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Week Ends Aboard Station With Robotics, Spacewalk Reviews, and Science
Expedition 75 ended the week studying Canadarm2 robotic arm maneuvers and reviewing procedures for a spacewalk to support the removal and replacement of a space-to-ground antenna on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Science remained on Friday's schedule as the…
The Biggest Physical AI Opportunity Isn't A Robot
Brandon Barbello is co-founder and COO of Archetype AI, with over 10 years of product leadership across Fortune 500 and startups. If you were to picture physical AI, most people imagine the same thing: a humanoid robot walking through a warehouse…
Family plea to help Rickmansworth 97-year-old fix robot's ankle
Matthew Lockwood Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire The family of a 97-year-old man whose eyesight has deteriorated said he needed help to finish his latest project. Malcolm Stern, from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, began creating a…
Family plea to help Rickmansworth 97-year-old fix robot's ankle
The family of a 97-year-old man whose eyesight has deteriorated said he needed help to finish his latest project. Malcolm Stern, from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, began creating a humanoid robot after restoring his father's beloved classic car…
What Building Robots Taught Me About Writing Better Software
Shivansh Inamdar builds AI and manipulation software for autonomous warehouse robots at Nimble Robotics. Robotics isn't like most software. When there is a bug in your app, a page doesn't load, and a user gets frustrated. When there is a bug in…
Android Circuit: Pixel 11 Pro And Made By Google, Galaxy Z Fold8 Success, Honor Robot Arrives
South African comedian and writer Trevor Noah speaks while hosting the 'Made by Google' product launch event in New York City on August 12, 2026. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images) Taking a look back at this week's news and…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree powers up for stellar Shanghai debut
China's Unitree, the country's most high-profile humanoid robot maker, is widely expected to have an explosive stock market debut in Shanghai next week. The only question is — how frenzied is it going to be? SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT…
LG is getting into humanoid robots, and Nvidia is helping it build them
With time, more and more legacy hardware companies seem to be racing to bolt a humanoid robot onto their roadmap. The latest entrant is LG, joining the race with tentative timelines. The company's bipedal humanoid, built on Nvidia's robotics stack…
A Victorian Coffee Table Just Grew Robot Dog Legs
Most furniture sits quietly in a room and asks nothing of you. Alexandre Veillon's latest piece does the opposite. It crouches. It stares. It makes you feel like you walked into someone's living room and the coffee table is about to bark. The piece…
Quote of the day by roboticist Rodney Brooks: 'The visual appearance of a robot makes a promise about what it can do and how smart it is' - a warning about the misleading form of a humanoid robot
Humanoid robots are on the rise, with a slate of companies building several different prototypes. Whether they're designed to be on the production line or engineered to roam around your house performing various chores, different kinds of machines…
Netflix Orders YA Gothic Romance 'Sid & Zoey,' Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Bad Robot to Produce
In a competitive situation, Netflix has greenlit the YA romance series “Sid & Zoey.” The show hails from creator Jon Kasdan and writer John Shiban. Both also serve as executive producers and co-showrunners. Blumhouse Atomic Monster…
Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra review: the pool robot that actually sees what it needs to clean
AI Patrol targets visible leaves and debris Cleans floors, walls, waterline, surface debris, and sun shelves in as little as 20 cm of water JellyFloat simplifies retrieval after a cleaning cycle Top-load basket and ultra-fine filter make cleanup…
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot control systems entirely in virtual environments. The models then run reliably for hours on real hardware. The company's…
Better communication could improve human-robot teamwork across real-world tasks
A new paper from Monash University and Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, argues that effective human–robot teams depend on alignment: a shared and up-to-date understanding of each teammate's capabilities and limitations, the task…
Xiaomi's new robot vacuums have arrived with some clever maintenance-saving features
Xiaomi's new Robot Vacuum 6 series looks set for a global launch, with the Robot Vacuum 6, 6 Pro and 6 Max all now appearing on the brand's international website. There's no official pricing or regional availability just yet, but we shouldn't have…
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