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Researchers are investigating remotely guided insects as platforms for carrying small rescue and medical payloads. IEEE Spectrum describes a prototype built around giant burrowing cockroaches, with electronics used to direct their movement.
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This installment of IEEE Spectrum’s Video Friday brings together demonstrations involving Digit and other robotics projects. Its overview also highlights gripping inspired by koalas, robotic triage, restaurant work and grape harvesting.
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This technical feature discusses cable protection for industrial robots moving through complex three-dimensional paths. Repeated bending and twisting can put power lines, data cables and hoses under mechanical stress.
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Texas A&M researchers are developing RoboBall, an inflatable spherical robot intended to explore difficult lunar terrain. IEEE Spectrum describes Earth-based tests and a proposed mission concept in which a rover would release the ball near a crater.
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The proclamation sets a 100 percent duty on specified larger UAS, thermal-imaging UAS, docking stations, and critical components, and a 25 percent duty on listed UAS weighing 25 kilograms or less. It also authorizes an onshoring incentive program and possible later additions to the covered-component list.
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The bill would require national-security review of certain foreign-produced humanoid and quadruped robotics communications equipment and software for possible placement on the FCC's covered list.
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IEEE Spectrum’s weekly robotics video roundup features Microduck, a small expressive robot with walking and object-manipulation demonstrations. The collection also includes fish-inspired machines, grippers and other locomotion research.
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This Ollobot-sponsored article describes a shift from simple voice-command companions toward robots that respond to activity and social cues around the home. The company presents its OlloNi SS1 as a platform for more proactive interactions.
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China's industry ministry published a draft guide for a national humanoid robot standards system. The feedback period ended September 23, 2026; no final standard was identified in this review.
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IEEE Spectrum’s Video Friday contrasts striking humanoid demonstrations with the practical question of what useful jobs those abilities support. The collection also features learning from demonstrations, robot musicians and automation for heavy equipment.
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Researchers have developed Ice Dart, a drone with landing gear that can grip steep ice using small spines. IEEE Spectrum describes field testing on icebergs and a glacier in Iceland, where the system combined impact absorption with surface attachment.
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IEEE Spectrum examines Persona AI’s interest in shipyard welding as an early application for humanoid robots. The accessible overview describes a prototype learning welding as part of a broader heavy-industry focus.
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The Infantry Last Tactical Mile initiative targets robotic resupply, casualty evacuation and communications support.
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The proposal would require the Army to report by April 15, 2027 on efforts to produce, test and sustain autonomous maneuver systems and low-cost interceptors. It calls for information on domestic drone and counter-drone component supply chains, advanced manufacturing, test coordination and sustainment.
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The proposal would direct NIST to identify robotics data and supply-chain barriers, coordinate standards for emerging systems such as humanoids and swarms, and support workforce development. It also calls for federal reports on robotics adoption and greater licensing of NASA robotics technology.
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The amended proposal would direct the National Academies to begin a study of injury risks and other outcomes from AI-enabled toys within six months after enactment. It would also require the FTC and Consumer Product Safety Commission to submit a joint action plan within two years with recommendations on legislation, regulation, disclosures, standards, privacy, safety, reviews, and public education.
Read article →The proposal would establish an application and FAA-review process for standard or special drone flight restrictions near eligible facilities. Applicants would have to show that a restriction is needed for aviation safety, protection of people or property, national security, or homeland security, while the rule would identify operations permitted within a restriction.
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MIT researchers trained a dual-arm system to adjust assistance using demonstrations and force feedback. Initial tests involved healthy participants, not a clinical rollout.
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The proposal would require autonomous-vehicle operators to provide emergency-response guides and rescue sheets, maintain a round-the-clock responder hotline, follow emergency geofence notices, and meet future federal response standards.
Read article →The bill would establish a U.S.-Taiwan Blue UAS working group, a cooperative framework with allies, and an expedited certification process intended to expand secure, PRC-independent drone supply chains and integrate qualifying Taiwanese systems and components into U.S. programs.
Read article →The proposal would direct the Defense Department to establish or designate one or more national-airspace corridors for testing and training with small unmanned aircraft, counter-drone platforms, autonomy software, sensors, communications, navigation, payload integration, and other associated capabilities.
Read article →The proposal would direct NIST to establish a 12-to-20-member working group to study compound safety and security risks from advances in AI, sensors, robotic actuators, and simulation or digital-twin technology. It would develop voluntary best practices and consider analytical tools, benchmarks, and guidelines, with an initial public report due within 540 days after enactment.
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DARPA and the Air Force are testing AI flight control in VENOM aircraft with human pilots monitoring from the cockpit.
Read article →The proposal would require human command responsibility for military uses of force involving autonomous or AI-enabled systems, including identified commanders or operators, human oversight for intentionally lethal decisions, and independent target verification during the first five years.
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SceneSmith uses vision-language model agents to create more than 1,300 simulated scenes for testing robot tasks and action plans.
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Robot I/O, or RIO, offers a common interface for control, data collection and AI deployment across different robot platforms.
Read article →AV STEP would have been a voluntary program with reporting and public-disclosure requirements for participating automated-driving developers, manufacturers, and operators. That proposal is no longer pending.
Read article →A ministry initiative calls for testing humanoid and embodied AI systems in real industrial, service and specialist settings, with deployment validation targeted by the end of 2026.
Read article →The proposal would establish Defense Department policy and review requirements for autonomous weapon systems and AI capabilities. It calls for human judgment, life-cycle testing, legal and cybersecurity review, operator intervention, realistic operational evaluation, and recurring verification for covered systems.
Read article →The companion proposals would create a commission to study American leadership in robotics and recommend steps on competitiveness, national security, deployment, the workforce, and supply chains.
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