Service Robotics Update: Richtech's ADAM at Kennedy Space Center; Cobots Expanding in Healthcare and Food Service
Key Takeaways
- Richtech's ADAM robot, powered by AI, served drinks at Kennedy Space Center's 75th anniversary.
- Cobots are increasingly used in healthcare, labs, and food service for various tasks.
Top Stories
Richtech's ADAM robot serves drinks at Kennedy Space Center event.
Richtech Robotics' ADAM semi-humanoid robot, utilizing AI and NVIDIA tech, served drinks at the Kennedy Space Center's 75th Anniversary event. ADAM has served over 16,000 drinks and Richtech has a $4 million expansion agreement in China.
Cobots increasingly used in healthcare, labs, and food service.
Collaborative robots (cobots) are increasingly used in healthcare for transport and therapy, in laboratories for automation, and in food service for preparation and delivery.
Real-World Robots
Semantics-based awareness improves Human-Robot teamwork in disaster response.
A study submitted to arXiv on July 23, 2025, investigates the impact of semantics on Human-Robot Teams (HRT) in disaster response. The experiment suggests that semantics can alleviate operator workload and increase trust.
Tech Advances
New Elasto-Electromagnetic mechanism powers insect-scale soft robots.
A Nature Communications article on July 24, 2025, introduced an Elasto-Electromagnetic (EEM) mechanism for insect-scale soft robots. The system achieves ~210 N/kg output force and enables adaptive crawling, swimming, and jumping.
RoBridge: New architecture for general robotic manipulation achieves 75% success.
Researchers introduced RoBridge, a hierarchical architecture designed to bridge cognition and execution for general robotic manipulation. RoBridge achieved a 75% success rate on new tasks and an 83% average success rate in sim-to-real generalization.