Robotics

PhAIL puts robot arms through real warehouse tasks — bin-picking at speed, measuring failures — and the models so far are slower and more fragile than human operators. The field is still early, says its own founder.

Defense investors just poured $1.75 billion into autonomous boats. Now comes the hard part: proving they can actually be built at scale.

China built 10,000 humanoid robots. The same week, Washington moved to ban them from federal buildings. The robotics race just became a policy problem.

Tesla calls them robotaxis. But in documents sent to Sen. Ed Markey, the company disclosed that remote operators can take the wheel — at up to 10 mph. No other AV company in the investigation does the same.

Jumeirah Beach in Dubai: a family loads into a robotaxi, no driver, booked via Uber. The future Uber's betting on is already running.

A drone has been surveying a major German bridge every week — Skyports hasnt published any flight data. Heres what the BVLOS announcement actually reveals about the drone industry.

A wind platform off Norway now runs inspection rounds with zero personnel on site — and it's not a prototype demo, it's production.

Waymo has 70 remote workers watching 3,000 robotaxis at any given moment. Half are in the Philippines. That number — not the valuation or the airport launch — is the thing that scales awkwardly as the company pushes toward 1 million rides a week.

The engineers who built drones that had to survive 90mph indoor flight on live TV without crashing are now building combat systems for the U.S. military.

One seller told the Jerusalem Post shipping to Russia was “no problem” — the Mosquito SM200G, with AI targeting and 100-aircraft swarm capability, still listed on Alibaba weeks after China’s export controls and Alibaba’s own ban on military weapons.

Europe accounted for 45% of DroneShield revenue in 2025 — its top region — as the company posted its first-ever full-year profit, a A$3.5 million net result on A$216.5 million in total revenue.