The Robot Report said on 15 October 2026 that Stryker has invested about $400 million in CMR Surgical, with an exclusive option to acquire the company's remaining equity, and has secured an exclusive US commercial agency agreement for the Versius surgical-robot portfolio.
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A major device maker taking a route to own a surgical-robot platform raises the competitive stakes in robotic surgery, especially in the US.
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Removing the need for human demonstrations would ease one of the main data bottlenecks in training robots.Skild AI trains robots through self-play, logging over 140 years of simulated soccerThe Robotics & Physical AI beat · Robotics & Automation News
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Body parts that can do more than one job point to simpler, cheaper robots for confined or awkward spaces.ETH Zurich turns an off-the-shelf robot hand into a robot that walks on its fingertipsThe Robotics & Physical AI beat · IEEE Spectrum
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Vision-only robot models struggle when a grasp or object is hidden. Adding touch and memory targets exactly the reliability gap that holds back real deployments.Neura Robotics launches Neuron AI, a robot foundation model that adds touch, audio and memory to visionThe Robotics & Physical AI beat · Robotics & Automation News
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An openly licensed driving-grade vision-language-action model lowers the entry cost for autonomy builders — and shows NVIDIA competing on models, not just chips.
Surgical-robot policy work has been gated on scarce hardware time; a faster-than-real-time simulator with published weights moves that loop onto one workstation GPU.
Open robot foundation models plus shared datasets are to physical AI what open LLMs were to text — the fastest lever for teams that can't afford to collect robot data from scratch.