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Utopia Compression Brings Defense-Proven Drone Tech to Commercial Market

Utopia Compression, a Los Angeles company with over two decades of defense work, is marketing AI-based passive…

DRONELIFEOct 1, 2026

Comau validates MyCo robot in Decathlon e-commerce fulfillment

Comau designed and validated an order preparation solution tested within Decathlon's e-commerce fulfillment op…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 1, 2026

Unbox Robotics CEO: AI plus robots fix returns

Writing for Robotics and Automation News, Unbox Robotics CEO Pramod Ghadge said reverse logistics needs AI dec…

Robotics & Automation NewsOct 1, 2026

Hegseth sets up Autonomous Combat Force by October 1, 2027

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US will create an "Autonomous Combat Force" under a four-star officer…

Nikkei AI StocksOct 1, 2026

Anthropic: robots can do 74% of manual work, but only 0.3% is cheaper

Anthropic fed a database of roughly 900 occupations and about 19,000 tasks into its Claude AI, which sorted th…

GIGAZINE AIOct 1, 2026

Carbon Robotics unveils Large Plant Model trained on 150 million plant images

Carbon Robotics announced the Large Plant Model in February 2026, trained on 150 million-plus plant images, cu…

Zenn AI/MLOct 1, 2026

Caterpillar shows AI, remote control tech at Edwards

Caterpillar showcased AI and remote control technology at its demo center in Edwards

Top Companies AISep 30, 2026

Destro raises $8M to run robots — and humans — in logistics

Destro came out of stealth Tuesday with an $8 million seed round led by Base10 Partners and Bonfire Ventures…

TechCrunch AISep 30, 2026

Innodata opens Vicon-equipped lab for humanoid robot training data

Innodata opened a New Jersey motion-capture lab built with Vicon, whose infrared cameras measure movement at s…

The Robot ReportSep 30, 2026

Sakana AI's SAIL lifts robot task success to 73% via simulation rehearsal

SAIL generates a trajectory with a VLM, runs it in a simulator, scores progress from video, and sends the corr…

Qiita 機械学習Sep 30, 2026

Jev Has No Manufacturing Production Cases Yet, But 4 Uses Emerge

Announced September 15, 2026, judgment-focused AI "Jev" generated 5,416 related GitHub repositories in six day…

Zenn AI/MLSep 30, 2026

AI moves from screen to surgical robot

The Medical Device and Diagnostic industry is navigating regulatory changes as AI moves from screen to surgica…

Top Companies AISep 29, 2026

Daifuku targets 2030 humanoid demo, says CEO Terai

Daifuku CEO Tomoaki Terai said at the International Logistics Exhibition 2026 that the company is developing a…

Top Companies AISep 29, 2026

NXHD opens 2nd round of startup co-creation program for logistics

NXHD has begun accepting applications for the second round of its startup co-creation program, targeting AI an…

Top Companies AISep 29, 2026

Skydio unveils F10 Lightrunner, its first fixed-wing drone

Skydio announced the F10 Lightrunner on September 24, 2026 at its Ascend conference

DRONELIFESep 29, 2026

Matternet unveils M3 drone delivery platform, commercial service targeted for 2027

Matternet unveiled M3 on September 28, 2026 — a three-part system of aircraft, dock and drop-box portal, with…

DRONELIFESep 29, 2026

DevDay opens to protests over OpenAI's ICE contracts

On Tuesday, more than a dozen organizations — including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition and the Service…

The Verge AISep 29, 2026

DIU opens Low Cost ISR (LC-ISR) Challenge with $100 million prize

DIU launched the Low Cost ISR (LC-ISR) Challenge on September 29, 2026, with responses due October 14, offerin…

DRONELIFESep 29, 2026

Robot orders rise 6.6% in first half of 2026

The Association for Advancing Automation reported that robot order value increased 6.6% year over year in the…

The Robot ReportSep 29, 2026

NCSIST breaks ground on Minxiong drone park

Taiwan's NCSIST broke ground on the Minxiong Aerospace and Drone Industrial Park on September 28, with complet…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 29, 2026

Suitcase-shaped robot trial starts at Toranomon Hills

Mori Building and others demonstrated a suitcase-shaped AI robot in Tokyo on Monday that guides visually impai…

Japan Times TechSep 29, 2026

NVIDIA ships Isaac ROS 5.0 with AI agents built in

NVIDIA released NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0, an open-source robotics development environment that now integrates AI a…

AI Watch (Impress)Sep 29, 2026

Desynced sensor feeds can silently corrupt VLA and ADAS models

The article uses an Xpeng owner's Reddit complaints — Spotify streaming dropouts, mistimed ADAS alerts, and a…

Qiita 機械学習Sep 29, 2026

MicroIP Technology unveils AI drone system at 2026 Taiwan Expo USA

MicroIP Technology showcased its AI drone vertical mission system at the 2026 Taiwan Expo USA in Dallas, drawi…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 29, 2026

