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What a night! 🎉 MassRobotics’ 4th Annual Women in Robotics Medal Gala brought together industry leaders, academics, founders, and students to honor two remarkable women shaping the future of robotics. 🏅 Robotics Medal: Prof. Allison Okamura, Stanford University, for exceptional leadership across her career and for her pioneering contributions to haptics, medical robotics, and human-centered systems that enable robots to interact with greater sensitivity, dexterity, and care. 🌟 Rising Star Medal: Prof. Ayoung Kim, Seoul National University, for her influential work in robotic perception, spatial AI, and navigation, helping robots understand and operate reliably in the complexity of the physical world. We were also inspired by Jumpstart Fellowship alumna and MIT engineering student Christiana Pak Nguyen, who shared how the program shaped her path. Thank you to our sponsors: Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics, Honeywell Aerospace, Harmonic Drive LLC, maxon, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and Mintz. A special thank you to board members Professor Daniela Rus and Tye Brady for championing these awards. 📣 Nominations for the 5th Annual awards are open through December 20, 2026, at TheRoboticsMedal.org Full recap: massrobotics.org/celebrating… #WomenInRobotics #Robotics #WomenInSTEM #MassRobotics

Minds in Motion filled MIT’s Samberg Conference Center on November 7th. Mark Papermaster, AMD CTO, opened the event and shared AMD’s approach to physical AI. AMD provided three hands-on workshops where participants built and deployed a Vision-Language-Action pipeline using ROS 2 and multimodal models to control a robot arm. The AMD University team also ran a live demo. Thanks to the AMD team for bringing the hardware, the curriculum and their engineers to Cambridge, and to John Werner, Imagination in Action, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), and Massachusetts AI Coalition for co-hosting the summit with us as part of The Engine Tough Tech Week. Learn more about MassRobotics sponsors here: massrobotics.org/sponsors/

On Friday, we said goodbye to Heba from Contactile as she heads to Robobusiness in California this week. 🤖☀️ Thank you for joining us this past month and thank you to @ARMHubAus

Our Fall Investor Open House brought together investors, sponsors, and industry leaders to witness the latest technology from 20+ robotics startups from MassRobotics. Learn more about MassRobotics residents here: massrobotics.org/startups/ #Robotics #DemoDay #Startups #VentureCapital #Innovation #MassRobotics #DeepTech

🚀 Applications are open for Cohort 6 of the MassRobotics Healthcare Robotics Catalyst Program! Building robotics for healthcare or life sciences? Our four-month, non-equity program pairs startups with senior mentors from Festo USA, Novanta Inc., Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc., and, new this year, Intel to help you commercialize and scale. Cohort 6 runs February to June 2027 and culminates in a showcase at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston. Learn more here: massrobotics.org/massrobotic… 📅 Apply by December 31, 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #HealthcareRobotics #MedTech #Robotics #Startups

Thank you to our sponsor @intel, and all who joined our MassRobotics x Intel - Building Physical AI at the Edge Lunch and Learn. This was a valuable opportunity for the MassRobotics community to connect directly with the Intel Devs team. Intel Engineers shared practical guidance on how robotics teams can use intel edge AI technologies, developer tools, and software resources to help build, optimize, and scale physical AI Systems. 🔗 Learn more about MassRobotics sponsors here: massrobotics.org/sponsors/ #Robotics #Startupsa #Developers #MassRobotics #Intel #LunchandLearns

Thank you to everyone who joined us for today’s resident brunch! 🎃🍫🥞 A special thank you to our resident @BridgeAutomate for the breakfast sandwiches! Learn more here: massrobotics.org/startups/

Congratulations to the winners of our Pitchfest on the IROS Innovation Stage in Pittsburgh! 🏆 🥇 Hardhat Robotics wins $10K cash, $5K in legal services from Foley Hoag LLP, a feature in The Robot Report, a RoboBusiness ticket, and an invite to MassRobotics Demo Day in October. 🥈 Strive Robotics, runner-up: $5K cash 🎖️ Honorable mention: Apiary Robotics Congratulations to other finalists: Collective Robotics, Drift, Riibotics: Brownfield Robotic Forklift Solution, Sensate Robotics, Tall Wall Robotics Inc. (Building Diagnostic Robotics), ROPHAI and Inception Robotics Thank you to our sponsors: Foley Hoag LLP, maxon, Analog Devices, Wells Fargo, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, RoboBusiness, and The Robot Report Read more: massrobotics.org/massrobotic… #Robotics #Startups #MassRobotics #DeepTech #HardwareStartups

