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San Francisco firm that makes automated drone swarm killer system secures $7M funding

San Francisco-based Mara has secured $7 million in funding to help flesh out its proprietary...

The differences between decentralized and centralized power in swarm robotics

A robotic swarm typically relies on centralized or decentralized power management, but a hybrid approach could offer the best of both. The post The differences between decentralized and centralized power in swarm…

ShadowfaxUAS Launches SF45: An ITAR-Free, Non-Chinese Group 3 Fixed-Wing VTOL

South African manufacturer ShadowfaxUAS has officially launched the SF45, an ITAR-free, non-Chinese Group 3 fixed-wing VTOL platform engineered for long-endurance ISR missions, heavy payload flexibility, and reduced…

This Library Needs to Be At Least… Three Times Bigger

Many of us have noted a tremendous price increase in many computer components for some mysterious reason. Whatever this cause is will be debated among the various modern philosophers and …read more

From teach and repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap

John Black, chief technology officer at Brian Corp, shares insights on how to build trust for robotics fleets and AI. The post From teach and repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap appeared first on The Robot…

Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers.

Deere faces headwinds in Q3 update and announces Reservoir R&D partnership

Deere beats Q3 expectations, raises guidance, and partners with Reservoir on a $10 million agtech AI initiative. The post Deere faces headwinds in Q3 update and announces Reservoir R&D partnership appeared first on The…

HaiPick Climb reaches 10,000-robot record in global customer projects

HaiPick Climb has continued to gain features and users for robotic storage and retrieval, according to Hai Robotics. The post HaiPick Climb reaches 10,000-robot record in global customer projects appeared first on…

EXL acquires physical AI model developer iMerit

The EXL and iMerit executives explain how their companies' combined expertise and platforms will help developers with reliable physical AI. The post EXL acquires physical AI model developer iMerit appeared first on The…

Microducks Exude Macro Charm

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics have launched Microduck, an adorable $400 open source, trainable robot. The post Microducks Exude Macro Charm appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

Video Friday: Meet Microduck

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Light-powered soft robots that can keep jumping forever

Researchers from North Carolina State University have created teardrop-shaped soft robots that leap upward or forward when exposed to infrared light—and will keep jumping as long as the light is present. The work…

How Locus is getting a grasp on one of robotics biggest challenges: manipulation

Locus Robotics recently acquired Nexera Robotics, which create unique soft picking technology, bolstering its manipulation capabilities. The post How Locus is getting a grasp on one of robotics biggest challenges…

Locus gets a grip on robotic manipulation with Nexera technology

Locus Robotics is preparing to add soft picking with NeuraGrasp to its Array mobile manipulator. The post Locus gets a grip on robotic manipulation with Nexera technology appeared first on Automated Warehouse .

A humanoid robot's social expressiveness may backfire when it makes mistakes

For robots to be successfully deployed in real-world environments, humans should trust them enough to cooperate with them. Some roboticists have been trying to determine whether users perceive robots that exhibit…

IOPC Concludes Kent Police Drone Investigation; Officer to Face Misconduct Hearing as Details of Child’s Surgeries Emerge

The IOPC has concluded its investigation into the Kent Police drone crash on the Isle of Sheppey. Sources reveal the child struck by the falling aircraft required two surgeries, and the Special Inspector operating the…

DJI Mini 3 just got a massive $100 price cut

Not every drone deal is worth getting excited about. This one is. DJI has slashed the Mini 3 to its lowest price ever, making it surprisingly affordable to own a drone capable of cinematic 4K footage, 38-minute flights…

General Cherry AIR

Since July 24, Romanian F-16s have been shooting down Shahed drones with $400,000 AIM-9X missiles.

