Robotics & Autonomous Systems

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (411+ words) China's tech-driven experiences are becoming a new draw for overseas visitors, with robots, new energy vehicles (NEVs) and autonomous driving technologies joining traditional landmarks on travel itineraries in Shanghai. At a robotics experience center in Shanghai, foreign visitors were wowed…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (498+ words) on October 12, 2026 An Indian defense technology startup, Decouvertes Future Tech Private Limited, has previewed the Vision Nano, a lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) weighing in the 250-gram class, with a 20-megapixel camera and a claimed flight time of up to…...

28+ min ago   (305+ words) Submitted 11 Oct 2026 A robot is told to “pick up the mug.” It must identify more than the mug. It needs a useful interaction region, and a prediction of that region is not yet an executable grasp. The mug is an…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (507+ words) A soft underwater robot inspired by a feather star can swim, hover and change direction using just two parts that drive its movement. Researchers hope the design will make underwater robots simpler while giving them a wider range of movements....

29+ min ago   (490+ words) Johns Hopkins University engineers have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart. The bots, designed to replace risky open-heart surgery and ineffective IV-drug therapy…...

9+ hour, 7+ min ago   (853+ words) 535 meters under the ice of Antarctica hides a world that few could imagine. Scientists have discovered an authentic “underwater city” made up of millions of fish nests, reaching an astonishing number: about 60 million. A discovery that turns this remote corner…...

42+ min ago   (172+ words) Global shipments of humanoid robots surged nearly 300 percent year-on-year to over 22,000 units in the first half of 2026, with Chinese companies taking the top five global spots, accounting for 86 percent of the total, led by Agibot, according to Counterpoint Research. Agibot…...

42+ min ago   (644+ words) The CEO of Chinese humanoid robot unicorn Unitree said on Thursday the industry is edging towards a "ChatGPT moment" for robot brains, after the company's blockbuster Shanghai listing crystallised China's ambitions to lead the next frontier of AI-powered machines. Shares…...

43+ min ago   (254+ words) Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics founder and chief executive Wang Xingxing expects the tipping point for large-scale commercial adoption of embodied intelligent robots within one to two years. Next year's GPT-7 is set to overcome current technical bottlenecks with global…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (696+ words) Drilling systems generate abundant predictions from sensors, physics-based models, digital twins, and artificial intelligence (AI), yet the step from prediction to engineering decision remains fragmented across modules and human expertise, and no established framework specifies how uncertain, heterogeneous predictions should…...