🤖 Save the new date: the Annual Robot Block Party is moving indoors! With heavy rain and strong winds forecast for Boston this weekend, we've made the tough call to postpone our 9th annual robot parade and block party, originally set for Saturday, September 26. The safety of our attendees, volunteers, vendors, staff, and robots comes first. The good news? We've secured an indoor space so the robots can roll, rain or shine: 📅 Saturday, May 1, 2027 📍 SoWa, 500 Harrison Ave, Boston A huge thank you to the robotics companies, universities, student teams, volunteers, sponsors, and partners who have already poured so much into this year's event. All that work carries forward to May. We can't wait to celebrate with you in the spring. Stay tuned for details! #Robotics #Boston #RobotBlockParty #STEM #Innovation

Startup founders, sponsors, researchers, and industry veterans gathered for our Ecosystem Reception at Cisco to kick off RoboBoston 2026! 💫 It is a true reflection of the collaboration and innovation happening here in Boston, connecting industry leaders and strengthening the robotics ecosystem. Thanks to all for making Boston's robotics community such a special place to be part of. Special thanks to WS Development for sponsoring the reception and @canvair_sky for their drone show. We’re just getting started… Tonight is our technical career fair!

This week is RoboBoston!  ☀️🌧️The Ecosystem Reception and Technical Career fair are rain or shine (watching the weather for the Robot Parade). ​RoboBoston is a celebration showcasing universities, startups, companies and student teams with cutting-edge robotics, AI and technology. Thursday: Ecosystem Reception (Invite only) sponsored by WS Development Friday: Technical Career Fair  📅September 25, 2026, 3:00 - 5:00 PM 📍88 Seaport Blvd, Boston MA Hiring Companies: ​ Analogic | Bogo Robotics | Boost Robotics | Braid Robotics | Boston Engineering | Cerulion | Chronospace | Festo | Field AI | GreenSight | Luminous | Maxon | Mitsubishi Electric Automation | P!ng | REGENT Craft | Sereact | Simpl Automation | Strive Robotics | Sudo | Synthium | Walden Robotics Register here: luma.com/n182i44t Saturday: The 9th Annual Robot Block Party! 📅September 26, 10:45 AM - 4:00 PM 📍88 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA ​​This year’s Block Party, free and open to the public, will include robot demonstrations and hands-on interactions with robots and more. Come and go as you please at this festival style event. All ages welcome! ​- 10:45AM | Sidewalk Robot Parade ​- 11:00AM | Ribbon Cutting ​- 11:00AM - 4:00PM | Robot Block Party Register here: luma.com/c2kl6qdb See exhibiting companies and universities here: 10Beauty | ALEO robotics LLC | Analog Devices | Boston Dynamics | Boston University | Brecourt Solutions, Inc. | Cerulion | COR-Platform | Dassault Systèmes | Festo | Haply Robotics | Harmonic Drive LLC | Luminous | LuxAI | Massachusetts National Guard | Mitsubishi Electric | ModalAI | MVP Robotics | myRide | Northeastern University | Novanta Inc. | Piaggio Fast Forward | PSYONIC | Revolute Robotics | Sereact | Stellix | Symbotic | Synthium | Tombot | Walden Robotics | Douglas D. Schumann School of Engineering - Wentworth Institute of Technology | Worcester Polytechnic Institute This year's event will also feature 15+ FIRST robotics teams! Thank you to our sponsors Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Foundova Robotics, EF and RTX #Robots #Robotics #Blockparty #familyfun #Seaport

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Women in Robotics Fall Meetup, and to our host and sponsor, @tutorintel and Emily Spector, for making the evening spectacular! Events like these are a reminder of how valuable this community is, bringing people together to connect, share experiences, learn from one another, and build new relationships. Details on our next meetup to be announced soon. Join our Women in Robotics Gala on November 7, 2026. Information can be found here: eventbrite.com/e/women-in-ro… Learn more about the Boston Women in Robotics community: massrobotics.org/women-in-ro… #WomenInRobotics #RoboticsCommunity #Networking #MassRobotics #STEM

MassRobotics Resident @tutorintel also announced their newest generation of Cassie. Congrats!

Congratulations to our Resident @tutorintel on announcing their new robot Sonny!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our first meeting of the MassRobotics Climate Robotics Working Group! 🤖 #Robotics #Climate #ClimateRobotics

Thank you to our associated network sponsor Reynolds & Moore who hosted a safety lunch + learn. This was a great opportunity for the MassRobotics community to get their specific questions answered and to learn how safety engineering accelerates product. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the conversation! Learn more about MassRobotics sponsors here: massrobotics.org/sponsors/