David Kim

CMU Robotics Institute Challenges Teams to Navigate Without a Map

1 ឧសភា 2026

CMU's Robotics Institute strips ground truth from its Vision-Language-Navigation Challenge, forcing teams to build robots that reason from raw sensor data alone.

Starship's 10 Million Deliveries Mark a New Threshold for Physical AI

29 មេសា 2026

Starship Technologies has passed 10 million autonomous deliveries, marking a measurable maturity threshold for Physical AI systems in real-world commercial deployment.

1X Neo Pivots to Industrial: Home Humanoid Heads to the Factory Floor

28 មេសា 2026

1X Technologies is deploying its Neo home humanoid in factories and warehouses, raising questions about consumer humanoid market readiness.

Amazon Acquires Fauna Robotics in Second Humanoid Deal This Month

24 មេសា 2026

Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics, its second humanoid robotics startup this month, adding compact child-sized robots to a portfolio that already includes Agility Robotics' Digit.

Graphene Tactile Skin Gives Humanoid Robots a Human-Like Touch

23 មេសា 2026

Cambridge researchers publish a graphene-based tactile sensor in Nature Materials that detects 3D force, slip, and texture at human fingertip resolution — a key gap for humanoid robots.

Imitation Learning Goes Commercial: RoboTwin Lets Workers Train Robots in Minutes

23 មេសា 2026

Czech startup RoboTwin lets factory workers train industrial robots by physical demonstration in under a minute, no coding required — bringing imitation learning to SME manufacturers.

Stereolabs ZED X Nano: Wrist-Mounted Camera Benchmarked Against RealSense and OAK

23 មេសា 2026

Ouster's Stereolabs ZED X Nano delivers 1920×1200 stereo vision at 120fps with sub-millimeter depth accuracy and GMSL2 connectivity for robotic wrist mounting.

This Week in Robots: Atlas Bows Out, a Collective That Cannot Die, and a Home Robot That Folds Laundry

23 មេសា 2026

Atlas retires, an EPFL collective robot grows more reliable as modules fail, and Weave Robotics ships a laundry-folding robot to homes in February 2026.

What Happened When We Set Up a Robotics Lab in a Mall

14 មេសា 2026

The RAI Institute’s mall pop-up showed how direct robot interaction shifts public perception and acceptance across diverse environments.

GoZTASP: A Zero-Trust Platform for Governing Autonomous Systems at Mission Scale

14 មេសា 2026

GoZTASP is a zero-trust platform ensuring secure, resilient governance of autonomous systems across mission-critical environments.