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At the top of the brief: The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder; Teradyne Robotics sues JAKA over 3 Universal Robots patents; Swarmer to acquire Ukrainian UGV maker Ratel Robotics for up to $224M.

Our top story today: The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder. Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough The playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls and even questions the value of art in this sci-fi courtroom drama For play number 92, Alan Ayckbourn returns to his preoccupation of exploring where we as a species are heading through a science-fiction lens. He goes back to the future. In The Trial of Romeo Oscar, the playwright famed for his domestic comedies looks to the year 2194 when humans have spread about the galaxy and androids live...

In our next story: Teradyne Robotics sues JAKA over 3 Universal Robots patents. The lawsuit centers on three Universal Robots patents about robot interfaces, safety brakes, and joints. The post Teradyne Robotics sues JAKA over 3 Universal Robots patents appeared first on The Robot Report .

Elsewhere in the sector: Swarmer to acquire Ukrainian UGV maker Ratel Robotics for up to $224M. Swarmer, which has developed swarm software, plans to work with Ratel Robotics' unmanned ground vehicles in Ukraine. The post Swarmer to acquire Ukrainian UGV maker Ratel Robotics for up to $224M appeared first on The Robot Report .

Turning now to another development: Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video. Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn previously unseen, long-horizon tasks from a single video demonstration. The model, launched last week, uses […]

Also on the grid: Comau automates picking, handling, and palletizing for Decathlon. Comau's system incorporates its MyCo cobot, ROS2 software architecture, AI-powered vision systems, and a modular gripper. The post Comau automates picking, handling, and palletizing for Decathlon appeared first on The Robot Report .

In operations news: Robots Are Learning to Feel. Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress. This is now starting to change as academic labs and startups race to build new tactile datasets and techniques to put them to use. Over the last few years, vision-language-action (VLA) models have significantly improved the ability of robots to carry out complex tasks involving objects and...

Looking next at deployment signals: Humanoid robot learns to sprint and perform spin kicks using AI trained on human motion data. Humanoid robots, robotic systems with body shapes and limbs resembling those of humans, could potentially assist people with manual tasks in various real-world settings. So far, however, most of these robots can reliably perform only a limited set of movements.

Finally today: The future of robot-human collaboration. Humans are difficult to simulate. We are quick, complex thinkers, and our exact actions aren't predictable. So how can we sufficiently train robots to collaborate with us?

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