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Robotics & physical AI

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The Robot ReportResearchBen Waters on the latest wireless charging strategies Wireless chargers are being deployed in a number of indoor and outdoor applications for charging the mobile robots. | Credit: WiBotic As robot fleets scale, charging becomes an operational challenge.

11.03

PandailyAsiaSix AgiBot G2 Humanoids Run a Shanghai Convenience Store for 24 Hours, Logging 1,730 Tasks Six AgiBot G2 humanoid robots have finished a 24-hour shift in a convenience store that stayed open for business in Shanghai's Xuhui district.

11.03

PandailyAsiaXiaomi Humanoid Works First 8-Hour Car Factory Shift as Xiaomi-Robotics-1 Starts Apartment Trial Xiaomi says its humanoid robot has for the first time taken on an eight-hour work assignment at its car factory, covering the full daily production demand of the center console side-cover sorting…

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The Robot ReportResearchNew ISO interoperability standard covers collaboration among mobile robots from multiple vendors The new ISO 21423:2026 standard is intended to facilitate communications among different mobile robots.

11.03

TechNodeAsiaAmicro Helped Robot Vacuums Find Their Way. Now It Wants to Go Further. Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart , a TechNode Group publication. The brands competing to clean the world’s floors have something less visible in common.

11.03

The Robot ReportResearchChurchill Capital XI shareholders approve $2.5B Agility Robotics humanoid SPAC Digit 5 includes redesigned legs and new batteries for commercial use. Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics has cleared a major hurdle in its planned initial public offering (IPO).

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Ars Technica AIValleyComing in 2027: Apple’s $1,000 home robot for FaceTime and switching on lights Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is apparently pushing the tech company’s development of household robots—and the first to debut may be a home robot designed to autonomously roam around while supporting…

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AI BusinessGoogle Genie 4 brings world models closer to robot and AI testing The updated version points to new uses for world models in robotics and AI testing, but enterprises must weigh their potential against accuracy gaps.

11.02
Arm Newsroom

Arm NewsroomSiliconTop Arm-based innovations advancing on-device AI, cloud infrastructure, and physical AI in October 2026 Throughout October 2026, developments across the Arm ecosystem showed how a common compute foundation is helping partners deploy more capable intelligence, scale demanding workloads, and connect AI…

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gihyo.jpJapanOpenAI・Google・Microsoft、robots.txtでAI学習の許可・拒否を一括指定する新たな仕組みに対応へ OpenAI、Google、Microsoftは2026年10月30日、robots.txtでWebコンテンツのAI学習利用を指定する新たな仕組みに対応する方針を発表した。

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Sakana AIJapan【開催レポート】Sakana AIシンポジウム:Jürgen Schmidhuberが語るAIのこれまでとこれから、日本から挑む言語モデル・世界モデル・Physical AI 基調講演を行うSakana AI Chief Scientific Advisorのユルゲン・シュミットフーバー教授 (English Report Below.) 2026年10月26日、Sakana AIは東京・一橋講堂でシンポジウム「From World Models to Real-World AI — 日本から拓くAIの新時代」を開催しました。

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IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Spot Plays to Show Its Whole-Body Manipulation Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

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Replit BlogToolsThe Rise of the Self-Driving Company In 1937, British Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase asked: Why do firms exist? His answer was transaction costs.

10.26

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Quadruped Robot Solves Giant Rubik’s Cube by Itself Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.

10.23

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchThe Robot I Didn’t Expect to Build Agility Robotics , the company I cofounded out of my robotics lab at Oregon State University in 2015, has just launched Digit 5 .

10.19

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanFukushima tries to reinvent itself as hub for drones, robots and rockets Disaster-ravaged Japan region draws tech firms with expansive testing grounds

11.04

Hacker News (front)GitHubStringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot Article URL: https://neufangled.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358 Points: 339 # Comments: 132

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TechNodeAsiaRobots climb Mount Tai in China’s first major mountain challenge Robots climbing Mount Tai may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it has now become reality.

11.03

SiliconANGLEValleyRobotics startup Tutor Intelligence nabs $75M investment Warehouse automation provider Tutor Intelligence Inc. today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A investment.

11.03

SemiEngineeringSilicon3D Integration Reduces Embodied-Emissions Impact Of GPU Scaling (imec, VUB) Researchers at imec and Vrije Universiteit Brussels published “Embodied Emissions of 2.5D and 3D Scaling in Chipletized GPUs for Low-Carbon AI.” Abstract “GPU compute resources are scaling to support…

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The Robot ReportResearchTutor Intelligence raises Series B to scale model training, robot deployments Tutor trains its Sonny robot on real-world manipulation tasks. Credit: Eugene Demaitre Real-world data, human “tutors,” and simulation are all part of the recipe for training AI models to enable…

11.02

The Robot ReportResearchGentherm designs ThermAffyx to secure, heat patients during robotic surgeries ThermAffyx both securely positions and warms patients during robot-assisted surgeries. Source: Gentherm Many healthcare advances come from within that industry, but innovations from other industries…

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The Robot ReportResearchTop 10 robotics developments of October 2026 October 2026 was a whirlwind month for the robotics industry. Last month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of RoboBusiness and announced that next year, the show will be rebranded to Robotics…

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NVIDIA Technical BlogSiliconBuild World Models for Interactive Simulation with NVIDIA Cosmos Physical AI developers working with world models face two distinct challenges: adapting models to their sensors, tasks, and data, and getting those models into...

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