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Deadline: Thursday Nov 5, 2026, 23:59 Africa/Cairo (UTC+2). Submit under the “Weekly Engineering Challenge: Robot Odometry Square” post at…...
Most robot videos are edited. A cut hides the failed grasp, a speed-up hides the hesitation, and the best take makes it online. At NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026, held from October 20 to 22 at Station-Berlin, we did the opposite. At Booth 3031 in Hall 3, liv...
Imagine a small robotic duck walking around your home, reacting to its surroundings, and even picking up small objects with its beak. When it simulates sadness, it lowers its head and makes soft, melancholic sounds. When it expresses happiness, it pr...
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AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions, helping robots understand their surroundings and plan tasks, and coordinating fleets of machin...
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This week’s roundup of data news from October 24 to October 30, 2026, features a robotics company collecting real-world data by paying people to walk robot dogs and a Microsoft initiative helping public libraries teach AI literacy....
Sebastian-Ion Nae has put two small neural networks on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, and published the project on GitHub. One network is a world model: given the current frame and an action, it predicts the next frame and the reward. The other is an actor...
Anne Trafton at MIT News reports on a robotic enteroscope built by MIT engineers to travel through the small intestine. The organ runs more than 20 feet and is about an inch across, which makes it hard to reach. The current option is double balloon e...
AI agents, verification, world models, and persistent memory are pushing AI beyond fluent answers toward systems that can act, check their…...
From humanoids to VLA robot arms, here’s everything a COO needs to know to get ahead of AI’s next breakthrough.
Nebius and Positronic launch the Physical AI Competition: from simulation to a real robot
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Future space missions could soon get a big leg up — or arm, rather — thanks to robotics developed by Rocket Lab in collaboration with NASA....
Swisslog Healthcare’s automated transport systems operate in more than 2,300 hospitals in North America, including 18 of the top 20 U.S. hospitals...
LONDON (October 29, 2026) — Shield today announced an agreement with Leonardo under which Leonardo will use Shield’s Hivemind software to further develop autonomy capabilities for integration onto Proteus, Leonardo’s autonomous uncrewed rotorcraft. T...
Shawn Hymel wrote a guide in Make: Volume 99 on training a two-wheeled balance bot with reinforcement learning instead of a classical control loop. The agent is trained with proximal policy optimization, or PPO, the algorithm OpenAI published in 2017...
If someone were to ask you to think about artificial intelligence (AI), what comes to mind? A robot? A brain or circuit icon? Maybe a company logo or a specific model?...
Picture about a thousand robot builders in one building, all very caffeinated. It was brilliant....
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4 as a research preview for trusted testers. The Genie 4 world model generates explorable worlds from text and image prompts in real time. It also generates the soundscape: ambient noise, music and character dialogu...
DOHA, Qatar (October 28, 2026) – Shield AI, a leader in AI-powered mission autonomy, and Barzan Holdings Joint Venture RBAT signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Milipol Qatar 2026 to explore the integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy s...
Google DeepMind introduced Genie 4 on Tuesday, a world model that renders interactive environments in real time with simulated physics, human motion, and native audio. The photorealistic demos are seriously impressive, but arguably the real draw for ...