robotics

{loadposition bannertop} {loadposition sidebarpub} Swedish Company Saab has unveiled the A3-001 unmanned fighter jet concept as a European counterpart to the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) effort, introducing an autonomous combat-drone concept designed to operate alongside Gripen fighters in heavily contested airspace. The aircraft is intended for suppression of enemy air de…

The addition of physical AI to the workforce requires more key performance indicators than throughput, according to the president of HireArt. The post Robots don’t run themselves: The workforce powering physical AI appeared first on The Robot Report .

Insider Brief Researchers led by the University of Hong Kong have developed a new benchmark for testing physical AI systems across both simulation and real-world robot tasks, finding that even the strongest models remain far behind human performance. The RoboDojo platform was developed by the Multimedia Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong, in collaboration […]

Scientific Reports, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-67953-5 Mapping and autonomous navigation of TurtleBot2 using hybridization of A* algorithm, DWA, and RatSLAM

Xiaomi's latest humanoid robot spent four months training inside an EV factory, revealing progress and remaining hurdles for industrial robotics.

China’s World Humanoid Robot Games are testing robots on hotel, household and library jobs that reveal how close humanoids are to real work.

Schaeffler is creating its strain wave gearboxes with a forming technology that will enable mass production of the components. The post Schaeffler plans to mass produce gearboxes for humanoid robots in 2027 appeared first on The Robot Report .

Teaching a robot to play Connect 4 using RF-DETR object detection, a 12ms negamax search engine, and Gemini Flash for live vocal roasts. Check out the setup guide and source code to build your own.

This article introduces a collaborative service where people and AI agents work together in the same space.

UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbeel reflects on the determination and curiosity that has propelled former students from his robotics labs to extraordinary achievements. The post Leaping robots, AI companies and a NASA mission: Stories of Berkeley student innovation appeared first on Berkeley News .

Nature Electronics, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01697-y The field of robotics continues to advance rapidly, creating new applications for the technology and new challenges for its successful deployment.

FRIDAY, Aug. 21, 2026 — The next time you roll up your sleeve for a blood test, the hand holding the needle may not be a hand at all.Federal regulators have authorized the first robot capable of drawing blood from a patient's arm on its own, with...

Nevada Engineering celebrated 28 rising sophomores completing the first Nevada Summer Engineering Academy, focused on robotics and nanofabrication.

Humanoid robots are moving out of the lab and into people's homes, from $30-an-hour cleaners to $20,000 domestic helpers. Tell us in our poll if you'd let one loose with a mop.

Raise Robotics has unveiled plans to develop shipbuilding robots specialized in coating applications. The systems are designed to coat large surfaces autonomously without crawling on them, and to operate with the certifications required for explosive atmospheres, including engineering toward ATEX Zone 2 requirements used in paint halls and other hazardous coating environments.  The ‘bottleneck is…