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DEEP Robotics announced five embodied-AI research lines covering physical prediction, instruction-guided navigation and manipulation, policy training, spatial memory and robot-data evaluation.
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The Robot Report is hosting a webinar on October 27 about the practical effect of the FCC’s restrictions on certain new foreign-made advanced robots. Representatives of the robot makers Vecna and Locus, joined by an automation trade group, plan to discuss procurement, cybersecurity, supply-chain resilience, and long-term service. This item is an event announcement, not a report that the webinar has already taken place.
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Generative Bionics plans a 5,000-square-meter Physical AI Data Factory in Italy, targeted to open by the fourth quarter of 2027. It says fleets of its GENE.01 humanoid will work in recreated industrial settings to generate motion, contact, and other physical data; digital twins will extend the training and testing. AMD is named as the computing partner. The facility and later expansion sites are plans, not operating facilities yet.
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IEEE Spectrum’s Video Friday roundup features a quadruped using its feet to solve a Rubik’s Cube autonomously. The post also collects other robotics clips and brief editorial comments; it is a video roundup rather than a single research report. Watch the source page for the demonstration and the other featured projects.
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Dream Labs says it raised $90 million in seed funding and opened Dream API, which turns camera input and written instructions into robot actions. Its Dream-1 model is intended to transfer skills across different robots, beginning with gripper-equipped machines and tabletop tasks. Claims that it can control unfamiliar hardware without task-specific training come from the company and remain to be tested broadly by users.
Read article →AGIBOT released the fourth AGIBOT WORLD 2026 installment, pairing task-level questions with robot action trajectories for goals whose steps change with the scene.
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The order permits Intel to make specified hardware, software, and firmware changes to certain automated guided vehicles used inside its U.S. semiconductor-manufacturing facilities. The FCC said the limited relief is intended to avoid potential disruption to domestic semiconductor-manufacturing services.
Read article →If enacted, the bill would bar the Defense Department from new or renewed contracts for covered robotic systems after one year, restrict their operation in sensitive environments after two years, and phase out federal spending on their lease or operation. It defines covered systems to include specified China-produced quadrupeds and unmanned ground vehicles, certain LiDAR products, and other systems the Defense Secretary identifies under the bill's criteria.
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ETH Zurich researchers jointly designed living muscle tissue and soft hydrogel scaffolds, then built centimeter-scale biohybrid robots that jumped, swam, walked and grasped objects after electrical stimulation.
Read article →USC researchers built a four-limbed soft STARFISH prototype that can move slowly across a laboratory bench as they study future spacecraft inspection.
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Agricultural-equipment maker AGCO and Agility Robotics signed an agreement to pilot Digit humanoids at AGCO’s Hesston, Kansas, factory in 2027. The initial work is expected to include sorting and stacking parts and placing totes. The deployment is planned; the article does not report results from robots already working at that factory.
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This guide lays out the second day of RoboBusiness 2026, including a panel on the current state of humanoid robots, technical and business breakout sessions, demonstrations, and a closing keynote on robotic characters. It is an event schedule from October 21, so the times and registration details are historical rather than upcoming.
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Chery's AiMOGA Robotics opened global pre-orders for Mobo, a 22-degree-of-freedom humanoid positioned for elder companionship, children's interaction and whole-family assistance.
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Reservoir and Washington agricultural partners announced an incubator that will let robotics startups test with growers and researchers in orchards, vineyards, and berry fields. The project is meant to expose machines to difficult specialty-crop conditions and help address labor pressure. It extends Reservoir’s field-testing approach beyond its existing Salinas hub.
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Event organizer Arrowfly is renaming RoboBusiness as Robotics Summit & Expo West, with the first event under that name planned for October 2027 in Santa Clara. Its program will emphasize bringing commercial robots from pilots into scaled deployments, including fleet operations, support, and business strategy. A separate Robotics Summit & Expo Boston will retain a stronger engineering focus.
