LiberAI introduces Liber-0, a world action model pretrained on more than 2.2 million hours of human experience to support zero-shot robot manipulation. In an evaluation of 60 tasks proposed by GPT-6, it achieved 36.0% overall success without robot demonstrations collected…
Wireless chargers are being deployed in a number of indoor and outdoor applications for charging the mobile robots. | Credit: WiBotic As robot fleets scale, charging becomes an operational challenge. Understanding how to optimize charging for fleets of mobile robots…
The new ISO 21423:2026 standard is intended to facilitate communications among different mobile robots. Source: mansyupasara AI, Adobe Stock As fleets of mobile robots grow, the need for interoperability among systems increases. The Association for Advancing Automation, or A3, yesterday…
Shareholders of Churchill Capital XI have overwhelmingly voted to approve a landmark $2.5 billion business combination with humanoid robotics pioneer Agility Robotics. This strategic merger paves the way for Agility to transition into a publicly traded company, providing crucial capital to accelerate the commercial deployment of its bipedal robot, Digit. Designed primarily for logistics and warehouse automation, Digit represents a major leap forward in practical robotics. The infusion of funds will enable Agility to scale manufacturing rapidly, meeting surging industrial demand and cementing its position at the forefront of the burgeoning humanoid robotics market.
Tutor trains its Sonny robot on real-world manipulation tasks. Credit: Eugene Demaitre Real-world data, human “tutors,” and simulation are all part of the recipe for training AI models to enable next-generation robots to tackle a widening variety of tasks. Tutor…
ThermAffyx both securely positions and warms patients during robot-assisted surgeries. Source: Gentherm Many healthcare advances come from within that industry, but innovations from other industries can also find a role. Gentherm Medical has designed its ThermAffyx Patient Safety System based…
October 2026 was a whirlwind month for the robotics industry. Last month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of RoboBusiness and announced that next year, the show will be rebranded to Robotics Summit & Expo West. In addition, prominent humanoid robot…
The Robot Report Podcast · What AgTech founders get wrong about ROI Connie Bowen, founding general partner of Farmhand Ventures. In Episode 268 of The Robot Report Podcast, our guest is Connie Bowen, the founding general partner of Farmhand Ventures,…
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VicOne identified an initial set of 28 zero-day findings in less than two days using AI-assisted research across software and tools supporting the Physical AI ecosystem. These include projects developed or maintained by Google, NVIDIA, and Meta, among others. Based…