robotics

A six-axis robot arm sitting on your desk used to mean five figures and a service contract. Chris Annin's AR4 quietly tore that idea up — and with the brand-new Mark 5 revision, he's calling the hardware officially finished. The AR4 is an open-source, six-degrees-of-freedom robot arm you build yourself from CNC-cut aluminum, 3D-printed parts, and off-the-shelf motors and electronics. It's the lat…

The UK keeps producing world-class technology, then watches many of its companies scale in America. Rory Daniels, Head of Emerging Technology and Innovation at techUK, joins Thinking on Paper to discuss whether the United Kingdom can remain competitive as quantum computing, robotics, photonics, AI and advanced computing begin to converge. The UK has strong research […]

You already run coding agents (opencode, Codex, Claude Code) in tmux on some remote box: a dev server, a cloud instance, a GPU node. They work. The problem is you : you're chained to a terminal to drive them. Start a task, wait, answer the agent's mid-run question, read the result. If you step away from the desk, the agent stalls on its next question until you SSH back in. From my phone, I wanted…

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of dexterity and other physical capabilities , it becomes more likely that humans may find themselves working alongside them. If that happens, how will robots’ emotional capabilities need to advance for them to successfully work with people? In a recent study, researchers tr…

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. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO En…

AI can read the literature in an afternoon and design molecules a chemist never would. So why can't a robot hold a pipette? The post Why Robots Still Can’t Do Science appeared first on Nautilus .

Engineers have invented an ingenious liquid-metal pump that could make future soft robotics and wearable devices much more portable and agile. The innovation, led by the University of Bristol and published in the journal Nature Communications, presents a low-voltage power source with the potential to transform robotic systems for a wide range of applications, from […]

Infinite Data Generation for Robotic AI We created the world's first game engine purpose-built for robotics. Lucky Engine spins up virtual worlds where your robot can try, fail and learn a million times then steps into reality already knowing the job. No hardware to break, no lab time to book, no waiting. A new game engine built from ground up by the Lucky Robots team This is not Unity or Unreal,…

Moon missions come in all shapes and sizes, from car-sized rovers packed with scientific equipment to towering rocket payloads—and now, a small, shape-shifting machine that is about the size of the average palm. When the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down on the lunar surface in 2024, a small rover called LEV-2 […]

NEURA closed a $1.4B record round, robots grew hands that can feel, and someone is racing to own the Physical AI ecosystem. Value Description $1.4BN NEURA Series C record $55.8B Raised in robotics 2026 75 DoF Sharpa Wave + Unitree 20x Less real-robot data needed The Week Physical AI Got a Sense of Touch, a Record Check, and a Platform War Three days. Three storylines that change different parts o…

“Helping to run the Caltech Robotics Team has given me so much experience. One day, I was walking around campus with my friend, and we went down to the Guggenheim basement and saw a big logo that said, ‘Caltech Robotics Team.’ We didn’t even know a robotics team existed on campus. I had a chance to chat with the previous president, and she said they had trouble recruiting people after COVID. I be…

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy. What Attendees will Learn Why the senior care crisis exceeds incremental automation. Demographic pressure, workforce shortages, and a daily wellness-programming gap all strain traditional care models. What defines a wellness robot as a cat…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-56020-8 Autonomous pathfinding for underactuated AUVs using FDHNN

(BBC) – While many companies are building autonomous humanoid robots for factories, homes or companions, Foundation claims it is the only US firm developing them specifically for a broad range of defence applications. That includes support roles like supply pickup, … Read More

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.

As NASA plans long-term missions on the Moon, the agency could use robots to perform routine tasks, allowing crew members to dedicate more time to science and exploration. However, robotic motion control requires complex technology and advances in features like robotic decision-making and object recognition. These are the challenges a Boulder, Colorado-based robotics company is […] The post NASA …

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly skilled at understanding the world around it, but new research suggests it still has a major weakness: reading human facial expressions. Researchers at Cornell University have been exploring ways to give robots greater social intelligence so they can work more effectively alongside people. Social intelligence allows humans to read facial […] The po…

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi analyze how AI-enabled FANUC robots could transform automation, additive manufacturing, and factory intelligence. The post Google and FANUC Want to Build the First Truly Intelligent Factory Robots appeared on Fabbaloo .

Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.