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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 differences that conventional empty-space…
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 virtual robots, targeting the…
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 organization and launching a…
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 Gen 3 production expected…
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 birds and targeting oceanographic…
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 first significant product expansion…
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 what is described as…
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 ahead of human settlement,…
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 the Kyoto Plant, with…
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 that use LiDAR, depth…
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 foundation model training, data…
Robot.com has been named the official robotics partner of LEAP East in Hong Kong, where it will deploy its R-kiwi autonomous robots for brand activations using its R-ads platform, extending…
Simplexity Robotics, an embodied AI startup founded less than a year ago, has delivered its first batch of 100 i7 Pro robots across multiple industrial and logistics scenarios, including CNC…
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 safety testing before deployment,…
The 2026 World Robot Conference opens in Beijing on August 19 with more than 300 exhibiting companies, a 36% increase in exhibitors from 2025, as China accounts for 90% of…