Engineering News The Engineering category at The Robotics Media covers the technical side of robotics and AI: actuators, sensors, control systems, embedded software, simulation tools, and hardware design. Readers find reporting on new research from labs and universities, component and platform releases, and breakdowns of how robots are built and tested. Coverage spans industrial arms, humanoids, mobile robots, and the AI models that drive them.
EdgeCortix unveils RAIDEN, a 3.36 PFLOPS Physical AI chiplet platform — Sep 27, 2026 — Tokyo-based EdgeCortix has launched RAIDEN, a modular chiplet-based Physical AI accelerator peaking at 3.36 PFLOPS of FP4 compute, 256 GB memory and 6...Anduril's YFQ-44A Fury Fit-Checks Air-to-Ground Munitions for USAF — Sep 26, 2026 — Anduril has revealed that its YFQ-44A Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft has completed fit-checks with a full family of air-to-ground weapons, expandi...Proxima Fusion Commits €140M To Build Europe's First HTS Tape Plant — Sep 26, 2026 — Proxima's Lower Saxony MoU puts €140M behind a fusion-grade HTS tape plant to feed its Alpha demonstrator (20,000 km) and Stellaris power plant (40,00...memQ Open-Sources Distributed Quantum Compiler For Heterogeneous QPUs — Sep 26, 2026 — Chicago-based memQ released memQ DQC on September 24, 2026, an open-source framework for compiling and scheduling programs across networks of heteroge...FAA Launches SMART AI Air-Traffic Tool At Reagan, Dulles And BWI — Sep 23, 2026 — The FAA activated its $875M SMART AI air-traffic tool at Reagan National, Dulles and BWI on September 22, using 200 data streams to predict delays and...Otto Aerospace's Phantom 3500 Wins Fast Company Innovation By Design Award — Sep 21, 2026 — Otto Aerospace's laminar-flow Phantom 3500 clean-sheet business jet took a 2026 Fast Company Innovation by Design Award as the company advances toward...Joby Aviation Flies 3,100 Miles Autonomously Across The US In Defense Push — Sep 19, 2026 — Joby Aviation on Sept 18, 2026 completed what it calls the first autonomous flight across the United States, ferrying a converted Cessna Caravan 3,100...Air Force Sets December Emerald Flag As CCA Drones' First Live Kill-Chain Test — Sep 18, 2026 — The US Air Force will fly its YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A collaborative combat aircraft at Emerald Flag in December, the first end-to-end live kill chain with...Joby Launches First eIPP Flights In Texas With Fort Worth To DFW Hop — Sep 17, 2026 — Joby Aviation has begun the FAA's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program in Texas, flying its all-electric air taxi from Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airp...iGii Bags €26.5M To Commercialise Its Gii Carbon Nanomaterial At Scale — Sep 16, 2026 — Stirling-based advanced materials company iGii secured €26.5 million on September 16, 2026 to scale industrial production of Gii, a room-temperature-g...IonQ Debuts Superion 256, Its First Quantum Computer Built To Ship By The Hundred — Sep 10, 2026 — IonQ on September 8, 2026 unveiled Superion 256, its sixth-generation trapped-ion platform built on Oxford Ionics' Electronic Qubit Control and fabric...DIU And Honeywell Aerospace Flight-Test MagNav Quantum Navigation Over Pacific — Sep 9, 2026 — The Defense Innovation Unit and Honeywell Aerospace flew a magnetic-navigation quantum sensor on an Embraer 170 for more than four hours without GPS,...HyImpulse Bags €50M Series A Extension To Fly Europe's Hybrid-Propulsion Rockets — Sep 2, 2026 — JOIN Capital and Ace Capital Partners co-lead a €50M+ extension into HyImpulse, pushing the German launcher's total funding past €125M ahead of a seco...EHang EH216-S Completes First Public Pilotless Flight In Hong Kong Cyberport — Sep 1, 2026 — EHang's EH216-S became the first pilotless passenger eVTOL to fly publicly in Hong Kong, taking off from the Cyberport waterfront vertiport on August...TSMC 2027 Capex Seen Reaching $85 Billion As AI Capacity Strain Deepens — Aug 31, 2026 — Wall Street's most bullish TSMC 2027 capex model now points to $85 billion, up from Goldman Sachs' $78B forecast, as leading-edge AI capacity stays co...Electra, Helsinki, Haaga-Helia Sign MOU On EL9 Air Service To Tallinn — Aug 31, 2026 — Electra, the City of Helsinki and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences signed an August 27, 2026 memorandum to study EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-elec...MIT Wins $18M NSF Materials Research Center for Imaging, Metals and Chips — Aug 29, 2026 — MIT will lead a new $18 million NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, uniting 16 research groups across four institutions to tackle X...ESA Awards €544M European Launcher Challenge Contracts to Isar, RFA and PLD Space — Aug 29, 2026 — The European Space Agency signed inaugural European Launcher Challenge contracts on 27 August 2026 worth €543.6 million with Isar Aerospace, Rocket Fa...Tropical Depression Narra Grounds China's Chang'e-7 Moon Launch, CNSA Warns Slip Could Reach 2027 — Aug 24, 2026 — China's ambitious Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission was postponed after Tropical Depression Narra closed the Wenchang launch window, with Xinhua warn...Brookhaven, Stony Brook Open First U.S. Free-Space Quantum Link — Aug 23, 2026 — DOE Under Secretary Darío Gil cut the ribbon on a 13-mile free-space optical quantum link between Brookhaven National Lab and Stony Brook University,...