Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
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 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 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…
Human Archive has raised $8.2 million from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator, and angel investors from OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, and Meta to deploy head-mounted and wrist-mounted cameras on workers in residen…
China's industrial profits surged 24.7% year-on-year in April, accelerating from a 15.8% increase in March, driven by soaring AI-related demand and rising crude oil prices. High-tech manufacturing, particularly semicondu…
Human Archive, a company backed by $8.2 million from investors including Wing Venture Capital and Y Combinator, is deploying head-mounted cameras on workers in India to collect first-person video data for training AI mod…
NASA plans to drop tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon so astronauts can self-assemble a lunar base, adopting an IKEA-style approach to space construction. The agency aims to use these delivered materials to bu…
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face have released a fully local speech-to-speech pipeline for the Reachy Mini robot, eliminating the need for cloud servers or API keys. The open-source stack runs entirely on the user's mach…
Korean investors increased their holdings in Chinese technology and advanced manufacturing stocks during a recent mainland market sell-off, focusing on ETFs and companies tied to robotics, semiconductors, and electronics…
Figure, a San Jose-based robotics company, completed a 200-hour continuous package-sorting operation using its Figure 03 robots, sorting 249,560 packages over nine days without failure. The marathon shift began as a 10-h…
Figure AI has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands, the parent company of JCPenney, Brooks Brothers, and Aéropostale, to deploy humanoid robots at a distribution center in Reno, Nevada. The robots will assi…
Stord raised $250 million in Series F funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Strike Capital with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund and others, to expand its "physical intelligence" layer for commerce a…
SoftBank has hired banks to prepare for US initial public offerings of its SB Energy renewable energy unit and Roze, an artificial intelligence robotics spinoff, according to sources familiar with the matter. The listing…
Rotaku, a Bay Area startup, launched the Domo humanoid robot platform starting at $2,999, targeting robotics researchers who need full-body AI capabilities without enterprise costs. The robot ships in two sizes—a 90cm De…
Hugging Face released the LeRobot Humanoid, a $2,500 set of 3D-printable robot legs with open-source hardware and software, to enable researchers to test AI-powered robotics in physical experiments. The platform includes…
Human Archive, a Silicon Valley startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford students, has raised $8.2 million to equip Indian gig economy workers with camera-equipped caps that collect first-person video data for trainin…
Minicor (YC P26) launched a platform that builds and maintains Windows desktop automations at scale using self-healing agents. The system stores workflows as deterministic code and uses AI agents only for recovery and ed…
Researchers developed MEMOR-E, a mobile quadruped robot with a tablet interface that assists Alzheimer's patients and caregivers with medication reminders, routine guidance, and memory-oriented interactions. The system u…
Researchers introduced ActQuant, a sub-4-bit quantization framework for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that reduces computational demands for edge deployment. The method achieved 95% performance retention at 3 bits-…