
The Robot Report Podcast · Inside Omron’s Next-Generation LD Mobile Robots Miguel Garcés Moreno, PMM, mobile robots, OMRON In Episode 264 of The Robot Report Podcast, we interview Miguel Garcés Moreno, product marketing manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) for mobile robots at OMRON Industrial Automation Europe. He leads product strategy across autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), industrial automation, and force- and power-limited or collaborative robots. Backed by an industrial
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Lightbringer’s co-founders and board members, from left: CTO Markus Andreasson, CEO Dominic Davies, and CCO Ola Wassvik. Source: Lightbringer Developments in AI, machine learning, and automation have given robots capabilities that would have seemed extraordinary a decade ago. As competition intensifies, the physical AI race is becoming less likely to be won by whoever builds the best robot, and more likely to be won by whoever owns the technology that determines its behavior. This is a par

https://www.therobotreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/lilly-physical-ai.mp4 Human-robot interaction is one of the biggest unlocks left in industrial automation to enable stronger safety, but most HRI research happens on university campuses that produces data that rarely survives contact with a live production floor. Running studies inside a working manufacturing site is logistically hard enough that most academia–industry partnerships never get past the first meeting. At RoboBusiness 2026, F

Runway said it is testing Praxis-1 on a variety of embodiments and environments to identify and close potential gaps before moving to general availability. | Source: Runway Runway AI Inc. this week introduced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns Runway’s video pretraining into control for robots. The company said it built Praxis-1 on the same large-scale video pretraining behind its general world models. “Most robot policies are bottlenecked by robot data, which is
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