"Robot RAM needs will exceed everything else on Earth, as you need the robots to be on physical substates in order to shape atoms. "Super intelligence needs will vastly exceed that, but ~100% of SI will be deep space compute. Obviously." We've been...
Last week, Starshield — the version of SpaceX's Starlink used by the Ukrainian military — was throttled to block terminals traveling above certain speeds from accessing the service. The Ukrainian army's interceptors, which counter Russian dro...
The automaker said it could start switching on Unsupervised Full Self-Driving on some vehicles by the second quarter of 2027. Tesla is aiming to start selling Cybercabs to customers before the year ends. Lars Moravy, VP of engineering at the company...
### Summary - SquachWatch turns an ESP32 CYD into a standalone WiFi/Bluetooth scanner for trackers. - Detects Flock cameras, body cams, recording glasses, AirTags, drones, skimmers, and more. - Runs standalone on USB, listens on 2.4GHz, and shares...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. If successful, Musk said, the attempt would mark the first time in hist...
Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth, a daring international project that could yield new insights into the formation of the Solar System. ...
Clean floors shouldn't come with unclear rules about your personal data. Depending on the model, a robot vacuum cleaner can potentially generate floor maps, record cleaning histories, watch you take a bathroom break or record your private conversati...
A Russian military satellite maneuvered in "extreme proximity" of a commercial Earth-imaging satellite in recent days in the first known example an unsanctioned rendezvous in low-Earth orbit, according to the orbital intelligence company LeoLabs. Th...
Hybridization of enterprise IT is now a fact, so CISOs and cybersecurity leaders must create a security framework to address these increasingly distributed, dynamic, and complex environments. As workloads are distributed across the full architectural...
Figuring out how the 'brain' will work will take a lot of time. While OpenAI is already busy with the development of AI models and new consumer hardware, CEO Sam Altman and his team apparently have time for one more project: a humanoid robot. On th...
### Robohub.org Claire chatted to Rika Antonova from the University of Cambridge about using artificial intelligence to develop complimentary robot hardware and algorithms. Rika Antonova is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her...
Imagine you are driving toward an intersection. A truck parked on the corner blocks your view of a car speeding toward the intersection from the right. You can't see it, but the car next to you can. What if that neighboring vehicle could simply tell ...
Russian drones are suspected of sinking a cargo ship and leaving chemical tankers ablaze near the Black Sea coasts of Bulgaria and Romania, respectively. The latest attacks mean that at least seven ships have been attacked in the exclusive economic z...
Suspected Russian drone attacks sank a cargo ship and forced the evacuation of another vessel within two dozen miles of the coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea on October 13. The latest attacks mean that five ships have been attacked in the exclusive ...
The kit includes two transmitters and a receiver, and it supports 32-bit float recording. Sony has announced the ECM-W5, a $400 wireless microphone kit that's clearly designed to be as easy to use as DJI's affordable wireless mics, provided creators...
Ukrainian troops have been caught off guard by restrictions on Elon Musk's Starlink satellite Internet systems that disrupted frontline operations, while Kyiv received no warning from its partners of a Russian missile attack on its energy facilities ...
Organizations across the supply chain continue to invest heavily in automation. Yet for many warehouse and distribution leaders, the expected gains in productivity, throughput, and agility remain elusive. The issue is rarely a lack of technology. Mo...
GPS has become such a routine part of flying a drone that it's easy to forget how vulnerable it can be. Jam a satellite signal, feed a receiver fake coordinates, and an autonomous aircraft or ground vehicle could suddenly struggle to figure out where...
### Small drone manufacturer finds its market niche ### By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill In business, sometimes getting in on the ground floor of an emerging trend is the key to success — even for a company whose business is manufacturin...
New guidance explains how airport operators should request airspace access when using drones in emergency response training. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued updated guidance on October 9, 2026, clarifying authorization requirements ...
UK Civil Aviation Authority recommends a phased approach to managing drone and eVTOL noise as commercial operations expand. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has published a report examining how noise from drones and electric vertical take-off a...
Expanded agreement brings net-capture and kinetic counter-drone capabilities to European and allied defense customers. Fortem Technologies and European defense company MBDA announced an expanded strategic partnership on October 12 to integrate auton...
Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. Yandex customers are experiencing service outages, some of them reporting in...
We're still imagining building cities on the moon. There are just a few obstacles in the way. Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the fi...
Plus: An Anthropic AI model submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murder. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moo...
