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MIT Technology Review profiles Trevor Wischnewsky, a remote pilot in command at FlyTrex, who coordinates delivery drone traffic in the Dallas–Fort Worth area as unmanned aircraft traffic management expands.
Aether AI released demos of CRIS-0, a causal-reasoning robot controller that halts in 0.2 seconds when a hand interrupts a task and replans in about two seconds after disturbances. QbitAI reported 9 of 10 perturbation recoveries and 18 of 20 correct responses to ambiguous instructions.
German factory automation startup Daedalus, founded by ex-OpenAI robotics lead Jonas Schneider, has entered insolvency proceedings, Sifted reports.
QbitAI reports that Chinese robotics company Xingdong Jiyuan's World Action Model VPP2 has ranked first on the RoboDojo simulation benchmark, beating GPT-6-Astra, π0.5 and NVIDIA GR00T-N1.7. VPP2 also led real-robot zero-shot tasks and several generalization tests.
Sharpa, founded by former Hesai executives, introduced its first fully self-developed humanoid robot D01, a smaller tactile dexterous hand W02 and an exoskeleton data glove AE01 at IROS. The company is building a full-stack manipulation system that combines body hardware, tactile control, world models and real-task data.
Isembard, an automated manufacturing startup, has opened a factory in Southwark, London, that it says is the largest in the UK capital since World War II. The plant makes components for rockets, satellites, drones and humanoid robots, and is staffed by veterans, Amazon alumni and a former VC.
MirroS released AgentGarten, pairing code-based physics with neural rendering so AI agents can act, observe and revise strategies.
California regulator tells robot-fighting startup Rek it cannot hold human boxing or MMA matches without approval.
Zhengxing Innovation unveiled a Physical AI solution for human-robot collaboration in open retail settings at APRCE 2026, pairing H1 humanoid and C1 wheel-arm robots with an M1 management platform and planning commercial service in 2027.
MIT Technology Review’s Oct. 8 Download says humanoid robot hype is outrunning AI’s grasp of physical variability, while WaveSave’s portable rubber dam is named a climate tech company to watch.
Nvidia expanded its Halos safety system to robotics in June 2026, aiming to make robotaxis and humanoid robots safer.
Geely Auto Group launched its AI-powered Smart Charge system on Sept. 23, 2026, claiming a 2,250 kW single-gun peak, battery temperatures held below 65 C and 20 percent longer cycle life, along with new batteries, charging robots and a 2027 county-coverage plan.
A TechRadar piece attributed to Samsara's CMO argues physical AI stalls on execution rather than budget, citing BCG, PwC and Capgemini findings on spending, value capture and robotics deployment.
Elon Musk and other tech leaders predict AI-powered humanoid robots will soon transform work and homes, but robotics researchers say the hardware and intelligence are far from ready.
Simplexity Robotics presented a robot that autonomously tends two CNC lathes with a 0.5 mm clearance at IROS 2026, while BASAL Intelligence, founded by Tsinghua AIR's first PhD, secured funding led by 5Y Capital for action-native embodied AI.
AVEVA’s Arti Garg says industrial AI must pair autonomy with safety, governance, and human oversight in physical operations.
CAIR released CARES 4.0, a multimodal clinical agent system, at the fourth CREATE Symposium in Hong Kong, where clinicians, hospital leaders, researchers and investors discussed medical AI's path into clinical workflows and commercialization.
IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh awarded its best paper to LT-Mem, a long-term memory system, while humanoid tennis, tray transport and a Stanford talk on structured representations showed robotics integrating foundation models with geometry, control and memory.
Mecka AI, which collects human motion data to train robots, has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia, with Nvidia and Microsoft's M12 among the participants.
The US Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment built and flew an armed drone with a 3D-printed explosive casing during a live-fire exercise in Germany, conducting a kinetic strike without contractor support, TechRadar reported.
Amazon has cut the Mammotion LUBA 3 AWD 3000 robot lawn mower to $2,109 for Prime Day, $590 off the $2,799 list price, according to Android Authority.
Dreame's $1,100 L60 Ultra PE offers flagship-like features and reliable cleaning, Android Authority says.
Caterpillar and CoreWeave are working together to cut the time needed to train autonomous construction equipment, combining GPU cloud capacity, data labeling and simulation to compress feedback loops from months to hours, executives said at the Fully Connected event.
Multiply Labs raises $75M for drug-making robots, led by Soon-Shiong and backed by AstraZeneca.