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Beverly (Bev) Da Costa is the inaugural graduate from the Bachelor of Science in Robotics program. A mass email from the dean to the entire Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science felt especially personal to Beverly (Bev) Da Costa.  The email, sent by Martial Hebert back in 2023, announced the Bachelor of [...] The post Work Hard and Dream Harder appeared first on Robotics Institut…

Koreatown’s iconic 24-hour sanctuary is doubling down on self-care with the upcoming launch of Root Head Spa, a Japanese-style scalp treatment, alongside new high-tech wellness upgrades.

Two years ago, Colin Angle stepped down as CEO of iRobot , the company that he co-founded and the most successful home robot company the world has ever seen. Angle almost immediately founded a stealthy new “physical AI” company called Familiar Machines & Magic (FM&M), which in short order managed to attract a combination of exceptionally talented robotics folks, including Morgan Pope from Disney …

TL;DR I try to keep my eyes on the AI agents. I gave one too much rope once, and the kind of mess it made while I wasn't watching is something I'd rather not retell. Which is why I needed 5 monitors. To run 5 agents in parallel, 5 VSCode windows have to live in one field of view. Physical monitors hit a wall. No desk fits five; even my viewing angle gives out before the desk does. So I strapped o…

🧠 I Built a AI Assistant with Multi-Model Fallback, Voice Chat & a Personal Data Analyst — Here's How What happens when your AI goes down mid-conversation? You lose users. I built Hero's AI to make sure that never happens — and added a whole lot more along the way. Live Demo Have you ever used an AI tool that just... stopped working? Maybe it hit a quota limit, the API went down, or the model jus…

This robot from Shanghai moves, smiles, and holds eye contact in a way that made thousands of viewers deeply uncomfortable, and that was entirely the point.

A new robot could explore Mars faster than ever, scanning rocks for clues to life without waiting for humans. Exploring the surfaces of other worlds is a careful and time-consuming process. On Mars, communication between Earth and robotic explorers can take anywhere from four to 22 minutes. Limited data transfer capacity also restricts how much [...]

Every week someone posts a new "AI-powered project management" tool. It's usually a wrapper: you write a ticket, click a button, get a GPT summary. The AI is a passenger. I wanted something different. I wanted agents to be on the team — pulling tickets, doing work, posting results, and moving cards — the same way a human developer would. No manual bridging. No copy-pasting. No you as the glue. So…

Nature Communications, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72478-6 Robotic fish are shifting from engineering curiosities to experimental partners in biology. This Perspective highlights how adaptive, closed-loop robots enable controlled tests of neuromechanical, sensorimotor and social feedback underlying fish behavior.

I got tired of the alt-tab loop. Write a Blender script. Hit an error. Switch to a browser. Paste the traceback to Claude. Copy the fix back. Re-run. Repeat. So I built Claude Code for Blender , an extension that puts Claude in the Text Editor's sidebar with the active script as automatic context, scene-aware tools, and the ability to actually run the Python it generates. Here's what I learned bu…

I wanted my AI assistant to have a face. Not a chat bubble, not a cartoon avatar — something that feels alive on my desktop. So I built Cloe Desktop : a transparent, always-on-top window with a photorealistic character whose expressions are chosen autonomously by the AI agent based on conversation context. Here's what it looks like in action: The Core Idea Most "AI companions" are chat windows. S…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50389-2 An improved particle swarm optimization framework with Jacobian guidance for inverse kinematics of non-Pieper robots

GhostPilot: Build a GPS-Denied Drone Navigation Stack with Visual SLAM + Agentic AI "Fly to the third floor, check each room for occupants, land at the helipad." — What if your drone could actually understand this? By Aman Sachan | GitHub: AmSach/GhostPilot 🚀 What You'll Build In this comprehensive guide, you'll build GhostPilot — an open-source drone navigation system that: Works without GPS usi…

Learn how to build an automated aquatic monitoring pipeline using RF-DETR and ByteTrack in Roboflow.

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

In Germany, robotic AI dogs with the faces of tech's most powerful men are on the loose — courtesy of American artist Beeple.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 1…

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1X Technologies AS, the Norway-founded robotics startup backed by OpenAI, has opened a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to be among the first to build humanoids for consumers at scale.

A research group at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) will host the latest phase of the Vision-Language-Navigation (VLN) Challenge, bringing researchers together to enable robots to understand and act on human instructions in the real world — one of robotics’ most famously difficult pursuits.  This year’s challenge pushes beyond earlier versions by removing “ground [...] The po…