Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
Duke University researchers have developed Argus, a spherical robot with 20 telescoping legs and depth-sensing cameras that can move in any direction without a defined front, back, top, or bottom. The robot, named after …
Transition Ventures, the London-based early-stage firm led by Unity co-founder David Helgason, has closed a $150 million second fund, bringing its total assets under management to over $300 million. The fund will back st…
Mistral launched Mistral for Industrial Engineering on Thursday, a fully integrated AI stack combining models, engineering expertise, and robotics to assist with industrial operations. The French AI lab aims to help engi…
Seoul is opening its parks, bridges, hospitals and public squares to startups as part of the expanded "Testbed Seoul 2.0" program, allowing companies to test AI, robotics and smart infrastructure technologies in real urb…
Researchers have introduced SegWorld, a segmentation model that uses a multi-level visual chain-of-thought to reason about scenes before generating masks, enabling it to understand intent-level instructions rather than j…
Researchers developed a personalized observation normalization (PON) method to address heterogeneity in federated reinforcement learning, where differing state-transition dynamics cause non-identical input distributions …
A new paper from researchers proposes the SMARt framework, a four-layer model designed to manage failures in autonomous AI systems by formally detecting epistemic drift and mandating the suspension or surrender of contro…
Researchers have introduced What-If World, a benchmark of 319 prompt pairs testing whether video generation models correctly simulate physical changes in driving and robotic manipulation scenes. Across nine state-of-the-…
A team of two fathers competing as MacCody in the AI for Industry Challenge spent six weeks using coding agents to build a classical robot controller for a UR5e to insert fiber connectors into a randomized task board. Th…
An open-source agricultural operating system called gr33n has shipped its Guardian agent layer and crop intelligence modules, enabling offline-first farm management from a single grow tent to 500-warehouse scale. The AGP…
Elodin has released an open-source AI racing simulation harness designed to match the constraints and message format of the upcoming AI Grand Prix virtual qualifier. The tool runs against real Betaflight firmware and gen…
Duke University engineers have developed Argus, a robot with 20 telescoping legs and depth-sensing cameras that can move and see in any direction instantly. The roly-poly robot, named after a mythological many-eyed giant…
Tesla has begun visible construction on a new Optimus humanoid robot factory north of Giga Texas, with drone footage showing active foundation and steel work on the site. Permit filings and company statements target a lo…
Elbit Systems secured a $1.4 billion contract to supply a European military with autonomous unmanned vehicles, electronic warfare systems, precision-guided artillery, and advanced reconnaissance technology. The multi-dom…
AI+ Power 2026 will return to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 4-5 June 2026, debuting a Smart Living Experience Zone featuring autonomous cleaning robots, gerontech care solutions, and workplace hardwar…
Researchers have developed RadarSim, a unified differentiable renderer that uses multimodal neural fields to generate high-resolution Doppler radar range images by leveraging camera data. The system addresses the low spa…
Researchers introduced Sentinel Challenge, a benchmark testing how decentralized embodied agents coordinate in city-scale outdoor environments by communicating in natural language to agree on safe meeting points while av…
Researchers have developed Lie group embedded dynamical neural networks (LieEDNN) that enable stable, learnable dynamics on smooth manifolds by treating Lie groups as intrinsic representations of continuous symmetry. The…
Researchers have developed E³C, a video generation framework that creates egocentric footage by separating persistent 3D scene structure from human-driven dynamics using point cloud-based memory and appearance descriptor…
Researchers have developed CARL (Contrastive Action-based Representations for Reusable Local Control), a new algorithm that exploits local dynamics regularity to learn reusable skills for hierarchical reinforcement learn…