Robotics news — humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drone technology, robot manipulation research, and industrial automation updates.
NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0 at ROSCon in Toronto, adding GPU-accelerated packages built for "agentic workflows" that let AI agents help write code, navigate the codebase, and handle repetitive setup tasks. The release …
STMicroelectronics is demonstrating four Physical AI applications at Embedded World North America, including a stable robotic hand and a virtual humanoid walking simulator built on NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, using S…
Skild reached $100 million in ARR within 10 months and has not yet begun scaling, according to the company's own blog post, as robotics enters what Eric Jang calls a "smooth exponential" of AI capabilities. OpenAI's Astr…
AstroForge, the commercial asteroid mining startup founded in January 2022 by Matthew Gialich and Jose Acain, is developing an onboard AI system called Autonomy-1 to autonomously navigate its next deep-space probe, targe…
A developer built "Fly-By-Wire," a project that uses the fruit fly connectome from the 2024 FlyWire reconstruction (Dorkenwald et al., 2024) to steer an autonomous vehicle, isolating 1,122 neurons from one visual circuit…
Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology launched its Hygon 1000 series CPUs on Tuesday, expanding beyond cloud computing into embedded processors for robotics and industrial edge devices. The four-core, eight-thre…
Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will demonstrate the Stretch 4 home-assistance robot live on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the company's compact wheeled robot with a single telescoping…
A new industry overview argues that AIoT — the combination of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things — is becoming the next frontier of industrial innovation by moving connected-device deployments from simple…
Waabi said it completed the first fully autonomous truck run without the system previously practicing the 300-mile drive in simulation or relying on new real-world data. The Forbes report attributes the claim to the Toro…
MIT researchers increased the speed of an insect-scale flying robot by about 450 percent and its acceleration by about 250 percent using a new AI-based, two-part control system, the university announced on September 22, …
Arduino and YouTube creator Luca Di Lorenzo built Nuvi, a tiny expressive AI desktop companion based on the Arduino UNO Q board that notices, listens to, and talks back to its user. The project, detailed on the Arduino B…
Intrinsic Innovation LLC, the Alphabet Inc.-owned intelligent robotics software company, announced at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto that it is open-sourcing the core components of its industrial robotics platform under a permis…
NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0 at the ROSCon conference in Toronto, Canada, adding agentic workflows, support for ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04, and new Isaac skills for setup and manipulation to its GPU-accelerated packag…
NVIDIA contributed a CUDA buffer backend to ROS 2 Lyrical that lets ROS 2 nodes exchange GPU-resident payloads through zero-copy transport when runtime conditions allow, and all nodes in NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 have been up…
Google is open sourcing its robotics software, which CEO Sundar Pichai has called "the Android of robotics," as part of a strategy to drive demand for higher-value AI components. The move positions Google's robotics plat…
A new chip called LightTok converts light directly into 'tokens' for AI, according to Live Science, with the aim of slashing energy use in drones and other autonomous machines. The report gives no figures for the chip's …
Toyota Motor estimates that expanding automation across its factories, group companies, and major suppliers could require around 400,000 robots and annual spending of about 1 trillion yen ($6.4 billion) starting in 2028,…
Anthropic is building a biology lab in the San Francisco area where its Claude model will guide robots through drug experiments with minimal human involvement, Reuters reported. The lab builds on Anthropic's April acquis…
Doosan Robotics appointed Kwon Young-min as its new CEO, tasking him with turning the company's AI-driven robotics strategy into a profitable growth engine. Kwon, who joined Doosan Group's strategy and planning division …
Hyundai Motor Group opened the Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) in Georgia, a training and testing facility for Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot, the carm…