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Every Single Brush Type Has Drawbacks: Why Cleaning Robots Use 'Front Disc Brush + Rear Roller Brush'
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- Robot China (Chinese)
NVIDIA plans to invest another $1 billion in Figure! Competition in humanoid robot ecosystem intensifies
- Robot China (Chinese)
Quadruped Robots: Who Is Leading?
- Robot China (Chinese)
Woven robot electronic skin becomes possible
- TechCrunch
Bloom raises $3.6M to become the ‘Alibaba’ of American manufacturing
The Detroit startup has widened its scope beyond mobility to help drone and robotics companies find U.S.-based manufacturers, shippers, and more.
- TechXplore
'SANDO' system ensures a robot's flight path will remain collision-free in uncharted territory
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) could fly deep into the heart of a raging wildfire, avoiding sudden flare-ups and dodging falling tree branches to gather critical information for rescuers. But in this dangerous situation, the UAV could easily be damaged or destroyed by falling debris.

- Gizmodo
Roborock Hid a Car Wash in Its Dock, Qrevo Edge 3 Pro Robot Vacuum Gets Dumped
- Mashable
Amazon has dropped mega deals on robot lawn mowers for Prime Day: Shop Dreame, Mammotion, and more
- TechXplore
Threadlike motor uses sliding fibers to drive flexible robotic devices without gears
In 2023, researchers in the Soft Transducers Laboratory in EPFL's School of Engineering presented the world's first pump in the form of a fiber. The pump's flexible tubing can generate its own fluid pressure and flow rate and be sewn into smart textiles to circulate fluids for thermoregulation and haptic feedback or to power wearable assistive devices.

- The Information
Former Tesla Optimus Lead is Launching an Industrial Robot Startup
- IEEE Spectrum
HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction
This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning. It also shows how policies trained on the dataset transfer to a real humanoid robot. What you will learn about: Why humanoid robot learning, a central problem in embodied AI and Physical AI, needs data that internet video and existing motion capture datasets cannot provide. How FrameNet , a linguistic framework for huma…

- The Next Web
Sereact’s two-armed robots start sorting Zalando returns in Europe
- Forbes
Will Your Robot Have Legs?
- Mashable
Best Prime Day robot lawn mower deal: Save $1,190 on the Mammotion Luba 3 AWD robot lawn mower
- The Robot Report
Harmonic Drive to share how integrated actuators can reduce engineering at RoboBusiness
- Gizmodo
Roborock's Saros 20 Robot Vacuum Climbs Over Door Sills, and Amazon Is Unloading It for Prime
- Mashable
The Ecovacs Goat A2000 LiDAR PRO robot lawn mower is down to an all-time low for Prime Day — save over $600
- Robohub
What three days building a robot taught me
Last month, I went to York to build a robot. I came back with a robot, a tiny trophy-shaped sense of achievement, and somehow a few new friends. From 25th-27th August, I joined the UK RAS STEPS MicroMaze Robot Hackathon at the Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York. The brief sounded simple: build a […]

- TMTPost (Chinese)
Tennis robot goes viral, but good business starts from counting 'effective billable hours'
Growing tennis populations, scarce coaching availability, and increased capital investment present opportunities for tennis robots. However, shipment volumes alone prove that people are buying; effective paid hours are what test whether the business can sustain.
- Gizmodo
Amid Its Big Humanoid Robot Rollout, an Ex-Amazon AI Chief Will Now Lead Boston Dynamics
- CHChosunbiz
Hyundai-Boston Dynamics drop pinky as Tesla pushes five-finger robot hands for factories
- Interesting Engineering
Boeing tests software that connects Super Hornet fighters with MQ-25A drone tankers
Boeing has demonstrated software designed to let pilots in crewed aircraft coordinate with unmanned aircraft...

- SiliconANGLE
Multiply Labs raises $75M to optimize pharmaceutical manufacturing with robots
- Interesting Engineering
85-kW MARVEL microreactor gets liquid-metal coolant ahead of criticality test
A small nuclear reactor at Idaho National Laboratory is approaching its first criticality test after...

