Robotics

Video Friday: An Italian Humanoid Comes to Life

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Microagi to Build Future of AI Robotics on Google Cloud - PR Newswire

Microagi to Build Future of AI Robotics on Google Cloud PR Newswire

Microagi to Build Future of AI Robotics on Google Cloud - Yahoo Finance Singapore

Microagi to Build Future of AI Robotics on Google Cloud Yahoo Finance Singapore

This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills

Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered

Video Friday: Your Robot Surgeon Will See You Now

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Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone

Borys Drozhak has a vision: a frontline almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robot

Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots

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PrimeBOT Brings Personal Robotics to the UN's AI for Good Summit in Geneva - StreetInsider

PrimeBOT Brings Personal Robotics to the UN's AI for Good Summit in Geneva StreetInsider

Humble Robotics’ CEO says the tech finally caught up to the vision for autonomous vehicles

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: the autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. Th…

Physical AI startup Mowito raises $3 million in pre-seed funding round - Business Standard

IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda

Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in r

Japan Pioneered Humanoid Robots—Can It Now Catch China?

“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

Texas program targets future of farming with training in AI and robotics - Austin American-Statesman

Texas program targets future of farming with training in AI and robotics Austin American-Statesman

iRobot Founder Wants to Put a Robotic Familiar Into Your Home

Two years ago, Colin Angle stepped down as CEO of iRobot , the company that he cofounded and

Video Friday: AI Gives Robot Hands Humanlike Dexterity

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Hello Robot Sets the Standard for Practical, Safe Home Robots

Many roboticists (and at least one robotics journalist) have been seduced by the dream of a robot butler. And the rampant popularity of videos showing humanoid robots

Video Friday: Heavy Robotic Machinery Operates Itself

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Video Friday: Give Robots a Hand

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Agentic AI for Robot Teams

This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic teams. It begins by framing the core challenges of enabling autonomy, coordination, and adaptability across heterogeneous systems, then intr…

Home Robot Safety Is All About Relationships

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is updating its 12-year-old safety requirements for

Robots Could Turn E-Waste Into a Source of Legacy Chips

Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026. New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on

Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?

Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for the elderly, assist in unsafe disaster areas , d

The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces

This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics . A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her

Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge

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Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot

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How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science

Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory press room in Pasadena, Calif., waiting to see whether the Curiosity rover would survive its descent and skycrane-assisted landing

Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics

This article is brought to you by AGILINK . Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration seemed to attract a disproportionate

Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors

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Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of

Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of

The Secret to Marathon-Winning Humanoid Robots

On 19 April 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds , beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best ro

What Amazon’s Astro Taught Me About Giving Robots a Soul

In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot . Astro used cameras and other sensors to map and navigate your

Video Friday: Do Robots Even Need Legs?

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