Oct 28, 2025 3 min read Daily Rundown

🤖 Robots Take the Rink

Plus: From Video To Motion, Robotics at Micron Scale

Good Morning, Roboticists!

The story of robots is expanding and moving in every direction at once.

SPORTS

Richtech’s ADAM Skates Into Sports Business

📌 What’s happening: Las Vegas–based Richtech Robotics has partnered with the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights to introduce ADAM, a humanoid robot bartender powered by Nvidia Jetson Thor. Throughout the 2025–2026 season, ADAM will serve drinks, interact with fans, and even ring the pregame siren. This marks one of the first direct integrations of service robotics into a major American sports franchise.

🧠 How this hits reality: This is not just fan-service cosplay. It represents the sports industry quietly testing robots as part of stadium infrastructure, automating hospitality, reducing labor costs, and giving sponsors programmable brand ambassadors. With ADAM’s deployment, arenas are becoming live laboratories for human–robot interaction at commercial scale. Future stadiums may look less like locker rooms and more like trade shows for robotics and merchandise.

🤖 Key takeaway: When robots start joining professional teams, the goal is to determine who will own the next generation of fan engagement and service labor.

TRAINING

AgiBot Turns Motion Into Code-Free Performance

📌 What’s happening: AgiBot has launched LinkCraft, a zero-code platform that enables users to upload videos of human movement, such as dance or gestures, and instantly translate them into actions for a humanoid robot. It uses AI-based motion capture and imitation learning to automate what once required advanced robotics coding or reinforcement learning setups. The system also syncs voice, facial expression, and emotion, allowing for fully expressive, human-like performances.

🧠 How this hits reality: Traditional robot programming was a closed shop for PhDs—motion capture rigs, ROS stacks, reinforcement learning pipelines. LinkCraft wipes that away with a visual, cloud-based interface. The shift isn’t just about usability; it’s about democratizing robot choreography. Suddenly, schools, creators, and brands can prototype “embodied content” without touching C++ or Python. If it scales, AgiBot won’t just sell robots—it’ll own the platform where robotic motion becomes the new app store.

🤖 Key takeaway: When robot motion becomes drag-and-drop, the barrier to entry moves from coding skill to imagination, and that changes who gets to teach machines how to move.

SURGERY

EPFL Turns Blood Flow into a Surgical Steering System

📌 What’s happening: Researchers at EPFL have unveiled MagFlow, an ultraflexible neurovascular microcatheter that rides blood flow instead of fighting it, and OmniMag, a robotic magnetic steering system that guides it. The two work as one: MagFlow’s magnetic tip responds to OmniMag’s stylus-controlled field, allowing surgeons to remotely steer the device through vessels thinner than a human hair. In preclinical trials, the system successfully navigated complex brain and spine arteries in pigs to deliver contrast and embolic agents safely and rapidly.

🧠 How this hits reality: This isn’t another microrobot chasing hype; it’s a re-engineered catheter platform that turns the vascular system itself into a navigation channel. By coupling magnetic guidance with flow-assisted propulsion, MagFlow bypasses the wire-pushing limits of traditional intervention tools and opens routes to treat hemorrhagic strokes, AVMs, and pediatric cancers deep in the brain or eye. If commercialized, it may shift interventional neurology from “manual catheter steering” to “field-controlled therapeutics.“

🤖 Key takeaway: MagFlow and OmniMag merge magnetic control with blood flow navigation, enabling safer access to delicate vessels and new minimally invasive treatments.

QUICK HITS

Nauticus Robotics secured a $250M credit line to advance deep-sea mineral exploration and expand its subsea robotics operations.
Augmentus secured strategic funding from Applied Ventures to scale its no-code adaptive robotics software for global high-mix manufacturing.
Bonsai Robotics launched its Bonsai Intelligence–powered Amiga robot lineup at FIRA 2025, targeting autonomous agriculture and research applications.
University of Pennsylvania scientists discovered a soft coral that stiffens in seconds, inspiring tunable-stiffness robots and adaptive materials.
Griffith Foods deployed Colombia’s first Robotiq collaborative palletizing system to boost efficiency and worker well-being.

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