Mike Oitzman Sr Editor

Mike Oitzman is Senior Editor of WTWH's Robotics Group, cohost of The Robot Report Podcast, and founder of the Mobile Robot Guide. Oitzman is a robotics industry veteran with 25-plus years of experience at various high-tech companies in the roles of marketing, sales and product management. He can be reached at moitzman@wtwhmedia.com.

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Banner for The Robot Report Podcast Episode 225, which looks back at developments in 2025.

Robotics in review: Editors look back at 2025

December 23, 2025

The editors of The Robot Report and Automated Warehouse recap the biggest robotics industry developments of 2025.

How ODW Logistics is Innovating with Automation

November 4, 2025

closeup view of the new robot picking station.

Meet Geekplus’ new smart picking workstation

October 29, 2025

Symbotic's SymBot.

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)

Nyobolt and Symbotic announce performance-improving power technology

September 23, 2025

Mariani Fruits deploys Formic palletizing system

September 4, 2025

Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs)

Glid announces $3.1M pre-seed funding to commercialize road-to-rail autonomy

July 22, 2025

Brightpick CEO Jan Zizka and Hello Robot CTO Charlie Kemp are guests in this week's episode of The Robot Report Podcast.

Brightpick explains how Giraffe can take warehouse efficiency to new heights

July 18, 2025

John Santagate of infios discusses trends in supply chain robotics

July 12, 2025

hero image of the Filics Unit.

Amazon backs Filics $15.8M round for warehouse automation

July 9, 2025

amazon vulcan robot picks an item to replenish a shelve.

Amazon’s Vulcan robot uses force sensing to stow items

May 8, 2025

a simbe Tally mobile robot in the aisle at a Theisen's store.

Theisen’s stores roll out Simbe Tally robots

April 18, 2025

Episode 189 of The Robot Report Podcast features the CEO of Serve Robotics.

CEO of Serve Robotics discusses the future of last-mile logistics

March 28, 2025

Disney Engineering's BDX robot was at GTC 2025. GTC and ProMat highlights were the theme of The Robot Report Podcast Episode 188.

Podcast reviews the robots shown at ProMat and GTC 2025

March 22, 2025

hero image of the new Haiclimber mobile robot.

Automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS)

HaiPick Climb reaches new heights in the warehouse

March 5, 2025

Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robot, shown here, is intended for applications in logistics and manufacturing.

Apptronik, Jabil partner to produce, test Apollo humanoid robots

February 25, 2025

Illustration of the Jacobi robotics palletizer workcell.

Materials handling and movement

Jacobi Robotics launches Palletize AI

February 7, 2025

operator picks items from an exotec skypod amr.

Exotec launches Next-Generation Skypod system

February 6, 2025