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6 days ago
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ETH Zurich turns an off-the-shelf robot hand into a robot that walks on its fingertips

Researchers at ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab describe in an arXiv preprint (2609.17172) a commercial Wuji Technology robot hand fitted with an 80-gram backpack holding a battery, an IMU and a Raspberry Pi Zero, which crawls on its fingertips with no arm attached, IEEE Spectrum reported on Oct 8. The controller was trained with reinforcement learning in simulation, using virtual springs to hold a crawling posture; the hand walked on 14 surfaces at about 9 cm per second, turned both ways, righted itself in 21 of 25 trials and pushed a 41-gram cube to targets up to 40 cm away in 15 consecutive trials. Lead author Amirhossein Kazemipour is a Ph.D. candidate in the lab. The work is a preprint and has not been peer reviewed.

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13 days ago
ProductCH

ANYbotics launches Shift, pitching its inspection robots on the maintenance tickets they create

Swiss legged-robot maker ANYbotics has released Shift, a four-module platform that plans robot inspection rounds, analyses the readings and pushes findings into plant systems such as SAP and IBM Maximo. The company says Shift already analyses more than 120,000 inspections a month across over 1,000 industrial assets.

3 sourcesANYboticsGecko RoboticsBoston DynamicsFleet Orchestration Software
Jun 16, 2026
BusinessCH

ANYbotics opens a Barcelona engineering hub as the Swiss inspection-robot maker builds out AI talent for its ANYmal fleet

Zurich-based ANYbotics said on June 16, 2026 it had opened an office at the DFactory Barcelona Industry 4.0 campus to expand engineering in computer vision, machine learning, software, mechatronics and DevOps. The site becomes its third hub after Zurich and San Francisco, following a Yokogawa software partnership in February and the hiring of a chief revenue officer in March.

5 sourcesANYboticsBoston DynamicsUnitree RoboticsDepth VisionFleet Orchestration Software
Jan 29, 2026
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ABB Robotics ends its last full year under ABB with sales up 2.8% and fourth-quarter operating income halved

ABB's robotics division, now reported as a discontinued operation ahead of its USD 5.375 billion sale to SoftBank Group, booked 2025 revenue of USD 2,331 million and income from operations of USD 294 million, ABB disclosed with its fourth-quarter results on 29 January 2026. Fourth-quarter operating income fell to USD 37 million from USD 71 million as expenses rose 48%, while gross margin improved.

4 sourcesABBABB RoboticsSoftBank Group
Nov 18, 2025
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Distalmotion raises US$150 million to take its DEXTER surgical robot into US outpatient centres

Swiss surgical robot maker Distalmotion closed a US$150 million Series G led by Revival Healthcare Capital on 18 November 2025 and named former Silk Road Medical chief executive Chas McKhann executive chairman. Johnson & Johnson's venture arm followed with a strategic investment in January 2026, and by August the FDA had cleared DEXTER for five procedures aimed at ambulatory surgery centres.

6 sourcesDistalmotionJohnson & JohnsonIntuitive
Apr 17, 2025
BusinessCH

ABB plans to spin off its US$2.3 billion robot business as a separate listed company in 2026

ABB said on 17 April 2025 it will propose a full spin-off of its Robotics division at its 2026 AGM, with trading in the new company planned for the second quarter of 2026. The division, which ABB calls the global number two in robotics, had about US$2.3 billion of 2024 revenue and a 12.1% operational EBITA margin, while its business area's first-quarter margin fell to 9.9% even as orders rose 14%.

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