Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
The robotics industry's shift from physical AI 1.0 to 2.0 requires a new focus on physical state recovery to bridge the gap between sensor data and real-world conditions, as high-level reasoning alone cannot compensate f…
AMI Labs, co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun and CEO Alexandre LeBrun, emerged from stealth in early 2026 with a $1.03 billion seed round to build world models for embodied AI. The Paris-based startup targets r…
NVIDIA Isaac Lab now supports training reinforcement learning policies for the AgileX Dual-Arm Nero Manipulator, extending the SO-ARM101 implementation. The open-source project provides robot configuration files, URDF me…
A developer is building a 3-degree-of-freedom robotic arm using a BeagleY-AI single-board computer and a Pololu 18-channel Maestro servo controller, with AI-generated Python code. The project currently lacks camera visio…
University of Michigan researchers released AFUN, a new affordance model that predicts both where a robot should touch an object and how it should move after contact, aiming to bridge robot perception and action. The mod…
FORT Robotics and NVIDIA launched an AI-driven Outside-In Safety blueprint that uses external infrastructure sensors to boost autonomous robot productivity and worker safety. The system, demonstrated at the Automate conf…
Alphabet's Intrinsic debuted a modular, software-first robotic workcell powered by IntrinsicOS at Automate 2026, aiming to replace manual robot coding with drag-and-drop automation. The company is preparing a major manuf…
Bear Robotics acquired Kinisi Robotics to integrate its KR1 humanoid robot and physical AI capabilities, completing Bear's end-to-end physical AI robotics platform. The acquisition reunites Bear with co-founder Brennand …
AI startup Micro AGI is sending college-educated workers to clean New York City apartments for free under its Shift initiative, capturing video footage to train robots for household chores. The company aims to collect tr…
Roboflow released a tutorial on building an AI-powered robotic welding defect detection system using its RF-DETR model and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro to classify welds as good or bad and generate automated inspection report…
NVIDIA released Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics and physical AI, unifying AI compute and safety. The system draws on over 18,600 engineering years of autonomous vehicle safety development and is available …
NVIDIA announced Halos for Robotics, the industry's first full-stack safety system for physical AI, extending its autonomous vehicle safety architecture to robotics. The system includes NVIDIA IGX Thor compute, Holoscan …
NVIDIA launched Halos for Robotics, a full-stack functional safety system for physical AI, extending its autonomous vehicle safety technology to industrial robots, humanoids, and autonomous mobile robots. The platform co…
Chinese manufacturer Narwal Robotics launched a robot vacuum in the US in April with a dual-camera vision system and AI cleaning platform, topping Amazon US' new releases ranking and entering the top 10 robot vacuum cate…
Pixel Planet CEO Shanelle Yuan said high-fidelity simulation is essential to address a shortfall in robot training data, with the physical world producing only 500,000 hours of high-quality robotic interaction data versu…
PSYONIC, led by Dr. Aadeel Akhtar, is repurposing its Ability Hand prosthetic as a data source for robot dexterity training, partnering with NVIDIA and ABB Robotics. The hand, worn by over 300 patients, captures force an…
AI company Micro AGI is offering free apartment cleaning and cooking services in New York City to gather data for training next-generation autonomous robots. The initiative, called Shift, sends camera-equipped cleaners i…
Twolabs, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2026, develops modular humanoid robots and a software platform for training and deploying robots in elder care facilities. The company aims to address labor shortages in …
Skild AI, a startup founded in 2023, has raised a $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank to develop a general-purpose AI brain for any robot, aiming to overcome the fragmentation in robotics AI. The company's omni-bodied …
Kookmin University researchers developed a new AI technology for understanding 3D environments with limited visibility. Their paper was accepted for the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Sy…