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Robotics

Robotics and embodied systems.

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Deployed · Bright published 2026-09-09

Lasers matched the herbicides.

A machine drives a vegetable field, photographs every plant, decides which are weeds, and burns them with short laser pulses. In 2024 field trials in New Jersey and New York, it controlled weeds as well as or better than the standard herbicide programme.

Source published 2025-06-24 · Evidence pack

Deployed · Bright published 2026-09-07

A warehouse robot that knows when to stop squeezing.

Amazon describes Vulcan, a fulfillment-center robot that combines vision with force-feedback sensors to pick and stow items in crowded inventory bins and hand difficult cases to a person.

Source published date not established · Evidence pack

Demonstrated · Bright published 2026-09-07

A warehouse inventory check that rolls itself.

GXO reported the successful completion of a pilot at its Oosterhout warehouse in the Netherlands, where a Dexory robot autonomously scanned inventory and produced real-time digital inventory models.

Source published 2025-03-03 · Evidence pack