Swiss EPFL spin-off developing implantable neuroprosthetics (SENSY) to restore limb sensation in amputees and diabetic neuropathy patients.
RSF defines a common language for robot service capability, lifecycle operations, certification pathways, and service-provider networks.
UCL and HKUST researchers, plus robotics CEOs, challenged embodied AI hype at WAIC 2026, citing generalization limits and no third-party evaluation standard.
Siciliano's single-narrative counterpart to the Springer Handbook: kinematics through force control and visual servoing in one consistent notation. 4/5.
Your weekly robotics briefing: the US bans imports of Chinese humanoid robots, Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2, Unitree pushes toward its Shanghai IPO, and Amazon's Zoox wins approval for paid robotaxi rides.
The FCC's Covered List robot ban and a House-passed NDAA provision land within days of each other, while Unitree launches its $620M STAR Market IPO. A supply-chain and market-access update.
An AMR that lost localization broke nothing you can touch. Thrun explains Layer 4 faults: belief, Bayes filters, SLAM. Budget 12-15 hours.
AMR and AGV fleets are the biggest robot service market. Siegwart decodes the vendor manual: odometry, localization, cost maps.
The one book on the RSF Top 10 written for the shop floor, not the lecture hall: robot cell safety, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting.
Bolton's Mechatronics ranks No.1 for robot service engineers: encoders, drives, sensors and the Layer 2 faults most textbooks skip. Difficulty 2/5.
Robotics has a canon; robot service does not. Ten books scored on adoption, RSF layer coverage, field value and difficulty, plus six specialist picks.
At WAIC 2026, AI-native platforms quietly replaced interpreter hardware — what invisible AI infrastructure means for robotics and embodied AI.
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