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At the top of the brief: Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design; MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star awards; Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses.
Our top story today: Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design. At the Robotics Summit & Expo, experts weighed in on humanoid robotics today — and the ability to achieve a $20,000 price point tomorrow. The post Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design appeared first on The Robot Report .
In our next story: MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star awards. Allison Okamura and Ayoung Kim won MassRobotics' 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star Medal, which honor women in robotics. The post MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star awards appeared first on The Robot Report .
Elsewhere in the sector: Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses. Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo , a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on experimentation. It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic. Yen-Ling Kuo Employer University of Virginia in Charlottesville Title Assistant professor of computer science...
Turning now to another development: Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors. 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 Enjoy today’s videos! We present MotionDisco, a framework that discovers contact-rich, long-horizon humanoid...
Also on the grid: Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo’s North American supply chain. The partnership focuses on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, where it moves products daily from site to site. The post Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo’s North American supply chain appeared first on The Robot Report .
In operations news: QCraft demonstrates urban NOA on Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon Ride chip, targets 2026 global mass production. QCraft has demonstrated its urban Navigate-on-Autopilot (NOA) system running on Qualcomm’s SA8650P Snapdragon Ride platform in production vehicles, putting the autonomous driving company on track for global mass production this year. The demonstration took place on June 5 at Qualcomm’s Automotive Technology and Cooperation Summit in Wuxi, China, where attendees took live test rides in […]
Looking next at deployment signals: The Role of RF Connectors in Robotic Vision, Sensor Communication, and Automated Inspection Systems. Robotic vision and automated inspection love to dress up as software victories. Fast GPUs. Smart models. Slick dashboards. None of that survives a dirty physical signal path. A camera can’t “compute” its way past a noisy clock. A sensor can’t “average” its way out of an interface that loosens after ten thousand tiny vibrations. This […]
Another item on the watchlist: Why Choose Solana for Blockchain App Development?. The reasons behind choosing Solana for Blockchain App Development. The next-generation decentralized blockchain, Solana, is going down the path of popularity. It’s a project which can be scaled and has multiple modern technologies. Solana was launched in 2017, it’s a secure and decentralized infrastructure that support numerous nodes without compromising performance. Furthermore, it is among […]
Finally today: 10 Best Traffic Management and Queueing Solutions for High-Traffic Websites in 2026. Watching a server collapse under the weight of an unexpected traffic spike is a highly specific kind of agony. You watch the analytics dashboard turn bright red, panic sets in, Slack messages pile up, and somewhere on Twitter (AKA, X) an angry mob starts forming. Traffic management beforehand is the only thing standing between a […]
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The Robot Report | 1h ago | Score 119.6756
Explore how GreyOrange's software revolutionizes warehouse automation with AI, transforming logistics into dynamic, predictive ecosystems. The post AI in Warehousing: Akash Gupta’s vision for the future appeared first on The Robot Report .
Robotics & Automation News | 2h ago | Score 113.6695
The internet in 2026 is not a level playing field. Depending on where your IP address is located, you might see an entirely different version of a website than someone sitting in New York or Chicago. Prices change. Search results shift. Certain content doesn’t load at all. And if you’re running automated research or data […]
The Robot Report | 3h ago | Score 117.6324
Allison Okamura and Ayoung Kim won MassRobotics' 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star Medal, which honor women in robotics. The post MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star awards appeared first on The Robot Report .
The Robot Report | 5h ago | Score 118.1008
At the Robotics Summit & Expo, experts weighed in on humanoid robotics today — and the ability to achieve a $20,000 price point tomorrow. The post Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design appeared first on The Robot Report .
IEEE Spectrum Robotics | 7h ago | Score 119.2934
Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo , a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on experimentation. It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic. Yen-Ling Kuo...
The Robot Report | 7h ago | Score 110.1039
The partnership focuses on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, where it moves products daily from site to site. The post Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo’s North American supply chain appeared first on The Robot Report .
IEEE Spectrum Robotics | 8h ago | Score 117.9049
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 Enjoy today’s...