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The Robot Report opened nominations for its rebranded TRR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, formerly RBR50. It is seeking robotics advances made during 2026 in categories including Robot of the Year, applications, and AI use. The source page lists a January 2027 submission deadline and says winners will be recognized at the June 2027 Robotics Summit in Boston.
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Avenda Health added a Surgery Mode to Unfold AI, its prostate-cancer mapping software. The new view is designed to give surgeons access to 3D disease maps, MRI slices, and risk information during prostate procedures, including robotic surgery. The article cites research and company claims about possible clinical benefits; it does not establish that the update has improved patient outcomes in routine care.
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This October 20 guide previews the first day of RoboBusiness 2026 in Santa Clara. It highlights an opening discussion about robotics’ next two decades, sessions on data, autonomy, hardware, and startup development, and a closing panel on putting AI into production robots. It is an event schedule, so its session times are now archival.
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Gecko Robotics says the ceiling on its U.S. Navy and General Services Administration contract rose to $300 million from an initial $71 million. The company’s inspection robots and AI tools assess ship and submarine structures, including corrosion beneath deck coatings. A higher contract ceiling permits more work but does not mean the full amount has been ordered or spent.
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China's industry ministry says domestic manufacturers produced more than 40,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026 and forecasts full-year output above 100,000 units.
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Binghamton researchers showed that a hidden trigger in a compromised language model could alter a service robot's task plan, then tested PROTEA, a second model that checks each planned action against context for harmful behavior.
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NTU researchers developed a data-driven controller that learns an antagonistic soft robot's motion and stiffness behavior from less than eight minutes of self-generated movement.
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Sponsored content: PNY promotes workstations using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs for local AI development, data processing, simulation, and robotics workloads. The piece describes possible configurations and vendor-stated compute capacity. It is marketing material, not independent product testing or evidence of performance in a particular robotics deployment.
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Daimon Robotics is developing a connected set of touch sensors, data-collection tools, simulation methods and AI models for contact-heavy robot work, The Robot Report reports. The company says its approach is intended for tasks such as assembly and packaging, where a robot must respond to slipping or changing contact rather than follow a fixed path. At IROS 2026, it demonstrated applications including delicate handling and packaging broken glass.
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Kodama Systems says it raised $7 million to expand its forestry automation, bringing its total funding to $14 million. The company has shifted emphasis from wildfire-risk work in the western U.S. toward commercial logging in the southeast. Its system combines supervised autonomy with remote operation so people can handle difficult situations while machines perform more repeatable work.
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Agility Robotics cofounder Jonathan Hurst reflects on how Digit 5 differs from the agile robot he originally hoped to build. In his account, the newer, heavier design favors payload, safety, reliability, and manufacturability for warehouse work over graceful locomotion. It is a first-person perspective on engineering trade-offs, not an independent review of Digit 5’s commercial performance.
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The Robot Report published a guide to RoboBusiness 2026, held October 20–21 in Santa Clara. The program listed more than 40 sessions across AI, business and development, field robotics, humanoids and enabling technologies, alongside an exhibit hall and engineering presentations. Speakers were drawn from robotics companies, research groups and industry organizations.
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A Robot Report engineering guide explains that selecting a brushless DC motor for an arm or mobile robot requires more than matching voltage and power ratings. Designers need to calculate the mechanical load and consider the motor together with its gearbox, feedback sensor, drive electronics, brake and thermal path. Arm joints emphasize accurate low-speed torque and position control; mobile drives also need traction, braking and battery-efficiency analysis.
Read article →Sponsored content from Analog Devices argues that physical AI depends on more than a model that interprets images or text. Its white paper describes five connected layers—sensing, simulation, computing, connectivity and control—that must work together for machines to sense changing conditions and act in the real world. The article gives predictive maintenance as an example of the difference between fixed rules and adaptive decisions.
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IEEE Spectrum’s Video Friday collects short demonstrations of robots that connect, change configuration, or work in unusual settings. The post includes a clip of two small robots joining together, alongside other research and product videos. It is a curated video roundup, so the linked page is the place to see the demonstrations themselves.
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