{
  "title": "Robot Report | Latest Robotics News",
  "description": "Latest robotics news: breakthroughs, trends, and tech for enthusiasts. Hourly updates, no fluff.",
  "url": "https://robotreport.keithcu.com",
  "last_updated": "2026-09-28T22:38:37.176402Z",
  "headlines": [
    {
      "title": "Could soil process information without a brain? New engineering perspective makes the case",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-soil-brain-perspective-case.html",
      "description": "Researchers in the Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory at Cambridge are exploring how soil behaves as an intelligent system. By studying its structure, chemistry and biological network of microbes and fungi, they aim to inspire new technologies in bio-inspired computing, precision agriculture and envir...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T15:40:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Soft exosuit makes it easier to stand up",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-soft-exosuit-easier.html",
      "description": "Getting up from a chair is something most of us don't think about. The movement is almost second nature: Our legs and hips work together in a precise sequence. But performing this task can be difficult for older people, often because of declining strength and reduced coordination in the hip and leg ...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T15:20:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Small, medium or large, a robotic fish maintains its swimming ability",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/small-medium-or-large-a-robotic-fish-maintains-its-swimming-ability/",
      "description": "The scalable robot ScaFi. 2026 CREATE Lab EPFL. CC BY SA-4.0. Propeller-powered underwater vehicles have long helped scientists explore and monitor aquatic environments. But they’re limited by their own mechanics: spinning blades can snag on vegetation, stir up sediment, and startle the wildli...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T11:24:15Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "TinyCVIO: A Constellation-Aided Visual-Inertial Odometry System for Nanodrones",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30358",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30358v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Nanodrones require accurate, real-time state estimation under severe sensing and computational constraints. We present TinyCVIO, a visual-inertial odometry system that co-designs miniature sensing, visual processing, and estimation for a commodity dua...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "POIL: Point-based One-Shot Imitation Learning with Stable Dynamical Systems",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30404",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30404v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: We present POIL, a point-based one-shot imitation learning framework with stable dynamical systems. While one-shot imitation avoids collecting extensive demonstrations, successful one-shot manipulation requires not only transferring a demonstrated tra...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Actively Resolving Contextual Uncertainty for Underspecified Tasks in Natural Language",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30428",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30428v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Foundation models provide robots with the ability to interpret natural language and reason about environmental context, yet most language-conditioned policies assume that goals are well-specified and that task-relevant information is provided upfront ...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "WALT: Learning World-Model-Aligned Latent Trajectories for Autonomous Driving",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30436",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30436v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Driving world models learn rich predictive representations of the surrounding environment from visual observations, yet accurate visual prediction does not necessarily translate into effective trajectory planning. We argue that a key bottleneck lies i...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "VkVIO: Cross-platform GPU Acceleration for Visual-Inertial Odometry with Vulkan",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30459",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30459v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Perception in robotics and XR fundamentally relies on good state estimation. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VI-SLAM) are proven ways of achieving this goal in a cost-effective and accurate manner. Efficiency ...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Realizability Is Not Enough: Encoding, Liveness, and Auditing of Synthesized Robot Supervisors",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30460",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30460v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: High-level robotic supervisors coordinate capabilities whose reported outcomes determine the robot's next action. Reactive synthesis can generate such supervisors with formal guarantees, but deployment requires more than proving a Generalized Reactivi...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "DGT-Map: Directional Global Traversability Mapping Utilizing Multi-Task Learning for Heterogeneous Vehicles",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30461",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30461v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Off-road traversability is direction-dependent and vehicle specific, yet most global maps assign a single isotropic cost to each location. Existing learned estimators are also commonly trained independently for each vehicle; this preserves vehicle-spe...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Policy-Calibrated DAgger: Offline Calibrated Noise Injection for Imitation Learning",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30462",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30462v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Policies trained with imitation learning can accumulate errors over time, causing the robot to drift outside the training distribution. Existing methods mitigate this covariate shift by collecting additional data where the policy fails or is likely to...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Learning-Based Pressure Predictive Control of a Vertebraic Soft Robotic Tail",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30479",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30479v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Soft robots have attracted much attention for their safe human-robot interaction and flexibility, but the typical continuum structure and nonlinear material behavior make the kinematics modelling complex, especially in non-static motions. In this work...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Memory-Aware Multi-Sensor Perception for Efficient and Safe Navigation in Dynamic Environments",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30495",
