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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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Video Friday: Your Robot Surgeon Will See You Now

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 17, 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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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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Hand, foot and mouth disease cases surge across Japan

Japan Times Technology·Jul 15, 2026

The number of patients has exceeded the nationwide warning threshold for the first time in two years as Japan enters summer, when cases typ…

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Trump administration turns over withheld evidence in Good, Pretti killings by agents

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 13, 2026

US President Donald Trump’s administration has turned over to ⁠Minneapolis prosecutors evidence it had withheld on immigration agents’ kill…

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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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Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

Robohub·Jul 13, 2026

By moving their hands and fingers, users can direct a robot to play piano or shoot a basketball, or they can manipulate objects in a virtua…

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Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 10, 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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Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing expressed regret after shooting, roommate says

South China Morning Post Tech·Jul 9, 2026

The former roommate of Tyler Robinson, who is accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, told prosecutors that Robinson e…

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ForSight Robotics’ road to performing a fully robotic cataract surgery

The Robot Report·Jul 9, 2026

ForSight Robotics' JASPER Platform assists surgeons with cataract surgeries, while still leaving the power in the surgeon's hands. The post…

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IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 7, 2026

Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics, writing…

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Tesollo initiates IPO process while developing humanoid hands

The Robot Report·Jul 7, 2026

Tesollo, a South Korean robotic hand specialist, has officially begun preparations for its initial public offering. The post Tesollo initia…

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Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

MIT Technology Review·Jul 7, 2026

Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hick…

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Humanoid says KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning approaches human-level dexterity

The Robot Report·Jul 5, 2026

Humanoid says its KinetIQ Ascend approach can reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond for industrial tasks. The post…

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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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Video Friday: An Earthbound Mars Rover for the Moon

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jul 3, 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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Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise

TechCrunch Robotics·Jun 29, 2026

The startup, Proception, is taking a unique approach to collecting training data to tackle one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.

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Video Friday: Give Robots a Hand

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 26, 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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Europe wants a new Plaza Accord for China – seriously?

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 26, 2026

Leaders of the G7 rich nations might have gone into this month’s summit in France hoping for a united front against China. But, overshadowe…

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Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants

MIT Technology Review·Jun 24, 2026

Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as people turn to fans and air-condition…

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Ultrasound imaging turns a robot hand into a skillful mimic

MIT Technology Review·Jun 23, 2026

Our hands are the nimblest parts of our bodies, coordinating 34 muscles, 27 joints, and over 100 tendons and ligaments to perform countless…

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Ex-lawmaker Ono found partly not guilty over slush fund scandal

Japan Times Technology·Jun 23, 2026

Yasutada Ono of the LDP was handed down a fine of ¥600,000 after prosecutors had originally demanded ¥1.5 million.

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Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation

The Robot Report·Jun 22, 2026

Cobot founder and CEO Brad Porter said Proxie Gen 2 can determine when materials are ready to move, identify destinations, and create tasks…

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Video Friday: Do Robots Even Need Legs?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 19, 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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