20+ hour, 17+ min ago   (142+ words) Hangzhou’s Unitree Robotics posted a clip last week that looks familiar until you watch who is missing. A G1 humanoid in red boxing gloves squares off against a padded human trainer inside a ring. Stance changes, slips, straight punches, and body…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (164+ words) Researchers at MIT built ShiftLens so a printed chemical bottle can turn red and show an exclamation mark while its cap sits loose, then switch to green with a checkmark the moment you screw it down tight. The same printed…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (142+ words) Photo credit: The University of Queensland Australian researchers have fitted giant burrowing cockroaches with electrodes, cameras, and spring-loaded syringes so the insects can be steered like tiny remote vehicles and deliver medicine in places no human or ordinary robot can…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (142+ words) Finished on a new Guangzhou line, XPENG’s Iron stood up and walked away on its own. No remote pilot. No stage crew. Just a completed humanoid leaving the factory floor the way a car leaves a paint booth, only this…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (142+ words) Agility Robotics posted a short clip this week of Digit rearranging a room, dragging a couch and shifting chairs, bags, and household clutter as if the furniture were just another tote. That demo is the company showing off generalized manipulation:…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (294+ words) HopTo’s first machine, Hop-1, looks like a small quadcopter that grew a pogo stick. That extra leg is the whole argument. Continuous flight means the motors fight gravity every second the machine is aloft. Hop-1 spends most of its trip…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (142+ words) Chairs stay chairs. Tables stay tables. Anything that needs to become both usually grows hinges, motors, and a tangle of wires that quit the first time you twist the thing the wrong way. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (142+ words) Most fish-inspired robots arrive locked to one length and one job. Scale them up for a lake or down for a creek and the whole machine usually has to be designed again from scratch. Engineers working between NYU Tandon and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (142+ words) Galbot spent three years putting wheeled machines to work in Chinese pharmacies and convenience stores, picking products and handing them to riders on real shifts. In August the Beijing company, founded in 2023 by Peking University professor He Wang, rolled out…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (142+ words) Years of practice used to separate someone who could dig a clean trench from someone who left a messy hole. Excavator operators spend months, sometimes years, learning how two joysticks map to the boom, stick, bucket, and cab. Every small…...