In Episode 196 of The Robotic Report Podcast, co-hosts Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre evaluate final week’s Automate occasion, which they each attended. The podcast options interviews with management at ABB and Teradyne Robotics, the mother or father firm of Common Robots and Cell Industrial Robots.
Oitzman additionally names his choose of probably the most progressive robotic on the commerce present, offered by CeiliX.
We caught up with Carole Franklin, director of requirements growth, robotics, at Affiliation for Advancing Automation (A3) to study extra in regards to the new ISO/AWI 25785-1 humanoid security commonplace. In case you’d prefer to be part of the committee, attain out on to Carole.
Present timeline
- 1:20 – Mike and Gene evaluate highlights of Automate 2025 in Detroit.
- 15:15 – Mike interviews Mathias Entenmann, co-founder and CEO of CeiliX.
- 22:20 – Interview with Ujjwal Kumar, group president for robotics at Teradyne.
- 53:15 – Interview with Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics.
- 1:09:50 – Interview with Carole Franklin, director of requirements growth, robotics, at A3, on the ISO/AWI 25785-1 commonplace.
From left: Mike Oitzman, Marc Segura, and Gene Demaitre on the ABB sales space at Automate 2025.
From left: Mike Oitzman, Ujjwal Kumar, and Gene Demaitre within the UR/MiR sales space at Automate 2025.
Ceilix robotic video
Information of the week
Common Robots releases the UR15, its quickest cobot but
Common Robots unveiled its quickest collaborative robotic at Automate 2025. The UR15 has a most TCP (instrument heart level) velocity of 5 m/s to scale back cycle instances, improve productiveness, and scale back prices throughout functions and industries.
For pick-and-place functions, the firm mentioned the UR15 delivers as much as 30% cycle time enhancements in contrast with different UR fashions. On the identical time, it maintains the traits UR cobots are identified for, resembling a light-weight design and small footprint.
When mixed with OptiMove, UR’s new movement management expertise, the corporate mentioned these beneficial properties go even additional. OptiMove can improve trajectory smoothness and guarantee constantly correct actions, even in high-speed and high-payload functions, UR claimed.
Realtime Robotics launches Resolver
Robotic path planning is historically a fancy, time-consuming, and brittle course of, in accordance with Realtime Robotics. At Automate final week, the firm launched Resolver, a cloud-based motion-control system that may speed up the design and deployment of robotic workcells.
Many workcells use a number of robots, and avoiding collisions throughout manufacturing processes usually requires tedious handbook labor to create interference zones and interlock alerts. Manually validating the mechanical design, planning robotic paths, figuring out sequencing to hit optimum cycle time targets, and defining these interlocks can take greater than 100,000 hours for a single challenge.
Waymo remembers software program on 1,200 robotaxis for security
Waymo recalled 1,212 robotaxis to deal with dangers of collisions with chains, gates, and different roadway boundaries. The autonomous automobile developer mentioned it resolved the underlying software program drawback with a November 2024 replace that lowered the chance of accidents. The recall doesn’t impression its operations or any automobiles at the moment on the street, the corporate mentioned.
U.S. auto security investigators from the Nationwide Freeway and Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) opened a probe into the problem final yr. Waymo mentioned that between 2022 and late 2024, its automobiles have been concerned in 16 collisions with chains, gates, and different boundaries. None of those resulted in any accidents, in accordance with the NHTSA.
The corporate operates over 1,500 automobiles on the roads in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin.
DHL is shopping for over 1,000 Stretch robots from Boston Dynamics
DHL Group, a world chief in logistics, is increasing its already robust relationship with Boston Dynamics. By way of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), DHL plans to deploy greater than 1,000 extra container-unloading robots from Boston Dynamics by 2030. The businesses are additionally seeking to broaden the sorts of functions Stretch is used for.
DHL and Boston Dynamics have been working collectively since 2018. DHL first deployed Stretch in North America in 2023. The logistics big has additionally deployed the robotic within the U.Okay. and Europe, attaining unloading charges of as much as 700 instances per hour.
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