Robotics & Autonomous Systems

3+ hour, 31+ min ago   (229+ words) On July 27, one day before the US ban, China's MIIT and its state assets regulator launched a program to move humanoid robots from testing into real-world factory operation at the 10,000-unit scale by end of 2026, a timeline that now runs…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago   (546+ words) Big Ideas in AI — Part 01 Inside the race to build machines that can imagine the future,... Tagged with ai, worldmodels, agentskills, machinelearning....

15+ min ago   (68+ words) A voice-controlled home robot that can navigate a house, switch appliances on and off, and hold a natural conversation in multiple languages has been built for less than 10,000 rupees — roughly one-fifth of the cost of comparable commercial systems. The robot,…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago   (691+ words) Every spacecraft that tumbles, spins, or reorients itself in orbit does so according to a property that engineers cannot afford to guess: the mass moment of inertia....

2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (83+ words) When the first fish lineage crawled onto land some 375 million years ago, its fins had to be remodeled into limbs capable of bearing weight. Evolutionary biologists have long focused on the genes that pattern the skeleton—Hox clusters, Sonic hedgehog,…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (80+ words) Despite a decade of breathless headlines about artificial intelligence, agricultural robots, and fully autonomous farms, the berries, avocados, oranges, and tomatoes stacked in market stalls around the world are still harvested, in the overwhelming majority of cases, by human hands....

7+ hour, 13+ min ago   (168+ words) Google mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly, reconstructing more than 166,000 individual neurons. Google's fully mapped fruit fly brain is barely a week old, and it's already been put to work doing what…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (702+ words) The Pentagon has moved directed-energy counter-drone systems into yearlong operational trials at U.S. military bases to assess their readiness for routine installation defense. The effort will... U.S. Begins Yearlong Directed Energy Counter-Drone Trials Across Five Military Bases. The Pentagon has moved directed-energy…...

4+ hour, 35+ min ago   (78+ words) Robots may soon be able to feel the world with something approaching the sensitivity of human skin, thanks to a flexible pressure sensor that borrows its cleverness from an unusual marriage of materials: tiny spherical iron particles and ultrathin sheets…...

5+ hour, 2+ min ago   (632+ words) Beneath many of the world’s cities and agricultural regions lies a hidden network of long-distance water conveyance tunnels, structures that move drinking water, irrigation supplies and hydropower flows across tens or even hundreds of kilometres. These tunnels are among the…...