In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at stealthily building humanoid robots, a way to triple wheat production and ...

Google DeepMind has announced the release of two updated AI models, Gemini Robotics 1.5 and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5, aimed at improving robots' ability to reason, plan multi-step tasks, and use online ...

Abstract: To assess the health condition of industrial robots roundly and make hierarchical maintenance decisions, a multimodel fusion health assessment method is proposed for multistate industrial ...

Amid a global robotics skills shortage, RoboDK, a company known for its robot programming tools, has launched RoboDK Academy: a free, self-paced online training platform designed to make industrial ...

Both of these models are built on the core Gemini family of models Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 is capable of reasoning and acts as orchestrator The Gemini Robotics 1.5 is a vision-language-action (VLA) ...

Chinese robotics startup Unitree has already iterated its algorithms several times this year and plans to release a 1.8-meter-tall humanoid robot in the second half of the year, Wang Xingxing, CEO, ...

Musk and company now position Optimus not as a niche robot experiment but as central to Tesla’s future, under the banner of bringing AI into the physical world (Master Plan Part 4). In September 2025, ...

The Trump administration has launched new investigations into imports of robotics, industrial machinery, and medical devices, signalling a potential expansion of the President’s tariff programme, ...

Abstract: Accurate 6D pose estimation of objects during robot grasping is a common task in robotics. It becomes even more challenging when the texture-less objects are situated in a complex ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it has opened new national security investigations into the import of personal protective equipment, medical items, ...

ABS, or Automated Ball/Strike System, is set to debut in 2026 and will be used if teams want to appeal a human umpire’s call of a ball or strike. Bondi and Patel Face Impeachment Threats See what ...

What happens when the fish that sustain a community start disappearing? Environmental activist Lamin Jassey shares how industrial fish meal factories are devastating local waters, livelihoods and ...