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NVIDIA’s Isaac ROS 5.0 release adds workflows designed for AI-assisted robotics development, according to The Robot Report. The company describes reusable skills for environment setup, manipulation and model fine-tuning, together with documentation intended to help software agents work with the tools.
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Barbara Mazzolai, a bioinspired-robotics researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology, argues that robotics should consider environmental effects throughout design and use. Her work has drawn on octopuses, plant roots, and seeds; her proposed “sustainability robotics” field asks engineers to reduce technology’s footprint as well as learn from nature.
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Intrinsic has released Intrinsic Core, an Apache 2.0-licensed collection of ROS-compatible capabilities for developing robotic applications, The Robot Report reports. The initial focus is commercial manipulation with robotic arms, rather than a general platform for mobile robots or humanoids.
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The proposal would restrict connected vehicles, automated-driving software, artificial-intelligence components, and vehicle-connectivity hardware associated with covered foreign countries or foreign entities of concern. The reported text includes phased implementation dates, exceptions, authorization procedures, and Commerce Department enforcement provisions.
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University teams brought autonomous overtaking to a road course at the Indy Autonomous Challenge’s Laguna Seca event. Unimore Racing won the final against Purdue AI Racing, with nine teams using a common AV-24 vehicle platform and competing through their driving software.
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Boston Dynamics has opened a permanent Atlas training and application-testing facility at Hyundai’s Metaplant America in Georgia. The center connects humanoid development to automotive manufacturing, using actual parts and workstations to collect training data and evaluate tasks.
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Researchers trained a morphology-aware locomotion policy on one quadruped design, evaluated it across seven simulated platforms and deployed it on real Unitree Go1 and Go2 robots without additional training.
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This analysis examines the less-visible end of a humanoid robot’s lifecycle: retirement and recycling. A robot combines sensitive stored data, batteries, actuators and complex structural materials, making decommissioning more involved than ordinary scrap processing.
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Hirebotics has introduced two ways to expand what its collaborative robots can handle: tracking parts on moving production lines and traveling along modular rails. The additions target jobs that do not fit neatly inside a stationary robot’s reach.
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The Robot Report’s podcast interviews Robo Inc. founder Teddy Haggerty about building businesses around the adoption of robots. The discussion follows Robostore’s development from equipment distribution into education and deployment support.
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The Robot Report says SoftBank has agreed to buy the Cambridge-based Robotics and AI Institute from Hyundai Motor Group, citing multiple sources. The report says the transaction is under U.S. foreign-investment review, with financial terms and the review’s progress not publicly established.
Read article →F-Prime Capital’s Sanjay Aggarwal and Betsy Mulé are scheduled to present the firm’s annual robotics investment research at RoboBusiness in Santa Clara on October 20–21, 2026. The session is intended to examine funding patterns and the technology categories attracting investor interest.
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IEEE Spectrum’s weekly video roundup opens with two birotor flying machines joining to act as a quadrotor. The collection also includes clips about robot assembly, manipulation, humanoid safety, and telepresence. It presents demonstrations and editorial observations rather than a single independently tested product.
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Neptune Medical announced U.S. FDA clearance for its Triton 1 robotic endoscopy system. The company designed the platform for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the colon, with the stated aim of improving instrument stability and physician control.
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Icarus Robotics has tested its free-flying JOY robot during a series of parabolic flights. The campaign evaluated manipulation, state estimation and flight control in brief periods of real microgravity, ahead of a planned International Space Station mission.
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This engineering explainer compares rack-and-pinion drives, ball screws and linear motors for long travel distances. It describes how each converts power into straight-line motion and why the right choice depends on the application.
Read article →The Robot Report tracked 162 robotics financial transactions in August 2026, totaling about $4.87 billion in disclosed funding and other capital. Its tally includes different types of transactions and excludes undisclosed amounts, so it is not a complete measure of all investment.
Read article →Arm has launched Total Design for Physical AI, bringing more than 80 companies into a collaboration program spanning computing, software and robotics. It also introduced a Robotics Capability Framework intended to give developers a shared way to describe robot capabilities.
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MIT researchers built a reconfigurable system that uses a robotic arm to assemble, align and dismantle tabletop optics experiments from standard components.
Read article →OLogic co-founder Ted Larson is scheduled to discuss egocentric robot learning at RoboBusiness in October 2026. This approach uses first-person human demonstrations, captured through tools such as wearable cameras and teleoperation systems, to help robots learn physical tasks.
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The Robot Report looks back at Agility Robotics’ development from Cassie to successive generations of Digit. Cassie began as a research platform focused on dynamic legged motion; later machines evolved toward performing useful work in customer facilities.
Read article →This VicOne-sponsored article argues that robot safety needs to account for malicious changes to perception and decision-making, not just broken hardware or accidental faults. An AI-controlled robot may behave incorrectly even when its individual components appear to function normally.
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IEEE Spectrum examines Agility Robotics’ Digit 5 through the question of safe, useful work alongside people. The accessible overview presents safety as a central part of the machine’s design rather than an afterthought.
Read article →InOrbit.AI has released OpenRobOps, an open-source foundation for robot operations and fleet management. The company describes it as an ISO 21423 reference implementation intended to support larger deployments and interoperability.
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The amended proposal would require the FAA to maintain a safety statement covering laws, operating qualifications, airspace restrictions, lawful-airspace checks, safety recommendations, and potential enforcement consequences. Small-drone manufacturers would provide the statement when an initial operator first activates a system, and the operator would acknowledge reading it.
Read article →IEEE Spectrum’s video roundup includes a humanoid tackling monkey bars, a demanding combination of perception and whole-body control. The demonstration involves reaching the structure, moving between bars and returning to the ground.
Read article →IEEE Spectrum explores efforts to give robot learning systems a more useful sense of touch. Vision can help a robot locate an object, but precise manipulation also depends on detecting contact, slipping and changes in force.
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An Army research showcase explored communication and coordination between people, aerial systems and ground robots.
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AGIBOT says its AGILE 2.0 control framework links visual perception, locomotion and manipulation in a real-time loop, demonstrated on X2 humanoids performing dynamic individual and multi-robot tasks.
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IEEE Spectrum reports on Vitestro’s Aletta, an automated blood-drawing device combining imaging with robotic needle control. The report describes U.S. authorization for adults in nonhospital settings and earlier European authorization.
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