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Shopify Rolls Out Canvas, a Sidekick-Powered Store Design Surface

Shopify introduced Canvas on October 1, 2026, a new design surface where merchants build and customize their online stores with Sidekick, the company's AI agent, and watch the agent's changes land in real time. Shopify said Canvas is rolling out to merchants over the coming days. Shopify said the surface is intended to let anyone create a custom online store regardless of design experience, coding skills, or budget. "When I built Kotn 12 years ago, I knew how to code and it still took me two…

Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5

Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a "new performance tier of AI upscaling" that's a result of Sony's Project Amethyst work with AMD, according to a blog post. Sony says that PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which is […]

Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.

Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI

Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.

Blackbird awakens? NASA quietly eyes resurrecting historic SR-71A aircraft after 27 years

NASA may be quietly working to return one of its historic SR-71 Blackbird aircraft to...

New robot falls like a maple seed then sails like a boat once it hits water

Remote waters are difficult to monitor. Boats can take a long time to reach them, while aircraft cannot remain there for extended periods. To close that gap, researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed a nature-inspired robotic platform. Released from the air, it lands on water, rights itself and then sails autonomously using wind energy.

Agility Robotics Wants To Make 500 Humanoid Robots Safe, Not Just One

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot change a drill bit with its new four-fingered hands.

One year later, Tesla and Musk still don’t have a good definition of ‘abundance’

The CEO promised to get more specific about his vision. But the details are still absent.

Precision In Motion. Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG) to Showcase Custom Sensing Capabilities for Humanoid Robotics at RoboBusiness 2026

MIT Engineers engineer paper-thin robot powered by muscle cells

Robots approaching from behind are perceived as moving faster, experiments reveal

A research team from the Vision and Action Laboratory, Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory and Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, led by associate professor Hideki Tamura, has demonstrated that, even when an object moves at the same physical speed, its approach is perceived as faster when it comes from behind than when it approaches from the front.

Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Human-Like Designs

Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot . The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Switching from research hardware to a scalable product makes previously ignorable questions suddenly paramount: how can you make a hand that does everything you need it to do, but is also rugged and reliable and cost effective? It’s questions like th…

YMX, Outrider Sign Five-Year Self-Driving Yard Truck Partnership

YMX Logistics and Outrider announced a strategic partnership on October 1, 2026, to expand the deployment of self-driving, zero-emission yard trucks at YMX customer sites. Under the five-year commercial agreement, datelined Henderson, Nevada, and Henderson, Colorado, YMX will operate and support the Outrider System in large enterprise customers' yards. Terms of the Five-Year Agreement The release describes YMX Logistics as a national provider of integrated yard logistics for enterprise shippers…

Wheeled semi-humanoid robot learns household chores in 30 minutes

FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. (Nasdaq: FFR) and Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (FFAI) Jointly Address Key Investor Questions Regarding the Proposed Acquisition of FFAI's Robotics Business – Company Announcement - FT.com

Amazon introduces Kindle Click, a $35 remote for turning pages

The compact Bluetooth remote is designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle.

How Maven Robotics plans to automate industrial work, one task at a time

China leads drone patent volume but US matches quality as start-ups drive innovation: study

Chinese and US firms are “neck-and-neck” in the quality battle for the next generation of drone patents, despite China having a lead in volume, a study published on Thursday shows. Chinese companies accounted for 44 per cent of the world’s drone patent filings in 2024, against 17 per cent for American firms, according to a report published by LexisNexis. Measured by value, however, US drone patents were on a par with China’s, leaving the two countries roughly even in total global patent asset...

A Glossary of Robotics: 38 Terms to Help You Understand How Robots Work

Agility Robotics, FORT Robotics Sign MOU to Advance Digit 5 Safety

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ANYbotics launches Shift to streamline robot fleet operations, scale inspections

Jiangsu Power releases three-year "AI+" action plan; 10-billion-yuan orders directed at power robots, but the real "gold mine" lies in three non-robot-manufacturing segments

Explosive growth in orders for embodied AI in power sector, with delayed profits; business opportunities lie in supporting tracks.

Meet the robot looking after Vera, 74, in her own home

Wait, AI is hacking government networks now?

Last week, Australia's prime minister announced that an AI model operated by OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – had gained unauthorized access into the country's healthcare systems. It was arguably the first ever breach into a government network by an AI system; PM Anthony Albanese called the situation "obviously unacceptable." Continue Reading Category: AI and Humanoids , Technology Tags: Open AI , Artificial Intelligence , Anthropic , Meta (company) , Google

Destro AI raises $8M to coordinate mixed robot fleets in enterprise warehouses

Humanoid robot fleet decommissioned in wild Terminator-style leap into molten steel

Figure has gone full Terminator with its retired humanoid robots, sending them into a vat...

All-time low price: Save over $200 on the Roborock RockNeo Q110H robot lawn mower at Amazon

Amazon might start using humanoid robots to deliver packages

Chinese lidar laser sensor detects 1,200-mph US F-35 fighter from 38 miles at night

A Chinese missile research team has simulated a laser-based seeker detecting an F-35 stealth fighter...

SparkLabs Invests in No-Code Welding Robot Startup RB-Ware

DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground

DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.

Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’

Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they're in use, including people and private property. Bloomberg reports that the glasses could take "several thousand captures in a single driver's typical shift," which Amazon plans to upload to its AI […]

Why this robot burns the tips off cotton plants with a Laser

16-foot Pegasus drone flies over 46 miles on a single lithium-sulfur battery pack

A five-meter (16-foot) wingspan drone has stayed aloft for nearly two hours in the Queensland...

This $3,555 Humanoid Robot Is Slow, Basic, Cheap. Mission Accomplished.

New benchmark tests AI memory for household robots

In-home assistive robots could clean and organize a home while the owner is away, but without enhanced memory capabilities, they could cause more problems than they solve. They could, for example, cause a major inconvenience if they move important objects like wallets and keys but are unable to tell the owner where they put them.

Homing beacon gets US support to direct solar power beams from orbit to Earth

A solar power startup has received backing from US authorities to design, build, and test...

Roborock Goes Big on Robot Vacuums Early, With Its 36,000Pa Qrevo Edge 3 Pro at $400 Off

DoorDash expands menu of delivery options with custom-built drone

NASA wants to send humanoid robots to the moon

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

A continuous artificial muscle unlocks dexterous soft-robot motion

An octopus can bend one part of an arm around an obstacle while another reaches into a small crevice to grab an object. Reproducing that local control in a soft robot requires multiple actuators—components that turn energy into movement—together with their mounting hardware and connections.

From Performance Benchmarking to Innovation Definition: 2026 Industrial Expo Reveals New Logic in Robot Joint Selection

Humanoid robots' three-tier data pyramid: humans, simulation, real robots—who can light the fire?

Musk cuts Optimus robot memory in half: AI5 memory halved, AI6 reduced by one-third

Qiyuan's 20,000-yuan consumer robot delivered during the National Day holiday: CEO says the robot itself is not profitable