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Hyundai Motor bet sees FieldAI valuation jump fivefold to $10 billion - CHOSUNBIZ

MIT robot swims through water via living muscle cells

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but its thin design could point toward softer, cheaper swimming machines. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Engineering Tags: MIT , Research , Robotics , Water , Swim

Toyota’s $50M US battery center targets EVs, hybrids and longer-lasting batteries

Toyota has opened a nearly $50 million battery research center in Michigan that will test...

Robotics AI developer FieldAI reportedly raising $700M in funding

Inside Omron’s next-generation LD mobile robots

Robot learns complex 12-step tasks in 5 minutes, replans when things go wrong

A robot learned to complete complex tasks involving up to 12 steps after receiving just...

Humanoid Robots Are Leaving Safety Cages. Proving Actual Safety Is Harder

Meta Open-Sources Muse Gadget SDKs for DIY AI Hardware Devices

Meta on October 2, 2026 open-sourced the firmware and device SDKs for building Muse gadgets, do-it-yourself hardware that connects the company's Muse AI agent to displays, buttons, sensors, and actuators, and introduced the Muse Home Link, a USB-C device that links Muse to a home network, offered free to U.S. Muse subscribers while supplies last. Nat Friedman announced the release in a post on X, writing, "Announcing Muse Gadgets, an open source ESP32 firmware and Linux sdk so that you can make…

Eli Lilly, Purdue to share field learnings on human robot interaction at RoboBusiness

Why safety will decide the future of humanoid robots

In this episode of Lexicon, we spoke with Rick Balzano, Vice President of Go-to-Market for...

Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for robotics

How Biotech AI And Robotics Bridge Bottlenecks To Impact Global Health

Brian Hartzband, President of US Operations, GMEX Robotics – Interview Series

Brian Hartzband, President of US Operations, GMEX Robotics, leads the company’s U.S. expansion, with a focus on building its commercial footprint, developing strategic partnerships, and bringing its physical AI and robotics platforms into real-world deployments. Prior to joining GMEX Robotics, Hartzband spent nearly four years at TEKsystems across technical recruiting and account management roles serving government and higher education clients. He previously co-founded and helped lead…

Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation

Amazon’s colorful and sturdy new Kindles

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 146, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, it's October already?, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm wishing I could do Walmart potato drone delivery in Portland, watching Mike Tomlin […]

Severed robot hand looks like a futuristic Thing from ‘The Addams Family’

Video Friday: Albatross Falls, Spins, Self-Rights, and Sails Away

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. CoRL 2026 : 9–12 November 2026, AUSTIN Humanoids 2026 : 6–9 December 2026, SANTA CLARA, CA Enjoy today’s videos! We’ve developed ALBATROSS, a hybrid aerial–marine robot that can be released from the air, autorotate down to the water without a parachute…

Tesla will now let you drive off mid-charge if there’s an emergency

Tesla introduced a new feature to enable drivers to escape quickly while charging their vehicles in response to a mass shooting at a Supercharger location in Idaho in August that left seven people wounded and four dead. When a Tesla vehicle is charging, the plug is locked to the charging port and driving is disabled. […]

Video: Uncut footage shows humanoid robot doing factory work with claimed 60% autonomy

Humanoid robots have become increasingly good at performing impressive demonstrations, but the harder test is...

Robotics startup FieldAI closes new funding round at $10 billion valuation

CERN researchers report first observation of differences in nucleons within the atom

Researchers at the ATLAS Collaboration at the CERN have found the origins of an observation...

US scientists find 7-volt switch can strain sapphire thousands of times its depth

Researchers in the US have recently discovered that a 7-volt pulse applied to an ultra-thin...

How should automated vehicles interact with pedestrians?

How do pedestrians react when they encounter an automated vehicle on the street? Does the interaction feel safe and comfortable, and does it make a difference whether the vehicle is operating autonomously, is driven by a human or is teleoperated from a remote location? How should an automated vehicle brake when yielding to a pedestrian?

F-35 factory robot in US slashes bolt-installation work from hours to just minutes

In a recent manufacturing upgrade, Northrop Grumman has cut an F-35 avionics assembly task from...

Tesla sustains its EV sales momentum despite US troubles

The company delivered more than 486,000 EVs in the third quarter, down from last year's record but moving in a positive direction.