SiFly’s US-made Q12 drone gets $20 million production boost

The race to build more capable American-made drones just got another major boost. California-based SiFly Aviation has raised $20 million in Series A funding, giving the company fresh capital to ramp up production of its…

First 11 vs 11 humanoid soccer game played at RoboCup 2026

Action from the 11 vs 11 humanoid match at RoboCup 2026. Photo credit: RoboCup Federation. RoboCup 2026 saw history made, as two teams of 11 humanoids took to the soccer field, the first time a full complement of robots…

Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats

Teradyne Robotics sued cobot maker JAKA over alleged patent infringement, marking its second battle with a Chinese cobot company in 2026. The post Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats appeared first…

How Ambi is bringing physical AI to industrial package stacking

Ambi Robotics recently announced CARGO, a physical AI reasoning model it created specifically for item stacking. The post How Ambi is bringing physical AI to industrial package stacking appeared first on Automated…

Wheel-legged robot dog dumps packages – and ads

Today, you can buy almost anything with a few clicks on your phone. Online shopping has created millions of small deliveries, and a lot of them could be handled more efficiently if humans had a little mechanical help…

NSF to invest $90M into three new technology centers, including one focused on robotics

One of the new NSF funded centers will be the Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation, led by The University of Texas at Austin. The post NSF to invest $90M into three new technology centers, including one focused on…

Symbotic takes No. 1 in warehouse automation market share, says Interact Analysis

Symbotic has become the top robots vendor in this space thanks in part to its relationship with Walmart. The post Symbotic takes No. 1 in warehouse automation market share, says Interact Analysis appeared first on…

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”

Carbon Robotics partners with iMerit to power instant in-field AI customization

Carbon Robotics introduced a plant foundation AI model and tractor kit, enabling farmers to customize laser weeding. The post Carbon Robotics partners with iMerit to power instant in-field AI customization appeared…

Six-legged robot learns to walk from a stick insect

Do you ever see an ant skittering across your kitchen counter and wonder how this little bug overcame all the obstacles in your home just to get there? Insects use their tiny nervous systems to walk with surprising…

From cartwheels to backflips, motion-imitation framework teaches three robots dynamic movements

Legged robots, robotic systems with legs that typically resemble those of animals or humans, could be advantageous for completing tasks in home environments or populated, dynamic spaces. These robots may look like…

Watch this $426 camera ride a rocket into space and back

Most people buy an action camera to capture a ski trip, a mountain bike ride, or a family vacation. DJI just showed what happens when you strap one to a reusable orbital rocket instead.

AirData hits 65 million drone flights as FAA’s BVLOS rule nears

Drone fleet management platform AirData has crossed a major milestone that offers a glimpse into just how quickly commercial drone operations are maturing. The California-based company says it has now tracked more than…

GA-ASI and Fujitsu Sign MOU for the Maintenance and Operation of UAS in Japan

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu) today announced that they have

Berkshire Grey CEO discusses physical AI, European expansion

Berkshire Grey is applying AI to sortation, picking, and unloading as it opens a Customer Innovation Center in the Netherlands. The post Berkshire Grey CEO discusses physical AI, European expansion appeared first on…

First Breach Completes First Flight of Drone Prototype and Advances American-Made Manufacturing Through Hellbender Agreement

First Breach completes first flight of proprietary drone prototype, with large scale production scaling expected

Gremsy USA Introduces NDAA-Compliant, Blue UAS-Cleared Drone Payload Portfolio for U.S. Market

Pre-orders open for Gremsy USA’s NDAA-compliant and Blue UAS-cleared VIO F1, ORUS L NDAA, and

Gatik brings in $200M to continue expanding autonomous trucking operations

Gatik said the funding will help it expand its model built around high-frequency regional routes connecting distribution centers and stores. The post Gatik brings in $200M to continue expanding autonomous trucking…

Giant cyborg cockroaches could bring supervised care to people trapped beyond rescuers' reach

"Swarms" of cyborg cockroaches with cameras and miniature medical injectors could deliver supervised emergency care to people trapped in collapsed buildings, caves or other places too dangerous for rescuers to reach…

IDS Imaging adds Nion ToF sensor to its portfolio of 3D cameras

IDS said Nion is suitable for applications where precise 3D data is required at real-world process speeds, such as logistics and robotics. The post IDS Imaging adds Nion ToF sensor to its portfolio of 3D cameras…

