New robots, new capabilities. Tracking what's coming for the workforce.
Robotics Robot.com booked a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo, putting sidewalk delivery robots across North American college campuses. Sodexo runs about 400,000 employees globally and 120,000 U.S. full-timers, and Robot.com's CEO named it as a company that cannot fill its open roles.
Robotics Robot.com's new R-noid humanoid targets high-turnover jobs — quick-service kitchens, warehouse picking, hotel laundry — rented by the shift, and unlike the workers it replaces, it never resigns.
Robotics The Netherlands opened its first Humanoid Application Centre near Rotterdam, a working floor to test robots for construction, logistics, and horticulture — not a showroom.
Robotics Geekplus says 436 of its autonomous mobile robots now run in-plant logistics across multiple Toyota factories in Japan, with labor shortages and trucking rules driving the rollout.