Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Shield AI posted an on-site Senior Staff Engineer, Mission Architect role (R5876) in Washington, DC, with salary not published. The venture-backed defense-tech company said the position will own mission representation ac…
Physical AI is moving AI beyond screens into robots, but the field is split on where inference should run: on-device versus in datacenters. Figure runs its Helix model entirely onboard, while Physical Intelligence's π0.7…
Researchers introduced Facet-0, a robotic foundation model for contact-rich precise manipulation, which achieved 82% mean success on five sub-millimeter computer-assembly tasks compared with 15% for the strongest baselin…
General Robotics launched Auto-Engineering for its GRID platform on September 9, using software agents to assemble and debug robot deployments, reducing a dual-arm lab workflow from a month to four hours and subsequent s…
AGIBOT head of North America and product lead Yinghao Song will present 'Scaling Humanoids from Lab to Real-World Deployment' at RoboBusiness 2026 on Oct. 20-21 in Santa Clara, Calif., drawing on the company's experience…
General Robotics, an Nvidia-backed robotics platform, reported that AI wrote 80% of its code and reduced robot training time by 99%, according to a Forbes article by John Koetsier. The company claims agentic AI can drama…
Vention Inc. opened its Physical AI Lab in Montreal to generate high-quality data for training AI models that operate next-generation robots in manufacturing. The company reported that revenue related to physical AI incr…
XPeng Inc. (NYSE: XPEV; HKEX: 9868) has officially commissioned the world's first automated production lines for advanced humanoid robots, and its IRON humanoid robot autonomously walked off the lines after completing pr…
Figure AI has committed $3.5 billion to Nscale for up to 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs, betting billions on training the models behind its humanoid robots. The deal underscores the massive compute demands of AI robotics developmen…
Montréal-based Vention has opened a new physical AI research lab, led by director of physical AI Jimmy Li, to focus on long-term research and development for robotics and automated manufacturing. CEO Etienne Lacroix cite…
XPENG's IRON humanoid robot, which demonstrated a catwalk-like gait at XPENG AI Day in November 2025 and performed a runway-style walk at Shenzhen Bay MixC on January 31, may find a credible near-term use case in fashion…
XPeng has activated an automated production line for its IRON humanoid robot, with the first unit completing final assembly and walking off the line without human assistance on Tuesday. The company claims IRON is the wor…
Japanese robotics company GMO Air unveiled on Tuesday what it claims is Japan's first ambulance-style service for humanoid robots, featuring a van equipped with an engineer, diagnostic tools, replacement parts, and a spa…
Timur, a researcher, is requesting an arXiv endorsement to submit a paper on S2S, a physics certification method that applies 16 biomechanical laws to validate IMU/EMG sensor data before robot training. The method report…
A patent-pending surgical tool combining on-device artificial intelligence tissue classification with haptic feedback has reached Technology Readiness Level 3 and is available for licensing. The device uses a laser-based…
A new benchmark and dataset called RoboSPA evaluates Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on robotic manipulation tasks with increased spatial and procedural complexity, moving beyond simple scenes and short-horizon tasks…
RoboCup, the international robotics and AI competition founded in 1997, challenges teams to develop autonomous robots for tasks ranging from soccer to disaster response. The event serves as a testing ground for technolog…
Shapezo's AI-driven map-to-model workflow generates initial 3D models to help construction teams test robot logistics and reduce rework, addressing labor shortages. The approach emphasizes human checkpoints, safe excepti…
Tens of thousands of Indian gig workers are earning about $2.62 an hour to wear head-mounted cameras and film themselves performing tasks such as stripping labels, stitching shoes, and welding steel, providing 'egocentri…
Seoul Metropolitan Government will host Smart Life Week 2026 from Oct. 6 to 8 at COEX, expecting more than 70,000 visitors and participation from over 500 cities and companies. The event, themed 'Designing Life with AI,'…