Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
NVIDIA released OSMO, an Apache-2.0-licensed, Kubernetes-native workflow orchestrator that lets robot developers describe an entire physical AI pipeline in a single YAML file and run it across training, simulation, and e…
Researchers in Hong Kong and mainland China developed a lightweight, battery-free neural prosthesis that uses energy harvested from the wearer's own movement to electrically stimulate muscles and flex the ankle, helping …
Humanoid robots are moving rapidly from science fiction into factories, workplaces and potentially homes, driven by advances in AI and billions of investment, according to Forbes contributor Bernard Marr. Marr's Forbes I…
IEEE Spectrum published a multi-part explainer examining when humanoid robots will reach homes, tracing the field from Honda's Asimo and iRobot's Roomba through modern machines such as Tesla's Optimus, Boston Dynamics' A…
Andon Labs reported on 13 September that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra averaged a final balance of $15,515 across six runs of the year-long Vending-Bench 2 simulation, nearly tripling Claude Fable 5.1's $5,422 average and recordi…
Around 30 robots marched through Warsaw on Monday in a protest organized by the Democratism initiative to demand AI regulation outside Poland's digital affairs ministry, according to AFP. Organizer Grzegorz Kulis said th…
About 30 humanoid robots gathered in Warsaw in September 2026 to protest the impact of AI and robots on the labor market, an event organized to draw public and media attention and showcase modern humanoid capabilities. S…
Field AI posted an on-site Senior Data Platform Engineer role in Irvine, CA, with salary not published, as of today. The company said its Irvine team builds risk-aware, field-ready AI systems for robotics and embodied in…
The East Kazakhstan Police Department deployed AI-powered robot dogs for public safety for the first time at the Nomad Alemi Festival of Nomadic Culture, patrolling the grounds in the village named after Kasym Kaisenov i…
Enactic has released OpenArm, an open-source 7-degree-of-freedom humanoid arm priced at $6,500 USD for a complete bimanual system, aimed at physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments. The arm is des…
Europe's first five-car autonomous race was held at Italy's Imola Circuit on September 5, 2026, with Kinetiz of the UAE taking first place ahead of Germany's Constructor Racing and Italy's PoliMOVE. Organized by the Abu …
Google DeepMind and HHMI Janelia Research Campus released flybody, an anatomically detailed fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) body model for the MuJoCo physics simulator and reinforcement learning applications, accompa…
China's National Data Administration is drafting standards for embodied artificial intelligence covering how data is collected, labeled, stored, and shared, alongside guidance for provincial and municipal authorities on …
Researchers David Ha and Jürgen Schmidhuber built the first AI to learn by rehearsing inside its own generated "dream" simulation, solving the CarRacing benchmark with a score of 906 against a 900 passing bar and survivi…
A developer released Fly Arena, an open-source simulation that combines a NeuroMechFly body in MuJoCo with MaleCNS v1.0 connectome data and explicit behavioral controllers to model a fruit fly. The hybrid mode supports w…
A team released Drone-Bench, a benchmark measuring how well AI models navigate drones and identify targets, reporting that the frontier model Astra now beats the human baseline on every task, whereas frontier models stru…
A developer at Provael has flagged that the EU Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies from 20 January 2027, not 14 January as widely cited from the original text, following the Corrigendum of 4 July 2023 that correc…
GPT-6 Astra completed 7 of 100 tasks on the StationeryBench robotics benchmark using dual-arm robots, a 7% success rate that far exceeds MolmoAct2, which finished zero tasks on the same set. The results suggest the model…
Around 30 robots, including bipedal humanoids and four-legged dog-like machines, gathered outside Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry in Warsaw in a protest organized by the new Polish initiative Democratism to demand stri…
GPT-6 Astra completed 7 of 100 tasks with dual-arm robots on the StationeryBench robotics benchmark, while competitor MolmoAct2 finished none, according to early benchmark results reported by The Decoder. A researcher ch…