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

Ocado and Nemlig to build automated CFC near Copenhagen

Nemlig will equip its new fulfillment center with the latest Ocado technology, including the 600s bot and on-grid robotic pick. The post Ocado and Nemlig to build automated CFC near Copenhagen appeared first on…

Bedrock Robotics’ first operator-free excavator deployments take off

Bedrock Robotics deploys autonomous excavators to active job sites, tackling construction labor shortages with AI-powered heavy machinery. The post Bedrock Robotics’ first operator-free excavator deployments take off…

New underwater robot could make ocean missions more reliable

A new, patent-pending underwater robot developed at Purdue University's College of Engineering could improve ocean research, underwater infrastructure inspection and search-and-rescue efforts by adapting to mission…

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

ScaFi: A robot that grows like a fish, not a machine—from 2 feet to nearly 10

Propeller-powered underwater vehicles have long helped scientists explore and monitor aquatic environments. But they're limited by their own mechanics: Spinning blades can snag on vegetation, stir up sediment and…

Airbound Scales New Class of Aircraft to Change the Economics of Flight

$37 million Series A led by Greenoaks to accelerate the commercial expansion of Airbound’s next-generation

How green is your robot? And other awkward questions

Deborah Lupton / Servers in a Landscape / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Emmet Cole Robots clean rivers and sort waste, monitor ecosystems, and inspect renewable-energy infrastructure. But even the greenest robot has an…

Why first-time drone pilots are loving AI

Buying your first drone can be surprisingly intimidating. You start browsing online, only to be bombarded with terms like flight modes, obstacle sensing, tracking algorithms, return-to-home, and camera sensors…

GoPro MAX2 camera unlocks pro video tools in free update

How many times have you looked back at a vacation video and wished you’d captured just a little more ? With a 360 camera, you don’t have to worry about what’s in the frame. You can choose the perfect angle later. That’s…

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

Five factors to prepare businesses for automating in the next five years

Intel found that many organizations believe robotics can help their operations, but many lack the resources to prepare for automation. The post Five factors to prepare businesses for automating in the next five years…

Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026 ends August 31

Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026, which saves attendees $200 on full conference passes, will end Aug. 31. The post Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026 ends August 31 appeared first on The Robot Report .

A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games

A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, beating its robot competitors—and the fastest recorded human time.

Sub-$1,700 household robot promises to handle chores and more

Are household humanoid robots getting cheaper already? We've only just begun seeing companies start to make promises and accept pre-orders for machines that can do your laundry and tidy up the living room. A San…

Humans in the loop are still needed for robotaxi fleet safety, says Guident

As fleets of autonomous vehicles scale, AI and human oversight remain critical for safety, explains Guident's CEO. The post Humans in the loop are still needed for robotaxi fleet safety, says Guident appeared first on…

AirData surpasses 65 million drone flights as the FAA’s BVLOS rule awaits publication

Coverage spans more than 850,000 drones and 470,000 pilots, with 15 million flights added in

Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference performance for robotics on the edge, says NVIDIA

With Jetson Orin Nano 2, NVIDIA says that frontier intelligence has reached the edge and can now run in real time. The post Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference performance for robotics on the edge, says NVIDIA appeared…

Terra Drone’s Japan-Made Interceptor Drone “Terra B1” Solely Passes ATLA Demonstration Test

Moving from Selection to Short-Term Mass Production and Delivery Phase for a Japan-Made Interceptor Drone

Teledyne FLIR OEM Selected for U.S. Army DUTCH Award to Advance Next-Generation Uncooled Thermal Imaging

Award strengthens trusted domestic thermal imaging industrial base, critical to defense modernization and uncrewed systems

Logic Octopus picks cases from overhead in loading zones

Logic Octopus is a gantry system that works with the Logic Pallet platform and Logic Operating System to unify goods movement. The post Logic Octopus picks cases from overhead in loading zones appeared first on…

AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes

This article is brought to you by Ollobot . From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke…

Why modern DJI drones rely on LiDAR

For most drone pilots, LiDAR isn’t something they actively think about. If you’ve flown a newer DJI drone after sunset and watched it safely weave around obstacles on its way home, the technology has probably already…

