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The Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York has paused its plan to introduce Sally, a $60,000 AI-powered robot teacher from Realbotix, after parents discovered the company also manufactures sex robots.…
A developer compiled the top 10 most upvoted papers on Hugging Face, covering foundation models, AI agents, robot manipulation, diffusion/video generation, fashion try-on, and audio-video generation. Notable papers inclu…
Humanoid robots are finally working in 2026, driven by AI breakthroughs rather than robotics advances. Vision-language-action models have replaced hand-coded rules, enabling robots to learn physical tasks through teleope…
Fort Bliss opened the first two of ten 3D-printed barracks buildings on Tuesday, built by ICON at a cost of $62.8 million, housing up to 560 soldiers. The Army achieved a 9.3% cost savings and completed the project at fo…
Pronto, a Bangalore-based startup, straps cameras to housekeepers' heads in India to collect video footage for American AI companies, paying workers double and charging customers an extra nine rupees for the service. The…
Cargo theft incidents are up more than 90% since 2021, with high-tech strategic cargo thefts soaring by 1,500%, according to TruckNews.com and the FBI. The FBI has issued a public warning and deployed dedicated resources…
The Salamanca City Central School District in rural upstate New York has paused plans to introduce an AI-powered humanoid robot, Sally, into classrooms after state officials, teachers, and residents raised concerns over …
Lenovo Capital, the venture capital arm of Lenovo Group, is doubling down on artificial intelligence with a 'sniper' investment strategy targeting robotics, coding agents, and computing infrastructure, according to chief…
The Trump administration on Tuesday banned imports of new Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots and connected power inverters, citing national security risks to the US artificial intelligence supply chain. The FCC said t…
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday added advanced robotic devices and connected inverters to its registry of communications-related items posing an "unacceptable risk," citing possible supply chain vulnerab…
Singapore-based startup Antomation has developed an AI-powered automated baggage loading system called Cargo Cobra that aims to speed up the job by 20% and eliminate the need for human baggage handlers to work inside air…
Researchers introduce IMPRINT, a zero-shot plug-and-play framework that enriches textual object queries with web-sourced images to improve grounding in queryable semantic maps for Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav). The …
Researchers at HKBU KnowComp introduce VisualPatchWorld (VPW), a method that represents world dynamics as code for planning, achieving 69.0% mean planning success and outperforming the strongest code baseline by 23.5 poi…
Researchers propose Transformer Transformer, a unified diffusion model that generates complete robot embodiments—every link, joint, motor, and inertial property—optimized for a given manipulation demonstration. In a clot…
Calibra, a new robot dataset observability tool for LeRobot, has been introduced as a Space and Benchmark. The tool computes episode-level diagnostics to help users decide which episodes to inspect, aiming to reduce the …
China has six of the world's 10 most innovative humanoid robot start-ups, according to a LexisNexis report released Tuesday, with Chinese firms claiming the top five spots. The study evaluated patent assets of private st…
The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed new bans on imports of Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, aiming to shield the U.S. artificial intelligence infrastructure buildup from national security threats, the…
The Trump administration has banned the import of new Chinese humanoid robots, escalating the technology race between the US and China in robotics and artificial intelligence, according to BBC Technology.
The Federal Communications Commission added advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to its Covered List on Tuesday, effectively banning new imports of foreign-made robots and inverters from reaching the U.…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on advanced foreign-made robots, including humanoid and quadruped models, citing national security risks. The ban targets robots from China, such as those made b…