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Imagine a robotic pet that recognizes your voice the first time you speak to it and remembers who you are the next time you meet. Researchers in Spain have developed exactly that—a rabbit-shaped robot named Mía that can identify people simply by listening to them speak. The robot was created by scientists at the Universidad […] The post Meet Mía: The robotic rabbit that learns your voice after ju…

Project Log #9: My AI Agent Works on My Phone. But What About Yours? Okeke Chukwudubem Okeke Chukwudubem Okeke Chukwudubem Follow Jun 20 Project Log #9: My AI Agent Works on My Phone. But What About Yours? # ai # webdev # programming # productivity 1 reaction Add Comment 3 min read

Day 9. Template matching works. But screen sizes, resolutions, and Android versions might break everything. Eight days ago, the agent was an idea. Now it can read text, handle interruptions, and find icons on a screen. But there's a question I've been avoiding: does it work on any phone other than mine? The Cross-Device Problem Every screenshot I've taken, every icon I've cropped, every coordinat…

It’s standing room only for the Husky Robotics team meetings. As the UW’s largest registered student organization, it routinely receives hundreds of applications for only 40 spots.

Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers. Go, which went public Tuesday, plans to use the ¥88.6 billion […]

Hyundai's move to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million is not just cleanup from an old deal. It gives Hyundai full control of one of the few humanoid robotics companies with real factory work in sight. Hyundai Motor Group is expected to approve the purchase on June 22, closing out SoftBank's last piece of Boston Dynamics and turning the Waltham, Massachusetts r…

Harvard researchers found that adding a little randomness to robot movements can prevent gridlock and dramatically boost efficiency in crowded swarms. Imagine a swarm of robots sent into a tight space to handle an urgent job, such as cleaning up an oil spill or assembling complex equipment. At first, adding more robots speeds things up. [...]

Researchers built Sashimi-Bot to master one of robotics’ slipperiest challenges.

Nature Communications, Published online: 19 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72485-7 Viscoelastic contact underpins the use of Koopman operators with sufficient accuracy to control inputs. This enables the convex Model Predictive Control of a legged robot, and the real-time control of a manipulator engaged in dynamic pushing.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO IR…

In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, their first consumer home robot . Astro used cameras and other sensors to map and navigate your home and workplace , and could proactively patrol, check up on loved ones, and transport small items using its built-in cargo bin. While there was a well-defined feature set and form factor, initially there was no character directio…

the heading make the project look simple but it is not but it is not too hard. before heading into the problem i am facing lemme tell you the rough idea. i have some sensors which i am going to connect with whicarduino board and later get data from those sensors and use a model to recogonize the... Read more

PSYONIC's prosthetic touch data is now training ABB robots. Gatik signed the first Fortune 50 commercial autonomous freight contract with PepsiCo. Burro drove Physical AI onto the construction site. Experts set $20k as the humanoid price target. And someone just called Edge AI the Windows of robotics. This week, Physical AI crossed three invisible lines at once. A company that makes prosthetic ha…

A local-first, single-file SPA where multiple agents debate your decision and hand you a verdict. The problem: every AI I asked just agreed with me I almost named this project wrong. I'd picked a name that sounded powerful. I asked ChatGPT, and it loved it. I asked Claude, and it nodded along. Nobody warned me about the trademark conflict, the wrong search intent, or the SEO fight I'd pick with t…

The three-day event will give approved participants access to modular electronics for building AI systems that use sensors, cameras, motors and other physical components. Axiometa and Anthropic are accepting registration requests for a London embodied AI hardware hackathon running from July 17 to 19 Axiometa and Anthropic have opened registration for a London hardware hackathon focused on embodie…

(Futurism) – Humanoid robots are, by definition, pretty extreme. Requiring top-of-the-line batteries, a high-degree of mobility, and a very accurate visual interface, there are few more instantly-recognizable feats of human engineering. It makes sense, then, that one of their main … Read More

by Andrew Moseman Robots have a way of inspiring far-out science fiction–inspired thought experiments. Can a robot perform heart surgery? What are robot dogs even for? Should we be afraid of a dystopian AI future like the one featured in the Terminator movies? Aaron Ames, Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, and Aerospace, loves these future-facing qu…

Imagine a surgeon being able to “step inside” a digital version of a patient’s body — studying organs, tissues, and complex structures, rehearsing procedures, and evaluating possible approaches before performing the actual operation. The integration of robotic surgical assistants (RSAs) in operating rooms offers substantial advantages for both surgeons and patient outcomes. Currently operated thr…

Description A prototype four-wheel rover developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with advanced mobility and robotic autonomy capabilities trundled across the Colorado Desert near Plaster City, California, during a field test in March 2026. Called ERNEST (Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain), the rover served here as a testbed for autonomy software developed for […]