3D-Printed Skin Gives Robots the Sensation of Touch

Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how much we rely …read more

Understand the differences between AGVs and AMRs for operational success

Industrial mobile robots, which include AGVs and AMRs, can be classified as system-specific or solutionable, writes a Hy-Tek expert. The post Understand the differences between AGVs and AMRs for operational success…

Movu Robotics picks Jungheinrich as its preferred integrator

Movu and Jungheinrich said the partnership makes shuttle warehouses faster to plan, easier to integrate, and more efficient to operate. The post Movu Robotics picks Jungheinrich as its preferred integrator appeared…

This 249 g drone could speed up aerial light shows

Chinese drone manufacturer High Great Innovation has introduced a new drone designed to make large-scale aerial light shows easier to deploy. Called the EMO Mini, the company says the new aircraft is the lightest…

These tiny drones are powered by sound

The MICROBS Lab’s microfliers. 2026 EPFL/MICROBS – CC-BY-SA 4.0. By Celia Luterbacher When you blow air across the neck of a bottle, you’re not just producing a pleasant tone: you’re also demonstrating a phenomenon…

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games

Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday.

DJI’s global AI drone challenge crowns 15 winning innovations

DJI is betting that the future of enterprise drones isn’t just about capturing better aerial imagery; it’s about helping drones understand what they’re seeing in real time. The company has announced the winners of its…

DJI’s new $10K contest wants your best Avata 360 drone videos

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to take your FPV flying skills to the next level, DJI just gave creators a pretty compelling reason. The company has launched its new #AllForPassion Challenge, inviting Avata 360…

Real-time aircraft tracking comes to Airwise drone platform

Drone operations beyond a pilot’s visual line of sight are becoming more common across industries, but safely sharing airspace with crewed aircraft remains one of the biggest challenges. A new partnership between…

Video Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid Robots?

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us…

AI-powered terrain recognition helps cyborg cockroaches navigate faster

Cyborg insects combine the mobility of living organisms with miniature electronic devices, offering potential applications in search-and-rescue operations, infrastructure inspection and exploration of environments that…

New controller makes operating an excavator almost instinctive

Watching skilled excavator operators work is almost hypnotic. They make it look so easy that the machine seems to move like an extension of the operator's own arm. That intuition usually takes years to build, but a new…

#AAMAS2026 blue sky award winner: Foundation world models for agents in changing environments

Florent Delgrange won the Best Blue Sky Paper Award at AAMAS 2026 for his work Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and Adapt Reliably Beyond Static Environments. We caught up with him to find out more…

Why America’s nuclear bases suddenly need DJI drones

The US Air Force is preparing to buy several Chinese-made DJI drones for an unusual reason: to help protect one of America’s most sensitive military installations from the very drones it has spent years warning about.

Ondas opens Midwest drone hub in Ohio to train military operators

Ondas is expanding its defense drone footprint in the Midwest with the opening of a new training, testing, and flight operations facility in Springfield, Ohio.

Sri Lanka moving fast on pilotless air taxi commercialization

As the race to launch electric air taxis moves beyond prototypes, EHang is betting it has found a faster way to bring its pilotless aircraft to new countries.

Robots learn new skills from a single video—in just 29 seconds

To operate reliably in dynamic real-world settings, robots should be able to acquire new skills quickly without undergoing extensive additional training. Most existing robotic systems, however, primarily perform well on…

Robots sort packages and serve fast food at Beijing showcase

Robots sorting parcels and serving fried chicken enthralled visitors at a robotics expo in Beijing on Wednesday, where hundreds of companies set out their pitches for a future labor market transformed by artificial…

Humanoid resources: China's robots search for workforce breakthrough

A horde of schoolchildren watched excitedly as a diminutive humanoid tour guide named Wuji welcomed them to a robot school in eastern China, gesticulating theatrically as it described the institute's aspiration to train…

Shares in Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree soar in its Shanghai trading debut

Shares of Unitree, one of China's largest humanoid robot makers, initially soared as much as 629% in its public stock trading debut Wednesday in Shanghai, in the latest highlight of investor optimism over China's…

Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight of the month: Japan

Robots have been a prolific theme in Japanese pop culture and media since the 1950s, which includes global icons like the Transformers, Astro Boy, and Doraemon (1). Perhaps not coincidentally, Japanese citizens have a…

Drones With Claws Perch on Arctic Icebergs

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Microspines are one of many ways to enable robots to latch onto surfaces like walls and ceilings . Now roboticists in…

Using Acoustic Resonators as Thrusters for Small Robots

There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang] et al. with a …read more

Is Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots?

Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies that seems to be entirely focused on making that happen. Persona AI’s approach has been…

Intermittent swimming promotes the energy efficiency of fish-like robot movements

Image credits: Xiangxiao Liu, Francois A. Longchamp, and Louis GeverBiorobotics Laboratory, EPFL Improving energy performance can effectively extend the time a robot can operate and reduce battery load, enabling…

Building an Actuator for a Walking Robot

Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, powerful, compact linear actuators available. This puts walking robots at a particular disadvantage, …read…

Twin Guitar-Playing Robots Will Work for Tab

Remember Animusic? They were these incredible animated music videos with original tunes being played by computer-generated robots. Well, the MegCell Pulse might be the coolest robots-playing-music thing we’ve seen since…

Video Friday: Lift Happens

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us…

Robotic tiles autonomously Lego-snap into floating smart structures

You don’t have to watch Kevin Costner’s Waterworld to know that for much of the world, the future will be increasingly flooded. As climate chaos causes oceans to swallow coastlands, and as surging water displaces and…

What does it take for a robot to hold a conversation with a room, not just a person?

By Umar Farooq That was one of the questions at the heart of my last week (20th-24th July) at the Imperial Robotics Summer School, hosted at Imperial College, London; a week that sharpened my thinking and pushed me to…

The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments

With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more

Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer

The Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.

Robotics roadmaps from around the world

What’s a robotics roadmap, and why should we care? Machines with pre-defined capabilities will soon be old-school. Future machines are expected to learn and adapt to unpredictability and to interact with the physical…

Robot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines

Objects constructed by robots are ubiquitous. If you’ve used a car, household appliance, or smartphone today, you’ve used an object constructed at least in part by robots. The more products that manufacturers want to…

A ‘5-in-1’ seed-sized surgical robot

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a tiny seed-sized robot that can navigate across soft and uneven surfaces to perform five surgical functions wirelessly, paving…

Robotic Screw and Bolt Sorter Seeks a New Challenge

As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and screws. This led to creating the automatic bolt and screw sorting …read more

Video Friday: Drones Go Heavy in DARPA Lift Challenge

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AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

A new system developed at MIT uses three agents to piece together the objects, walls, and overall look of a 3D scene. Its realistic recreations of indoor spaces help robots practice skills and try out different ways of…

Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI

In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizations in signing “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” an open letter arguing that AI leadership will be measured not by any single frontier model but by…

Robots in society, business and culture: July 2026

By Emmet Cole This new monthly series from IEEE RAS showcases a selection of robotics stories from society, business, research, and culture, as we track the field’s ongoing journey from specialized industrial machines…

What Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added…

Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids

For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that…

Simulated zebrafish and a vision-equipped robotic fish reveal how the body shapes brain circuits

Image credit: Olivier Porchet, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL When a fish holds its position against a current in a river, its brain must figure out how fast to swim and how to steer to offset the water flow. Most fish…

Video Friday: Meet Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2

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Researchers develop modular nanorobot

Illustration of the versatile nanorobot. It is 150 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. (Illustration: Marina Bräm) By Angelika Jacobs Nanorobots sound like science fiction: tiny machines for medicine, the…

US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security

The ban largely affects U.S. imports from China, which currently dominates the global market for making humanoid robots and solar inverters.

