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Japan’s Quiet Monopoly Inside Every Robot Joint
Two Japanese companies control roughly half the market for the mechanism that lets robots move, and Chinese suppliers are closing in fast.
Bits & Boxes: Where Intelligent Software Meets Physical Fulfillment: The Orchestration Gap
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts - Ars Technica
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...
A Goat-Headed Robot With a Chainsaw Is Actually a Great Idea - Yanko Design
The first time I saw Threehalves, I did a double take. Seven feet tall, four-legged, with a horned goat head and glowing eyes, it looks less like a piece of modern engineering and more like something conjured from ancient mythology. It's the kind of design that makes you laugh…
The University of Michigan put their entire robotics degree on GitHub.
Not one course. The whole curriculum. ROB 101 — Computational Linear Algebra for Robotics ROB 311 — How to Build Robots and Make Them Move ROB 501 — Mathematics for Robotics ROB 530 — Mobile Robotics Every
This Is Why America Can’t Have Robots And Other Nice Things
Every robot and drone runs on actuators — and China makes 90% of them. Inside the American startups racing to win back the motors the U.S. forgot how to build.
How Fast Could Robot Production Scale Up?
We look at reference classes, factory buildout timelines, and upstream component supply to estimate plausible production rates for humanoids, quadrupeds, robotic arms, wheeled robots, and drones.
Why Manufacturing Vision Is a Systems Problem, Not Just an AI Problem
Startup Stories | Keven Wang
Robots eat cars
Modern cars are starting to operate on robot architecture, and that foreshadows how such architecture will spread to every industry that moves physical things.
Beyond Hydraulics | The End Effector
Every excavator, crane, and forklift runs on hydraulics. RISE Robotics is building the electrified alternative.
Midea Built A Dr. Strange-inspired Multi-Arm Robot… Humanity Is Absolutely Cooked - Yanko Design
There is a moment in Infinity War where Doctor Strange fans out into a halo of spectral arms and every animator in the room probably high fived. Midea’s new Miro U looks like someone freeze framed that shot, printed it, and walked it down the hall to the robotics lab with the…
Robotaxis and Suburbia
Robotaxis are poised to further close the delta between suburbs and the city; the city (and Uber) might never recover.
Top 12 Robotics AI Blogs/NewsWebsites 2025
Discover the top 12 robotics AI blogs and news websites in 2025 featuring research, automation, industry, and innovation
Why It’s So Difficult for Robots to Make Your Nike Sneakers
Trump sees tariffs as a way to boost U.S. manufacturing, but Nike’s struggle to move production from Asia is a cautionary tale
Underground power lines robots
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus
Our favorite jumping robot is hoping for a trip to Saturn’s icy moon
How cuddly robots could change dementia care
Researchers are using AI and technological advancements to create companion robots
World’s first self-stabilising walking exoskeleton enters stroke rehab tria
Wandercraft's pioneering exoskeleton, the Atlante X, has entered a rehabilitation trial in Germany.
Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretching back decades.
What Robots Can—and Can’t—Do for the Old and Lonely
For elderly Americans, social isolation is especially perilous. Will machine companions fill the void?
Breaking Through the Uncanny Valley
In 1970 robotics professor Masahiro Mori observed, "Bbukimi no tani genshō," which was later translated into "uncanny valley". This refers to an observed phenomenon (first in robots, but also applies to digital recreations) that the more human-like the robot the greater the…
Helping robots avoid collisions
The startup Realtime Robotics, co-founded by former MIT postdoc George Konidaris, is helping robots solve the motion planning problem by giving them collision avoidance capabilities.
Open problems in Robotics
Robotics is one of those things the business funny papers regularly wonder about; it seems like consumer robotics is a revolutionary trillion dollar market which is perpetually 20-years away -more…
Full Page Reload
Minuscule camera streams video from tiny robots and live bugs
How robots can adapt to new tasks — quickly
New approach to meta-reinforcement learning minimizes the need for costly interactions with the environment.
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Pitt and CMU To Create Autonomous Robotic Trauma Care System
CMU and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to create an autonomous trauma care system that fits in a backpack — or, as shown here, a folded stretcher.
Rolls-Royce made miniature robot minions to perform jet-engine inspection
An innovation you'd completely expect from a Hollywood spy flick, Rolls-Royce has designed tiny robots called SWARM that get deployed within their jet engines to run reconnaissance and inspections. A part of RR's IntelligentEngine program, the SWARM get deployed into intricate…
Making useless things
Simone Giertz, bringer of joy and self-described expert in shitty robots, makes machines that succeed in failing. In her TED talk, Giertz talks about her path from “useless” things to e…
Little Sunfish: The Robot That Could - Longreads
How the best robot, "Little Sunfish," helped Japanese scientists understand the scope of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.