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Figure's humanoid robots complete 200-hour shift with zero failures

China brings humanoid robots into real street enforcement operations

Every humanoid robot in China set to receive personal identification number

Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’

China launches first humanoid robot lifecycle management platform in Beijing

Sortera uses physical AI to double capacity in a Tennessee sorting facility

With the new facility, Sortera has increased its annual processing capacity to an estimated 240 million lbs. The post Sortera uses physical AI to double capacity in a Tennessee sorting facility appeared first on The Robot Report .

China's Walker humanoid robot amazes with precise ballet performance

China is deploying the first home cleaning humanoid robot butlers

The future of physical AI isn’t humanoid; it’s task-specific and cost-efficient

The vice president of physical AI at Hailo explains why the next wave of AI will run locally on specialized machines designed for real-world tasks. The post The future of physical AI isn’t humanoid; it’s task-specific and cost-efficient appeared first on The Robot Report .

Robotic Bag Handling System

Former NASA Robotics Chief: America is building the wrong kind of robots — and China knows it

China’s home-cleaning robot enters the consumer service market

Exploring PLC and robot integration with YRG Robotics’ Chris Elston

Chris Elston discusses PLC integration, Yamaha Robotics, and AI's role in advancing automation accessibility and innovation. The post Exploring PLC and robot integration with YRG Robotics’ Chris Elston appeared first on The Robot Report .

Robotics Summit keynote to present open foundation for AI-powered robots

Brian Gerkey of Open Robotics will explain how the open-source community is ushering in the age of robots and AI at the Robotics Summit. The post Robotics Summit keynote to present open foundation for AI-powered robots appeared first on The Robot Report .

Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge

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. ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA 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 Enjoy today’s videos! Just months after its debut, Atlas is provin…

Unlocking soft robotics control with AI's cousin: Reservoir computing

Soft robotics—machines made of flexible, muscle-like materials—can bend and stretch in fluid ways that put the rigid robots of old sci-fi movies to shame. But the flexibility that lets them pick ripe tomatoes or navigate a search-and-rescue site comes at a cost: Soft robotics are notoriously difficult to control.

New framework helps robots turn complex language into precise 3D actions

Over the past few decades, roboticists worldwide have introduced increasingly advanced robots that can understand human instructions, move in their surroundings and reliably complete basic manual tasks. While they perform well in some scenarios, many of these robots still struggle to translate the instructions of users into precise and executable actions that would allow them to successfully complete desired tasks.

Robot Talk Episode 157 – Generating new robot designs, with Josie Hughes

Claire chatted to Josie Hughes from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne about using AI to develop new designs for robotic manipulators. Josie Hughes is an Assistant Professor at EPFL, where she established the CREATE Lab in 2021. She completed her PhD in the Bio-inspired Robotics Lab at the University of Cambridge, examining the role of […]

Why Singapore wants to become the world’s ‘living lab’ for physical AI

Kawasaki Heavy to partner with Nvidia on physical AI, open US robot center

Waymo pauses robotaxis in four Texas cities and Atlanta over flooded road risk

China puts humanoid robots through tea harvesting field trials

Robotic collective flows like matter, adapting without centralized control

Cornell engineers have developed a robotic collective that behaves less like a machine and more like a material that flows, reshapes, and adapts to its environment without centralized control. The system, called the Cross-Link Collective, consists of dozens of small robots that have limited mobility individually, but together exhibit coordinated and sustained motion.

Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware , a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s starting to be open sourced too. The shift is still early, but companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have all made significant bets on open-source robotics in the last two years, releasing tools and models aimed at the higher-level work of getting robots to reason, decide, and act. Th…

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 belt. A logistics worker on a loading dock, gloves on, eyes on the pallet, needs to redirect a connected lift. A person using an assistive mobility device on a crowded street wants to nudge it forward without taking out a phone or speaking aloud. None of these moments call for a smarter robo…

August Robotics lands $30M to automate precision construction with robots

Four-armed humanoid robot aims to reshape scientific missions in space

Robotic dog takes over inspections at massive carbon storage site

Brain Corp partners with UC San Diego to help robots operate in complex environments

Humanoid’s New Deal: Bosch Will Build Its Robots With Schaeffler Parts

Humanoid partners with Bosch, Schaeffler to scale robot production

Figure AI's CEO just raised $700 million for his next big bet

Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods

Job training for robots: How China is getting machines ready to join the workforce

Humanoid Taps Bosch For Humanoid Robot Production

China unveils first humanoid robot for household chores, ready as early as 2027

What AI taxis and robots can learn from bees

Even advanced technology can struggle when the real world becomes unpredictable. In April 2026, a Waymo robotaxi in San Antonio, Texas, drove into a flooded lane during severe weather, prompting the company to recall about 3,800 vehicles for a software fix.

Robotics Café brings together autonomous robot practitioners

The recently launched Robotics Café is a weekly online seminar series to bring together researchers, students and industry practitioners working in the field of autonomous robotics. One of the key aims of the initiative is to provide a dedicated platform for students to present and disseminate their work, enabling broader visibility and impact across academia […]

Cross-link collective: Entangled robotic matter with cohesive motion | Science Robotics

Transient entanglement enables cohesive robot matter with robust collective motion.

“Humanoids will soon replace most human workers”: A debate | Science Robotics

Experts in robotics debate whether humanoid robots will replace human workers.

Acceptance of humanoid robots: A psychological perspective | Science Robotics

Acceptance of robots depends on whether they support consumers’ psychological needs, making demand-side insights essential.

Shape-morphing metamaterials with continuous relearning | Science Robotics

A metamaterial chain uses a physical learning framework to learn, forget, and relearn different shape changes.

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 , deliver packages and food to our doorsteps, and eventually help out in our homes. Some will look like us, and many won’t. What is certain is that regardless of form factor, robots will all rely heavily on AI in order to deliver real-world value. In 2025, total investments in robotics companies…

Turning surroundings into a 'virtual screen' could help machines see better in 3D

Imagine navigating a city street during rush hour—cars and bikes zipping by, pedestrians hustling down a crowded sidewalk, your eyes adjusting to the shop windows' glare in one moment and a dark underpass the next. Our brain, of course, does all this without us being aware of the complex processes going on in that moment. In real time, our eyes and brain create a three-dimensional, accurate representation of a dynamic scene, constantly calculating distances between objects with myriad shapes,…

Researchers develop 3D-sensing technoloy for automotive and robotic navigation

Chinese firm unveils Flex-2 arm to advance humanoid robots toward more versatile tasks

Grab bets on new delivery robots to fix Singapore’s 'supply-constrained markets' and solve the last-mile problem

Gatsby makes US history with first humanoid robot home cleaning job

How 8,000 robots are changing work inside logistics giant DHL Supply Chain

China unveils powerful 4B humanoid robot model with edge performance