Humanoids, autonomy, and robotic systems.
Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled its final production-ready robotaxi design and expanded testing following a subtle redesign to improve rider comfort. The post Zoox unveils production-ready robotaxi for U.S. expansion appeared first on The Robot Report .
Blue Water Autonomy creates unmanned ships that can operate autonomously on the open ocean for months a time. The post U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to use autonomous vessels for deep ocean surveys appeared first on The Robot Report .
The race to commercialize humanoids is on. What’s left to prove is that humanoid robots can beat the economics of the automation manufacturers are already running. The post Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop appeared first on The Robot Report .
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added mobile, communicating robots weighing more than 2 kilograms a
igus says its new twisterchain energy chain provides cable management for challenging industrial robotics applications such as palletizing. The post igus launches energy chain with 600-degree rotation for industrial robots appeared first on The Robot Report .
This Phase I award is only part of HEBI Robotics' roadmap. The company also plans to continue developing its existing actuation hardware. The post HEBI Robotics earns NASA SBIR grant to fast track miniaturized actuators appeared first on The Robot Report .
For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that were necessarily realistic. Some of the magic of those first co
Reimagine Robotics, founded by former Google DeepMind Applied Robotics leaders, is developing systems that do not require specialized programmers. The post Reimagine Robotics emerges from stealth with robots that ‘learn on the job’ appeared first on The Robot Report .
Gemini Robotics 2 enables robots to reason through every movement, unlocking a broad range of tasks, DeepMind said. The post Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control appeared first on The Robot Report .
In July, large funding rounds, new approaches to robot training, and new robot models drew our readers attention. The post Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .
OSARO’s Derek Pridmore says warehouse robots are advancing, but real-world safety and reliability still depend on specialized, layered AI systems. The post FCC robot ruling shines a spotlight on U.S. policy; how next-gen AI can help warehousing appeared first on The Robot Report
KUKA has deployed its Automation Management Platform at KTPO, a major manufacturing facility in Ohio. The post KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for North American automakers appeared first on The Robot Report .
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Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites. The post Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M appeared first on The Robot Report .
The FAA approval came nearly a year after DoorDash unveiled its delivery robot and reflects its increasing interest in building automation in-house. The post DoorDash gains FAA certification to operate its own drone delivery program appeared first on The Robot Report .
Teradyne Robotics said growth in the U.S. and in AI were big drivers for its revenue increase in the second quarter of 2026. The post Teradyne Robotics revenue rises 33% year over year in Q2 appeared first on The Robot Report .
GMEX Robotics has acquired shares in MediaMeta to incorporate social intelligence capabilities into its service robots. The post GMEX Robotics to acquire MediaMeta.ai for social intelligence appeared first on The Robot Report .
The FCC has banned some foreign humanoids, which industry experts say could help U.S. industry but hinder innovation. The post Experts react to FCC limits on U.S. imports of new humanoid and mobile robots appeared first on The Robot Report .
Imagine running your fingertip over the surface of a U.S. penny. You would feel the ridges of the raised letters and numbers, Abe Lincoln’s bearded side profile, and, if it’s tails, the fluted columns of the Lincoln Memorial. Getting a robot to sense the same things is an imposin
Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that re
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Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in love with the field, she says. Downs participated in the in
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There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this is because of the giant angry bee sound that drones tend to make, but it’s also the way that they look in flight: With uncannily linear mov
This article is brought to you by X Square Robot . Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has no such recipe. Robotics systems have long been assembled from separate perce
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Borys Drozhak has a vision: a front line almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robots, and continuously monitored by AI-controlled sensor networks. And it’s not a pipe dream. Ukrainian roboticists have made major strides in that direction over the past four
Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics , writing more than 2,000 research papers and authoring several books on the field. He’s an influential figure thanks to his pioneering work developi
“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This prediction, from one of the attendees at the recent Humanoids Summit in Tokyo , might have been unremarkable had it not come directly from an an
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AKB School has marked a significant milestone in educational innovation by introducing Tara, a fully automated AI-powered humanoid teacher, making it the first school in Tamil Nadu to deploy a fully automated AI humanoid teacher as part of its learning ecosystem.
Manappuram Jewellers has introduced Tara, an advanced AI-powered Indian humanoid robot developed by iHub Robotics, at its Bengaluru showroom — engaging customers in Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English with real-time product info and recommendations.