Before compact camera drones took over, the DJI Phantom was the aircraft that helped put serious aerial photography within reach of more people. And the Phantom 4 Pro V2.0 was one of the lineup's standout models, pairing a 1-inch sensor with a mechan...
### By Wai-keung Fung, Cardiff Metropolitan University At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants and emergency situations. The robot Tiangon...
Correction, 1 October 2026: An earlier version miscounted the number of charge cycles in a 24-hour day and said early access was more than a year away. The idealised 90-to-9-minute ratio implies about 21.8 hours of runtime and 2.2 hours of charging; ...
Robots have captured our imagination. We have seen humanoids balancing on one leg, doing backflips, folding laundry, and moving smoothly over difficult terrain. This is all behavior that only a few years ago seemed like something out of science ficti...
A robot picks up an object, moves it, and puts it down successfully. Is it dexterous? Perhaps. But now ask it to do that successfully hundreds of times, while objects move slightly, its grip changes, components wear, and unexpected failures occur. Th...
It has been more than a decade since I first helped to bring robots to live retail center stores. Long gone are retailers' concerns about robots taking jobs, scaring kids, accidentally bumping into shoppers, or simply disrupting the grocery shopping ...
In Episode 265 of The Robot Report Podcast, our guest is Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of generative AI Research at Appen. She discusses the continuing importance of humans in the loop for training robots. Sinanan-Singh works on agentic evals, RL ...
Last week, Boston Dynamics Inc. gave a look at its new humanoid robot hand. The four-fingered hand has 13 degrees of freedom, or DoF, and is directly actuated. The company said it designed it for mass manufacturing. Lots of things immediately stand ...
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A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn't have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic hand into a completely self-contained robot that walk...
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. Swit...
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For Danu Robotics founder Amy Ma, the eureka moment came after years of working as a software developer at a London bank. It was the kind of high-touch office that's typical in finance — but despite all the perks, Ma was alarmed to realize that t...
In a tan polo shirt, brown leather belt, and round bolo tie, MIT PhD student Wil Norton kind of looks like a park ranger, leading our tour group through a tropical jungle. We're not actually on safari, though — we're at MIT's Computer Science & A...
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 Aut...
### Robohub.org Claire chatted to Kushant Patel from Brookhaven National Laboratory about robots that work in scientific facilities, such as particle accelerators. Kushant Patel builds software that helps robots and instruments perceive, map, and m...
### Robohub.org 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 Tech...
### By the University of Glasgow Giving robot companions animal-like or anime-style faces and voices could maximise their emotional appeal to users, according to new research which could help guide the growing field of social robotics. Social robot...
### By Emmet Cole "Robotics and automation" is a pairing heard often around these parts. It puts the "RA" in IEEE RAS, after all. The familiar combination shows up in conference titles, funding calls, and program descriptions. But what is actually ...
When police need to launch a drone during an emergency, every minute counts. But when that mission involves controlled airspace near an airport, getting the necessary FAA authorization can add another step before the drone takes off. Versaterm wants ...
Why settle for less when DJI's most capable Mini drone bundle is now under $1,000? The Mini 5 Pro Fly More Combo with RC 2 has hit $979, bringing flagship-level imaging, smart tracking, and three batteries into one tempting package. If you've been wa...
A drone can have all the range and capability in the world, but eventually it needs to land, recharge and get back in the air. Three US companies are now trying to remove much of that downtime with a single mobile system designed to keep drones opera...
Beam Global is making a bigger bet on the drone industry, signing a definitive agreement to acquire Norwegian drone technology company ScoutDI in a deal valued at approximately $24 million. The move could give Beam a stronger foothold in the US indus...
The FAA is putting more money into the technologies it believes could help drones safely become a bigger part of the US airspace. The agency has announced $12 million in awards for 19 companies and organizations working on drone research and testing ...
New image-based questions will require applicants to interpret aviation charts, while existing Part 107 regulations remain unchanged. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is updating its Part 107 remote pilot knowledge test beginning October 26...
Cleaning drones offer a commercial use case providing one of the clearest examples of drones handling the "dark, dirty, and dangerous" jobs. But are they effective? In this post, Apellix uses real world use cases and pictures to showcase the results....
AI-powered service provides information on drone registration, insurance, and flight restrictions. DroneClear Thailand has introduced a ChatGPT app designed to help recreational drone operators understand the country's registration requirements and ...