Japan to back AI and drones for bear tracking, Sasagawa says

Environment Minister Hiroyoshi Sasagawa said the government hopes to support municipalities using AI and drone…

Japan Times TechSep 29, 2026

Hello Robot's Charlie Kemp: Stretch robots help people live independently

Charlie Kemp, cofounder and CTO of Hello Robot, says a community is using Stretch robots as research and devel…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsSep 29, 2026

John Deere Brings AI, Automation to Farm Progress Show

John Deere is bringing AI, automation, and operator comfort to the Farm Progress Show

Top Companies AISep 28, 2026

Daifuku targets 2030 humanoid robot for full warehouse automation

Daifuku executive officer Yoshiyuki Aiba said at a media tour tied to the International Logistics Exhibition 2…

Top Companies AISep 28, 2026

NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform taps Gecko for robot AI controls

NVIDIA announced its Open Agent Safety Platform, made of the OpenShell open-source runtime and the Sentry refe…

The Robot ReportSep 28, 2026

Northglenn drafts Commercial Drone Delivery Hub rules

Northglenn's Planning Commission recommended a new "Commercial Drone Delivery Hub" land-use category on Septem…

DRONELIFESep 28, 2026

Musk: money may not matter, so study broadly

Elon Musk told China Media Group there will be "effectively universal high income" and money may "not even mat…

Fortune AISep 28, 2026

SoftBank Robotics launches Servi Q with 45cm aisle claim

SoftBank Robotics released the Servi Q serving robot in Japan, co-developed with Bear Robotics, with a 35cm-wi…

Impress WatchSep 28, 2026

For robots, mapping a factory floor is only the start

For autonomous robots, building the map is increasingly just the beginning

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 28, 2026

Yaskawa's MOTOMAN NEXT uses AI to mimic skilled welders

At the 2026 International Welding Show (Sept 16–19, Beijing), Yaskawa demonstrated its MOTOMAN NEXT-NHC12 robo…

ITmedia AI+Sep 28, 2026

NVIDIA: FANUC, Sony, 7 more on physical AI platform

NVIDIA announced in July 2026 that FANUC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kubota, NEC, SoftBank…

Top Companies AISep 27, 2026

ZEALS bets on mass-produced 500万円 humanoid robot

ZEALS, a Japan-based company, is pursuing a mass-production strategy for humanoid robots priced at 500万円, whic…

Nikkei AI StocksSep 27, 2026

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240 rollouts lift robot assembly from 24% to 88%

Dream Machines fine-tuned Physical Intelligence's open-source π0.5 model on an industrial assembly task; 240 h…

Exponential IndustrySep 27, 2026

HomeBody: GPT-6 Astra runs a Unitree G1 kitchen tidy-up

Researchers from Stanford and Caltech built HomeBody, letting a Unitree G1 robot autonomously navigate an unfa…

THE DECODERSep 27, 2026

John Deere Rolls Out New AI Assistant

John Deere introduced a new AI assistant, as reported by Lancaster Farming

Top Companies AISep 26, 2026

Toyota to invest 1 trillion yen a year from 2028, launches Toyota Robotics

At a Toyota Motor Europe investor briefing, CTO Hiroki Nakajima said Toyota will keep investing 1 trillion yen…

Top Companies AISep 26, 2026

McKinsey: Japan suppliers can cover almost all humanoid robot parts

McKinsey says Japanese suppliers can provide almost all key humanoid robot components, and demand for AI proce…

Top Companies AISep 26, 2026

Texas Instruments tipped as robotics winner on 2.2% yield

A Yahoo Finance contributor argued Texas Instruments, the analog chipmaker, will see huge demand as AI-powered…

Yahoo Finance AISep 26, 2026Also reported by Top Companies AI

Meink names FQ-42A "Vengeance," FQ-44A "Fury"

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink named General Atomics' FQ-42A "Vengeance" and Anduril's FQ-44A "Fury," with 150…

Yahoo Finance AISep 26, 2026

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus robots to replace them

The Information reported that Tesla factory workers in Texas and California wore special motion-recording suit…

Ars Technica AISep 26, 2026

GE Aerospace's $225 million lab upgrade lifts shares 0.9%

GE Aerospace plans to spend $225 million upgrading its Niskayuna, New York research center — about $150 millio…

Top Companies AISep 25, 2026

Motley Fool picks Nvidia over Tesla for robotics by 2030

The Motley Fool's writer chose Nvidia over Tesla for robotics upside by 2030, citing its 2026 GTC roster of AB…

Top Companies AISep 25, 2026

Caterpillar partners with FieldAI on physical AI

Caterpillar has partnered with FieldAI to advance physical AI and autonomous robotics

Top Companies AISep 25, 2026

Daifuku opens G Building, boosts cleanroom capacity 1.3×

Daifuku completed the G Building at its Shiga Plant mother factory on April 3, 2026, raising domestic cleanroo…

