Robotics and physical AI news
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Toyota estimates $6.4bn robotics spend from 2028
Toyota Motor estimates that expanding automation across its factories, group companies, and major suppliers could require around 400,000 robots and annual spending of about 1 trillion yen ($6.4 billion) starting in…
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Hello Robot to demo Stretch 4 home-assistance robot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Hello Robot CEO Aaron Edsinger will showcase the Stretch 4 robot on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The robot, launched in May, already sold out its first production run. Stretch 4 is a compact…
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Barbara Mazzolai proposes sustainability robotics field
Barbara Mazzolai, associate director for robotics at the Italian Institute of Technology, is advocating for a new research field called "sustainability robotics." In a manifesto published in Nature Machine Intelligence…
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Intrinsic Innovation releases Intrinsic Core open-source robotics platform
Intrinsic Innovation LLC announced Intrinsic Core, an open‑source collection of ROS‑compatible capabilities aimed at speeding robot‑application development. The company says the pre‑configured software environment runs…
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Boston Dynamics opens metaplant application center to train Atlas robots
Boston Dynamics announced the opening of its Robotics Metaplant Application Center (RMAC) at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America in Savannah, Georgia. Chief product and technology officer Zack Jackowski said the…
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Two birotors combine to form a quadrotor in Robotics Video
IEEE Spectrum’s weekly Video Friday showcases a short clip where two birotor units latch together and fly as a single quadrotor, illustrating a modular approach to aerial robotics. The roundup also features an ETH…
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Icarus Robotics tests free‑flying ISS robot JOY on 66 parabolic flights
Icarus Robotics reported that its free‑flying robot JOY completed 66 parabolas over four flights from Sept. 9 to 11, providing roughly two minutes of weightlessness. The tests focused on three core…
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Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5, a safer humanoid that crouches when humans approach
Agility Robotics introduced Digit 5, a 5‑foot‑11‑inch, 284‑lb humanoid designed for warehouse work without safety cages. The robot can lift 50 lb, reach shelves up to 7.2 ft high, and runs for about 90 minutes after a…
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Waymo plans Singapore ride-hailing launch for 2028 with Jaguar I-PACE fleet
Waymo announced on September 17, 2026, that it plans to launch a fully autonomous, commercial ride-hailing service in Singapore in 2028. The rollout is conducted in partnership with Singapore's Ministry of Transport…
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Vsim's fast simulator lets robot Freddo learn tasks in minutes, says founders
Vsim, a Cambridge start‑up founded by Michelle Lu and Kier Storey, has built a high‑performance robot‑training simulator that can run tens of thousands of simulations on the robot itself. The system lets Freddo, a…
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Figure unveils Helix 2.5 humanoid robot, achieving 56% zero-shot success in 30 homes
Figure announced its new humanoid neural network, Helix 2.5, on September 17, 2026. The robot was pretrained on the company’s Index dataset of human behavior and evaluated in 30 Bay Area homes that were completely…
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Arm launches Total Design for Physical AI, uniting 80+ developers
Arm Holdings has introduced Arm Total Design for Physical AI, a new initiative designed to foster collaboration among more than 80 companies across the robotics and physical AI ecosystem. The program aims to address…
1 sourceThe Robot Report -
OLogic CEO to discuss egocentric robot learning at RoboBusiness 2026
Ted Larson, co-founder and CEO of OLogic, is scheduled to present on the emerging field of egocentric robot learning at the RoboBusiness conference in Santa Clara, California, on October 21, 2026. This approach…
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New research highlights critical cybersecurity gaps in AI-driven physical robots
A new analysis from IEEE Spectrum Robotics argues that traditional functional safety frameworks are insufficient for modern Physical AI. As robots increasingly rely on multimodal sensors and large language models to…
1 sourceIEEE Spectrum Robotics
