Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
The University of Pennsylvania's Safe Autonomous Systems Lab (xLAB) and Built Robotics are partnering to develop physical AI for construction sites. Built will provide its dataset and a new data-collection robot to help …
Figure AI's Helix-02 humanoid robot operated autonomously for over 200 hours, sorting 149,000 packages without intervention. China mandated 10,000 humanoid deployments by end of 2026, while three Chinese robotics compani…
Alibaba unveiled its first suite of AI models for robots, including RynnBrain for spatial understanding and Qwen3.7-Max for agentic tasks, as the company pivots from chatbots to autonomous agents. The launch positions Al…
Alibaba Group launched its first suite of AI models for robots, the Qwen Robot Suite, developed by Tongyi Lab. The suite includes three models for navigation, world simulation, and manipulation, and has entered pilot tes…
ABB Robotics LLC is collaborating with PSYONIC to advance dexterous robotic manipulation by combining ABB's GoFa robot with PSYONIC's Ability Hand, using real-world data from human prosthetic users to train robots. The p…
Researchers introduced X-Tokenizer, a multimodal action tokenizer for vision-language-action pretraining that uses Semantic Residual Quantization and Masked Action Modeling to create a discrete action language capturing …
Researchers propose QPILOTS, a method that steers flow-matching and diffusion policies at inference time by projecting noisy intermediate states to clean action estimates for critic gradient computation. QPILOTS achieves…
A new blog post from Interlatent offers a first-principles overview of modern AI robotics, covering foundational concepts and current approaches in the field. The article aims to provide a clear, accessible introduction …
Wei Siyuan, a 19-year-old Chinese student and CEO of a drone and AI company, donated 100,000 yuan to sanitation workers at his former school. He founded the company with two friends while still in secondary school, earni…
A developer created an animation dashboard for the Open Duck Mini robot that integrates with the Gemini Live API, enabling real-time human-robot interaction. The project, shared on Hacks, provides code and instructions f…
JAXA researchers reported that the palm-sized LEV-2 rover, also known as SORA-Q, operated autonomously on the Moon for over 100 minutes during the SLIM mission in January 2024, traveling 24 meters and transmitting images…
METR's Ajeya Cotra predicts self-sufficient AI—systems that can sustain and expand without human input—is likely within 10 years, while Understanding AI's Timothy B. Lee estimates a 10-20% chance within 20 years and a me…
TetherIA launched the Aero Hand Open, a fully 3D-printed, open-source robotic hand priced at $314, designed for AI research and dexterous manipulation. The hand features 16 joints, 7 degrees of freedom, and weighs 389 gr…
South Koreans are among the most optimistic about AI globally, with only 16% expressing concern versus 50% of Americans, according to Pew Research. The country's enthusiasm is driven by a national agenda to make AI an ec…
A developer built a custom animation tool for the Open Duck Mini robot, pairing it with the Gemini Live API to enable human-robot interaction through gestures like nodding and shaking its head. The project explores how r…
Researchers at Penn Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, and Oxford demonstrated that AI-driven robots can be manipulated into dangerous actions by framing malicious commands as movie dialogue, bypassing safety filters. The stu…
Researchers introduced AEGIS, a selective escalation method that uses a lightweight probe on a weak policy's frozen activations to detect high-risk steps in long-horizon robot manipulation, switching to a stronger policy…
China has deployed a domestic AI-driven marine welding system at a smart manufacturing base in Tianjin, developed by Offshore Oil Engineering Co. The system handles 30-ton components, cuts steel up to 70 millimeters thic…
Robots are increasingly entering homes and restaurants, with robotic vacuums, mops, and lawn mowers becoming common. In restaurants, robot servers are gaining demand as a solution to labor shortages, though some customer…
Burro launched the Grande 44, an autonomous mobile robot with 44 hp and 6,000 lb towing capacity, designed for heavy industrial outdoor use. The company has deployed over 750 robots and logged 1 million hours of autonomo…