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nasa.gov - Students Build Moon Robots for NASA's 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
Students Build Moon Robots for NASA's 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
NASA

Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team's prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA's 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor…

forbes.com - Yue Wang - Humanoid Robots, Drones And Green Energy: The 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 Entrepreneurs Innovating In Industry, Manufacturing & Energy
Humanoid Robots, Drones And Green Energy: The 30 Under 30 Asia 2026 Entrepreneurs Innovating In Industry, Manufacturing & Energy
Forbes

G uo Renjie set up Suzhou-based JoyIn Technology in 2024 to make a “much more interactive” range of companion robots aimed at the elderly and children. The startup has launched four humanoids, including the 50cm-tall Zeroth M1, which…

forbes.com - John Koetsier - Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers
Figure Humanoid Robots Get Jobs With JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers
Forbes

Figure 03 humanoid robot. Screenshot from a Brett Adcock tweet. Figure got a job at dad's company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don't have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry) because a key investor in Figure's series C…

wwd.com - Arthur Zaczkiewicz - VenHub Doubles Down on Robots With Massive New Vegas Plant
VenHub Doubles Down on Robots With Massive New Vegas Plant
WWD

VenHub is expanding. The autonomous retail company just dropped a major anchor in Las Vegas, opening a second, much larger production facility to churn out its robotic “Smart Stores” at scale. They have to. A massive backlog of…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - SoftBank hires banks for US IPOs of SB Energy and AI robotics spinoff Roze, sources say
SoftBank hires banks for US IPOs of SB Energy and AI robotics spinoff Roze, sources say
The Standard

SoftBank Group has tapped banks to prepare initial public offerings for its energy and infrastructure developer SB Energy and its planned autonomous robotics spinout Roze, as founder Masayoshi Son ramps up the Japanese group's push into artificial…

prweb.com - TorqueAGI - TorqueAGI Announces Collaborations with NVIDIA, John Deere, and Dexterity to Advance Physical AI for Enterprise-Grade Robots
TorqueAGI Announces Collaborations with NVIDIA, John Deere, and Dexterity to Advance Physical AI for Enterprise-Grade Robots
PRWeb

Bringing Physical AI into production is a team effort. From compute infrastructure to foundation models to deployment systems, TorqueAGI is building at the model layer alongside partners working across the full stack. As an NVIDIA Perception…

digg.com - Chris Paxton - Genesis AI launches Genesis World 1.0, an open-source robotics simulator that turns one hour of real-world testing into 100 simulation days · Digg
Genesis AI launches Genesis World 1.0, an open-source robotics simulator that turns one hour of real-world testing into 100 simulation days · Digg
Basic Intelligence

We are back again:) After three weeks of quiet building. Introducing Genesis World 1.0, our latest simulation platform, the second release in our full-stack suite. Open-sourced. Robotics is still bottlenecked by the 1× speed of the physical…

twz.com - Howard Altman - Inside The Effort To Build Ukraine's Ground Robot Arsenal
Inside The Effort To Build Ukraine's Ground Robot Arsenal
The War Zone

Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. With ground maneuver a huge risk thanks to the ubiquity of deadly aerial drones, Ukraine is increasingly relying on uncrewed ground…

ksbw.com - Ricardo Tovar - Hollister deploys sidewalk robots to assess accessibility conditions
Hollister deploys sidewalk robots to assess accessibility conditions
KSBW

Hollister deploys sidewalk robots to assess accessibility conditions Very local, powered by KSPWA local news, learning new information. Original series and specials, it's pretty awe inspiring. 24/7 TV made just for you. How awesome is this?

smh.com.au - Angus Dalton - Robot jazz and power naps: How a Sydney soil scientist got on par with Einstein
Robot jazz and power naps: How a Sydney soil scientist got on par with Einstein
The Sydney Morning Herald

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Alex Broadfoot McBratney and his collaborators once dumped 300 tonnes of dirt into an Australian art space. It was not just any dirt: the…

globaltimes.cn - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic visits robot factory in China
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic visits robot factory in China
Global Times

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic visits robot factory in China By: Global Times | Published: May 27, 2026 05:55 PM Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who is on a state visit to China, visited a future factory of Minth Group in Jiaxing, East…

techxplore.com - University of Bristol - Pea-size liquid-metal pump runs robot butterfly on under 0.1 V
Pea-size liquid-metal pump runs robot butterfly on under 0.1 V
Tech Xplore

Engineers have invented an ingenious liquid-metal pump that could make future soft robotics and wearable devices much more portable and agile. The innovation, led by the University of Bristol and published in the journal Nature Communications…

tomsguide.com - Catherine Hiles - The Lymow One Plus robot mower did a stellar job on my lawn but I won't ditch my riding-mower yet
The Lymow One Plus robot mower did a stellar job on my lawn but I won't ditch my riding-mower yet
Tom's Guide

Lymow One Plus robot mower review: Specs Connectivity: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 4G Cutting height: 1.2 to 4 inches Charging time: 120 minutes (10A charger) or 180 minutes (5A charger) As the weather warms up, it's time to get outdoors and tackle lawn…

jalopnik.com - Justin Hughes - Sorry, Humanoid Robots, You Can't Fly On Southwest Airlines Anymore
Sorry, Humanoid Robots, You Can't Fly On Southwest Airlines Anymore
Jalopnik

It seems that Southwest Airlines has adopted a similar policy as the Mos Eisley Cantina when it comes to droids: 'We don't want them here.' A recently released policy spells this out in no uncertain terms. Southwest Airlines does not allow…

hackster.io - The Credit Card-Sized Drawing Robot
The Credit Card-Sized Drawing Robot
Hackster.io

Drawing robots are usually pretty large, so you might see one sitting on a desk, but fitting one in a backpack or pocket isn't very realistic. This is because these machines generally work on principles similar to those of 3D printers. The motors…

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