Bipartisan request seeks more training for law enforcement, corrections officers, and National Guard personnel as states implement new counter-UAS authorities. A bipartisan group of 29 U.S. governors is calling on federal officials to expand counter...
### Student's vision turns into drone cleaning startup ### By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill The inspiration needed to start a successful company can come in many forms. For Andrew Ashur, CEO of Lucid Bots, a manufacturer of cleaning drones ...
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers The ...
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Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out two of five data centers belonging to the Russian tech giant Yandex. The damage has left Yandex, known as “Russia’s Google” because it operates the country’s most popular search engine, struggling to maintain ...
Job titles of the future: Delivery drone air traffic controller Trevor Wischnewsky is making sure that the sky stays organized as we enter the age of food delivery by drone. The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and su...
TechRadar Verdict The keenly-priced Worx Landroid Vision Cloud WR306E is a seriously capable robotic mower with satellite and camera-based navigation, cloud connectivity, sophisticated auto mapping and excellent obstacle avoidance. Setup is a little ...
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The big trend in robots is handing the keys over to a generative AI model, but that brings with it a problem: that architecture isn’t predictable the way traditional algorithms are. How can you be sure your brand new humanoid will be safe? Dr. Ding Z...
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 P...
Drones sank two cargo ships and damaged a third in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries for the first time, killing at least two sailors. The attacks represent a notable escalation as Black Sea commercial shipping has increasingly co...
Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds - Published On 23 August, Cooper Freeman had no idea clouds above his head were being filled with a silver compound in order to cause rainfall. Neither did thousands of other residents in Homer, Alaska, who ...
WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries The Chinese company is making liquid-solid hybrid cells to pack more power into products like electric cars and cargo ships. WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The co...
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TechRadar Verdict The Midea 5L Induction Rice Cooker is a fantastic and affordable alternative to the expensive specialty rice cookers from Japan, Taiwan and Korea. With presets for rice-firmness levels, mixed grains and rice mixed with other ingredi...
Deliveroo says its first robot deliveries will start in 5 UK cities soon — but claims the 'majority' of orders will still involve human riders Expect to see a teal-colored robot near you soon - Deliveroo says its first robot deliveries will start soo...
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U.S. battery startups hit a rough patch when the One Big Beautiful Bill eliminated battery and EV incentives, undercutting a chunk of future demand. But recently, they’ve found a lifeline in the defense world, helping to power everything from drones ...
How landscape gardening is being electrified - Published Part of the soundtrack to a day in southern California is the drone of petrol-powered gardening equipment. Noise is one of the main reasons that cities around the US, external are banning petro...
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Waymo has begun to open up its robotaxi service to the public in Las Vegas, just a few weeks after receiving final approval from Nevada transportation regulators. The Alphabet-owned company said Monday it will invite public riders on a rolling basis,...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday to launch a new effort to study how war may be fought as tech advances rapidly. It’s being called Project Meridian. Elon Musk, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, and former H...
This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit. They’ve been hiking into the wilderness with powered assistive devices attached to their hips and legs. De...
Humanoid robot sales tally hit 7,000 globally last year Reuters
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Equipped with custom speech-to-speech AI models and dexterous manipulation hands, Figure 02 operates autonomously alongside human technicians.
Retiring hydraulics in favor of high-torque electric actuators allows Atlas to perform superhuman kinematics with near-zero acoustic footprint.
East Asian governments deregulate autonomous delivery rovers and industrial humanoids to address acute demographic workforce shortages.
Hydraulic actuators inside sub-millimeter finger tips allow Phoenix to sense surface texture and apply delicate pressure to fragile objects.
Peter Thiel's fund wagers on spatial intelligence foundation models capable of zero-shot robotic sorting in high-throughput parcel logistics.
Trained on millions of hours of synthetic physics simulations inside Omniverse, GR00T models generalize physical motion across disparate morphologies.
Chinese robotics manufacturer Unitree prices its compact bipedal robot under $16,000, accelerating academic and maker experimentation.
Centimeter-accurate RTK positioning and automated AI spotlight tracking allow solo filmmakers to capture complex cinema shots previously requiring helicopter crews.
Soft tendon drives and padded organic chassis allow NEO to operate safely around toddlers and household pets without steel cages.
Event-based vision sensors consuming microwatts process visual motion at 10,000 frames per second, mirroring insect compound optical nerves.
A unified flow matching architecture learns diverse physical dexterity tasks across arms, bipedal legs, and quadrupeds in open-world settings.
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