Robotics

The Terra A1 interceptor flies at 300km/h and costs $2,500. But Amazing Drones is building it to kill without a human in the loop. The Pentagon is already in talks to buy.

Robotics just quietly pivoted. These swarms don't think — they react, using tension stored in spring-loaded arms.

iPhones strapped to foreheads. Hundreds of shirt folds. $15 an hour. This is how Tesla trains its robots.

On the same morning Baidu announced driverless commercial operations in Dubai, passengers in Wuhan were trapped inside stalled Apollo Go vehicles for nearly two hours. The company calls it a system failure. No post-mortem has been published.

Robots can find their way around a warehouse — but what happens when two of them want the same shelf at the same time?

"You cannot deploy one without accepting the other" — the paper's own authors acknowledge the unsolvable tradeoff at the heart of their system.

The academic paper, Pentagon requirements, and commercial moves all arrived in the same 48 hours and they say the same thing about what the next generation of drone warfare looks like.

The robotaxi had one job: drive. When it stopped, its backup systems stopped too. Turns out the emergency button was just software.

Tesla told Congress its robotaxis can be remotely driven by a human operator. Every other AV company says that would be a failure. Tesla calls it a feature.

Brain Corp and Tennant have logged 250 billion square feet of autonomous floor cleaning across 37,000 robots. Now they are betting a new AI navigation system can make those machines 55% more independent.

These robots are soft, flexible, and could reach places rigid arms can't. The math held them back for 30 years.