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Ras Al Khaimah and Skyports to build four-vertiport air mobility network for 2027 launch ↗
Ras Al Khaimah Transport Authority (RAKTA) and Skyports Infrastructure (Skyports), a company specializing in the development and operation of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) infrastructure, have signed a binding agreement…
How Robotics Companies Turn Trade Show Booths into Product Demos ↗
Last year at a warehouse automation expo, I watched a crowd of forty people stand in a half circle around a single robot arm doing nothing.
U.S. Awards Amprius Up to $75 Million to Expand Domestic Drone Battery Production ↗
Federal grant will support conversion of an existing EV battery line to produce high-energy-density cells for Group 1, 2 and 3 drones Amprius Technologies (NYSE: AMPX) has received a federal grant of up to $75 million…
Lowe’s Launches Drone Delivery for Home Improvement Supplies ↗
Pilot with Wing and DoorDash brings tools, paint products and household essentials to customers near Charlotte in as fast as 20 minutes Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) has launched its first drone delivery service, offering customers…
What Can Cities Regulate About Drone Delivery? ↗
Colorado proposal focuses on launch hubs as FAA authority limits local control of aircraft operation The City of Northglenn, Colorado, is considering new rules for commercial drone delivery hubs as the industry expands…
Testing Electric Aviation for Rural EMS ↗
BETA Technologies, Metro Aviation and Washington County EMS test how electric aviation could support disaster response and medical operations in Texas BETA Technologies and Metro Aviation have completed an electric…
Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is October 2 ↗
The last day to book your Disrupt 2026 exhibit table is this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m.
How First-Person Video Could Become a New Data Source for Industrial AI ↗
Industrial AI has a data problem. Language models can learn from huge amounts of text, but robots and other physical AI systems need something harder to collect: examples of people completing real tasks in real…
Robonomics on the threshold: Economic autonomy, smart cities, and crypto wallets for humanoids ↗
Economics is both a robotics impetus and a constraint, as systems make deliveries on streets or do chores in households.
Raise Robotics to discuss scaling field robots at RoboBusiness ↗
Raise Robotics said attendees will learn a decision rule for allocating engineering capacity and a vocabulary for two hidden failure modes.
Small, medium or large, a robotic fish maintains its swimming ability ↗
The scalable robot ScaFi. 2026 CREATE Lab EPFL.
The Strategic Value of Infrastructure Management Services for Modern Businesses ↗
Infrastructure management service is a continuous technology capability that keeps an organization’s servers, networks, cloud resources, storage, security controls, and operational processes reliable, observable, and…
Wind-up elastic robot jumps forever when fed infrared light ↗
Robots – that is, self-guided mechanisms interacting with or changing their environments – exist in the popular imagination as large, blocky, metallic beings like R2D2 or TARS from Interstellar.
Center-Pivot System Modified to Mow Lawn ↗
When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted.
Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe ↗
Asimov's fictional Three Laws of Robotics famously set safeguards, and tech observers today raise similar concerns about AI.
FDA-cleared exoskeleton puts spinal-cord patients back on their feet ↗
A robotic suit that lets someone with a spinal-cord injury stand up, look a friend in the eye, or stir a pot on the stove without anyone's help just cleared its biggest hurdle.
Skylark Labs researchers develop AI system that enables robots to keep learning after deployment ↗
Most AI-powered robots effectively stop learning once they are deployed.
From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis? ↗
While robotaxis prove their driving ability, scaling the industry globally requires solving the unglamorous challenge of fast, local vehicle servicing.
The robotics engineer skill set is changing. Here’s what senior engineers need now ↗
By Jakub Tomaszewski, senior robotics engineer at SoftServe My path as a robotics engineer started in 2020, and while my introduction to the world of robotics wasn’t that long ago, the work I’ve done and the industry…
Tutor Intelligence unveils next-generation Cassie and Sonny robots ↗
Tutor Intelligence has unveiled new generations of its Cassie and Sonny robots, expanding the systems’ capabilities for material handling, e-commerce fulfillment and other industrial applications.
PAL Robotics launches standalone TIAGo Pro Arm for manipulation and physical AI research ↗
PAL Robotics has introduced the TIAGo Pro Arm, a standalone robotic manipulation platform aimed at researchers working on robot learning, artificial intelligence and physical AI.
Segway Navimow launches robotic mower with extendable cutting arm ↗
Segway Navimow has unveiled the H5 Pro, a robotic lawn mower featuring an extendable cutting arm designed to eliminate the strip of uncut grass commonly left along lawn edges.
Drone pilots can now analyze crashes and count crowds with SkyeBrowse app ↗
A drone can capture an entire crash scene or a packed event in seconds.
Physical AI in the real world: Four requirements for reliable robot manipulation ↗
By Thomas Houden, director of global business development, OnRobot Physical AI promises robots that can perceive, act and adapt in the physical world with far less task-specific engineering than traditional automation.
Why Entire Machines Depend on Something You Can Hold Between Two Fingers ↗
Industrial equipment can weigh thousands of pounds, generate enormous force, and perform work no person could accomplish alone.
Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility ↗
The new facility will produce products that power Amazon's fulfillment and robotics network across North America.
Inside a Truck Accident Investigation: Evidence, Fault and Damages ↗
McAllen sits at one of the country’s busiest freight crossings.
General Robotics is betting on modular intelligence, not one robot brain ↗
Rather than training one model to do everything, General Robotics composes specialized capabilities—helping robots adapt across tasks and form factors.
Plus One Robotics survey finds Americans want human oversight of humanoid robots ↗
Americans appear more comfortable with humanoid robots when trained humans remain available to monitor their operation and intervene when necessary, according to new research from Plus One Robotics.
Tiny robot developed at the University of Washington can ‘precisely control its jump height’ ↗
By William Poor, University of Washington As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the humble hopping robot.