Robotics

When researchers killed the middle module of EPFLs Mori3 robot — cutting all power, sensing, and communication — it kept walking. Neighbors shared everything. Thats the first time a modular robot got MORE reliable as it grew, reversing a decades-old engineering problem.

Swiss construction giant WALO has run monthly GCP-free surveys over a 50-acre earthworks site since adopting Wingtra. Field time dropped from 4 hours to 40 minutes per site — and the accuracy numbers actually hold.

The counterintuitive solution to home robot transparency? A second robot to tattle on the first one.

A former battery startup bankruptcy gave OpenAI a 202,000 sq ft site with 14,000+ amps of power — built for energy systems, not servers. That spec tells you what they are really building.

Unitree filed a 610M Shanghai IPO the same week Washington started closing the federal procurement door to Chinese robots. The prospectus was written before the door started closing.

A bill to ban Chinese robots from federal buildings moved through Congress. Days later, Unitree filed for a $610M IPO — betting international growth outweighs Washington risk.

A robot in a Martur Fompak factory spent two months taking orders from SAP’s AI middleware — over the public internet. The enterprise software industry calls this ‘physical AI.’ The cost critics call it a proof-of-concept. Maybe both.

Grabbing an egg without crushing it sounds trivial — it isn’t. A new Penn State sensor gives robot fingers pressure feedback precise enough to hold tofu or steamed buns without destroying them.

Imagine a rogue drone closing in. Now imagine another drone launching sideways to intercept it head-on. That's now a real product.

Congress just moved to ban Chinese robots from federal use — 6 months after researchers published exactly why that ban was needed.

"Humans prioritize reproducing a demonstrator's inferred goals over their exact movements." Robots just learned to do the same thing.