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This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 17, 2026

Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics…

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How to Make an Invisible Drone

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 16, 2026

There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of thi…

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The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel

MIT Technology Review·Jul 15, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of t…

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PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light

MIT Technology Review·Jul 14, 2026

The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside wi…

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Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 13, 2026

This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large mode…

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Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 10, 2026

Borys Drozhak has a vision: a frontline almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robots, and continuously monitored by…

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Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

TechCrunch Robotics·Jul 8, 2026

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models lik…

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ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics partner to simplify robot programming

The Robot Report·Jul 8, 2026

ENCY Software and Stäubli Robotics have signed a global agreement to make robot programming more intuitive, faster, and more accessible. Th…

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Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup

TechCrunch Robotics·Jul 8, 2026

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models lik…

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Quantum Systems raises $1.2B to expand drone production and deployments

The Robot Report·Jul 6, 2026

Quantum plans to use the proceeds to expand production capacity, strengthen supply chain resilience, and more. The post Quantum Systems rai…

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Japan Pioneered Humanoid Robots—Can It Now Catch China?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 4, 2026

“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This pre…

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Central Asia’s republics are no longer the chess pieces of empires

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 1, 2026

When people speak of the Great Game, they usually mean the 19th-century rivalry between the British and Russian empires for influence over…

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General Intuition raises $320M to use video game data to train robots

The Robot Report·Jun 26, 2026

General Intuition is using video game clips with embedded action labels to speed up AI training for robotics. The post General Intuition ra…

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Venezuela earthquakes draw aid from governments that cut ties with Caracas

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 25, 2026

Venezuela has received offers of rescue teams and humanitarian aid from across the Americas, including from right-wing governments that had…

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Super Mario is mathier than you think

MIT Technology Review·Jun 23, 2026

Here’s a problem you probably didn’t solve in school: You’re an ambitious young plumber from Brooklyn in a world inhabited by violent human…

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‘Lying flat’ goes mainstream, Singapore mall finds God: 5 weekend reads you missed

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 22, 2026

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like…

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The Secret to Marathon-Winning Humanoid Robots

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 17, 2026

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…

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Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI startups

The Robot Report·Jun 16, 2026

Pegasus and CYBERDYNE will invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems. The post P…

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Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 12, 2026

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elem…

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Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 12, 2026

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…

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With Central Asia rising, John Lee’s visit was well timed

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 12, 2026

In their 2022 book Sinostan, Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen saw Central Asia as China’s “inadvertent empire”. If that is true –…

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Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 9, 2026

This article is brought to you by AGILINK.Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in V…

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How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 9, 2026

Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in the Jet Propulsion Lab press room in Pasadena, Calif., waiting to see whether the Curio…

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Why this year’s World Cup ball may not fly as far

MIT Technology Review·Jun 8, 2026

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 th…

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