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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.