Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Engineers at MIT built a two-dimensional biohybrid swimming robot one cell layer thick, powered by genetically modified living muscle cells that flap two fins when hit by pulses of light, according to a study published S…
A two-stage training framework for provably stable neural network observers decouples optimization into a point-guided Lyapunov pre-training phase followed by an LMI fine-tuning phase, according to the arXiv paper 2609.3…
NVIDIA announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on 28 September 2026, comprising NVIDIA OpenShell, an open-source runtime that sandboxes AI agents, and NVIDIA Sentry, an out-of-band watchdog on BlueField-4 DPUs, with rou…
Enactic, Inc. published OpenArm on GitHub, a fully open-source 7DOF humanoid arm designed for physical AI research and contact-rich environments. The arm emphasizes high backdrivability and compliance, giving way when it…
NVIDIA announced its Open Agent Safety Platform, comprising the open-source OpenShell runtime and the Sentry reference system design, to provide governance and control for robots running AI agents, with Gecko Robotics In…
A software developer with 25 years of experience spent $415 on a preassembled 3D-printed LeRobot SO-101 robot arm kit plus a $50 webcam, then used OpenAI's Codex and later Fable 5.1 to provision an 8-year-old Raspberry P…
Researchers introduced VLA-Precision, a method using asymmetric co-bootstrapping for efficient real-world online reinforcement learning of vision-language-action models, addressing the unreliability of pretrained VLA mod…
Sakana AI's SAIL method raised simulated robot task success from 25% with one search node to 73% at 45 nodes by using Monte Carlo tree search over candidate trajectories evaluated in simulation, according to a September …
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weight world action model that predicts future frames and actions jointly and placed first on the RoboLab-120 benchmark at 42.92% success, ahead of the 16B Cosmos3-Nano…
Researchers from Stanford and Caltech ran a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra through an independent kitchen-tidying task in an unfamiliar kitchen, using a system called HomeBody that skips a specially trained contro…
I-L-C showcased AI-integrated software PLCs and PLC-linked camera systems at the Industrial Open Net Exhibition 2026, including INTALOGIC5, a software PLC that enables real-time AI agent interaction for automated fault a…
A September 2026 paper proposes a six-level scale of physical generality, P0 to P5, and places the field at the boundary between P2 and P3, with the best systems reaching 56% zero-shot success on household tasks in unsee…
University of Florida researchers found that simple repeated visual patterns, such as black-and-white stripes or a checkerboard-like projection, can cause stereo-camera depth-estimation systems in autonomous vehicles, dr…
Researchers introduced HomeBody, a system that replaces the standard learned System 1 VLA layer with a plug-and-play frontier VLM (GPT Astra) directly orchestrating a composable skill library on a Unitree G1 humanoid, us…
Flytrex is rolling out a predictive fleet positioning system with its Rooftop Dock in Dallas-Fort Worth that uses machine-learning models to send delivery drones to restaurant rooftops before orders are placed, a setup t…
A developer published a tutorial for building an offline-first Kotlin/Android control layer for robotics and Physical AI systems, using Jetpack Compose, ViewModel/Flow, and a repository pattern to sit between the Android…
A developer published a tutorial showing how to build a Kotlin/Jetpack Compose diagnostics dashboard for robotics and Physical AI systems, using StateFlow and a ViewModel/Repository architecture to stream battery, temper…
A developer published a tutorial showing how to build a Kotlin/Android operator layer for robotics, XR, and edge-AI systems that pairs vision-language-action models with bounded, lifecycle-aware state management. The arc…
A 24 Sep 2026 arXiv paper introduces TRACE (Temporal Reconstruction Attack on Consecutive Encodings), an amortized temporal gradient-inversion attack that autoregressively reconstructs private observation-action trajecto…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weights World Action Model for robot control that ranks first on the RoboLab-120 leaderboard at 42.92% task success, ahead of NVIDIA's 16B Cosmos 3 Nano at 36.8% and π0…