robotics

Fort Worth’s Advanced Intralogistics Acquires Key Assets of Anchor Technical Services

by | Nov 5, 2025
Advanced Intralogistics said that acquiring Fort Worth-based Anchor strengthens its ability to deliver fully integrated lifecycle solutions for warehouse and distribution center operations nationwide.
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‘There’s So Much Energy in Our Space’: Innovators, Investors Invigorate Sold-Out 2025 Venture Dallas Conference
by | Nov 5, 2025
From North Texas founders including John Carmack and Ben Lamm to investors like John Redgrave of DTX Ventures and Draper’s Andy Tang, the summit's speakers tackled hot topics from humanoid robots and tech transfer to AI, VC trends and Y’all Street. A call was also heard for more risk-taking by DFW’s innovation ecosystem: ‘We’ve got to be bravery hunters.’
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Walmart, Zipline Launch Drone Delivery From Walmart in Southern Dallas
by | Sep 9, 2025
The Samuell Boulevard Supercenter becomes the first Walmart in Dallas to offer Zipline’s autonomous delivery service, with more than 65,000 items—from baby formula to frozen foods—available for drone drop-off
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The Last Word: Fort Worth Engineer On a ‘Mind-Blowing Robotics Trend Alert’
by | Jul 17, 2025
Columbia’s breakthrough points to a new kind of autonomy—because as one researcher puts it, “robots must ultimately learn to take care of themselves.”
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A New Robotics Showroom Is Coming to Dallas in 2025

by | Dec 12, 2024
A long line of service robots made by China-based Inbot Tech will soon be on display in Dallas, thanks to a new partnership inked by Plano's Sharing Service Global Corporation. The friendly-looking machines handle reception, delivery, security, cleaning, and table service tasks—and never ask for a day off.
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Revolutionary Robots: Staxel Strives to 10x Warehouse Fulfillment Efficiency Using Robots and AI
by | Sep 10, 2024
Detroit- and England-based Staxel, one of 10 participants in the mobility-focused Capital One Accelerator, offers logistics robots-as-a-service solutions boosted by AI.
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Fort Worth’s Omnicell Launches Central Med Automation Service with Robotics & Smart Devices
by | Aug 21, 2024
Omnicell—a Nasdaq-traded company with 3,400 employees on six continents—said the service is aimed at streamlining medication dispensing from a central fulfillment area throughout the entire health system enterprise. It's expected to enhance inventory visibility, scalability, and patient safety.
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New Center for Digital and Human-Augmented Manufacturing Pushes Boundaries of Digital Innovation
by | Mar 20, 2024
The unique center at SMU Lyle combines research innovation and industry partnerships to explore how digital twins, AI, virtual reality, and more will shape the future of manufacturing
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DFW-Based RobotLAB Expands Distribution Agreement with LG Business Solutions

by | Feb 9, 2024
Last March, RobotLAB inked a deal with LG Business Solutions USA to expand deployment of LG's hospitality robots—including a restaurant servebot named ClOi. The new collaboration will make the entirety of LG’s robotics portfolio more widely available and tailored via RobotLAB’s network and expertise.
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The Robots Are Coming: ‘Waves of Innovation’ Event To Be Held at AT&T Stadium
by | Nov 3, 2023
Olympus Controls and around 20 of its factory automation partners will be showcasing robotics solutions for manufacturing companies at the November 15 event. From sanding-and-polishing "cobots" to vision-guided robotic arms, the solutions aim to help solve 'historically low' labor participation rates.
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The Last Word: Toyota Research Institute’s Gill Pratt on Using Generative AI to Teach Robots ‘New, Dexterous Skills’
by | Sep 19, 2023
The advancement, leveraging what the institute calls "Diffusion Policy," is said to improve robot utility and be a step toward building "Large Behavior Models" for robots, similar to Large Language Models like ChatGPT which have revolutionized conversational AI.
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Digital Twins to Air Monitoring: See 17 UTD Student Projects Solving Real-World Challenges for Companies
On the hunt for a resourceful, cost-effective solution to your company's tech challenges or project pileup? Or maybe you need a product prototype. UTDesign Capstone is now open for company project applications for Fall 2023. But hurry—the window of opportunity closes soon.

Check out these past projects. One of them is bound to spark an idea for yours..
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The Last Word: DISD’s Omar Cortez on His Pleasant Grove School’s Robotics Program

Cortez teaches robotics to every sixth-grade student at his school, and also helps coach 40 students in five teams in middle and elementary school, along with teachers and coaches Julian Beltran, Brittney Fletcher, and Alba Ramirez.
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The Last Word: UTD’s Dr. Steve Yurkovich on $100K Amazon Robotics Grant
A$100,000 grant from Amazon Robotics will support the development of new UT Dallas coursework in functional safety—a practice that ensures the safe functioning of everything from autonomous warehouse robots to delivery robots and more.
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A Robot Is Changing Tires in Arlington
by | Feb 23, 2023
Michigan-based RoboTire uses "state-of-the-art robotics and advanced algorithms" to change a vehicle's tires in a fraction of the time it takes humans to do it, "reducing an hour-long experience to under 25 minutes while maintaining the highest levels of safety." The Arlington location is the second of Discount Tire's 1,100 stores to implement the system. And it's not a coincidence—Discount Tire is a RoboTire investor.
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Barnston Agtech showed off its swarm farming robotic driverless tractors at the Barnstorm R&D Center in a recent YouTube video. [Video screenshot]
Robotic Agtech Startup Closes $217K Equity Raise for ‘Barnstorming’ Autonomous Tractor Swarms via Fort Worth’s Harvest Returns
by | Dec 28, 2022
Barnstorm Agtech, a Canadian startup developing driverless robotic tractors known as 'Barnstormers,' has closed on a $217,500 equity capital raise through Fort Worth-based Harvest Returns' investment platform.

The company, co-founded by a fourth-generation farmer and a robotics expert, plans to deploy 'swarms' of the tractors as a service to farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Canadian Prairies to address chronic labor scarcity and other "pain points" of traditional tractor systems.
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