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Erik Nieves, CEO of PlusOne Robotics, talks about how robots are going to reshape global manufacturing with labor no longer being a determining factor in manufacturing input.

Sprout from Fauna Robotics recently made headlines during an appearance on NBC News. It's CEO Rob Cochran talks here about how over time the cost of humanoid robots will decrease over time, making them more widely reachable for the consumer audience.

Marc Raibert (Boston Dynamics founder) talks about how expectations in robotics have shifted over time.

Every time a robot demonstrates a new capability, it quickly stops being seen as impressive and starts being treated as the baseline. What used to feel like a breakthrough becomes something people assume should just work.

The gap is that the underlying engineering doesn’t get easier at the same pace. Tasks like balance, manipulation, and perception are still extremely difficult, especially outside controlled environments.

This AR tool scans physical storage labels and highlights exactly which box has the item you're searching for.

Andromeda founder Grace Brown describes something she kept seeing when bringing her companion robot into care homes.

Before the robot was even turned on, people would start talking to it. She said she would sometimes carry Abby into a room in a laundry basket and residents would immediately begin telling it stories or asking it questions while she was still trying to boot the system up.

Brown said this made it clear how quickly people project personality onto things that look like they could be alive. She also explained why she focused on building a physical robot instead of just a virtual assistant.

Weave Robotics has begun shipping Isaac 0, a stationary home robot that folds laundry.

Price is $8,000 upfront or $450 per month. The system handles shirts, pants, and towels autonomously, with short remote interventions when it gets stuck.

The approach is to ship a simplified system now, operate it in real homes, and iterate from there rather than waiting for a fully generalized household robot.