5 biggest robotics trends of 2024 [Video]

With 2024 in the rearview mirror, we’re looking back at some of the biggest robotics trends of the year. While the year was full of exciting innovations and new technologies, we also saw the industry weather dips in funding and slower sales. Here are our five biggest trends for 2024:

Humanoids continue to dominate the news

The biggest story in 2024, by far, was all of the humanoid robots. But this year wasn’t just about flashy headlines, it was also about real, tangible advancements for the technology.

Agility Robotics’ Digit remains a leader in the space. In June, we learned that GXO officially deployed a “small fleet” of Digit humanoids at a Spanx facility in Georgia.

In November, Schaeffler AG made a minority investment into Agility and planned to buy Digit robots for use across its global plant network. These marked the first paying deployments for humanoid robots. 

Figure AI is also shippingits Figure 02 system to its first paying customers. While we don’t know …