Robotics
humanoids, drones, self-driving vehicles and machines that move on their own
Humanoid Robots Are Getting Smarter. They Are Not Ready for Your Home Yet.
Nvidia's Cosmos 3 gives robot builders a powerful new tool. But researchers warn that the gap between a robot handing out popcorn and one folding your laundry is still vast.
The AI Running Your Power Grid Cannot Afford to Guess Wrong
AVEVA's chief technologist explains why the next wave of industrial AI needs human guardrails before autonomy, and why that order matters more than the technology itself.
Liquid AI Releases Two Open-Weight Decision Models That Answer in Under 50 Milliseconds on Edge Hardware
The d1-3B and d1-omni-600M models skip word-by-word generation and return structured answers in a single calculation, fast enough to run on a $250 Jetson Orin Nano board.
The Robot Dog That Works the Night Shift
More than $23 billion flowed into physical AI and robotics in 2026 alone. A growing slice is going toward security robots that can spot threats before a human guard ever gets the call.
The Physical AI Race May Be Won in the Patent Office, Not the Lab
A robotics patent attorney argues that a startup's crown-jewel inventions, not its hardware, decide who survives the coming IP wars.
ANYbotics Shift Turns a Robot's 2 a.m. Gas Alert Into a Work Order Before Dawn
A new platform connects walking industrial robots to SAP, GE Vernova, and dozens of other enterprise tools, so a fault spotted overnight becomes a repair ticket before the morning shift arrives.
Nobody Has Built the Car Wash for Self-Driving Cars
Waymo can handle the driving. Cleaning, charging, and inspecting its vehicles still requires a trip across town, an industrial lot nobody can find, and years of permitting. That's the real bottleneck.
How Nvidia's Warp Lets You Run 2,048 Robot Simulations at Once
A new Hugging Face tutorial shows how to move a standard robot simulation from a single CPU to thousands of parallel GPU environments, cutting the time it takes to teach robots physical skills.
Arm Pulls 80-Plus Companies Into One Robotics Ecosystem and Proposes a Common Rating Scale
Arm's Total Design for Physical AI program and a six-level Robotics Capability Framework aim to fix the fragmentation that has slowed robot deployment for years.
The man who automated farm tractors wants to redesign how all field robots work together
Mel Torrie built ASI from a bootstrapped startup into a global force in outdoor autonomy. At RoboBusiness 2026, he'll explain why the next decade belongs to machines that cooperate, not just machines that drive themselves.
I walked to work with a $4,000 robot dog. Here is what happened.
A journalist's morning commute with a quadruped robot drew crowds, barking dogs, and surveillance fears. What does everyday life with a consumer robot actually feel like?
Driverless tractors are already farming 255,000 acres in Florida. Here's what that means for American food.
Autonomous Solutions Inc. has put self-driving John Deere tractors to work across U.S. Sugar's entire South Florida operation, the largest autonomous farm fleet ever deployed in American agriculture.
Universal Robots Gen 7 Wants to Put AI on the Factory Floor Without the Headache
A smaller controller, a lighter teaching device, and three new robot arms aim to make AI deployment feel like a normal Tuesday, not a research project.
Wang Xingxing Built the World's Cheapest Humanoid Robots. Now the Question Is Whether He Can Let Go.
Wang Xingxing built China's leading humanoid robot company by controlling everything, down to screw lengths. A rare deep-dive by a Chinese financial magazine asks whether that approach can scale.
The same four things a surgical robot and a warehouse robot both need to work
A new industry report pairs a cardiac surgery suite in California with a logistics floor and finds the hardest problem in both places is the same: understanding your own process before you automate it.