If you planned to buy a Chinese robot in the US, we've got bad news

The US is banning the sale of robots made outside the country. That includes all the cool ones we've covered out of China, which can dance, provide companionship to seniors, fight fires, and carry loads over rocky…

Surviving the paper deluge: a one-year study in learning from demonstration

By Emmet Cole With the explosion of robotics research, staying current in fields like Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a monumental challenge. Is AI the solution to the “paper deluge,” or is it part of the problem?…

AI security robot rolls up on one wheel looking quite unserious

Why pay to design and mass-produce a four-wheeled autonomous security robot, when you can make a less costly one with just one wheel? That's the thinking behind the 1Rollo, a monowheel-bot that could soon be patrolling…

Powerful Compute So Compact, It’s Clutch — Build AI Anywhere With NVIDIA Jetson

As a discerning AI investor who values style and substance, Sarah Guo knows this season’s standout accessory isn’t the latest designer purse — but what’s inside it. In a recent video, Guo, founder of AI-native venture…

Robot Finger Feels in Color

Imagine running your fingertip over the surface of a U.S. penny. You would feel the ridges of the raised letters and numbers, Abe Lincoln’s bearded side profile, and, if it’s tails, the fluted columns of the Lincoln…

Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Forget YouTube videos — frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and, soon, brain wave readings.

Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly

Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes…

Video Friday: An Italian Humanoid Comes to Life

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NVIDIA Open Sources First GPU-Accelerated Medical Physics Simulation Framework

Before a healthcare robot can be useful in the real world, it has to learn how the physical world pushes back. Anatomy varies. Instruments bend, press, slip and interact with tissue. Imaging can be noisy or incomplete…

Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants — then, everything else

Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

Robotic elephant-trunk gripper uses internal camera for a sense of touch

Evolution has already found solutions to lots of problems, so engineers more often borrow ideas from nature instead of reinventing the wheel. We’ve previously seen robots that can curl up like armadillos to protect…

'World's 1st mass-produced humanoid robot' motors to market in China

People have been fantasizing about humanoid robots for decades. Movies such as Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence imagined a future where robots and AI could interact with humans and save them…

Cyborg cockroaches go amphibious ... thanks to a new diving suit

What sounds more terrifying than a part-cockroach, part-robot cyborg? Definitely one that can also breathe underwater. Yet, this is exactly what researchers have just created, except they are replacing “terrifying” with…

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI

General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient AI supercomputers capable of running foundation models at…

First bird-scale robot to swim, dive, and launch back into flight

A robot that swims like a diving bird and then flies like, well, a bird, sounds like the setup for two different machines bolted together. But researchers at MIT and EPFL built one that does both with a single set of…

Teleoperated humanoid robots complete first-ever live surgery

Surgeons at UC San Diego just handed the scalpel to two humanoid robots, who went on to complete live surgical procedures for the first time in history. This milestone moves beyond the fixed robotic arms found in…

This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.

The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

Forterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine.

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Bring New Models and Frameworks to LeRobot for the Open Robotics Community

Open source AI has shown how quickly developers can innovate when models, data and tools are shared. Robotics has the same opportunity, but advancements in physical AI development can still be gated by costly and…

This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon

While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC.

$8,000 robot is ready to take over all laundry and bed-making duties

Weave Robotics announced its first robot for folding laundry just five months ago, and it already has a new product on offer. Like its predecessor, the new Isaac 1 robot also folds clothes. But unlike the old model…

Soft-yet-firm robohand assesses the ripeness of produce that it picks

Agriculture is one of the industries that is getting increasingly affected by robotics, which totally makes sense, as farmers around the world face human labor shortages and also rising labor costs. For some crops…

How Jaiveer Singh Is Helping Robots — and Developers — Move Faster

When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering…

Into the Omniverse: Three Workflows for Improving Vision AI Agent Accuracy With Synthetic Data and Fine-Tuning

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse…

Firefly Aerospace Operates NVIDIA Jetson in Lunar Orbit for the First Time

Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining…

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining…

Lizard-inspired wiggly wheels let Mars rover swim through sand

The sandfish lizard moves very efficiently through the sands of the Sahara desert, and not surprisingly, it doesn't use wheels to do so. Scientists have now copied the reptile's swimming motion in an experimental Mars…

For Robotaxis, Safety Must Be Built In, Not Bolted On

A car pulls up to the curb. The app says, “Your ride is here.” No one’s in the driver’s seat. For people who live in one of the dozens of cities now hosting robotaxi services, this is already a reality. The robotaxi…

NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure

NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerbility and Doosan…

NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous vehicle system safe…

NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With Agent Skills For Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics And Vision AI

At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physical AI research isn’t…

NVIDIA Jetson Brings Agentic AI to the Physical World

Agentic AI is getting physical. At COMPUTEX on Tuesday, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 and NVIDIA NemoClaw support on NVIDIA Jetson. JetPack 7.2 brings agentic AI skills, Yocto project support, NVIDIA CUDA 13 on…

NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint Gives Factories a New AI Brain

As factories move from isolated automation to plant-wide intelligence, manufacturers need AI systems that can connect live machine signals, quality systems, work instructions and operational alerts into a unified…

Win $1,000 — Robotics Dream Keeper Challenge: Build Real AI Robots with RDK X5 Dev Kit

The Robotics Dream Keeper Challenge is a newbie-friendly program designed to help makers bring intelligent robots to life using the RDK X5 dev board. The post Win $1,000 — Robotics Dream Keeper Challenge: Build Real AI…

Program a Brain on Wheels With SpikerBot

With SpikerBot robot from Backyard Brains, kids can design lifelike behaviors and learn neuroscience, no lines of code needed. The post Program a Brain on Wheels With SpikerBot appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and…

Chatty C-3PO (Threepio) Explores Human-AI Relations

Student Sam Potozkin built a talking C-3PO head that's big on realism. The post Chatty C-3PO (Threepio) Explores Human-AI Relations appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Hands On with ROS 2: Nodes, Topics, and Services

Learn how to use the Robot Operating System in this introduction ROS 2 for hobbyists and engineers. The post Hands On with ROS 2: Nodes, Topics, and Services appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

Toyota contracts seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory

The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.

From Shoe Box to Smart Robot: A Maker’s Journey to Autonomy

In a niche corner of the internet where creators still surprise audiences with real animatronics rather than CGI, Jesse Velez reveals the process behind the most impressive sci-fi props. The post From Shoe Box to Smart…

From Sketch to Success: Prototyping Secrets with a BattleBots Designer

In a niche corner of the internet where creators still surprise audiences with real animatronics rather than CGI, Jesse Velez reveals the process behind the most impressive sci-fi props. The post From Sketch to Success…

Behind (The Walking) Hand of a Sci-Fi Icon: Animatronics Designer Jesse Velez Gets into the Geeky Details

In a niche corner of the internet where creators still surprise audiences with real animatronics rather than CGI, Jesse Velez reveals the process behind the most impressive sci-fi props. The post Behind (The Walking)…

Simple Animatronic Eyes

Build a simple mechanism for realistic animatronic eyes! Use them with live joystick control or automated projects. The post Simple Animatronic Eyes appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

The world is just not quite ready for humanoids yet

Despite the amount of money being injected into the industry, humanoids won't be able to learn dexterity -- or the fine motor movements with hands -- rendering them essentially useless.

Petoi Programmable Robot Pets: Reviewed

We had a blast reviewing Petoi's robot pets. They're easy to use right away, with plenty of possibility for experimentation. The post Petoi Programmable Robot Pets: Reviewed appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and…

Diligent Robotics hires two notable Cruise alumni to its leadership team

Diligent Robotics hired Cruise's former chief operating officer and former head of AI and robotics into c-suite positions.

Tesla sues former Optimus engineer over alleged trade secret theft

Tesla alleges that Zhongjie Li stole confidential trade secrets and used them to launch a robotics startup a week after he left Tesla.

Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots

AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots.

Why Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological state

Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, and he says he “grew up” working in a machinist shop while in high school. Now Warner is building a robotics company of his own…

Robots run a half-marathon, slowly

It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid…

1X will test humanoid robots in ‘a few hundred’ homes in 2025

Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to start early tests of its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in “a few hundred to a few thousand” homes by the end of 2025, according to the company’s CEO, Bernt Børnich. “Neo Gamma is…

Boston Dynamics joins forces with its former CEO to speed the learning of its Atlas humanoid robot

Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as…