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Businesses across the Greater South West region of the UK will receive dedicated support to explore and adopt robotics and automation through a new £9.8 million regional programme. The National Compos
Kingston University has been selected to lead the UK’s first dedicated waste and recycling robotics adoption hub as part of a £40 million (approximately $53 million) government scheme. The National Wa
Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
Boston Dynamics gives more insight into its redesigned humanoid hand
Video Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Fun Turn
Groceryshop 2026 shows that retail robots are ready to scale, use AI
Cevotec has appointed Korean composite specialist KCompositeLab (KCLab) as its sales partner for South Korea. KCLab will represent Cevotec’s SAMBA robotic lamination equipment and also support manufac
RobotPlusPlus, an engineering-led developer of working-at-height robots, is extending automation across industrial maintenance with its HighMate Series for industrial cleaning and corrosion control, l
Researchers at Dongguk University in South Korea have developed a flexible, battery-free electronic device that can harvest energy from human movement and use it to power neuromorphic sensing and lear
Monolithos has launched a public alpha of Robot Brain, a long-term memory and experience system designed to enable robots and embodied AI systems to retain information from previous tasks and make it
FireDome, an autonomous wildfire resilience company, has announced the launch of its US operations, anchored by a demonstration site at Yuba County Airport. The site gives FireDome a dedicated environ
Does Dynamic-Point Filtering Help When Texture Is Scarce? A Controlled Study of ORB-SLAM2 Front-Ends in Synthetic Indoor Scenes
Teaching a Robot Dog New Tricks: Diverse Quadruped Skills via Combined Reinforcement and Imitation Learning with Adversarial Task Selection
TacHair: Tactile Contact-Distribution Guided Online Correction for Robotic Hair Stroking and Perception
Masked Generative Motion Planning with Geometry-Guided Token Search
TAPNAV: Humanoid Navigation through Tactile Active Perception
NavGPT-3: Harnessing Context in a Hierarchical Navigation Runtime
Same Action, Different Outcome: Variability in Dynamic Cloth Manipulation
Diagnosing and Recovering from Observation-Space Shift at Long-Horizon Skill Seams
Skill-SLM: Agent Skill-driven Small Language Models for Reliable Robot Operation
Cross-Embodiment Robot Foundation World Models with Latent Actions
SafeWorld emerges from stealth to build, deploy robot safety simulation technologies
Lowe’s has launched drone delivery, the newest fulfillment method for the retailer that delivers select home improvement items directly to DIY and pro customers “in as fast as 20 minutes”. This pilot
South Korean entertainment technology company Galaxy Corporation has staged a synchronized performance involving 16 humanoid robots in New York as part of a demonstration combining robotics with K-pop
The European TALOS project has completed three years of testing autonomous robots and AI for solar power plant maintenance, demonstrating the technology at sites in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands
Odyssey, an AI research company pioneering foundation world models, has announced Odyssey-3, its most powerful world model to date. The new model represents a significant advance toward general-purpos
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, and the Arab Federation for Digital Economy (AFDE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance the deployment, localization and commer
Upside Parts, a Massachusetts-based custom manufacturing company, released an analysis of more than 30,000 3D-printed parts produced across hundreds of customer orders, looking at how robotics compani
Warehouse robotics provider Exotec has deployed its Skypod solution in First Supply’s warehouse in West Salem, Wisconsin. Following the deployment, First Supply can now offer next-morning delivery at
At the Agrophoenix fruit processing plant in Greece, eight Stäubli SCARA robots do the opposite of cherry-picking: They pick peaches and select not the good ones, but the bad ones. The robots are part
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