      "description": "arXiv:2609.30495v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Autonomous navigation in previously unseen environments requires effective perception, persistent environmental representation, and collision avoidance while maintaining progress toward a goal. Existing perception-based methods often rely on prior map...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Wind-up elastic robot jumps forever when fed infrared light",
      "link": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/elastic-robot-jump-infrared-light/",
      "description": "Robots \u2013 that is, self-guided mechanisms interacting with or changing their environments \u2013 exist in the popular imagination as large, blocky, metallic beings like R2D2 or TARS from Interstellar. But the field of soft robotics offers a vast array of robotic limbs, sensors, and body types that greatly...",
      "published": "2026-09-28T02:43:49Z",
      "source": "New Atlas Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Asimov\u2019s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/asimovs-laws-are-not-enough-keep-robotics-ai-safe/",
      "description": "Asimov's fictional Three Laws of Robotics famously set safeguards, and tech observers today raise similar concerns about AI.\nThe post Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-27T12:26:44Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "FDA-cleared exoskeleton puts spinal-cord patients back on their feet",
      "link": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/wandercraft-eve-exoskeleton-self-balancing/",
      "description": "A robotic suit that lets someone with a spinal-cord injury stand up, look a friend in the eye, or stir a pot on the stove without anyone's help just cleared its biggest hurdle. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency that vets medical devices before they reach the public, has authorize...",
      "published": "2026-09-27T08:03:00Z",
      "source": "New Atlas Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis?",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/from-14-cities-to-15000-what-it-will-take-to-scale-robotaxis/",
      "description": "While robotaxis prove their driving ability, scaling the industry globally requires solving the unglamorous challenge of fast, local vehicle servicing.\nThe post From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis? appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-26T12:34:55Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/amazon-to-invest-100m-in-new-indiana-manufacturing-facility/",
      "description": "The new facility will produce products that power Amazon's fulfillment and robotics network across North America.\nThe post Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-25T18:59:01Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "General Robotics is betting on modular intelligence, not one robot brain",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/general-robotics-is-betting-on-modular-intelligence-not-one-robot-brain/",
      "description": "Rather than training one model to do everything, General Robotics composes specialized capabilities\u2014helping robots adapt across tasks and form factors.\nThe post General Robotics is betting on modular intelligence, not one robot brain appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-25T18:43:22Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Video Friday: Life\u2019s Better With a Little Robot Goose",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-goose-household-robots",
      "description": "Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.IROS 2026: 27 September\u20131 October 2026, PITTSBURGHCoRL 2...",
      "published": "2026-09-25T16:00:04Z",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Agility Robotics, maker of Digit humanoid, exploring wheeled robots",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/agility-robotics-maker-of-digit-humanoid-exploring-wheeled-robots/",
      "description": "Agility Robotics is exploring a range of robot designs and form factors, including wheels, to address different operating environments and customer needs.\nThe post Agility Robotics, maker of Digit humanoid, exploring wheeled robots appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-25T14:08:27Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Farmers are facing more pressure; CNH says robotics can help",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/farmers-are-facing-more-pressure-cnh-says-robotics-can-help/",
      "description": "Labor availability, costs, productivity, and efficiency are common concerns of farmers that technology can address, according to CNH.\u00a0\nThe post Farmers are facing more pressure; CNH says robotics can help appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-25T12:18:36Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Robot Talk Episode 163 \u2013 Robots helping people, with Aaron Edsinger",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/robot-talk-episode-163-robots-helping-people-with-aaron-edsinger/",
      "description": "Claire chatted to Aaron Edsinger from Hello Robot about their Stretch robots that can help people with mobility issues live more independently. Aaron Edsinger is CEO and Co-Founder of Hello Robot, a robotics company dedicated to developing practical, safe, and accessible robots for people. With a pa...",
      "published": "2026-09-25T11:54:14Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Solar-Powered Robot Achieves Up to 98.8% Seed-Placement Accuracy",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16493",
      "description": "A solar-powered precision planting robot combines remote control, electric seed metering, and adjustable planting depth for accurate, energy-efficient maize seeding.",
      "published": "2026-09-25T11:37:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "An open source approach to physical AI from Intrinsic",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/an-open-source-approach-to-physical-ai-from-intrinsic/",
