Delta D-Bot collaborative robots win BIG SEE Product Design Award 2026 – Robotics & Automation News

By Syl Kacapyr Cornell engineers have developed a robotic collective that behaves less like a machine and more like a material that flows, reshapes and adapts to its environment without centralized control. The system, called the Cross-Link Collective, consists of dozens of small robots that have limited mobility individually, but together exhibit coordinated and sustained…

Abstract According to the latest IndexBox report on the global Ice Point Calibrators market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture. The World Ice Point Calibrators market is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 4–6% between 2026 and 2035,…

Claire chatted to Melissa Greeff from Queen’s University about autonomous navigation and learning for drones. Melissa Greeff is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University. She leads Robora Lab and is also an Ingenuity Labs Robotics and AI Institute member. Her research interests include aerial robots, vision-based navigation, and safe learning-based…

Amy is a travel writer and one half of Explore’s weekly Two Ways to Go columnist. Born a coast-hugger, she loves exploring oceans and islands and meeting the people who care for them. She can also sniff out a city’s best martini in a minute. My all-time favourite destination is … Hawaii. Growing up in…

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The hardest problems in building an automation company are rarely the technical ones. A team that can design a working robot or a dependable automated line has already cleared the bar most outsiders assume is the whole challenge. What tends to go unbuilt is the business scaffolding around the technology, and that is where a…