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Robotics

Amazon's One Million Robots Now Have a Brain That Plans Together

A new AI system called DeepFleet coordinates hundreds of thousands of warehouse robots at once. What does that mean for the workers beside them?

3 min read
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Robotics

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.

4 min read
Illustration: a sleek four-legged autonomous patrol robot moving through a dimly lit industrial corridor at night
Robotics

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.

4 min read
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Robotics

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.

4 min read
Illustration: A large industrial robot arm frozen mid-motion in a dim factory, surrounded by empty workstations
Policy

Asimov's Robot Laws Are Not Enough. Here Is What Researchers Think We Actually Need.

Anthropic's CEO has called for slowing AI development, more than 2,500 economists and technologists have signed an open letter demanding action, and a U.S. senator has proposed sweeping legislation. The fiction that guided the field for 80 years is no longer adequate.

4 min read
Illustration: A dense grid of identical robotic arms arranged in rows on a dark industrial surface
Robotics

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.

4 min read
A clean, modern robotics assembly facility photographed from ground level, several articulated robotic arms at different heights caught mid-motion against a bac
Robotics

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.

4 min read
An urban morning commute scene with a four-legged robotic unit moving along a sidewalk, pedestrians stopping to observe, city buildings and traffic in backgroun
Robotics

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?

3 min read
A convention hall or industrial space with multiple robotic arms and mobile platforms positioned at different stations, with industry professionals in business
Robotics

Renting Robots Is Harder Than It Looks

A RoboBusiness panel in October will press the leaders of three robotics companies on the real costs of selling robots as a service, not a one-time purchase.

3 min read
An industrial robotics facility with multiple robots in various states of operation, with large server farms or data storage systems visible in the background,
Robotics

Robots are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. Here is why.

Nvidia's Les Karpas says the biggest thing holding back general-purpose robots is not the hardware. It is data. And solving that problem is far harder than it sounds.

3 min read
A factory floor where engineers review first-person perspective video footage on screens, showing a worker's hands performing an assembly task while robot arms
Robotics

How watching humans work could teach the next generation of factory robots

A robotics engineer explains how first-person camera footage of people doing real tasks could cut the time and cost of training industrial robots.

3 min read
A sound engineer adjusts microphone positions around a speaker in an anechoic chamber, with acoustic foam panels lining the walls and waveform visualizations di
AI Business

Iceland's Treble Raises $18 Million to Stress-Test the Voice AI Boom

The acoustic simulation startup, which already benchmarks speech models on Hugging Face, now has $40 million total to push into robotics, smart glasses, and physical AI.

3 min read
A sprawling American manufacturing facility with rows of agricultural drones in various stages of assembly on factory floors, quality control workers inspecting
Robotics

The Texas Drone Maker That Saw the China Problem Coming a Decade Early

Hylio built its supply chain in America long before Washington made it a legal requirement. Now farmers squeezed by falling crop prices and rising costs are finding out why that matters.

3 min read
A robotic arm with precision grippers carefully placing folded athletic wear into a cardboard shipping box on a conveyor belt in a massive warehouse facility fi
Robotics

The Robot That Packs Your Sports Gear: How Comau Built an AI Warehouse System for Decathlon

An Italian robotics company has tested a flexible picking-and-packing robot inside one of the world's biggest sports retailers, and the results could reshape how your online order gets fulfilled.

3 min read
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Explained

World Models: The AI Technology Teaching Machines to Understand Physics

A new generation of AI systems can simulate gravity, predict collisions, and generate interactive 3D worlds. Here is what world models are, who is building them, and why they matter.

5 min read
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