Tesla’s recovery hits a speed bump

Tesla sold fewer vehicles in the third quarter than it did a year ago, when consumers rushed to cash in on expiring federal tax credits for electric vehicle purchases. But the company still beat estimates from Wall Street, suggesting that it's recovery was still on track. Tesla said that it produced a total of 464,391 […]

Tesla Reports 486,532 Q3 Deliveries and 13.7 GWh Storage Deployments

Tesla reported third-quarter 2026 production of 464,391 vehicles and deliveries of 486,532 vehicles on October 2, 2026, along with 13.7 GWh of energy storage products deployed, in a press release furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to a Form 8-K. Q3 2026 Model-Line Breakdown Model 3 and Model Y vehicles accounted for 457,387 units produced and 478,237 delivered in the quarter, according to the release, with 1% of those deliveries subject to operating lease…

Video: US firm shows off humanlike five-finger hand ahead of new humanoid robot launch

Clone Robotics demonstrated a human-controlled robotic hand while announcing a November launch target for Torso...

Boston Dynamics unveils 13-DOF robotic hand for its Atlas humanoid

Robot Talk Episode 164 – Accelerating robot learning, with Michelle Lu

Claire chatted to Michelle Lu from Vsim Technology about using simulation and artificial intelligence to teach robots new skills. Michelle Lu is co-founder and CEO of Vsim Technology. She was previously a Director of Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, where she and her co-founder created the world’s first end-to-end GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning (RL) framework, Isaac Gym, […]

Amazon Announces Built Together Program for Data Center Communities

Amazon on October 2, 2026 announced Built Together, a community investment framework that will add more than $1 billion over five years to the company's existing spending in US communities where it builds and operates data centers. The commitment came in an About Amazon post written by Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, which also introduced a codified Amazon Data Center Commitment covering how the company builds and operates those facilities. Garman opened by likening the AI-driven data…

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Beyond the Drone: How XAG Is Betting on Autonomous Farming

Roborock tops Korea customer satisfaction for robot vacuums two years running - CHOSUNBIZ

Robotaxi operators will face fines for blocking first responders

A new California law places new rules on autonomous vehicles operators

Figure AI Trains Retired Robots to Dive Into Molten Steel

Shinhan Securities hikes LG Electronics target 61% on Korea robot, HVAC boom - CHOSUNBIZ

Shinhan Lifts LG Electronics Target to 290,000 Won on Robots, HVAC

Hyundai Motor Group Unveils Next-Generation Robot Hand for Atlas

Fire breaks out at chemical plant in Moscow region, leaving 4 missing

On October 1 local time, according to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, a chemical plant in the city of Krasnozavodsk, Moscow region, caught fire that day, causing the collapse of a factory building. Currently 40 people have been evacuated, with a possible 4 people trapped; emergency rescue personnel are confirming their whereabouts. A local administrative official posted on social media that the burnt area of the chemical plant fire has now reached one thousand square metres. Preliminary information indicates the fire is unrelated to drone attacks, and the specific cause remains under investigation. (CCTV News)

Slick cargo crate hauls gear, doubles as an off-grid rescue tool

A handy multifunctional contraption for camping, 4x4ing and overlanding, the RT700 Traction Crate from Colorado's Rock Tamers looks simply at first to be a new milk crate design complete with flip-open lid. It's rugged, capable of carrying just over 35 liters of gear, ready to work as a makeshift seat, and designed to stack up into a handy table for camp or garage. But its name betrays a critical second function, which is to provide the type of tire-biting traction that can rescue you from on…

What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Motorized shoes get smarter for more accurate wheeling up to 7mph

Shift Robotics' Moonwalkers Dusk are the lightest motorized shoes the company has built, and it's the first model sized to the wearer's shoe, so no more feeling like you borrowed them from someone else. They glow as you go, and an upgraded AI learns your stride in about 10 steps. Continue Reading Category: Urban Transport , Transport Tags: Moonwalker , Artificial Intelligence , Walk , Assistive Technologies , Motorized

In Robotics, Google Goes Android to Tesla’s Apple

Top 10 robotics stories of September 2026

Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand

Sony Unveils QSSR, a New AI Upscaling Tier for the Standard PS5

Sony Interactive Entertainment on October 1, 2026 unveiled Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new performance tier of AI upscaling for the standard PlayStation 5, in an official PlayStation Blog announcement. Developed through the company's Project Amethyst graphics collaboration with AMD, the library debuted the same day in patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei, the first titles to use it. Two Innovations Behind the New Tier Daniel Craig, Principal Engineer of Graphics R&D…

Deep-sea ‘doomsday fish’ could inspire the next generation of stealth submarines

Sometimes nature can be the best inspiration even for robots. Cornell engineering professor Rob Shepherd...