Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Built Robotics is deploying autonomous machines on solar construction sites in Louisiana, driving 1,000 steel piles a day for Meta's new Hyperion AI data center. The technology aims to address labor shortages and improve…
UiPath shares rebounded 15% over five days, lifting market value toward $6bn, after the automation firm reported its first-ever first-quarter GAAP operating profit of $28mn on revenue of $418mn, driven by a strategic piv…
Autonomous construction bots from Built Robotics are building solar infrastructure for Meta's Hyperion AI data center in Louisiana. The 72-ton machines work 12-hour days driving steel beams, handling dangerous tasks in s…
Altus Schools, a San Diego charter network, spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots from Engineered Arts, integrating them with ChatGPT to serve as teaching assistants for struggling students. Critics question the co…
Factories in the Global South are requiring workers to wear head-mounted cameras to record their movements, using the footage to train humanoid robots that could eventually replace them. The practice, documented by the G…
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, a humanoid robot designed for real-world industrial tasks, alongside the opening of its expanded Robot Park in Austin, Texas. The robot, available in bipedal and wheeled versions, collects op…
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, an updated humanoid robot available in bipedal and wheeled-base configurations, and opened Robot Park, a flagship data collection and training facility in Austin, Texas. The robot and facilit…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot 'Robot Park' in Austin to train its Apollo humanoid robots, backed by $1 billion from investors including Google and Mercedes. The robots are already working in Mercedes factories an…
Researchers introduced Stage-Transition Dense Reward (STDR), a framework that extracts dense rewards from unstructured expert videos to train robotic manipulation agents, improving sample efficiency and success rates in …
Researchers introduced MIRTH, an enhanced vision-language-action (VLA) framework for robotic control that incorporates dual-scale temporal memory hubs, latent reasoning tokens, and parallel action decoding. The framework…
The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab celebrated its 2026 Ph.D. graduates, whose work spans robotics, large language models, computer vision, AI safety, and more. Graduates are moving to faculty positi…
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-230M, a 230-million-parameter model optimized for edge devices including phones, Raspberry Pi, and robots. The model achieves 213 tokens per second on a Galaxy S25 Ultra and 42 tokens per second…
Researchers introduced RT-SFOD, a new object detection method that improves speed and accuracy by building on YOLOv10 and using dual-head pseudo-label fusion and multi-scale feature diversification. The approach achieves…
Chinese robotics company UBTECH unveiled its first full-sized consumer humanoid robot, the U1 Series, on Tuesday in Shenzhen, announcing over 11,000 pre-orders since June 2. The robots, priced between $17,600 and $145,00…
Japan announced plans to develop a sovereign AI model and deploy 10 million AI-equipped robots across 18 sectors by 2040, investing approximately $6 billion through the Noetra consortium led by SoftBank and Sony. The ini…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has committed up to 1 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) over five years to back Noetra, a physical AI consortium led by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda, aiming to develop s…
The Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul on Tuesday presented AI mobility as an industrial ecosystem spanning manufacturing, logistics, energy, data and international cooperation, with speakers from Korea, China, Indi…
BMW Group announced that Figure AI's humanoid robot, Figure 02, supported production of over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over ten months at Plant Spartanburg, marking a key operational milestone for humanoid robotics. The dep…
Global mobility leaders from Korea, China, India and the UAE gathered in Seoul for the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026, co-hosted by Herald Media Group, to discuss how AI is reshaping vehicles, logistics, factories, data …
Researchers introduced MultiUAV-Plat, a simulation platform and benchmark for evaluating large language models in multi-UAV collaborative task planning. Their proposed agent framework, Agent4Drone, achieved a 57.9% task …