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The tractors are getting smarter, and farms may depend on it
An aging workforce and shrinking skilled labour pool are pushing AI off the screen and into the cab. Companies like Agtonomy are betting that the most important robots of this decade will look nothing like a human.
Before You Buy a Robot, Build a Virtual One First
Digital twin software lets manufacturers test robotic cells on a computer screen before spending a cent on hardware. Here is why that matters for any company thinking about automation for the first time.
Who keeps the robots running? The hidden workforce behind physical AI
Scaling robots past a handful of machines turns out to be an HR problem as much as an engineering one. Here's what that means for workers and the companies deploying them.
Software-Defined Manufacturing: Can Old Factory Machines Learn New Tricks?
A Georgia startup says yes. R2 Labs plugs AI vision and robotics into equipment that factories already own, letting production lines change what they make without buying new hardware.
This Robot Watched a Short Video and Figured Out the Rest Itself
Cambridge startup Generalist AI has built robot arms that learn new physical tasks from a single video clip, no task-specific training required. The results are imperfect but striking.
Sidewalk delivery robots are rolling into Chicago, Washington DC and San Jose as Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub
Serve Robotics has signed Grubhub as a second major platform partner and entered four new cities. Q2 revenue jumped 404% year on year, but Uber's quiet exit is a reminder the company still has ground to prove.
A Robot Lab Grows Human Tissue to Give AI the Data It Needs to Find Real Drugs
Vivodyne's warehouse-scale machines test drug candidates on lab-grown human organs, not mice. The startup says this is the missing ingredient that could make AI drug discovery actually work.
Meet Moxi 2.0: The Hospital Robot That Learns on the Job
Diligent Robotics is rolling out its upgraded delivery robot to U.S. hospitals. It thinks faster, runs longer, and gets smarter with every shift.
Three ex-SpaceX engineers are building a robot factory to make steel parts for AI data centres
Their startup, 1872, opened its first facility in Cincinnati this month. The goal: automate most of the steel fabrication process by 2027, starting with the frames that hold modular data centres together.
Robots and AI Are Changing How Stroke Survivors Recover
From hospital gyms to living rooms, robotic rehab devices are helping stroke patients retrain their brains faster and more consistently than traditional therapy alone can manage.
BioflexBot: A Spring-and-Air Robot Hand That Out-Rotates Human Fingers
Chinese researchers built a gripper that needs just two air inputs to pinch, rotate, hook and grasp. No complex anatomy required.
One loop, one bucket: how AWS's Strands Robots records, trains and deploys without redundant data transfers
A new open-source toolkit from AWS lets a single AI agent collect robot demonstrations, train on them and push the finished policy back to hardware, skipping the costly step of downloading the same data twice.
The US military wants better robots. Here's who it's asking.
A federally funded manufacturing institute is putting out an open call for robotics and AI projects aimed at defence production, from submarines to drone swarms.
The Dirty Data Problem That Is Stalling the Next Wave of AI Robots
A new survey of more than 700 AI engineers finds that bad data, not weak algorithms, is the main reason physical AI systems fail before they reach the real world.
Industrial robots are booming outside car factories, new data shows
North American robot orders jumped 21% in value in Q2 2026, and the biggest growth came from chip makers, life sciences firms and food producers, not the car companies that once dominated the industry.