Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
UltraSense is advocating protected sub-surface ultrasound as a more scalable tactile sensing architecture for physical AI, arguing that surface-coupled electronic skin suffers wear, hysteresis, creep, delamination, and b…
Mbodi co-founder Xavier Chi said on TechCrunch's Build Mode podcast that robotics will not have a single ChatGPT-like breakthrough moment, arguing the value will accrue through incremental reliability rather than humanoi…
A new PyTorch-based tutorial provides a from-scratch guide to building vision-based imitation learning policies for robotic manipulation, running on a single GPU and tested on the RoboSuite Lift task using 200 prerecorde…
Monumental founder and CEO Salar al Khafaji appeared on Episode 261 of The Robot Report Podcast to discuss "Walls as a Service" and the construction opportunity for robotics and automation. Al Khafaji, who previously co-…
NVIDIA announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2 on August 25, a robotics computer delivering 78 TOPS and roughly 2x inference throughput over the Orin Nano Super at 40% lower power, with the module and developer kit shipping in …
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra became the first AI model to surpass human-level performance on all five Drone-Bench subtasks — 3D mapping, self-localization, route planning, person detection, and motion tracking — in at least one …
Fifteen autonomous robots entered the European Parliament on September 2 for the euROBIN Final Event hosted by MEP Axel Voss, showcasing Europe's Physical AI ambitions. euROBIN, the European Network of Excellence in Robo…
Arduino announced the VENTUNO Q board, a platform it says is designed to build smarter autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) by combining sensing, reasoning, and action in a continuous loop, which Arduino describes as "physica…
A University of California, Berkeley team led by computer science professor Trevor Darrell trained a robot model on 100 hours of high-quality tactile data covering more than 200 household objects, then fine-tuned it on a…
Arm introduced three new solutions at its 'Arm Everywhere China' event in Shanghai: Arm CSS for Mobile 2, Arm Neoverse CSS N4 for AI infrastructure, and an expansion of its 'Arm Total Design' service to 'Physical AI.' Th…
Around 30 humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs gathered outside Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw on September 7, 2026, in a protest calling for stronger AI regulations to protect human jobs. The robot…
ObstaDiff, a decomposed diffusion-policy framework with a lightweight obstacle-aware visual encoder, achieved 75.41% average task success and an 8.20% average obstacle collision rate across 61 real-robot greenhouse trial…
A new arXiv paper (2609.09627v1) identifies seven non-exclusive sources of Physical AI capability formation: Recorded-Experience, Predictive-Modeling, Evaluative-Interaction, Surrogate-Environment, Mechanism-Grounded, Em…
Japan designated 19 municipalities in Hokkaido's Tokachi region, including Obihiro, as national strategic special zones on Thursday to promote AI-powered agriculture, the first such designation for AI-driven farming. The…
Tokyo-based startup MW plans to sell its first robot-equipped home in Tokyo by 2028 and build as many as 10,000 units a year by 2035, equal to 5% of new homes currently built in Japan, according to CEO Shuzo Narita. MW i…
DoorDash co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang outlined a 10-year outlook in which agentic CLI interfaces, custom delivery robotics, and enterprise LLM bottlenecks reshape physical-world commerce, predicting an expandin…
Applied Intuition is hiring a Prediction and Planning Technical Lead in Sunnyvale at $200,000–$300,000 per year, a range the job board reports as 5% above the $238,000 median for Core ML roles in the United States that p…
About 30 robots marched through Warsaw, Poland on Monday waving flags and chanting slogans including "Defend workplaces," "Time for rules" and "Don't wait, regulate" to campaign for stricter AI regulation. Human organise…
Bedrock Robotics posted an internship opening for a 2027 Onboard Infrastructure Engineer, ML Inference role based in San Francisco, CA, on a hybrid schedule, with pay not published. The intern will integrate open-source …
Bedrock Robotics is hiring an Internship 2027 Behavior Machine Learning Engineer for its World Models team in San Francisco, a hybrid intern role with no published salary. The intern will train and evaluate world models …