The Robotics Podcast with Fexingo: Autonomous Systems, Industrial Robots, and Hardware

In this episode of The Robotics Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the quiet revolution happening on factory floors: collaborative robots, or cobots. They start with a specific data point from 2025—cobot installations in automotive grew 35 percent year-over-year, hitting 45,000 units globally—and unpack why this matters. Lucas explains how cobots differ from traditional industrial arms: they have f...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the surprisingly hard problem of getting legged robots to handle stairs reliably. They examine Boston Dynamics' latest Atlas demo from April 2026, which still fails on spiral staircases, and contrast it with ETH Zurich's ANYmal robot, which uses a learned terrain-adaptation system called 'blind stair walking' to handle uneven steps without vision. The hosts...

Robots can weld a car chassis in under a minute, but ask one to pick up a ripe apple without bruising it — and it fumbles. In this episode, Lucas and Luna drill into the hardest unsolved problem in robotics: manipulation. They trace the history of robotic grasping from factory grippers to the latest tactile sensors from MIT and Shadow Robot. Specific numbers: the industry standard for a successful...

In the premiere episode of The Robotics Podcast, hosts Lucas and Luna drill into the story of RightHand Robotics — a Boston-based startup that quietly became the market leader in piece-picking robots for warehouses. They break down the specific numbers: the company's pick rate of 1,400 items per hour, the 30,000-plus SKUs its robots can handle, and the strategic pivot that left Amazon Robotics and...