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China’s new humanoid robot offers 98% success rate, handles EV assembly, factory operations

He sold his last company to Palantir. Now he's betting $32 million that robots can fix construction's labor crisis

Your next DoorDash could arrive by robot

A flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird

Image copyright: Raphael Zufferey. By Jennifer Chu Loons, gulls, puffins, and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can plunge in water to swim after prey, and then leap back into the air to fly away. Now, inspired by these naturally aquatic aviators, engineers […]

Delivery robots to go on trial in Stevenage

Boston Dynamics Wants Its Robot Dog to Deliver Your Packages

BYD’s Bold Plan To Beat Tesla In The Humanoid Robot Race

Key to Humanoid Progress: Managing the Power Behind the Robots

Murata Power Solutions' John Quinlan on how advanced robotics converts, distributes and controls on-board power from battery to actuator. The post Key to Humanoid Progress: Managing the Power Behind the Robots appeared first on The Robot Report .

NVIDIA shares how to evaluate general-purpose robot policies for real-world deployment

RoboLab research powers NVIDIA Isaac Lab-Arena, an open-source simulation framework for large-scale policy setup and evaluation. The post NVIDIA shares how to evaluate general-purpose robot policies for real-world deployment appeared first on The Robot Report .

Boston Dynamics tries using ‘robot dogs’ for deliveries

Humanoid Robots Just Performed Surgery Using Standard Medical Tools

AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

Robots walking down the street, surrounded by astounded onlookers, are an increasingly common sight. But these machines aren't yet the do-it-all assistants you'd want working in a kitchen or factory, and a major bottleneck is data. Much like humans, robots learn best by experience. The challenge is that it's labor-intensive and time-consuming to physically teach these machines so many actions across different settings.

AI Robots Now Run China’s Cotton Fields

'Listing is a must': Chinese humanoid startups are rushing to launch IPOs

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, expanding its defense capabilities

DZYNE Technologies specializes in long-endurance autonomous aircraft, counter-drone systems, and autonomous effects. The post Ondas acquires DZYNE for $875.8M, expanding its defense capabilities appeared first on The Robot Report .

Yaskawa America gets information security certification

Batter up, bias down: Robot umpires curb favoritism for star hitters

When South Korea's professional baseball league introduced "robot umpire" ball-and-strike calls in 2024, famous batters appeared to lose an edge—but star pitchers did not.

The Robot Report parent company, WTWH Media, rebrands as Arrowfly

The Arrowfly name unifies more than 40 brands under a new identity built for the future of B2B content and events. The post The Robot Report parent company, WTWH Media, rebrands as Arrowfly appeared first on The Robot Report .

Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

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 perception, planning, and control parts that rarely add up to intelligence a robot can carry from one task to another, or one machine to another. The central problem in embodied AI is to find the equivalent recipe, and the…

1X's product head says its new humanoid hand has solved one of the toughest problems in robotics

Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtual environment.

Robot gives surgeons a helping hand in first operation

AI robots solve the pain point of tennis ball collection, the Haimoxin team seeks media coverage

36Kr Exclusive: CUHK PhD & Ex-DJI Engineers Founded Consumer Quadruped Robot Startup, Secures Tens of Millions Yuan Angel Round Led by Zhengxuan Investment

New soft sensor can turn touch into robotic action without electronics

Built from flexible, compliant materials, soft robots are gaining relevance for tasks ranging from minimally invasive surgery to deep-sea exploration but remain held back by a fundamental constraint. To sense their surroundings and react, most soft robots rely on separate electronic sensors, signal-processing circuits and powered actuators, all coordinated by computers. This chain of components adds weight, complexity and points of failure, particularly in wet, hot or high-pressure settings w…

This Robot Picks Apples 3x Faster Than Humans — Here’s How It Works

STEM education in the classroom, introducing BotBall

Botball addresses STEM education with autonomous robotics, real coding, and a level playing field driven entirely by students. The post STEM education in the classroom, introducing BotBall appeared first on The Robot Report .

Inside DARPA’s Mission to Send a Repair Robot to Geosynchronous Orbit

New test measures how well humanoid robots handle real-world forces

As technology advances, more is expected from humanoid robots. What were once seen as gimmicks that could walk, if not like us, then close to it, are now pulling their weight and doing more work in places like factories. They are being developed for real work, such as carrying heavy boxes, pushing furniture, pulling heavy objects and wiping tables.

YouTuber son turns Unitree robot dog into all-terrain mobility chair

Are suppliers ready for new robot safety standards?

Suppliers that are well prepared for standard changes will benefit, while underprepared companies may face market access disruption. The post Are suppliers ready for new robot safety standards? appeared first on The Robot Report .

Why robotics teams need virtual gyms before deployment

To address environmental and task variability, robots can benefit from 'virtual gyms' to bridge the sim-to-real gap, says SoftServe. The post Why robotics teams need virtual gyms before deployment appeared first on The Robot Report .

How Path Robotics uses AI to optimize robotic welding

XTEND secures U.S. patent for autonomous navigation technology

XTEND said the newly granted patent expands its portfolio supporting autonomous navigation, operator assistance, and mission execution. The post XTEND secures U.S. patent for autonomous navigation technology appeared first on The Robot Report .

AI² Robotics raises $735M at $3B valuation for wheeled humanoid robots

Altera returns to growth as AI, robotics fuel demand, CEO says

Humanoid Robots Just Performed Live Surgery For The First Time Ever

Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos , collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO IROS 2026 : 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGH Humanoids Summit Seoul : 22–23 September 2026, …

Teleoperated humanoid robots complete first-ever live surgery

US scientists use Chinese humanoid robot to carry out keyhole surgery

Researchers build missing infrastructure to move AI between robots

Robotics researchers often spend weeks, or even months, simply getting a new robot up and running before they can begin testing new behaviors. Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed an open-source software framework designed to eliminate much of that setup work, making it easier to deploy AI systems across different robots without rebuilding software from scratch.

Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone

Borys Drozhak has a vision: a frontline 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 years. Remotely controlled ground vehicles fitted with machine guns and grenade launchers now patrol the no-man’s land straddling the front, part of a robotic legion that has stymied Russia’s territorial ambitions so …

The more I watch the new NEO robot video the creepier it gets

The first commercial human-like robot is here. Are replicants next?

NEO humanoid's new hands promise human-like dexterity and precision

Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot

Human-Level Hands? 1X Just Gave Humanoid Robot Neo Something Close

ForSight Robotics’ road to performing a fully robotic cataract surgery