# Robotics in Review: Editors look back at 2025

- Show: [The Robot Report Podcast](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast)
- Published: 2025-12-23
- Length: 1h 29m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025
- Listen: https://soundcloud.com/robot-report-podcast/robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025

## Summary

The Robot Report editorial team, including Steve Crowe, Gene Demaitre, Mike Oitzman, and Brianna Wessling, reviews the major robotics industry shifts of 2025, highlighting $3.5 billion in humanoid funding and the rise of physical AI. They analyze significant corporate events, such as iRobot’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and ABB’s sale of its mobile robot division to SoftBank, while discussing Waymo’s scaling challenges and Amazon’s deployment of 1 million warehouse robots. The episode also covers the spin-out of Intel RealSense, the impact of autonomous systems in Ukraine and Gaza, and the push for a US national robotics strategy.

## Chapters

- [0:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=7) Introduction and Robotics Summit Promo
- [3:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=213) The Year of the Humanoid and Physical AI
- [13:34](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=814) Waymo’s Scaling and Safety Recalls
- [24:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=1447) Intel RealSense Spin-out and Open Source Brains
- [30:59](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=1859) iRobot Bankruptcy and Consumer Robotics Challenges
- [48:40](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=2920) Tariffs, Reshoring, and National Robotics Strategy
- [54:58](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=3298) ABB Sale to SoftBank and Defense Robotics
- [1:09:32](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-robot-report-podcast/2025-12-23-robotics-in-review-editors-look-back-at-2025#t=4172) AI in Robotics and Amazon’s 1M Robot Fleet

## Topics

- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)
- [Policy, trade & tariffs](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/policy-trade-and-tariffs)
- [Growth, exits & acquisitions](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/growth-exits-and-acquisitions)
- [AI & machine learning](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/ai-and-machine-learning)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)

## Most relevant to

large enterprises

## Mentioned

- iRobot (company)
- ABB (company)
- SoftBank (company)
- Waymo (company)
- Amazon (company)
- Intel RealSense (company)
- Figure (company)
- Unitree (company)
- Boston Dynamics (company)
- Sunday Robotics (company)
- Nebius (company)
- One X (company)
- Tesla (company)
- Pterodine Robotics (company)
- Universal Robots (company)

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