Robotics and Autonomous Systems refers to artificial intelligence operating in physical environments through machines such as mobile robots and self-driving vehicles. Truncated covers hardware developments, software updates, safety regulations, and commercial deployments.
www.unite.ai — MIT and New York University researchers have developed FLEX, a system that uses conversational corrections to revise the environmental features guiding a robot’s movements. MIT announced the work on November 9, 2026, ahe...
investing.com — Chinese robotics stock surge on Apple robotics research
en.yna.co.kr — SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- Kakao Mobility, the ride-haling service affiliate of Kakao Corp....
Interesting Engineering — Six AGIBOT G2 humanoid robots completed 1,730 tasks in a 24-hour Shanghai store trial, but only four passed the final assessment.
Futurism — A delivery robot waltzed into traffic in Estonia, causing a collision with a bus that injured nine civilians.
Tech Xplore — Since the beginning of the year, the U.S. manufacturing industry has received trillions of dollars of investment from private companies, the federal government and foreign donors, with the manufacturing sector alone accounting for over 50% of private-sector research and development in the U.S.
Interesting Engineering — China's state-run media outlet Xinhua has unveiled the world's first bionic humanoid robots at a forum in Beijing Thursday.
huggingface.co — A Blog post by Ai2 on Hugging Face
Tech Times — AGIBOT GO-3 Preview is an embodied AI model that forecasts what its cameras will see next, then picks matching actions. AGIBOT unveiled it Oct. 29 in Shanghai and says it ranks first on RoboDojo, RoboTwin and RoboColiseum, but the rankings are company-reported, weights are not public, and China’s
Tech Times — Humanoid robots for power grid inspection are headed to German substations: E.ON, enviaM and NEURA Robotics said on November 5, 2026 that first practical experience on the MITNETZ STROM network is expected in 2027. The partners gave no robot count, site list or success threshold, so hearing and
Interesting Engineering — MIT's UQ-DAAAM system helps robots identify and correct unreliable object descriptions using multiple visual observations.
MIT Technology Review — The startup Tau Robotics is sending humanoid robots to clean San Francisco homes. They still need lots of human guidance, but they’re learning.
Tech Times — Realbotix Series 1 is the new name for Echo humanoid robots, but the terms are unchanged: a $199 deposit, a 50% invoice ($5,975 for the Tabletop) before building, and a monthly AI plan from $19.99. The Gadgeteer reports only the Vision plan runs speech and AI on the robot, while other plans use
Tech Times — Satellite servicing gets an indoor arm test in 2027, when Orbital Robotics flies AI-controlled arms to NASA’s Astrobee robot on the space station. The demo can test capture but not the control failure that ended the Swift rescue before any capture attempt. NASA’s Hubble servicing request closes
The Japan Times — Hiroshi Nakatsuka said he hopes to remove restrictions and collect data to allow for a swifter rolling out of self-driving technology in Japan.
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