Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
A developer highlights the top 10 papers on Hugging Face, covering GUI agents, LLM self-improvement via RL, parameterized long-term memory, RAG, multimodal robots, 3D generation, and role-play benchmarks. The post focuse…
The Bay Area events calendar for Aug. 7-13 lists community activities including SV@Home's Policy & Pastries on Aug. 7 in San Jose, the 'Lasers! Galactic Odyssey' show at The Tech Interactive with tickets starting at $16,…
Researchers at Cal State Long Beach have begun testing a semi-autonomous shark surveillance bot, a 10-foot-long unmanned craft that uses acoustic receivers and cameras to patrol near beaches for up to a week at a time, w…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a suite of three AI models that control full humanoid bodies, including walking, crouching, and fine-motor manipulation, demonstrated on Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoi…
New York state senators introduced a bill Thursday that would ban school districts from using AI-enabled humanoid robots in classroom instruction, a first-of-its-kind proposal prompted by a New York Focus report on the S…
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, a two-tier architecture that separates high-level reasoning from motor control, aiming to make humanoid robots more responsive and adaptable. The system includes Gemini Rob…
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration should begin with an inventory of cryptographic assets, not by replacing algorithms, according to a developer building PQC Radar. The developer argues that NIST's standardized al…
Engineers at Northwestern University have developed a spinning drone named 'Phantom Twist' that uses motion blur to hide in plain sight, spinning up to 25 times per second to appear as a ghostly smudge. The team used AI …
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of AI models including Gemini Robotics ER2, which acts as the brain for one or more robots, enabling planning, cooperation, whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and…
Evgeny Burnaev, a Russian AI expert and former head of the AI center at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, warned that without international cooperation, AI could widen global development gaps, as reported by …
Statcounter's July 2026 data shows Linux at 10.65% desktop market share in North America, the first time it has exceeded 10%, but the figure is likely inflated by reclassification of 'Unknown' OS traffic, which dropped f…
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, a vision-language-action model that enables whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration, allowing humanoid robots to perform tasks like cleaning a clu…
SwitchBot's $700 Kata Friends AI pet robot is rendered useless without a paid subscription, according to a Gizmodo review that found the toy's core features locked behind a paywall. The reviewer reported that the subscri…
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a universal AI system designed to operate across different robot bodies, adapting to new hardware with fewer than 200 training examples. The system includes three mo…
Business Insider journalists Robert Leslie and Jake Epstein reported from Ukraine in May and found that the country's weapons have evolved dramatically in one year, with robotics and drones becoming more sophisticated an…
Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun unveiled a strategy on July 24 to transform the automaker into a physical AI company, leveraging its manufacturing scale, Boston Dynamics, and partnerships with Nvidia and…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6, focusing on cost efficiency rather than raw capability, while DeepMind published Gemini Robotics 2 for whole-body coordination in unstructured environments. GitHub shipped stacked pull requests i…
Figure AI's humanoid robot F.03 has demonstrated autonomous ladder climbing without a tether or remote control, a milestone the company says expands its potential for real-world labor in warehouses, shipyards, and constr…
Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun announced at the San Francisco AI Summit on July 24 that the company is transforming into a physical AI solutions company, leveraging its manufacturing scale, Boston Dynam…
Apple's 2028 iPhone is expected to refine the curved-glass design debuting on the 2027 20th anniversary model, with reports from Korea's ETNews indicating a switch to indium zinc oxide cathodes for less distortion, more …