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AGIBOT says IDC data put its first-half 2026 humanoid shipments above 8,600 units, about 35% of a global market approaching 25,000 units.
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The International Federation of Robotics reports that about 7,000 full-size humanoids taller than 140 centimeters were sold worldwide in 2025 for commercial and professional uses beyond research and entertainment.
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The law adds requirements for remote-driver licensing, communications capacity, incident-technician dispatch, fleetwide failure notifications, emergency control of commercial autonomous vehicles, quarterly response reporting, and law-enforcement training.
Read article →The agency sought feedback on guidance for reviewing requests to deploy vehicles equipped with automated driving systems that do not meet every applicable federal motor vehicle safety standard.
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A UC Davis-led team built a 185-milligram soft flying robot that generated enough lift for takeoff and recovered after collisions, a flyswatter strike and extreme compression.
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ForceN founder Robert Brooks is scheduled to discuss force and torque sensing for humanoids at RoboBusiness in Santa Clara on October 20, The Robot Report reports. The session focuses on measuring contact forces and applying lessons from other robotics applications.
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Startup Flourish is preparing an initial batch of 50 wheeled home robots priced at $3,555, according to The Robot Report. Its proposed phone-based training interface lets owners demonstrate household movements for cloud-trained, task-specific skills.
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MIT engineers built a thin swimming robot whose light-sensitive muscle cells flap two gel fins, allowing researchers to control its direction and speed in water.
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An IEEE profile follows Charlie Kemp, Hello Robot’s cofounder and chief technology officer, whose work centers on mobile robots that can assist people in homes and workplaces. Kemp describes how collaboration with people with disabilities shaped the Stretch robot and why useful human interaction matters more to him than building a humanoid for its own sake.
Read article →AGIBOT says it and cookware maker ASD are placing 100 X2 humanoid robots in 100 Chinese stores as customer-facing sales assistants.
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China's national standards platform lists GB/T 48317.1-2026, Humanlike robot technical requirements — Part 1: General principles, as published on September 28, 2026 and scheduled to take effect April 1, 2027.
Read article →Researchers developed PRISM, a monitor that estimates whether a humanoid can move to a neutral position and stop safely without falling into people, obstacles or hazardous surroundings.
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IEEE Spectrum’s Video Friday features a small robot goose among a selection of robotics clips. Other videos cover drones, hands, locomotion, and home-robot ideas. This is a lighthearted roundup, so RobotMe’s summary describes the collection without treating every demonstration as a finished product.
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The draft recommends information for nonclinical and clinical testing and premarket submissions for teleoperated, software-controlled surgical systems that help practitioners position and control instruments.
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Researchers built an 11-centimeter frog-like robot whose twisted elastic rods store and suddenly release energy, enabling hopping, flipping and swimming with a small motor.
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An ITESO team in Guadalajara built RoboMeshA, a portable robotics and AI teaching platform for high schools that lack dedicated labs. Students can connect through a browser to control the robot and explore movement and obstacle avoidance. The project has produced two units, and the team is developing ways for multiple units to work together.
Read article →AGIBOT says more than 300 robots are being integrated into entertainment, education, visitor services and hotel operations at Chimelong Spaceship Park in Zhuhai.
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The International Federation of Robotics reports that China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 20% from a year earlier and equal to 59% of worldwide deployments.
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The bill would establish a competitive research and extension grant program for specialty-crop mechanization and automation, including prototype development, in-field trials, commercialization, worker training, and adoption factors such as autonomy and reliability. It proposes allocating $30 million in each fiscal year from 2027 through 2031.
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The proposal would require entities that develop or operate advanced artificial intelligence systems in the United States to include a technical capability for a human operator to shut the system down. It would direct the Department of Homeland Security to issue compliance regulations within 90 days after enactment.
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LAMP plans robot and object motions together so multiple robots can move items through cluttered spaces. Researchers demonstrated the system with robots transporting 12 objects in a changing workspace.
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A 60-task benchmark tests whether vision-language models can retain spatial, temporal and multi-goal information over an average simulated day. The best model reached roughly 50% success on the hardest tasks.
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Researchers built a four-wheel, camera-equipped robot that can follow mapped crop rows and capture views above and below soybean leaves. The disease-detection AI is still being developed.
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Arduino has opened preorders for VENTUNO Q, a development platform intended to combine local AI processing with real-time robot control, The Robot Report reports. The board pairs a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor with an STM32H5 microcontroller, separating computationally demanding AI work from time-sensitive motor and input/output tasks.
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Helicon Industries has raised $16 million in seed financing led by AlleyCorp to develop automated, high-volume composite manufacturing, according to The Robot Report. The startup is initially focused on carbon-fiber parts and is preparing a 36,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Torrance, California.
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RoboBusiness plans to open its second day, October 21, 2026, with a panel on the commercial readiness of humanoid robots, according to The Robot Report’s event announcement. Representatives from Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Persona AI and PSYONIC are scheduled to participate, with the publication’s Mike Oitzman moderating.
Read article →Qualcomm has agreed to acquire PickNik Robotics, the robotics-software company associated with MoveIt, The Robot Report reports. The transaction’s value was not disclosed, and completion remains subject to customary closing conditions.
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DirectHop uses a tiny motor instead of a spring to make repeated hops with centimeter-level height control, then shifts its weight to right itself after landing.
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Intel’s Nagesh Puppala is scheduled to discuss the infrastructure needed to turn physical-AI prototypes into deployable robotic systems at RoboBusiness, according to The Robot Report. The session is set for October 20, 2026, at 1:15 p.m. Pacific in Santa Clara, California.
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A forthcoming RoboBusiness panel will examine why robots that work in controlled environments can become unreliable outdoors, The Robot Report reports. Speakers from WiBotic, Burro and Nextpower are scheduled to join moderator Mike Oitzman on October 21, 2026, from 2:15 to 3 p.m. Pacific.
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