Robotics

The companies completed a 'flight simulation' for decentralized swarm autonomy — but the gap between integration milestones and fielded capability in contested environments remains wide.

Three days before DJI, the world's dominant drone maker, was set to launch its first 360-degree FPV drone, the company filed a patent lawsuit in Shenzhen that could determine who actually owns the technology powering its biggest rival's flagship product. The lawsuit, filed against Arashi Vision ...

Waves of 12-15 jamming-resistant, homemade UAVs flew over Barksdale Air Force Base for nearly a week in March, forcing flight line closures. The DoD believes it was deliberate — and the incident reveals a counter-drone problem the military hasn't solved.

Drone swarms don't receive a steady stream of commands.

A $9 billion year for European deep-tech spinouts, a wave of robotics exits, and suddenly Europe's industrial heritage looks like a competitive advantage. But the people selling the story have skin in the game.

Researchers from Zhejiang University, Westlake, and Beijing AI propose VAMPO, a reinforcement learning approach to fix the 'looks right, fails anyway' problem in diffusion-based video action models.

The problem with robot navigation is that it's never really portable.

The safety problem in soft robotics has always had two layers.

Every soft robot ever built with integrated sensing has come with a hidden cost: before it could feel the world, someone had to teach it what its own body felt like.

A new framework called PhyGile tackles one of humanoid robotics' sneakiest problems: motions that look perfect on a human and faceplant on a machine. The robots keep falling.

Drone swarms have a communication problem, and the solution may be light. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a federally funded research and development center operated by MIT for the U.S.