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The Secret to Marathon-Winning Humanoid Robots
On April 19, 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the…
Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI startups
Pegasus and CYBERDYNE will invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems. The post Pegasus Tech…
With Central Asia rising, John Lee’s visit was well timed
In their 2022 book Sinostan, Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen saw Central Asia as China’s “inadvertent empire”. If that is true – and the…
Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors
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…
Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses
Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school…
How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science
Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in the Jet Propulsion Lab press room in Pasadena, Calif., waiting to see whether the Curiosity rover would…
Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics
This article is brought to you by AGILINK.Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one…
Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far
Much is new about this month’s upcoming FIFA World Cup tournament, which will be held in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It hosts more teams than ever before.…
Video Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs
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…
Energy now a focus of US-China contest of the century
Given that control over energy reinforces superpower status, the contest of the century has morphed into an intense rivalry between China, a rising…
Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark, and more
{"#text":"Microsoft Build 2026 kicked off with a keynote presentation that introduced some developer-focused Windows updates, an OpenClaw-based AI assistant…
Could you host ERF in 2029?
For those of us who have been longer on the planet than others, the years come and go with increasing speed. We are already into the second half of the…
Chinese archaeologist pleads guilty, firms flee Singapore’s costs: 5 weekend reads you missed
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This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size…
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
{"#text":"AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that…
IntBot and Certis Group partner to scale physical AI for enterprises across Singapore
Certis is collaborating with IntBot to add humanoids to its existing service robot offerings as the partners start to expand in Singapore. The post IntBot…
Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?
Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for…
Robots Could Turn E-Waste Into a Source of Legacy Chips
Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026. New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on products with non-removable…
What Makes a Job Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous?
For years, the field of robotics has used the terms “dull, dirty, and dangerous” (DDD) to describe the types of tasks or jobs where robots might be…
Video Friday: Heavy Robotic Machinery Operates Itself
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…
Emerson Expands Nigel AI Tool Across Software Suite
Company expects to evolve its AI tool for testing from an advisor role to eventually an agentic role.
Data centers are coming for rural America
{"#text":"At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 people - until a…
Automated Tire decloaks with new autonomous tire-changing SmartBay
Automated Tire says its SmartBay system enables one technician to supervise vehicle tire changing in up to three bays at once. The post Automated Tire…