Solid Sands, an Amsterdam-based provider of compiler and library testing technology, develops tools and services for safety-critical software qualification. The company is preparing two webinars on robotics software infrastructure and C++ library qualification, with the first scheduled for June 24, 2026. The first webinar, titled “Fixing the Foundation First: Continuous Confidence in Robotics…
Researchers built Sashimi-Bot to master one of robotics’ slipperiest challenges.
In Shenzhen, workers at IO-AI Tech control humanoid robots using a VR rig reminiscent of Ready Player One.
A company with roots in Bitcoin mining says production has begun on the first wave of its humanoid robots, with plans to deploy 143 machines at an AI data center campus. There is just one problem: despite the bold claims, the announcement offers few of the details that would normally accompany a robotics project of this scale.
When Amazon acquired robotics company Kiva Systems for $775 million in 2012, the move was viewed as an ambitious attempt to improve warehouse efficiency. Fourteen years later, that experiment has evolved into one of the largest robotics deployments in commercial history. Amazon now operates more than 750,000 robots across its global fulfilment network and has […]
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Thundercomm has launched the TurboX C7790 development kit, a compact edge AI platform built around the Qualcomm Dragonwing Q-7790 (CQ7790S) processor. The kit offers up to 24 TOPS of AI performance and support for both Android and Linux operating systems. The development kit pairs a TurboX C7790 system-on-module equipped with 12GB LPDDR5X RAM and 128GB flash with a carrier board featuring a wide…
NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot in a half-baked press release for Computex 2026, with an “available-soon reference workflow” and availability sometime by the end of the year with the Unitree H2 humanoid chassis. One component of the kit that appears to be available now, albeit in limited quantity, is the Sharpa Wave high-end dexterous robotic hand with 22 degrees of…
The rare commercial humanoid deployment will target repetitive sorting and packing work at a Reno facility that saw a $40 million upgrade in 2024.
Sixfab has launched the AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, a PCIe HAT+ based on the DEEPX DX-M1 AI accelerator, which we also found in the DEEPX DX-AIPlayer, Mini DX-M1 SoM, and ALPON X5. Unlike the M.2 module used in the ALPON X5, the AI HAT+ has the accelerator soldered directly to the board. It connects to the Pi 5 via the PCIe FFC cable and draws power from the 40-pin header. The board is also…
LinkerBot makes dexterous robotic hands for as little as $600. It wants to become the standard for humanoids and automated factories—and eventually replace human labor altogether.
The HW1 by Gesture Platforms is a 10-degree-of-freedom (DOF) high-dexterity robotic hand and wrist built around an ESP32-S3 wireless MCU. It’s primarily designed for researchers, educators, and hobbyists; it bridges the gap between basic DIY robotic hands and expensive industrial models. The device weighs just around 500 grams but can handle a 1kg dynamic load and a 3kg static load. It…
Avaya and avatarin are expanding AI customer service beyond call centers with robots, kiosks, and AI agents designed for retail stores, airports, and other real-world environments.
The fulfillment provider is betting a unified tech stack and a new AI robotics lab can give independent brands a fighting chance against e-commerce giants.
Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.
A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.
The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.
DEEPX has just launched the DX-AIPlayer, an ultra-compact edge AI mini PC with an Intel Processor “Alder Lake-N” N97 SoC and the company’s DX-M1 M.2 AI accelerator module. The system is designed for real-time vision AI applications in robotics, smart cities, and factory automation. We’ve seen plenty of Alder Lake-N mini PCs like the Jetway B420UADN1, the Avalue EPC-ASL, the AAEON UP 710S, and…
China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.
Microchip’s LAN878x 100BASE-T1 and LAN888x 1000BASE-T1 Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) PHY transceivers are designed for secure, scalable, and deterministic Ethernet connectivity for automotive, avionics, robotics, and industrial systems. We first noticed Microchip SPE solutions in 2023 with the LAN8650/LAN8651 10BASE-T1S and LAN8770 100BASE-T1 transceivers, and they’ve launched other families since…
Renesas WS125-V2HRDKREFZ is a Robotics Development Kit (RDK) powered by Renesas RZ/V2H Arm Cortex-A55/R8/M33 microprocessor and designed for high‑performance AI vision applications leveraging the MPU’s built-in 80 TOPS (sparse) AI accelerator. The kit ships with 16GB LPDDR4, 64MB QSPI flash, a 64GB microSD card, and appears to be partially inspired by the Raspberry Pi 5 with a 40-pin Raspberry Pi…
congatec conga-TC300 is an entry-level edge AI COM Express Type-6 Compact module powered by 15W Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake” SoCs up to the Core 7 350 hexa-core processor. The module supports up to 64GB DDR5 SO-DIMM memory and features optional on-board UFS 3.1 storage, an Intel i226 2.5GbE controller, and two standard 220-pin board-to-board connectors exposing I/Os such as SATA, DDI and…
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence to advance AI-powered humanoid robots, intensifying competition among tech giants like Tesla and Amazon.
Unitree has extended its R1 dual‑arm humanoid robot family with new R1-A5 and R1-A7 models, which can be fitted with 2-finger grippers or 3 or 5-finger dexterous hands, and attached to a fixed base or a wheeled base for indoor mobility. The new robots appear based on the low-cost Unitree R1 platform launched last year, which can dance, walk, run, perform kung-fu moves, and chat with users, but is…
CEO Andy Jassy used Wednesday's earnings call to make clear that despite massive investments in warehouse automation, Amazon still sees significant room to grow its robotics operations.
Mayuka Taira, a professional table tennis player, lost to a robot called Ace in December 2025 and described the experience: "it is very hard to predict, and it shows no emotion. Because you can't read its reactions, it's impossible to sense what kind of shots it dislikes or struggles with." — Read the rest
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Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.
Tesla is in the middle of one of the most expensive bets in its history, pivoting to build AI-powered self-driving cabs and humanoid robots
Shenzhen Xiao R Geek Technology (XiaoR GEEK) SamuRoid is a 22-DOF bionic humanoid robot built around a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Designed for researchers, educators, and robotics developers, the robot combines a traditional Robot Operating System (ROS) environment with modern embodied AI capabilities. The concept of SBC-powered humanoid robots is not new, and we have previously seen similar robots,…
Waveshare UGV Beast is an off-road robot with tracked wheels designed for Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 SBC handling AI vision and strategy planning, while an ESP32 sub-controller takes care of motion control and sensor data processing. If the design feels familiar, it’s because it’s a variant of the UGV Rover unmanned ground vehicle we covered in 2024, which replaces the six wheels of the original model…
An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.