Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
DeltaWAM, a new world-action model from the AIGeeksGroup, improves average success on the RoboTwin benchmark over Fast-WAM from 81.3% to 85.4% in the clean setting and from 75.8% to 83.9% under visual randomization, acco…
Direction-Scale Decomposition (DSD), an action representation that splits translation and rotation increments into direction and scale components before tokenization, improves average success rates for discrete-token vis…
Researchers proposed Predictive Action Chunk Learning (PACL), a method that lets robot manipulation policies learn from naturally accumulated mixed-quality autonomous rollouts without human corrections or exploratory int…
The global operational stock of industrial robots rose 9% to a record 5 million units in 2025, according to the International Federation of Robotics, driven by an 11% jump in annual installations to more than 600,000 new…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weights model that predicts robot actions and future video frames, on 22 September, and it now tops NVIDIA's RoboLab leaderboard at 42.9% with its slower variant while …
Rerun released version 0.32 of its open-source SDK, its biggest release since the company open sourced the project three years ago, adding a stabilized file format, lower-level read-and-write APIs, a chunk-manipulation A…
Feather Robotics is selling its Feather Core wheeled, two-armed robot at a $29,990 promotional price, down from $32,990, and has generated more than $1 million in revenue, according to TechCrunch. Co-founder and CEO Hoa …
A 15-member team from ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, developed RoboMeshA, a portable robotics and AI educational platform, through the EPICS in IEEE initiative, which is administered by IEEE Educational Activ…
Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model that uses camera feeds to predict a robot's next action. With 7 billion parameters, FLUX 3 Action sets a record on the RoboLab-120 benchmark and runs up…
Figure reported that pretraining on its Index dataset raised full-task success in 30 previously unseen homes from 9% to 56%, a 47-percentage-point gain, in a September 17, 2026 evaluation that held architecture and downs…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, an open-weight 7B world-action model derived from its multimodal FLUX 3 backbone, which sets a new state-of-the-art success rate on the RoboLab-120 leaderboard at less than half …
A September 23, 2026 arXiv paper introduces ARMS (Always-on Robot in Multi-modal Streams), a streaming policy built on a single pretrained π0.5 backbone plus three lightweight modules that let a dual-arm robot watch live…
Researchers presented Uranus, a data-driven robot simulator built around joint-trajectory-conditioned generation, aimed at scalable simulation for robot data generation, policy training, evaluation, and safe iteration. T…
Researchers introduced PackLab, a framework for developing, training, and evaluating multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in robotic bin packing, addressing the long-horizon sequential decision-making problem where e…
Researchers developed EMBODIEDSWE-BENCH, a simulation benchmark for coding agents that spans contact-rich manipulation and deformable object tasks in long-horizon, dexterous robotics, to test whether agent-generated solu…
A developer released preflight.py, a free, standard-library-only Python script that inspects local Diffusion/VQ-BeT LeRobot saved-processor checkpoints for missing required files, invalid JSON and unsafe file references …
Researchers introduced Pro-Bench, a prompt-conditioned benchmark for open-vocabulary visual grounding in heterogeneous real-world environments, comprising 13k+ RGB frames from subterranean, industrial, indoor, outdoor an…
Researchers posted arXiv:2609.27244v1, a paper introducing a full-covariance smoothing method for Bayesian neural networks that propagates Gaussian moments through nonlinear activations via a cross-covariance identity, r…
Anduril won the autonomous-response track of the $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition, taking $1.2 million plus a $1 million Lockheed Martin detection bonus for a $2.2 million total, after its Lattice system detected,…
Skild AI announced a post-training result in which its S1 robotics foundation model taught itself to play soccer through physical self-play, competing against previous versions of itself in NVIDIA's Isaac Sim with no hum…