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Times of India
Aug 26, 2026
A San Francisco resident paid $30 for a one-hour Tau Robotics humanoid cleaning visit. The robot vacuumed, made a bed, and cleaned a bathroom, but it was not fully autonomous: a trained human operator controlled it remotely with AI assistance.
The Robot Report
Oct 18, 2026
Practical guide outlining the key factors to consider when selecting a brushless DC (BLDC) motor for use in robotic arms and mobile robot platforms, including sensor integration and safety considerations.
The Robot Report
Oct 17, 2026
ADI published a whitepaper that explores the challenges and opportunities involved in transitioning ‘physical AI’ from laboratory prototypes into production machinery. The piece focuses on practical barriers to deployment and the business/engineering trade-offs of embedding AI in physical systems.
The Robot Report
Oct 16, 2026
Ben Waters argues that opportunity charging — topping up batteries during short idle windows — is becoming critical to keep autonomous robot fleets operating continuously, scalable, and operationally efficient.
The Robot Report
Oct 15, 2026
Agility selected Nyobolt to supply ultra-fast charging power technology for its Digit 5 humanoid; the supplied excerpt says this enables the robot to work up to 20 hours a day.
The Robot Report
Oct 14, 2026
RoboBusiness 2026 will feature a panel in which policy makers and technologists examine how to promote reshoring of manufacturing using robots.
TechCrunch Robotics
Oct 13, 2026
Industrial Next is focused on reducing robot reconfiguration time — aiming to let factory robots switch tasks in minutes instead of weeks — and helping manufacturers automate complex, delicate work that has traditionally required humans.
The Robot Report
Oct 13, 2026
Hello Robot and A&K Robotics will present on navigation in crowded indoor spaces at RoboBusiness. The excerpt frames the session around the challenge of moving robots out of controlled environments (like warehouses) and into everyday public settings.
The Robot Report
Oct 13, 2026
Promise Robotics signed a multi-year partnership with D.R. Horton to bring “physical AI” into homebuilding, according to The Robot Report. The deal pairs a robotics company with America’s largest homebuilder by volume to explore on-site robotic capabilities in construction.
The Robot Report
Oct 12, 2026
Daifuku executive Cecile Dick‑Calmes says success is no longer measured only by automation density or equipment utilization; instead real‑time execution has become a new competitive advantage.
The Robot Report
Oct 11, 2026
Argument that to move physical AI into sustained commercial use designers should prioritize practical, workflow-driven robot forms — what the author calls ‘boring’ robots — instead of flashy or novelty designs.
The Robot Report
Oct 10, 2026
The piece argues that dexterity is the next major challenge for physical AI and stresses that the whole system must be made reliable before dexterous capabilities can be turned into useful work.
The Robot Report
Oct 9, 2026
Examines why humanoid robot demonstrations often fail to generalize to new situations and argues that improved datasets and incorporation of human judgment are needed to move from demo-stage results toward reliable real-world performance.
The Robot Report
Oct 9, 2026
Coverage of Groceryshop 2026 highlighting mobile robots used for inventory and broader retail automation trends, and noting increased use of AI as the sector prepares to scale.
The Robot Report
Oct 8, 2026
SafeWorld has emerged from stealth with a simulation and testing platform intended to help enterprises evaluate robot safety and readiness before field deployment.
The Robot Report
Oct 6, 2026
Boston Dynamics has appointed Rohit Prasad — previously senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa and artificial general intelligence at Amazon — as its new CEO, per The Robot Report excerpt.
The Robot Report
Oct 5, 2026
The item reports that anticipated FCC restrictions are driving companies deploying physical AI to reassess which AI workloads run on robots versus in the cloud. It highlights rising requirements around security, safety, and supply‑chain transparency and suggests these pressures could accelerate a move toward local (on‑device/edge) AI for robots.
The Robot Report
Oct 4, 2026
A columnist argues that robotics and “physical AI” can and should be developed to address evolving cyber and physical security threats, with an emphasis on responsible deployment and governance.
The Robot Report
Oct 2, 2026
The piece previews Omron’s next‑generation LD mobile robots and emphasizes that software, safety, and fleet management are now as important as the robot hardware itself, according to a project manager cited in the excerpt.
The Robot Report
Oct 2, 2026
Researchers and practitioners from Eli Lilly and Purdue University will present field findings at RoboBusiness about how robots are perceived on the manufacturing floor.
The Robot Report
Oct 1, 2026
Vishay Precision Group (VPG) is presenting custom sensing solutions for humanoid robotics at RoboBusiness 2026. The announcement frames accurate physical feedback as increasingly important as humanoid platforms move out of research labs and into factories, warehouses, homes and other shared spaces.
The Robot Report
Oct 1, 2026
The piece highlights that a robot can correctly follow its programmed safety rules yet still behave dangerously if those rules act on manipulated or false inputs. It frames the problem, explains why conventional safety checks can be insufficient, and points teams toward strengthening testing and the evidentiary basis for safety claims.
IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Oct 1, 2026
Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot . The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Switching from research hardware to a scalable product makes previously ignorable questions suddenly paramount: how can you make a hand that does everything you need it to d
The Robot Report
Oct 1, 2026
Maven Robotics, after raising $100 million earlier this month, is aiming to mass produce a mobile manipulator as it pursues automating industrial work one task at a time.