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RobotToday Initiative
Robotics needs a service framework.
RSF defines a common language for robot service capability, lifecycle operations, certification pathways, and service-provider networks.
ROBOTTODAY Weekly August 3 – 7, 2026
This week in robotics: Unitree prices its Shanghai STAR Market IPO with DeepSeek taking a strategic stake, the FCC expands its foreign-robot ban as China threatens retaliation, BMW commits to Figure 03 humanoids, and Zoox goes paid in Las Vegas. August 3–7, 2026.
WAIC Review 3/4: What Scientists and Skeptics Really Think About Embodied AI: The Sober Voices at WAIC 2026
UCL and HKUST researchers, plus robotics CEOs, challenged embodied AI hype at WAIC 2026, citing generalization limits and no third-party evaluation standard.
Handbook of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics and Motion Control Thor I. Fossen — RSF Specialist Shelf · Book S1 of 6
Added mass, wave loading, DVL navigation: the marine GNC reference for USV, ROV and AUV service engineers. The hardest book on the RSF list, 5/5.
Small Unmanned Aircraft: Theory and Practice Beard & McLain — RSF Specialist Shelf · Book S2 of 6
Beard & McLain derive the fixed-wing autopilot the RSF Top 10 never does: successive loop closure on roll, pitch, altitude and airspeed. 4/5.
Planning Algorithms Steven M. LaValle — RSF Specialist Shelf · Book S4 of 6
The reference that treats planning as a subject in its own right: configuration space, sampling-based methods, RRT. Free online, dual difficulty 4/5-2/5.
A Gentle Introduction to ROS Jason M. O’Kane — RSF Top 10 Robot Education Textbooks · No. 9
Most ROS material is for people who build systems. O'Kane wrote for people who must understand one: nodes, topics, where to look. Free, 10-12 hours.
Introduction to Robotics J. J. Craig — RSF Top 10 Robot Education Textbooks · No. 6
Six of ten benchmark universities teach kinematics from Craig. Frames, transforms and D-H parameters: the language vendor manuals already speak.
Industrial Robotics Fundamentals Ross, Fardo & Walach — RSF Top 10 Robot Education Textbooks · No. 4
The one book on the RSF Top 10 written for the shop floor, not the lecture hall: robot cell safety, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting.
RSF Top 10 Robot Education Textbooks
Robotics has a canon; robot service does not. Ten books scored on adoption, RSF layer coverage, field value and difficulty, plus six specialist picks.
The Most Important AI at WAIC Wasn't a Robot
At WAIC 2026, AI-native platforms quietly replaced interpreter hardware — what invisible AI infrastructure means for robotics and embodied AI.
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