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Latest Robotics news and analysis — 63 articles tagged Robotics on The Robotics Media.
- Agility Robotics Says Digit Won't Be Its Last Form Factor As It Weighs Wheeled Robots — — Digit maker Agility Robotics is quietly exploring wheeled robot form factors as CEO Jonathan Hurst argues customers need bots in operation now, not tw...
- Autonomous Racecars Overtake Each Other At Laguna Seca For The First Time — — Unimore Racing wins the Indy Autonomous Challenge at Laguna Seca as autonomous cars execute their first-ever overtakes on a road course.
- Google's Intrinsic Open-Sources Core Robotics Stack Under Apache 2.0 — — Intrinsic has released Intrinsic Core, a ROS-compatible open-source robotics software suite covering motion planning, grasping, calibration and simula...
- NVIDIA Ships Isaac ROS 5.0 With Agentic Workflows And 5.5x Faster Pose Tracking — — NVIDIA's Isaac ROS 5.0 adds AI-agent development skills, ROS 2 Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04 support, and a FoundationPose library that estimates object po...
- Icarus Robotics Flies ISS-Bound JOY In Weightlessness, Locks In May 2027 Launch — — Brooklyn startup Icarus Robotics flew its JOY free-flying robot through 66 parabolas of microgravity, clearing the last major hurdle before handing ha...
- ugo Unveils Nova Semi-Humanoid Robot, Mass Production Set for 2027 — — Tokyo robotics firm ugo has revealed Nova, a wheeled dual-arm semi-humanoid designed and manufactured entirely in Japan, targeting a 2027 mass product...
- Greenfield Robotics Opens Reg A+ To The Public After 82 Field Bots — — Greenfield Robotics launched a Reg A+ common-stock offering on StartEngine at $2.07 a share, six years after its first BOTONY robots went to work in c...
- Pentagon Sets 'GroundBreaker 1' UGV Demo For October Amid Robot Race — — The Defense Department will run its first joint UGV showdown at Camp Grafton, North Dakota in October, letting six vendors run Overland AI, HDT, Ameri...
- Skild AI Hits $100M Revenue Run Rate 10 Months After First Deploy — — Pittsburgh's Skild AI reveals a $100M annual revenue run rate and unveils S1, a video-taught robot foundation model built on NVIDIA infrastructure, te...
- Wing Claims Largest US Drone Delivery Network As Amazon Targets 500 Cities — — Wing says it is now the largest residential drone delivery network in the US after opening Greater Orlando with Walmart, while Amazon plots a sixfold...
- CATL Ships First Sodium-Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems In September — — CATL confirms its first sodium-ion battery energy storage systems will ship in September, targeting GWh-scale shipments by year-end as material costs...
- Waymo Adds Denver, San Diego And Tampa To Robotaxi Map, Now Live In 14 US Cities — — Waymo has begun offering public robotaxi rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, extending its commercial network to 14 US cities and rolling out the ne...
- Hivebotics Raises $6M Series A To Scale Abluo Restroom-Cleaning Robot — — Singapore's Hivebotics raised $6 million in a Vertex-led Series A to move its Abluo restroom-cleaning robot from pilot deployments into volume product...
- Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Orchestration — — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics ER 2, its embodied-reasoning brain that coordinates multiple robots, tracks task success and beats Opus 5, GP...
- Perplexity Ships Hybrid AI That Keeps Sensitive Work On Apple Silicon Macs — — Perplexity's Computer agent now hands sensitive steps to a locally running model on the user's Mac while keeping heavy reasoning in the cloud.
- NVIDIA Debuts Jetson Orin Nano 2 With 2× Inference, Wing And Matic Adopt It First — — NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles the inference performance of the previous Orin Nano at 40% lower power, with Wing, Matic Robotics, Cognex and Doos...
- Mint, Yunji and Rice Robotics Sign Service Robot Development Deal — — Mint's Axonex subsidiary signed a customized development contract with Beijing Yunji Technology and Rice Robotics to co-build a next-generation commer...
- Universal Robots Patches Critical PolyScope Flaw CVE-2026-8153 — — Universal Robots patched CVE-2026-8153 (CVSS 9.8) in PolyScope 5.25.1 after Claroty's Team82 found an unauthenticated RCE flaw in the Dashboard Server...
- SpaceX Hits 100 Launches for 2026 with Starlink 17-50 Flight — — SpaceX's Falcon 9 Starlink 17-50 launch from Vandenberg on August 18 marked the company's 100th mission of 2026, the third straight century year.
- Unitree Robotics Soars 629% in $66B Shanghai Trading Debut — — Unitree Robotics jumped 629% on its Shanghai Star Market debut, becoming China's first listed humanoid robot maker at a US$66 billion valuation.