Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
XPeng has activated what it calls the world's first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots, with its IRON robot walking off the line under its own power in Guangzhou, where more than 80% of core processes…
A Chinese robotics company has begun mass production of an eerily humanlike AI-powered robot, with its makers claiming it could soon assist with household tasks. The robot, which has not been named in the report, is part…
Anthropic's Dario Amodei predicts that 2025 will see many large language models tested as robot-use agents, with models like Fable and Astra potentially enabling cloud-based AI to control physical robots as tools. This s…
Korea's first hub under a national insect industry development initiative opened Tuesday in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, with a total investment of 20 billion won ($15 million) split equally between central and local gov…
China's military is preparing to deploy humanoid robots for combat, according to a review of more than 100 procurement notices, academic papers, patents, and defense-company documents. The People's Liberation Army is tes…
KT, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and robotics company DAIM Research signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday to develop and commercialize physical AI for autonomous manufacturing, a…
Robocurve, an independent evaluator backed by Y Combinator, tested OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 on physical robot arm tasks, finding Astra completed a simple block-picking task 19 out of 20 times…
Around 30 robots, including humanoids and robotic dogs, protested outside Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw on September 7, demanding AI regulation, with signs reading 'Don't wait, regulate.' The demonstrati…
XPeng has started production of its IRON humanoid robot on what it calls the world's first automated line for advanced humanoids, with over 80% of core processes automated, targeting mass production by end of 2026. The C…
Arm announced expansions to its physical AI ecosystem at Arm Everywhere China, including the expansion of Arm Total Design to encompass more than 80 companies and the introduction of the Robotics Capability Framework to …
Arm chief architect Richard Grisenthwaite introduced the Robotics Capability Framework, an architecture-agnostic reference framework to provide a common language for describing robotic capability, operating context, supe…
A developer seeking to convert LIBERO HDF5 datasets to LeRobot format asked how to map the 79-dimensional state vector to LeRobot's 8-dimensional observation.state. The response clarifies that the 79-D vector is a flatte…
Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas told the BBC that AI could eventually solve cancer research but is currently held back by a shortage of chips needed for data centers, with SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron having preallocated ess…
At IFA 2026, home appliance companies are showcasing AI-powered devices that aim to perform household chores autonomously, signaling a shift where AI gains physical form and hardware gains intelligence. The event highlig…
Field AI, a robotics company based in Irvine, California, is hiring a Robotics Autonomy Engineer for Planning and Control to develop motion planning and control algorithms for robots operating in unpredictable environmen…
Ray Summit 2026, held August 24-26 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, drew more than 2,000 attendees to focus on reinforcement learning as a production engineering problem, with Robert Nishihara, co-creator of Ray an…
Physical AI is emerging as the next major frontier because frontier language models have already solved long-horizon tool use, allowing reasoning agents to treat hardware such as 6-axis robotic arms, liquid handlers, and…
Field AI, a robotics company building field-ready AI systems, is hiring a Software Integration Engineer for its Federal Team in Irvine, CA, to support testing, deployment, and integration of wheeled robotic platforms for…
A developer's tutorial outlines practical techniques for closing the sim-to-real gap in robot learning, emphasizing system identification, camera calibration, staged validation, and fine-tuning on real data. The guide pr…
A developer detailed the construction of an end-to-end imitation learning pipeline for robotic manipulation, covering dataset loading, normalization, model architecture, and training. The tutorial emphasizes action chunk…