monogram Technologies in a deal valued at approximately US$177m. The acquisition is set to [...]

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Royal Marsden performs ‘world-first’ robotic microsurgery

Michelle Mooney — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:01:25 +0000

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has become the first medical centre in the world to clinically use two groundbreaking technologies in robotic-assisted microsurgery, developed by Medical Microinstruments, (MMI). The [...]

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Cobionix secures US$3m to advance autonomous medical robots

Michelle Mooney — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:50:08 +0000

Canadian medical robotics firm Cobionix has raised US$3m in a funding round led by TitletownTech, a US-based venture capital fund backed by Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers. The round [...]

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