      "description": "Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Intrinsic (an AI robotics group at Google) announced that the company is making parts of its platform open source. Intrinsic Core\u2122 is a set of ROS-compatible capabilities for building sophisticated robotic applications. The capabilities included in ...",
      "published": "2026-09-25T08:41:15Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "5 million robots are now at work in factories worldwide, reports the IFR",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/5-million-robots-now-working-factories-worldwide-ifr-reports/",
      "description": "China still leads the world in industrial robot installations, but the U.S. and Germany are also significant markets, found the IFR.\nThe post 5 million robots are now at work in factories worldwide, reports the IFR appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-24T20:15:51Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/epics-in-ieee-portable-educational",
      "description": "In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics laboratories. The resources shortfall limits the students\u2019 opportunities for hands-on...",
      "published": "2026-09-24T18:00:04Z",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Why you should look beyond the spec sheet when choosing motion architecture",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/why-you-should-look-beyond-spec-sheet-when-choosing-motion-architecture/",
      "description": "Choosing the right motion architecture is about understanding how the entire system will behave in use, explains Kollmorgen.\nThe post Why you should look beyond the spec sheet when choosing motion architecture appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-24T16:39:14Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Epson introduces AX6 cobot with compact design, no-code programming",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/epson-introduces-ax6-cobot-compact-design-no-code-programming/",
      "description": "Epson Robots has expanded its six-axis robot line with the AX6, a lightweight force- and power-limited arm.\nThe post Epson introduces AX6 cobot with compact design, no-code programming appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-24T14:51:07Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "ANYbotics opens the door for inspections with ANYmal robots",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/anybotics-opens-the-door-for-inspections-with-anymal-robots/",
      "description": "ANYbotics partnered with dormakaba and LEGIC Identsystems to enable the ANYmal quadruped to gain access like a badged employee.\nThe post ANYbotics opens the door for inspections with ANYmal robots appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-09-24T13:27:58Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "What\u2019s coming up at #IROS2026?",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/whats-coming-up-at-iros2026/",
      "description": "The 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026) will be held from 27 September – 1 October in Pittsburgh, USA. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, forums, competitions, and a debate. Keynote talks The keynote talks wi...",
      "published": "2026-09-24T09:50:46Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Can you lend me a hand? Researchers are developing wearable robotic limbs",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-wearable-robotic-limbs.html",
      "description": "How many times have you asked someone to hold open a door while carrying something, or fumbled with your front-door keys with your arms full of groceries? Wouldn't it be great if you could give yourself the extra hand you need?",
      "published": "2026-09-23T20:20:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Robot dog runs a marathon on a single battery charge",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-robot-dog-marathon-battery.html",
      "description": "A four-legged robot that can complete a marathon on a single battery charge has been demonstrated by a team from KAIST. The robot, which completed the Sangju Marathon in South Korea in 4 hours and 19 minutes alongside human runners, traveled three times as far per charge than existing robots and cou...",
      "published": "2026-09-23T20:00:16Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Tiny robot can precisely control its jump height",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-tiny-robot-precisely-height.html",
      "description": "As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a thought for the humble hopping robot. Hopping, a popular form of locomotion in the insect and amphibian worlds, is nearly two orders of magnitude more energy-efficient than flying. Unlike a mosquito that must constantly...",
      "published": "2026-09-23T19:20:08Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "New robotic hand can walk, press keys and move objects on its own",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-robotic-keys.html",
      "description": "For many of us, the last\u2014and only\u2014time we've seen a walking hand was Thing in \"The Addams Family\" movies or TV series. Now there's another. Engineers from the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich have adapted an off-the-shelf detached robotic hand so it can crawl across different surfaces, balance and in...",
      "published": "2026-09-23T17:30:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Simple visual patterns can trick AI-powered vehicles and robots",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-simple-visual-patterns-ai-powered.html",
      "description": "A simple pattern of black-and-white stripes could cause an autonomous vehicle or robot to misjudge how far away an obstacle is, potentially triggering an unexpected maneuver or even a collision, according to new University of Florida research.",
      "published": "2026-09-23T14:00:04Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Humanoid robots navigate narrow gaps and obstacles with whole-body AI control",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-humanoid-robots-narrow-gaps-obstacles.html",
      "description": "Humanoid robots, robotic systems with a human-like body structure, could assist people in homes, offices, health care facilities, public spaces and various other environments. Before they can be reliably deployed in these settings, however, robots should be able to safely navigate cluttered and dyna...",
