Research and Academia
RAI Institute Study: Driving Boston Dynamics' Spot Changes How People See Robots
A 10-week study of 753 mall visitors found that driving Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot for just minutes significantly boosted comfort and acceptance — even in homes and hospitals.
OpenClaw + UNIHIKER K10: Natural Language Hardware Programming in Minutes
Learn how OpenClaw enables natural language hardware programming on UNIHIKER K10, automating code generation, debugging, and deployment in minutes.
RoboMME Benchmark Reveals a Critical Weakness in Robot AI: Memory
A new RoboMME benchmark study reveals that modern robot AI still struggles with memory — an emerging bottleneck for generalist and humanoid robotics.
The World's Top 10 Universities in Robotics — And Why CMU Leads the Field
A strategic briefing on the world’s top 10 robotics universities, led by Carnegie Mellon University, examining institutional history, DARPA-era field deployment, commercialization models, and next-generation embodied AI infrastructure across MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, ETH Zurich, and others.
Columbia's Emo: Solving Robot Face Problem
Columbia's Emo robot breakthrough reveals why facial biomimicry is robotics' second hardest challenge. Analysis of tech barriers and 2028-2030 timeline.
Shubham Tulsiani Receives NSF CAREER Award: Teaching Robots to Learn from Videos
CMU's Shubham Tulsiani receives NSF CAREER Award for pioneering work teaching robots to learn manipulation skills from internet videos. Zero-shot learning breakthrough.
The 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers (AIS 2026)
The 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers (AIS 2026), 2–7 Aug 2026 in Jeju, South Korea — a global forum for researchers and industry experts on AI-enhanced sensing systems, transducers, and cutting-edge sensor technologies.
Eye Surgery Robot Achieves 100% Success Without AI Training
Ophthalmic surgical robots are diverging from general-purpose Physical AI. ARISE reveals why engineered autonomy fits clinical reality better than end-to-end learning.
ACIRS 2026
ACIRS 2026 is an international robotics conference in Hong Kong, bringing together research on intelligent robotic systems, AI, control, and real-world applications.
Robotics Science and Systems RSS 2026
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2026) is an international robotics research conference held July 13–17, 2026 in Sydney, Australia, featuring peer-reviewed presentations, workshops, tutorials, posters, and networking opportunities for robotics scientists and engineers
The E-Stop Paradox: Why the Red Button on a Humanoid Robot Might Be Its Biggest Safety Risk
Why the emergency stop button may increase risk for humanoid robots. An expert analysis of E-Stop design, safety standards, and controlled stopping.
Free Floating Ocean Robots Expose Weakening Carbon Sink
Free-floating ocean robots reveal weakening carbon sinks by tracking CO₂ and climate signals, offering new data on marine carbon cycling and environmental change.
Revolutionizing Robotics: LCE-Integrated Soft Skin for Enhanced Medical Applications
Discover a new class of millimeter-scale, fully soft everting robots featuring LCE-integrated skins for high-dexterity steering. This Science Advances study details how Liquid Crystal Elastomer actuators enable large bending angles and multi-point control for advanced surgical and industrial navigation.
AI-Embodied Flexible Electronic Robots Break New Ground in Miniature Autonomy
Explore how AI-embodied flexible electronic robots (FEBots) fuse sensing, actuation, and self-learning into tiny, autonomous soft machines that navigate complex environments with insect-like agility, pointing to future applications in search-and-rescue, inspection, and medical micro-robotics.
Death to Proprioception: How Vision-Only Robots are Conquering Spatial Generalization
A September 24, 2025 study by Spirit AI introduces the “State-free Policy,” eliminating proprioceptive inputs in visuomotor control to boost robotic spatial generalization. Using dual wide-angle wrist cameras and relative end-effector actions, success rates improved from near zero to 85% in real-world manipulation tasks.
Unitree G1 Security Assessment: Dual-Use Humanoid Robot Exposed as Surveillance and Cyber Operations Platform
Unitree’s G1 humanoid is flagged as a dual-use platform blending surveillance capabilities with cyber-enabled functions, raising security and ethical questions.
Robotics Mega-Conference IROS Returns to Mainland China After Two Decades, Highlights Rise of China's AI Research
IROS 2025 returns to mainland China, uniting global robotics and AI experts in Hangzhou and highlighting China’s surge in AI research and humanoid robotics.
Arm Prosthesis With Dexterous Control And Sensory Feedback Delivers Winning Performance At Cybathlon
An arm prosthesis with dexterous control and sensory feedback delivers winning performance at Cybathlon, showcasing advances in assistive robotics and human-machine integration.
Soft Electrohydraulic Flippers Enable Robot to Seamlessly Navigate Land and Water
Shanghai Jiao Tong University develops soft amphibious robot with electrohydraulic flippers achieving seamless land-water transitions and 5.9 cm/s swimming speed across -20°C to 70°C temperature range.
Robotics needs a service framework.
RSF defines a common language for robot service capability, lifecycle operations, certification pathways, and service-provider networks.