Robotics & Automation News | 12h ago | Score 101.2656
QCraft has demonstrated its urban Navigate-on-Autopilot (NOA) system running on Qualcomm’s SA8650P Snapdragon Ride platform in production vehicles, putting the autonomous driving company on track for global mass production this year. The demonstration took place on June 5 at Qualcomm’s Automotive Technology and Cooperation Summit in Wuxi, China, where attendees took live test rides in […]
Robotics & Automation News | 12h ago | Score 97.8732
Robotic vision and automated inspection love to dress up as software victories. Fast GPUs. Smart models. Slick dashboards. None of that survives a dirty physical signal path. A camera can’t “compute” its way past a noisy clock. A sensor can’t “average” its way out of an interface that loosens after ten thousand tiny vibrations. This […]
Robotics & Automation News | 13h ago | Score 97.3474
The reasons behind choosing Solana for Blockchain App Development. The next-generation decentralized blockchain, Solana, is going down the path of popularity. It’s a project which can be scaled and has multiple modern technologies. Solana was launched in 2017, it’s a secure and decentralized infrastructure that support numerous nodes without compromising performance. Furthermore, it is among […]
Robotics & Automation News | 17h ago | Score 93.4859
Watching a server collapse under the weight of an unexpected traffic spike is a highly specific kind of agony. You watch the analytics dashboard turn bright red, panic sets in, Slack messages pile up, and somewhere on Twitter (AKA, X) an angry mob starts forming. Traffic management beforehand is the only thing standing between a […]
The Robot Report | 1d ago | Score 78.7729
The World Economic Forum has honored Hello Robot, whose Stretch system provides mobile manipulation to older adults and people with disabilities. The post Hello Robot is recognized by World Economic Forum as a tech pioneer appeared first on The Robot Report .
TechXplore Robotics | 1d ago | Score 73.1057
A new type of gamma-ray sensor developed by NASA, called AstroPix, will take part in a robotic arm demonstration on the agency's upcoming Fly Foundational Robots mission, set to launch in late 2027.
TechXplore Robotics | 1d ago | Score 66.1613
What's it like to play a physical game with or against a robot that both looks and behaves like a person? That's what NTNU researchers wanted to find out when they conducted a controlled laboratory experiment with Pepper, a social robot designed to interact with humans.
TechXplore Robotics | 1d ago | Score 64.3098
For remotely operated underwater vehicles, cloudy and turbulent waters are often a no-go. When vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that make it tough for onboard cameras to see through. Often, the only thing to do is wait until the marine dust settles before a vehicle can safely proceed.
Robotics & Automation News | 1d ago | Score 71.4373
Nvidia has unveiled a new software blueprint designed to give manufacturers a centralized AI system capable of monitoring, coordinating, and optimizing factory operations in real time. Announced at GTC Taipei during Computex, the Nvidia Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) is a reference design for building what the company describes as an autonomous factory manager agent. The […]
TechXplore Robotics | 1d ago | Score 61.9934
As robots increasingly move out of factories and into workplaces, hospitals, warehouses and public spaces, a simple challenge becomes increasingly important: helping people understand what those machines are about to do.
Robotics & Automation News | 1d ago | Score 69.2471
Visual Components, a specialist in 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming, has announced the release of Visual Components 5.1, a major advancement in factory simulation designed to enable manufacturers to manage the growing complexity of autonomous production environments. The new release introduces highly accurate physics simulation and scalable robot orchestration capabilities, enabling...
Robotics & Automation News | 1d ago | Score 71.9033
Frontier AI research lab Decart is aiming to bridge the gap between synthetic simulation and physical AI with the launch of its latest world model, Oasis 3. Announced recently, the new video output model was designed to accelerate the training of operating system models for robots and autonomous vehicles. The goal is to create intelligent […]
The Robot Report | 1d ago | Score 68.416
X Square Robot has open-sourced XRZero-G0, a framework that reduces real-robot training data requirements by up to 20x. The post Inside XRZero-G0, a new 2,000-hour open dataset for robotics research appeared first on The Robot Report .
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