BrainCo Unveils Brain-to-Robot AI Platform for Thought-Controlled Robots
BrainCo has introduced a brain-to-robot AI platform that converts neural signals into commands for humanoids, robotic arms, and quadrupeds in under 200 milliseconds.
Japan and NVIDIA Launch World’s First National Physical AI Infrastructure with 27,500 Rubin GPUs
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NVIDIA have announced the world's first national AI infrastructure dedicated to physical AI, built around an NVIDIA Vera...
Xpeng Targets 1,000+ IRON Robots Per Month by End of 2026, Plans Global Rollout in 2027
Xpeng is targeting monthly production capacity of more than 1,000 IRON humanoid robots by end of 2026, with deployment as showroom sales assistants in China in...
NTU Singapore Develops Diving Suit for Cyborg Cockroaches, Deployed in Myanmar Earthquake Response
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University Singapore have developed a 3D-printed diving suit that allows remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater for up to three hours, following...
UBTECH U1 Hits 13,000 Pre-Orders but Faces July Payment Test and Mounting Competition
UBTECH's UWORLD U1 companion humanoid has accumulated 13,000 pre-orders, but the critical test arrives in mid-July when final payments are due from pre-order customers, as the...
1X Unveils NEO Hands, a 25-DoF Tendon-Driven Hand System for Its NEO Home Humanoid
1X Technologies has unveiled NEO Hands, a 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven robotic hand system for its NEO home humanoid, combining distributed tactile sensing, AI-assisted manipulation, and fast actuation...
Taiwan Launches Domestic Quadruped Robot Program to Capture $4 Billion Global Market with Non-China Supply Chain
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs is working with ITRI and six industry partners to develop indigenous four-legged robot technology, trained on NVIDIA's Taipei-1 supercomputer across 4,000...
MIT and EPFL Develop Flapping-Wing Robot That Swims Underwater and Transitions to Flight Without Paddling
MIT and EPFL engineers have built a 300-gram flapping-wing robot that swims through water and transitions to flight without paddling, published in Science, inspired by diving...
Musk Outlines Plan to Send Optimus Robots to Moon and Mars as Construction Vanguard Starting Late 2026
Elon Musk has outlined a plan to send construction materials to the Moon and Mars starting in late 2026, with Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots building infrastructure...
NVIDIA and Hugging Face Integrate Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop Into LeRobot, with Cosmos 3 Planned
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop into LeRobot, the open-source robotics library, giving developers a standardized end-to-end pipeline for robot...
UN Secretary-General Calls for Global Killer Robot Ban and AI Governance Framework at Inaugural Geneva Dialogue
UN Secretary-General António Guterres used the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva to call for binding international controls on autonomous weapons, mandatory AI...
McLaren Construction Partners with FieldAI to Deploy Autonomous Quadruped Robots Across UK Construction Sites
McLaren Construction has partnered with California-based FieldAI to deploy autonomous quadruped robots across its UK construction sites for 360-degree site scanning, point cloud data capture, progress...