Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Researchers introduced Diffusion Skill Discovery (DSD), a skill discovery method that uses a diffusion model to approximate the entropy gradient of a policy-induced state distribution through score matching, according to…
Researchers introduced REVERSAL-BENCH, a benchmark that controls environmental reversibility via a continuous parameter ρ ∈ [0, 1] and provides a reset oracle to test state recoverability across eight manipulation settin…
CALIPER, a model-free RGB-D framework for recognizing visually similar industrial parts, achieved 88.2% closed-set accuracy with 99.8% localization recall across 18 parts, according to an arXiv paper (arXiv:2609.17820v1)…
A hubs-based K-12 education framework called AI, Robotics, & Community (ARC), in which colleges train undergraduate mentors and host workshops for nearby K-12 robotics teams, reached 74% of Indiana's 1,925 public K-12 sc…
Researchers introduced AeroWeaver, an embodied-agent harness that weaves individual UAV skills into coordinated mission-level behavior, according to arXiv paper 2609.18520v1. AeroWeaver connects large language model sema…
Schneider Electric is spending S$25 million to automate and digitise its Hub Asia logistics distribution centre in Tuas, Singapore, with S$19 million of that total allocated to workforce development through 2030. The upg…
A joint team from KAIST's Urban Robotics Lab and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute took first place among 112 teams in the VLNVerse Challenge at ECCV 2026 with CoRe-VLN, a self-checking navigation…
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to create a first-of-its-kind permitting system for businesses using autonomous AI-controlled robots, effective mid-October and applying only to unincor…
Field AI is hiring a Robotics Autonomy Engineer - Perception for an on-site role in Irvine, CA, to lead development of the perception stack for robots operating in unstructured terrains under the company's federal autono…
Ted Larson, co-founder and CEO of OLogic, will lead the session "Egocentric Robot Learning: Teaching Robots Through Human Experience" at RoboBusiness, which takes place October 20-21, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. The ses…
Agility's new humanoid robot autonomously stops and squats to avoid collisions with human coworkers during collaborative warehouse and manufacturing tasks, according to Ars Technica. The robot's physical safety boundary …
VicOne published an analysis warning that Physical AI robots face a layered attack surface spanning training pipelines, system infrastructure, and runtime perception, citing research including the 2017 BadNets backdoor, …
Tutor Intelligence Inc. launched its second-generation Cassie and Sonny warehouse robots, running on the company's robot foundation models, with a classroom system to train them. Sonny was originally introduced as the co…
Nvidia Inception Global Head of Physical AI Les Karpas will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, in a session titled "Robots Are Waiting for Their ChatGPT Moment. Here Is …
A developer and colleague Shama built DinoDesk AI, a LEGO Dino desktop companion robot powered by a Raspberry Pi and a hybrid local-cloud LLM architecture. The system routes OpenAI-compatible requests through a gateway o…
Technology companies gathered in Tokyo on 16 September 2026 for a one-day summit on physical AI, showcasing robots designed to perform real-world tasks such as nail hammering and drilling. The event highlighted Japan's p…
China Mobile has open-sourced Open-RAIL, an engineering base that connects vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action-model (WAM) systems with robot bodies, supporting four heterogeneous robots and 10 VLA or WAM model…
Hong Kong chief executive John Lee announced on Sep 16 the city's first five-year development plan, targeting research and development spending at 3 per cent of GDP after 2030, up from 1.63 per cent in 2024, and naming a…
Researchers Shuo Cheng, Chuye Zhang, Alfred Cueva, Caelan Garrett, Ajay Mandlekar, and Danfei Xu published "Human2Any: Human-to-Robot Transfer via Constraint-Aware Compositional Planning" at CoRL 2026 on Monday, November…
A research paper posted to arXiv introduces CoAdapt, an adaptive collaborative perception framework for Industrial IoT robotic swarms in which a Large Language Model acts as a runtime fusion controller that decides which…