The Robot Report

ElliQ extracts memories from every conversation with the user and classifies them based on importance and relevance, injecting context into future conversations. | Source: Intuition Robotics The New York State Office for the Aging, or NYSOFA,  last week extended its partnership with Intuition Robotics. The company will continue bringing its ElliQ AI companion to aging New Yorkers at risk of loneliness and social isolation.

On the left, Hello Robot’s Stretch 4, and on the right, A&K Robotics’ Cruz autonomous pod. | Source: Hello Robot, A&K Robotics Consumer-facing spaces are dynamic, crowded, and highly unpredictable, requiring robots to safely navigate around constantly changing obstacles, operate in diverse lighting conditions, navigate narrow passages and cluttered spaces, integrate with existing infrastructure, and balance autonomy with safety.

Promise Robotics says it can accelerate homebuilding by standardizing component manufacturing. Source: Promise Robotics The construction industry is fragmented and has been relatively conservative about adopting new technologies, but physical AI promises to modernize homebuilding.

Promise Robotics has signed a multi-year partnership with America’s largest homebuilder by volume to bring physical AI to construction.

Daifuku helped to automate Kagetsudo Co.’s product storage system and production lines. | Source: Daifuku Organizations across the supply chain continue to invest heavily in automation. Yet for many warehouse and distribution leaders, the expected gains in productivity, throughput, and agility remain elusive. The issue is rarely a lack of technology. More often, it is a lack of synchronization.

The Atlas humanoid robot doing a cartwheel. | Source: Boston Dynamics Robots have captured our imagination. We have seen humanoids balancing on one leg, doing backflips, folding laundry, and moving smoothly over difficult terrain. This is all behavior that only a few years ago seemed like something out of science fiction. These viral examples matter because they show that embodied AI has reached a new technical stage.

As humanoid robots move from research labs into factories, warehouses, homes, and other shared spaces, accurate physical feedback becomes crucial.

Nicolas Sauvage, founder and president of TDK Ventures, with ANYbotics’ quadruped robot. | Source: TDK Ventures A robot picks up an object, moves it, and puts it down successfully. Is it dexterous? Perhaps. But now ask it to do that successfully hundreds of times, while objects move slightly, its grip changes, components wear, and unexpected failures occur. That is a much harder test of dexterity, and a much better measure of whether a robot is dexterous enough for the real world.

The next major challenge in robotic dexterity is making the entire system reliable enough to turn capabilities into useful work. As delivery robots become more common on campus, they are finding wide acceptance, found a Starship survey. Catch up on CES 2026 robotics highlights; explore more 2026 predictions; and analyze major acquisitions by Mobileye, Oshkosh, and Amazon. Starship plans to use its latest funding to expand robotic deliveries from campuses and European cities to U.S. urban areas.

The next major challenge in robotic dexterity is making the entire system reliable enough to turn capabilities into useful work.