Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
President Donald Trump requested $1 billion in taxpayer funding for security upgrades to a White House ballroom project, including a rooftop hardened against drone strikes and a "drone port" for military drones. The rema…
The author successfully connected an AI agent called OpenClaw to a physical robot arm, enabling it to configure the arm, grasp objects, and train another AI model for object manipulation. This experiment highlights the "…
Key principles for building trustworthy AI automation, emphasizing the importance of transparent logging, user autonomy, and privacy-by-design. It uses examples like a smart home agent with action logging, a Shutterstock…
Figure AI livestreamed its humanoid robots autonomously sorting and placing packages onto a conveyor belt for nearly a week, a demo that went viral and included a robot competing against a human intern. The event, featur…
According to the article, total investments in robotics companies reached a record $40.7 billion in 2025, yet a significant gap remains between the promise of AI-powered robots and their real-world economic impact. The a…
Pizza Hut franchisees have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the company, alleging that a new AI-driven delivery management system has significantly increased delivery times from under 30 minutes to over 45 minutes. T…
The Arduino VENTUNO Q is a dual-brain edge AI board featuring a 40 TOPS NPU and a deterministic microcontroller that communicate via an RPC bridge, enabling local AI processing without cloud dependency. It supports runni…
Major developments in AI for May 20, 2026, highlighting Pelican-Unified 1.0 as the first embodied foundation model that unifies perception, planning, and action into a single system, achieving top scores on WorldArena an…
A lightweight (0.96 kg) portable robot was developed to provide isokinetic resistance training for juveniles with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) type II, integrating a variable stiffness mechanism for safe, customizable r…
Researchers identified a neural population in the ventral premotor cortex of macaque monkeys that encodes "action symbols," which are discrete, recombinable representations of motor behavior. The study found that these n…
A frustrated Pizza Hut franchisee has filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that a flawed AI-powered kitchen system caused significant operational problems. The lawsuit claims the technology was unreliable and po…
Vision-Guided Robotics (VGR) is replacing traditional blind automation by equipping robots with cameras and AI to perceive and adapt to their surroundings in real time. Unlike legacy systems that rely on rigid, pre-progr…
The article promotes various iRobot promo codes and discounts, highlighting deals such as 15% off for gifting a robot to a friend and up to 33% off the Roomba Max 705. It also features savings on models like the Roomba P…
Roboflow released a tutorial for building a real-time traffic light detection system using its platform and the RF-DETR model. The system, which achieved 84.3% mean average precision on a public dataset, is designed to s…
Guide for fine-tuning NVIDIA's Cosmos Predict 2.5 world model using LoRA and DoRA techniques to generate synthetic robot manipulation videos. The approach freezes the base model's 2 billion parameters while training smal…
Ukrainian tech founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk, who transitioned from building PetCube to founding AI-guided drone company The Fourth Law, told Noah Smith that Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones last year while China could p…
The article explains that the robotics field uses "dull, dirty, and dangerous" (DDD) to describe tasks suitable for automation, but a recent study found that only 2.7% of robotics publications define these terms, and def…
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is developing agentic AI to enhance autonomy, coordination, and adaptability in collaborative robotic teams. Their approach uses a scalable architecture to support agentic beh…
Project Genie, a general-purpose world model from Google, now integrates Google Street View imagery to ground AI-generated virtual environments in real-world locations. This new capability allows users to select a real p…
The article explores morphogenesis, the self-organizing process by which a single cell develops into a complex multicellular organism, highlighting its robustness and regenerative capabilities. It discusses the challenge…