Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Hyundai Motor Group's Boston Dynamics has made significant progress toward humanoid robot autonomy, with Atlas now capable of learning from millions of hours of simulation in a single day, according to KB Securities. The…
China revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs between 2021 and 2025 while adding 10,200 new ones, with cuts concentrated in arts, humanities, and management, and new programs focused on technology field…
Xiangrui Zeng, a Chinese expert in AI-powered autonomous manufacturing and robotics, will speak at the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul. Zeng is known for his work on 'dark factories' and embodied AI, and will dis…
A modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot has climbed Ecuador's Chimborazo volcano, reaching 20,564 feet as part of a training regimen for a future Mount Everest ascent. The robot walked autonomously on sections with less tha…
A theory known as the Permanent Underclass suggests that individuals who fail to build wealth before AI and robotics can fully replace human labor will be permanently impoverished. The concept, repopularized by Guillermo…
Indonesia is leveraging its 2025 BRICS membership to attract agricultural technology investments, focusing on AI, precision farming, genomics, and robotics to modernize its farming sector. The BRICS Agriculture Meeting 2…
University of Maryland researchers developed HumanEgo, a method enabling bimanual robots to learn manipulation tasks from just 30 minutes of human egocentric video without any robot data, achieving a 92.5% success rate a…
XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng is taking direct control of the company's robotics division, signaling a major push into physical AI. The move underscores XPeng's ambition to expand beyond electric vehicles into humanoid robots an…
Chinese brand Honor debuted its Robot Phone, developed with Arri, on the red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival. The device features an AI-powered extendable camera and robotic motion control, and will go…
NVIDIA released a bundle of physical AI agent skills at CVPR 2026, offering pre-packaged workflows for robots, self-driving cars, and visual inspection. The open-source tools aim to streamline research by providing simul…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a partnership with South Korea's LG Group on humanoid robots and future data centers, including collaboration on motor and mechanical systems. The companies will build an AI factory to i…
A Yahoo Finance article recommends AI and robotics investments for those with $10,000, highlighting specific picks in the sector. The piece emphasizes the growth potential of AI and robotics as transformative technologie…
Humans still outperform AI in conceiving and setting up complex machining jobs, despite advances in co-bots and automation. Machining, which produces virtually all physical objects, requires human skill to initiate autom…
Researchers trained a collaborative robot to read human emotions using a vision language model that considers contextual factors beyond facial expressions. In experiments with 40 volunteers, the VLM outperformed conventi…
Edge AI processors from NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, and Hailo are becoming powerful and affordable, but their complexity limits use to experienced engineers. Numurus developed the NEPI software platform to make these chips ac…
Yann LeCun presented a talk on world models as the next step in AI, emphasizing their role in enabling machines to learn and reason like humans. The talk highlighted how world models could lead to breakthroughs in roboti…
LEGO Education will retire its SPIKE Essential and SPIKE Prime sets on June 30, 2026, with software support continuing until 2031, as the company shifts focus to a new Computer Science & AI kit. The retirement has spurre…
GreyOrange CEO Akash Gupta discussed AI-powered warehouse orchestration on The Robot Report Podcast, highlighting the company's GreyMatter platform that coordinates robots and workers in real time. The episode also cover…
Roborock launched its first robot lawn mower, the RockNeo Q110H, in the US, featuring wire-free navigation, satellite-based positioning, and obstacle avoidance. Priced at $1,299, it targets small to medium lawns with a q…
A scoping review published in a health care journal maps applications of embodied intelligence—AI instantiated in physical or virtual bodies—across various health care populations. The review organizes existing uses of s…