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Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
President Donald Trump has declared the imports of foreign-made factory robots to be a national security threat—ordering new US negotiations with trading partners while holding out the possibility of imposing new tariffs on such robot…
Inside giant homebuilder D.R. Horton's bet on robotic homebuilding
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert's ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. D.R. Horton, the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, has signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Promise Robotics to use…
I've Tested More Than 20 Robot Vacuums. These Are the Best.
Robot vacuums can clean up your house or apartment, even when you're not at home — no effort necessary on your part, unless you count pushing a button (and since they can work on a schedule, you don't really even need to do that). Using…
Seoul AI Foundation, robot agency team up on physical AI services
The Seoul AI Foundation has signed an agreement with the state-run Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement (KIRIA) to develop joint projects that combine artificial intelligence and robotics to address the city's needs, the foundation said…
MIT develops robot that slithers through intestines like a snake
Worms are usually the last thing someone wants in their gut. Just ask this unfortunate Alaskan bear recently spotted with several multi-foot long tapeworms hanging out of its butt. However, a new type of gut-crawling worm being designed by…
The Woman Breathing Life Into Next Generation Home-Help Robots
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing this August, spectators flocked to the adrenaline-fueled sports competitions – robots sprinting at superhuman speeds and soaring to new records in the high jump. Perhaps more important for the…
Armored caterpillars offer robot designers lessons in crossing slippery glass
Animals have long been one of the primary sources of inspiration for robotics researchers. This is because they rely on sophisticated biological mechanisms and locomotion strategies that could be artificially reproduced in robots to equip them with…
Inside a Nashville garage, vintage robot rock stars get a second act
When you walk into the Howell family's Hermitage garage, all eyes — more than 16 — are on you. And none of them are human. The animatronics will put on a Halloween show Saturday, when the family expects to hand out 3,000 pieces of…
Fast Feature Field: The missing link between event cameras and robot vision
For decades, event cameras, which emulate the biological retina by continuously monitoring changes in light intensity, have promised to revolutionize how robots perceive the world by allowing them to react faster and operate more reliably than…
Origami Robotics' S1 Glove Reads 20 Finger Joints So Its Matching Robot Hand Can Copy Each One Directly
Origami Robotics wants to teach robots with your hands, not with your YouTube history. “Imagine watching a million hours of video to learn the violin without ever practicing,” the company wrote in a post on its blog introducing the…
The Sequence Robotics - Issue #962: Rhoda AI and Robots That Predict Their Next Move
TL;DR Rhoda AI is betting that predicting short sensory futures can organize robot behavior, with a separate inverse dynamics model turning each predicted future into movements. Its September scaling report ties better video prediction to stronger…
Robots Are Getting Smarter, but Can We Trust the 'Success' Label?
A mechanical engineer's research explores an often-overlooked question: how do we know when a task has actually succeeded? Robot demonstrations often end with an apparent sign of success: a completed movement, a green status indicator or a positive…
The Humanoid Robot Market Could Be Worth More Than $7 Trillion. Here Are 3 Stocks to Own.
Ready or not, humanoid robots are coming. There could be as many as 1 billion of them on the planet by 2050, in fact, according to Morgan Stanley, when this market could be worth as much as $7.5 trillion. And that's just humanoid robots with two…
Germany and Ukraine test armed ground robot for frontline deployment
A German and a Ukrainian defence company have tested an armed ground robot for use by Ukrainian forces, with the first systems due to be integrated and delivered by the end of 2026. The cooperation agreement was signed in early October during…
Hyundai puts parking robots in driver's seat
Hyundai Motor Group's car-parking robots demonstrated Thursday how vehicles can be moved and rearranged in parking spaces without human intervention. The technology was demonstrated through a pilot project led by a consortium of Hyundai Motor…
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