Top Companies AISep 25, 2026

Japan's physical AI chip market: three use areas in focus

A report published by Nikkei Comic News covers Japan's physical AI accelerator chip market, breaking it into e…

Top Companies AISep 25, 2026

ダイフク, JDSC tie-up tests AI self-controlled robot sorting

Daifuku and JDSC jointly developed an AI system that lets robots autonomously control and sort goods, and bega…

Top Companies AISep 25, 2026

Yaskawa, Kawasaki Heavy, Fanuc team up on physical AI data

Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Fanuc are joining forces in an unusual alliance to link their…

Top Companies AISep 25, 2026

Amazon to invest $100 million in Greenwood, Indiana factory

Amazon announced it will invest more than $100 million in a 585,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facilit…

The Robot ReportSep 25, 2026

Skyline Nav AI: 10,000 Pathfinder units a month, no GPS

Skyline Nav AI, a Massachusetts company founded in 2020 after a Pentagon call, has built GPS-independent drone…

DRONELIFESep 25, 2026

Intrinsic opens Intrinsic Core™ robotics platform

Intrinsic, Google's AI robotics group, announced it is making parts of its platform open source

RobohubSep 25, 2026

Mujin wins Japan Startup Award 2026 Grand Prize for physical AI

Mujin, a Tokyo robot-control software firm, took the Grand Prize at the government-hosted Japan Startup Award…

Nikkei AI StocksSep 25, 2026

Intel director: Physical AI advances as machines assemble car parts in under a minute

Intel's director discussed physical AI, business models, and robotics, noting autonomous intelligent machines…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 25, 2026

Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Action sets RoboLab-120 record

Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics model that takes multi-camera video feeds and predi…

THE DECODERSep 25, 2026

ITESO EPICS in IEEE team builds RoboMeshA mobile lab

Through EPICS in IEEE, a team of 15 engineering students, faculty advisors, and IEEE Guadalajara Section volun…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsSep 25, 2026

Shield AI, Waabi, GM join Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Leaders from Shield AI, Waabi, and General Motors will speak on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt…

TechCrunch AISep 25, 2026

DIGITIMES blocks IP 35.72.246.244 over unusual traffic

A request to a DIGITIMES page returned a notice saying traffic from IP 35.72.246.244 had been blocked temporar…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 24, 2026

Kalanick's Atoms raises $1.7 billion led by a16z

Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture Atoms has raised $1.7 billion in equity financing led by a16z, w…

Fortune AISep 24, 2026

CAMSENSE (06802.HK) IPOs in Hong Kong, 35.9% CAGR

CAMSENSE (06802.HK), an AI spatial-positioning and sensor maker, IPO'd in Hong Kong; its prospectus shows a 35…

Top Companies AISep 23, 2026

China's 15th Five Year Plan makes humanoids a priority

China's 15th Five Year Plan (2026-2030) makes embodied AI a top priority, with subsidies and humanoid training…

RobohubSep 23, 2026

AeroVironment: contracts stack, guidance stays put

AeroVironment's quarter brought confirming data — EHEL awarded, a LOCUST international sale announced, and Tit…

Yahoo Finance AISep 23, 2026

Intel's Puppala to make the case for open physical AI infrastructure at RoboBusiness 2026

Nagesh Puppala, Intel's general manager of physical AI and robotics, will give the talk "From Models to Machin…

The Robot ReportSep 23, 2026

NVIDIA's Isaac ROS 5.0 Brings AI Agents to Robotics

NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0, adding agentic workflows, Isaac Skills for setup and manipulation, and support…

The Robot ReportSep 22, 2026

Barbara Mazzolai pushes 'sustainability robotics' field

Barbara Mazzolai, associate director for robotics at the Italian Institute of Technology, published a manifest…

IEEE Spectrum RoboticsSep 22, 2026

Aaron Edsinger brings Stretch 4 to Disrupt 2026 stage

Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will demo Stretch 4 live on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunc…

TechCrunch AISep 22, 2026

AstroForge to fly Solo AI on 2027 Autonomy-1

AstroForge built Solo, a transformer-based autonomous control stack made in-house, to fly on Autonomy-1 in 202…

TechCrunch AISep 22, 2026

Patti Harrison: Tech Dreams Smashed by Capitalism

Comedian Patti Harrison told WIRED she was obsessed with sci-fi and The Matrix as a bored hillbilly kid, but b…

WIRED AISep 22, 2026

Anthropic builds San Francisco biology lab where Claude guides robots

Anthropic is building a biology lab in the San Francisco area, where Claude will guide robots through experime…

THE DECODERSep 22, 2026

Tesla audits China suppliers for Optimus mass production

Tesla's robot team ran intensive supplier audits across China's Yangtze River Delta last week, covering Ningbo…

DIGITIMES AsiaSep 22, 2026

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