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  "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": "2026-08-08T07:14:00.489496Z",
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    {
      "title": "Building robots that survive the warehouse",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/building-robots-that-survive-warehouse/",
      "description": "Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail.\nThe post Building robots that survive the warehouse appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-07T22:01:38Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/tacta-systems-takes-aim-high-skilled-manufacturing-work-tactabot/",
      "description": "Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills.\nThe post Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-07T21:53:33Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/avatar-robotics-raises-6-5-m-seed-round-address-industrial-labor-constraints/",
      "description": "Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains.\nThe post Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-07T19:57:22Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Video Friday: Drones Go Heavy in DARPA Lift Challenge",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-heavy-lift-drone",
      "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.Actuate 2026: 18\u201319 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026:...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T16:00:01Z",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/ai-agents-create-virtual-playgrounds-to-help-robots-get-crucial-training-data/",
      "description": "A new system developed at MIT uses three agents to piece together the objects, walls, and overall look of a 3D scene. Its realistic recreations of indoor spaces help robots practice skills and try out different ways of doing tasks before they\u2019re powered on. Image: Tim Malieckal/MIT CSAIL using asset...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T07:17:33Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05215",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05215v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Learning manipulation skills from human videos is promising for scalable robot learning. However, the embodiment mismatch between humans and robots makes this challenging. One promising solution is to learn object-centric actionable affordances that a...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "A System for Train Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Assessment of Rail Vehicles",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05221",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05221v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: The ongoing digitalization of rail systems and the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally transforming the design, operation, and maintenance of rail vehicles. While fully automated operation at Grade of Automation 4 (GoA4) i...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05313",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05313v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Service robots operate in household environments shared with humans, pets, and everyday objects, where they are highly susceptible to failures such as software crashes, hardware degradation, or unpredictable interactions. While roboticists strive to m...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Unified Planning-Learning Framework for Robust UUV Navigation Under Partial Observability",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05365",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05365v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: This paper presents an observation-only autonomy framework for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) navigation in dynamic underwater environments that integrates persistent occupancy mapping, global clearance-aware planning, and risk-aware local contro...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "World-to-Wrist: Task-Conditioned Future Wrist Modeling for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05369",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05369v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models often treat main-view and wrist-view observations as parallel visual inputs, overlooking their distinct roles in robot manipulation. Fine-grained manipulation, however, benefits from anticipating how wrist-local int...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05410",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05410v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Continuum robots often operate in uncertain environments, where accurate state estimation is essential for safe interactions. Estimate uncertainty is inherently spatially non-uniform: confidence varies depending on where measurements are available. Gl...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "ARGUS: Aligning Robot Scene Geometry Under Shifting Views with Large 3D Vision Models",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05579",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05579v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Large-scale visuomotor policies have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of robot manipulation tasks. However, despite this success, manipulation polices often entangle scene geometry with the corresponding viewpoint, learning wher...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "PathCover: A Fast Convex Decomposition along a Path via Randomized Iterative Space Partitioning (RISP) on Point Clouds",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05586",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05586v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Autonomous robot navigation requires the rapid generation of obstacle-free regions for trajectory planning. However, existing corridor generators struggle to meet real-time, sensor-rate computational constraints. To resolve this bottleneck, we introdu...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "Search-Aided Joint Agent-Environment Reinforcement Learning for Robust Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding with Rotations",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05588",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05588v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding (LMAPF) requires repeatedly planning collision-free paths for agents that continuously receive new goals upon reaching their current ones. While many learning-based planners have been proposed for LMAPF, most rely on ...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "KILVO: Kinematic-Inertial-LiDAR-Visual Odometry with Robust Multimodal Adaptation for Humanoid Robots",
      "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05647",
      "description": "arXiv:2608.05647v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: This article presents a kinematic-inertial-LiDAR-visual odometry for humanoid robots, called KILVO. Tailored to the platform features, requirements, and real-world complexity, it fully utilizes the sensors commonly equipped on humanoid robots, includi...",
      "published": "2026-08-07T04:00:00Z",
      "source": "arXiv Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/recent"
    },
    {
      "title": "HII signs up to $900M agreement with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/hii-signs-up-to-900m-agreement-with-path-robotics-graymatter-robotics/",
      "description": "The latest agreement expands HII's HYPER Program, which Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics joined earlier this year.\nThe post HII signs up to $900M agreement with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-06T20:19:29Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "How Robin, the robotic companion, keeps patients calm during hospital visits",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/how-robin-robotic-companion-keeps-patients-calm-during-hospital-visits/",
      "description": "Robin is deployed across 30 different health systems, and Expper has plans to deploy 10 more in different states. \nThe post How Robin, the robotic companion, keeps patients calm during hospital visits appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-06T14:09:55Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "IEDD Dataset Strengthens Physical Reasoning for Autonomous Driving AI",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16448",
      "description": "IEDD combines driving trajectories, physical interaction metrics, bird\u2019s-eye-view videos, and language annotations to evaluate autonomous driving AI across four reasoning levels.",
      "published": "2026-08-06T13:25:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI",
      "link": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-world-models-physical-ai/",
