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What Amazon’s Astro Taught Me About Giving Robots a Soul

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 19, 2026

In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot. Astro used cameras and other sensors…

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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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PSYONIC partners with ABB Robotics to apply human touch to robot dexterity

The Robot Report·Jun 16, 2026

PSYONIC is combining its Ability Hand with ABB Robotics' GoFa cobot arm to apply data from prosthetics users to robotic grasping. The post…

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Trump to name James McDonald – one of his lawyers – as Wall Street’s top cop

South China Morning Post Tech·Jun 13, 2026

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he planned to appoint James McDonald as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York,…

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Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 13, 2026

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of dexterity an…

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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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Hello Robot is recognized by World Economic Forum as a tech pioneer

The Robot Report·Jun 11, 2026

The World Economic Forum has honored Hello Robot, whose Stretch system provides mobile manipulation to older adults and people with disabil…

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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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Daimon Robotics and Galbot jointly launches RobOmni for benchmarking tactile perception and dexterous manipulation

The Robot Report·Jun 8, 2026

Embodied AI is evolving from vision-centric perception toward Physical AI. The post Daimon Robotics and Galbot jointly launches RobOmni for…

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Video Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·Jun 5, 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 Talk Episode 159 – Robot sensing and manipulation, with Maria Koskinopoulou

Robohub·Jun 5, 2026

Claire chatted to Maria Koskinopoulou from Heriot-Watt University about autonomous robotic manipulators for surgery, industry, and beyond.…

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Festo launches lightweight pneumatic gripper and tests GripperAI

The Robot Report·Jun 3, 2026

Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training. The post F…

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ANSCER Robotics closes Series A round for industrial material handling

The Robot Report·Jun 1, 2026

ANSCER Robotics has raised $5.4 million to scale its hybrid industrial automation robots in North America and globally. The post ANSCER Rob…

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Learn about advances in robotic case and each picking

The Robot Report·Jun 1, 2026

Experts from Locus Robotics, Nomagic, and RightHand Robotics will discuss progress in piece picking in this week's webinar. The post Learn…

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This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 31, 2026

In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to bui…

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Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 29, 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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Handle with care: Soft robot gripper picks ripe fruit without bruising

Robohub·May 27, 2026

Cornell researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by to…

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A guide to Day 1 of the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo

The Robot Report·May 27, 2026

Today, the Robotics Summit & Expo will be full of insightful talks, hands-on robot demos, and interesting conversations. The post A gu…

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XELA Robotics to show tactile sensing at the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo

The Robot Report·May 26, 2026

XELA Robotics will show at the Robotics Summit & Expo its improved magnetic interference compensation and uSkin in the Universal Manip…

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Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 22, 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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Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 21, 2026

When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the…

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The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 21, 2026

This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics.A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench,…

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Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?

IEEE Spectrum Robotics·May 20, 2026

Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in ware…

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