Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
A new arXiv paper (2609.16884v1) introduces VLM-as-probabilistic-grounder, a third paradigm for integrating Vision-Language Models into symbolic planning that captures VLM predicate grounding uncertainty as a probability…
Skydio posted a Senior Autonomy Engineer - Computer Vision role in San Mateo, California, with an annual base salary range of $170,000 to $277,500. The listing, filed under Core ML roles, sits 6% below the $238,000 media…
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid robot that uses proprietary AI algorithms and multiple sensors to autonomously avoid, stop, or assume a seated position when people are detected, the company said in a Septem…
UBTECH Robotics commissioned a 14,000-square-metre humanoid robot factory in Liuzhou on 12 September with a planned design capacity of more than 10,000 robots a year on a 10-minute production takt, using Cruzr robots for…
Agility Robotics' new humanoid robot is designed to stop and squat to avoid harming human coworkers, allowing robots to work outside physical cages and without safety barriers, according to Ars Technica. The development …
Robotics is entering the early days of a "smooth capability exponential" that could compress an LLM-style scale-up into 12-24 months, according to an analysis citing Dario Amodei's essays "Machines of Loving Grace" and "…
NVIDIA VP of Research Ming-Yu Liu presented NVIDIA Cosmos on Machine Learning Street Talk, describing a foundation model architecture that treats action as a first-class model token and unifies forward and inverse dynami…
ASRock Industrial introduced a lineup of industrial edge AI platforms built on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake-H), offering up to 180 platform TOPS and support for up to 128 GB of DDR5 memory at speeds…
Qualcomm unveiled the Q-2390 and IQ-2390 processors on Sept. 1, expanding its Dragonwing Internet of Things line to bring intelligence to commercial, consumer and industrial devices. The San Diego chipmaker reported IoT …
MYWAI has ported its VILMA (Visual Imitation Learning for Manipulation Activities) Toolkit to Arduino UNO Q and VENTUNO Q boards powered by Qualcomm Dragonwing processors, letting robots learn manipulation tasks from a s…
InOrbit Inc. released OpenRobOps, an open-source robot operations and fleet management software, which founder and CEO Florian Pestoni called the industry's first ISO 21423 reference implementation. The Mountain View, Ca…
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid warehouse and factory robot that the company says can work alongside people without safety fences by using AI and sensors to detect humans and stop or step aside. Digit 5 lif…
Pony.ai unveiled a Level 4 autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets, developed with GAC Commercial Vehicle for freight supply chains, at IAA Transportation 2026. The heavy rig is the fourth-generation (Gen-4) itera…
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5, its next-generation general-purpose humanoid robot engineered for cooperatively safe work at scale, and said the market has responded with more than $300 million in multi-year orders ac…
Agility Robotics launched Digit 5, its next-generation humanoid robot that can work alongside humans without safety cages, and the company says it has $300 million in orders. The launch was reported by Forbes senior cont…
Dynin-Robotics has implemented an omnimodal unified diffusion vision-language-action model that brings visual goal and dynamics prediction into action generation and selection through a shared trajectory model, according…
Walmart CEO John Furner is consolidating the retailer's technology teams around a "build once, expand globally" strategy that pushes AI tools across its 5,200 U.S. stores, including ChatGPT and Gemini certification cours…
China's clean energy sector has built more renewable infrastructure than its market needs, and panelists at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8 pointed to AI as a fix, with Jiangxing Intelligence founder and CE…
A developer ran RDA v0.9.7, a four-layer robot data audit tool, against 13 public LeRobot-format datasets from HuggingFace Hub totaling 4,940 episodes using default thresholds and no per-dataset tuning. All episodes pass…
At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Mininglamp and HIKROBOT demonstrated a multi-agent orchestration layer connecting digital agents to physical robots across restaurant cleaning, warehouse logistics, and patr…