      "published": "2026-09-23T10:20:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "For the first time, microrobots coordinate to change their environment",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-microrobots-environment.html",
      "description": "Cornell University physics researchers have made robots that can, for the first time, sense the temperature of their surroundings and react together to change it. \"Little things can have a large impact,\" said Itai Cohen, a leader in developing microscopic robots and a corresponding author on the stu...",
      "published": "2026-09-23T09:00:12Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight of the month: China",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/robotics-roadmaps-from-around-the-world-spotlight-of-the-month-china/",
      "description": "China is targeting the next industrial revolution by doubling down on embodied AI and humanoid robotics, building directly on its vast manufacturing infrastructure. By Ellen H. Rumley and Allison Okamura Beyond the Robot Olympics Chinese robots have quickly entered global public consciousness in rec...",
      "published": "2026-09-23T08:20:26Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "New Physical AI Sensor Platform Accelerates Development of Intelligent Devices",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16492",
      "description": "Atomica's new MEMS Optical Control Platform combines established microfabrication modules with custom design flexibility to help customers bring optical and sensing products to market. It addresses a shared need for precise control of light across AI infrastructure, optical...",
      "published": "2026-09-23T06:35:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/sustainability-robotics-barbara-mazzolai",
      "description": "Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too.After starting her career as a biologist, a chance opportunity saw Mazzolai switch streams to engineering and become an early ...",
      "published": "2026-09-22T14:00:04Z",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development",
      "link": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/isaac-ros-5-0-agentic-open-source-robotics/",
      "description": "To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and tools. The ROS open framework is a project from Open Robotics that helps humans build robots. NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 \u2014 a collection of GPU-accel...",
      "published": "2026-09-22T12:00:41Z",
      "source": "NVIDIA Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tag/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "China's robot dancers limber up for America's Got Talent final",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-china-robot-dancers-limber-america.html",
      "description": "Chinese street dancer Wu Yufei has spent most of his 13-year career performing solo, but this year, he found some new partners\u2014a crew of robots with sleek moves.",
      "published": "2026-09-22T09:00:03Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Mars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet \u2013 peek inside their NASA control room",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/mars-rovers-give-scientists-a-ground-level-view-of-the-red-planet-peek-inside-their-nasa-control-room/",
      "description": "Each day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.",
      "published": "2026-09-21T09:38:58Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
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      "title": "Universal Robots Launches Gen 7 at IMTS 2026",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16491",
      "description": "The new Gen 7 platform. Gen 7 is an entirely redesigned robot platform.",
      "published": "2026-09-21T04:23:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
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      "title": "Billions in rare earth elements may be hiding in America\u2019s coal ash",
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      "description": "Scientists are looking to diatoms, sea sponges, and plants for a cleaner way to recover rare earth elements and other valuable minerals hidden inside coal ash, red mud, and mine tailings. The bio-inspired approach could turn massive industrial waste piles into useful materials while reducing energy ...",
      "published": "2026-09-19T02:08:56Z",
      "source": "ScienceDaily Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/robotics/"
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    {
      "title": "Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor",
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      "description": "Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22\u201323 September 2026, SEOULIROS ...",
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      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
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      "title": "New Shoulder Replacement Robot Helps Personalize Treatment",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16490",
      "description": "Technology continues to pave a new path in the medical field. Mercy Medical Center is the first hospital in the region to offer a new way to perform shoulder replacement surgery, a procedure that some women may need as they age.",
      "published": "2026-09-18T12:53:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
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    {
      "title": "Reimagining robotics for sustainability",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/reimagining-robotics-for-sustainability/",
      "description": "By Celia Luterbacher Imagine a robot designed to install solar panels with much greater speed and precision than a human. The robot is made from expensive materials and powered by a heavy battery that must be recharged every few hours. If the costs of building and operating the robot outweigh the be...",
      "published": "2026-09-18T08:59:50Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
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    {
      "title": "Human-Like Hip Motion Cuts Modeled Biped Robot Walking Energy by 14%",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16489",
      "description": "Researchers found that human-inspired vertical hip motion reduces modeled biped robot walking energy by approximately 14%, largely by lowering stance-knee energy use.",
      "published": "2026-09-17T13:34:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
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