Robots & Robotics covers the machines, systems, and technologies that enable physical automation and intelligent interaction with the real world. This topic focuses on the design, development, and deployment of robotic platforms across industrial, commercial, and public environments. Coverage includes robotic hardware, sensing and actuation, control systems, autonomy, and human-robot interaction. It also examines how advances in artificial…
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…
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has unveiled LingBot-VA 2.0, an autoregressive world model built from scratch for physical-world robot control rather than adapted…
Researchers have published ThorArena, a simulation-based benchmark that evaluates humanoid robots under realistic physical forces by replaying human interaction data against virtual robots, revealing substantial performance…
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…
LG Electronics has established a Robotics Business Center reporting directly to CEO Lyu Jae-cheol, effective July 1, integrating business development, sales, and operations into a single…
Tesla has released time-lapse footage showing the decommissioning of its original Model S and Model X assembly line at Fremont in 46 days, with limited Optimus…
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…
iRobot has launched the Roomba Electro Plus, a $399.99 cordless hard-floor cleaner combining vacuuming, mopping, disinfecting, and self-cleaning, alongside five redesigned Roomba robot vacuums, marking its…
UC San Diego researchers have completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs using a teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robot, published in Nature, in…
Mitsubishi Motors and University of Tokyo spinout Highlanders have signed an MOU to jointly develop humanoid robots for Mitsubishi's manufacturing facilities and explore mass production at…
Mistral has released Robostral Navigate, an 8B embodied navigation model that achieves 76.6% on the R2R-CE unseen benchmark using only a single RGB camera, outperforming systems…
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…