- TechCrunch
How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
- CNET
Aiper's Robot Pool Cleaners Are Up to $350 Off for Prime Day, Including Our Favorite Overall Pick
- The Verge
The best robot vacuum and mop deals during October Prime Day
Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to a robot cleaner, you could save a lot of personal time. Thankfully, it’s cheaper than usual to buy a robot vacuum / mop hybrid during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days, and some of our favorite models are […]

- The Verge
Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y can be a backup battery for your house
Some Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners can use their EV battery to keep the lights on longer during a power outage, now that Tesla's expanding the Powershare Home Backup feature. It was previously only available on the Cybertruck, and also requires owning Tesla's Powerwall 3. However, support for the Powerwall 2 and Powerwall […]

- Mashable
Best October Prime Day robot lawn mower deals 2026: Dreame, Mammotion, Ecovacs and more
- The Verge
Amazon’s last-gen Kindle Paperwhite is 30 percent off
Calling something “last-gen” usually means it comes with big compromises compared to the latest version. That’s not as true for the last-gen Kindle Paperwhite as it is with some other tech. The newer version can open books 30 percent faster (not the same as page-turning speed), and its aluminum design is a millimeter thinner — […]

- Interesting Engineering
New humanoid robot built in five months remotely handles bombs, hazardous energy jobs
A San Francisco-based robotics startup has built a walking humanoid in five months that allows...

- Interesting Engineering
Researchers plan robot swarms that could assemble structures without human workers
- The Verge
Samsung’s Z Fold 8 is hundreds off ahead of iPhone Duo launch
I don’t suppose there are many iPhone users who might be tempted by the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 now that the iPhone Duo is both real and coming very soon. But if you’ll entertain a great deal, there are big discounts happening for both the passport-style Z Fold 8 and the slimmer, taller Z […]

- CNET
Stop Sweeping Dust Every 5 Minutes: The Narwal Freo 20 Robot Vacuum Is $250 Off for Prime Day
- Gizmodo
Floor Cleaning Stops Being Your Job, Roborock’s Q7 L5 Robot Vacuum and Mop Is 50% Off
- Gizmodo
No Longer Need a Premium Budget for a Dreame Robot Vacuum and Mop for Prime Day, 20,000Pa D20 Air Plus Is 43% Off
- The Next Web
Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work
- New Atlas
Video: Dexterous robot hand learns the delicate art of silk embroidery
Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra. The synthetic hand has learned to split silk strands, thread a needle, stretch fabric across a frame, and stitch, following a craft with more than 2,500 years of history. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Engineering Tags: Robotics , Hand , Humanoid , Dexterity , Silk

- Mashable
Best October Prime Day robot vacuum deals: Save on Roborock, Eufy, Dreame
- Interesting Engineering
Kawasaki turns to physical AI to push its Kaleido humanoid toward full autonomy
Kawasaki plans to integrate Japanese physical AI developer Noetra’s physical AI platform into its Kaleido...

- Gizmodo
Dreame 25,000Pa Robot Vacuum and Mop Goes All-In on Prime Day, Slashing Hundreds Off to Its Lowest Price
- Fast Company
Robots are going to need a better story
- Unite.AI
What Is a Vector Database? How AI Stores and Searches Embeddings
Vector databases store, index, filter, and search embeddings so applications can retrieve items by similarity at operational scale. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

- Business Insider
This robotics startup raised $75 million to automate drug manufacturing. See the pitch deck.
- Mashable
Best October Prime Day DJI drone deal: DJI Mini 3 drone for record low ($150 off)
- Fast Company
The 4 next big things in robotics and automation for 2026
- Gizmodo
It's Your Last Chance to Save Big and Upgrade Your Robot Vacuum to an Elite Dreame Cleaning Machine
- Gizmodo
Roborock's Stellar Lineup of Robot Vacuums Will Have Your Floors in Prime Condition, With Record-Low Prices for Prime Day
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong’s Hermitage Capital stays devoted to top-tier tech stocks amid jitters
Even as geopolitical frictions and market swings unsettle venture investors, Hong Kong-founded Hermitage Capital is sticking to a global strategy of backing frontier technology companies wherever they emerge. With a US$1.5 billion war chest that is 80 per cent in US dollars, with the remainder in renminbi, the private equity firm is ramping up investments across artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics, mainly in the US and China, capitalising on a market turnaround triggered by t…

- SESeoul Economic Daily
DeepX, Doosan Robotics to Develop AI Welding Robot for Nuclear Plants