FCC Robot Restriction May Reach Household Models, Not Existing Devices
A connected robot vacuum can map rooms and exchange data with remote services, yet that does not automatically mean it…
Mechanical Design & Robotics
Princeton prints motor-free origami robot hinges with closed-loop thermal control
Princeton engineers reported on March 20 in Advanced Functional Materials that they built a soft-rigid hybrid robot architecture using 3D-printed…
Ukraine Reports 21,500 Ground-Robot Missions as Use Spreads to 167 Units
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense reported in 2026 that its forces completed more than 21,500 uncrewed ground-vehicle missions during the first…
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini System That Controls Entire Humanoid Robots
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, which the company says is its first Gemini system able to control an…
MIT’s VLASH Robot-Control Method Cuts Reaction Latency Up to 11.8 Times
MIT researchers announced on July 28, 2026, that a robot-control method called VLASH reduced maximum reaction latency by up to…
FCC Restricts Some New Foreign-Made Robots, Spares Previously Approved Vacuums
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced on July 28, 2026, that certain foreign-produced mobile robots would be added to its…
Nauticus Subsea Arm Enters Load Testing After Software-Control Validation
Nauticus Robotics completed its first three-joint prototype of a modular electric subsea manipulator during the first half of 2026 and…
Sensory Robotics Wins SR-1 Certification for Fenceless Cells, Limits Remain Unclear
Sensory Robotics has announced safety certification for SR-1, its vision-based system for monitoring people around industrial robot arms, although the…
Air Force expands embodied AI robotics demos with Palladyne IQ
The U.S. Air Force has exercised a $2.9 million option under Palladyne AI’s STRATFI contract, lifting the total award to…
Asylon Links Air and Ground Robots for USAF Aircraft Inspections
Asylon has received a contract from the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex to continue development and demonstration of an autonomous…
Walden Robotics Pushes Learning Robots Into Live Factory Work
Walden Robotics has emerged with a familiar promise in industrial automation: make robots useful beyond tightly scripted, fenced-off tasks. The…
Air Force Tests Paired Robots for Aircraft Inspection Workflows
An upcoming U.S. Air Force evaluation at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex is worth paying attention to, but not…
Why Ukraine Mounts M2 Brownings on Ground Robots
Ukraine’s pairing of the U.S.-manufactured M2 Browning with its unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is less about innovation than mechanics. The…
SW North America Targets Flexible CNC Cells at IMTS 2026
With the idea of demonstrating the evolution of modern machining with the help of IMTS 2026 in Chicago, SW North…
AI and Robotics Drive Next-Gen Farming at CES 2023
CES 2023 in Las Vegas assembled over 3,200 exhibitors, including 1,000 startups, with a notable surge in agricultural technology powered…
Porosity-Engineered Soft Robots Achieve Jointless Multidimensional Motion
Soft robotics continues to push beyond the constraints of rigid mechanisms, offering adaptable solutions for grasping, locomotion, and manipulation. A…
Humanoid Robots Surge Amid AI Breakthroughs
When Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, encountered a video in August of a sleek, China-made humanoid…
DLR’s Moon-Mars Test Site Advances Planetary Robotics
On 26 September 2023, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) inaugurated its Moon-Mars Test Site at the Robotics and Mechatronics Center…