      "description": "In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizations in signing \u201cOpen Weights and American AI Leadership,\u201d an open letter arguing that AI leadership will be measured not by any single frontier model but by whether an open ecosystem reaches every sector.",
      "published": "2026-08-06T13:00:00Z",
      "source": "NVIDIA Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tag/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Compact Hexapod 6-DOF Alignment System Features Patented Overload Protection",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16447",
      "description": "Any-orientation mounting and six-axis motion support flexible integration into optical and photonics systems.",
      "published": "2026-08-06T12:50:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Report looks at advances in autonomous mobile robots",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/report-looks-at-advances-in-autonomous-mobile-robots/",
      "description": "A download looks at examples of advances in autonomous mobile robots in material handling and automated storage applications.\nThe post Report looks at advances in autonomous mobile robots appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-06T12:26:58Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Robots in society, business and culture: July 2026",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/robots-in-society-business-and-culture-july-2026/",
      "description": "By Emmet Cole This new monthly series from IEEE RAS showcases a selection of robotics stories from society, business, research, and culture, as we track the field\u2019s ongoing journey from specialized industrial machines to an increasingly visible social phenomenon. Technological isolationism or pruden...",
      "published": "2026-08-06T07:30:38Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Avnet and Weston Robot partner to launch edge AI inspection platform",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/avnet-and-weston-robot-partner-to-launch-edge-ai-inspection-platform/",
      "description": "Avnet and Weston Robot have partnered to launch an AI-powered autonomous inspection platform for complex industrial environments.\nThe post Avnet and Weston Robot partner to launch edge AI inspection platform appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-05T19:10:05Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "GAM Enterprises to produce Schaeffler\u2019s PSC gear reducers",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/gam-enterprises-to-produce-schaefflers-psc-gear-reducers/",
      "description": "Acquiring the IP from this core supplier allows GAM to vertically integrate its supply chain and expand its manufacturing capabilities.\nThe post GAM Enterprises to produce Schaeffler’s PSC gear reducers appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-05T19:00:21Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Personalized physical therapy: Stroke rehabilitation powered by AI",
      "link": "https://news.mit.edu/2026/personalized-physical-therapy-stroke-rehabilitation-powered-by-ai-0805",
      "description": "MIT engineers introduce an adaptive physical therapy system that uses generative AI to learn from physical therapists and interactively support stroke patients.",
      "published": "2026-08-05T18:15:00Z",
      "source": "MIT News Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://news.mit.edu/topic/robotics"
    },
    {
      "title": "University of Florida opens new robotics lab dedicated to industrialized construction",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/university-of-florida-opens-new-robotics-lab-dedicated-to-industrialized-construction/",
      "description": "Fueled by Autodesk, UF opened a robotics lab for industrialized construction to fight housing shortages and labor declines.\nThe post University of Florida opens new robotics lab dedicated to industrialized construction appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-05T17:41:55Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Moove raises $250M to build infrastructure for autonomous vehicles",
      "link": "https://www.therobotreport.com/moove-raises-250m-to-build-infrastructure-for-autonomous-vehicles/",
      "description": "The funding will support Moove's expansion of its autonomous fleet ownership and robotics-first depot infrastructure \u201cNests.\u201d\nThe post Moove raises $250M to build infrastructure for autonomous vehicles appeared first on The Robot Report.",
      "published": "2026-08-05T16:53:38Z",
      "source": "The Robot Report",
      "source_url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Human-aware robots adapt to partners, reducing back strain during team lifting",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-human-aware-robots-partners-strain.html",
      "description": "When people work in pairs or teams, they can often solve a wider range of problems, completing some tasks faster and more efficiently than they would alone. To assist users similarly to how other humans would, robots should be able to rapidly interpret human behaviors and commands, using their predi...",
      "published": "2026-08-05T12:00:02Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Control advance improves flapping-wing robot stability amid wind-like disturbances",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-advance-wing-robot-stability-disturbances.html",
      "description": "Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles (FW-MAVs) are small, lightweight robots inspired by the flight mechanisms of birds and insects. By using rapidly moving wings instead of propellers, these robots can achieve unique flight capabilities, such as hovering like hummingbirds and independently controlli...",
      "published": "2026-08-04T17:00:07Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "RL-100 framework helps robots refine learned tasks amid real-world disruptions",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-rl-framework-robots-refine-tasks.html",
      "description": "Robots are gradually making their way into a variety of settings, ranging from households to public spaces, offices, factories and health care facilities. Despite their potential, however, many existing robots do not perform as well in dynamic and unpredictable real-world environments as they do dur...",
      "published": "2026-08-04T14:00:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Lightweight AI Framework Boosts Real-Time Robotic Grasping with Single-Image 6D Pose Estimation",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16446",
      "description": "This study presents a novel framework for real-time 6D pose estimation in robots, utilizing LightGlue for object detection and geometric mapping techniques.",
      "published": "2026-08-04T12:43:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "What Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/fcc-covered-list-mobile-robots",
      "description": "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) \u201cCovered List,\u201d originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added mobile, communicating robots weighing more than 2 kilograms and power inverters c...",
      "published": "2026-08-04T11:00:01Z",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robots-walden-robotics-toyota",
      "description": "For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that were necessarily realistic. Some of the magic of those first couple of years of the...",
      "published": "2026-08-03T16:05:39Z",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Simulated zebrafish and a vision-equipped robotic fish reveal how the body shapes brain circuits",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/simulated-zebrafish-and-a-vision-equipped-robotic-fish-reveal-how-the-body-shapes-brain-circuits/",
      "description": "Image credit: Olivier Porchet, Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL When a fish holds its position against a current in a river, its brain must figure out how fast to swim and how to steer to offset the water flow. Most fish use vision to register the world sliding past, detect optic flow speed and directio...",
      "published": "2026-08-03T11:17:56Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
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    {
      "title": "Video Friday: Meet Google DeepMind\u2019s Gemini Robotics 2",
      "link": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-robot-gemini2-ai-robot",
      "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.Actuate 2026: 18\u201319 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026:...",
      "published": "2026-07-31T16:00:03Z",
      "source": "IEEE Spectrum Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/topic/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Porous 3D-printed feet cut quadruped robot power use",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-porous-3d-feet-quadruped-robot.html",
      "description": "Quadruped robots, which walk on four legs, are increasingly used for tasks such as inspection, transportation and search-and-rescue operations. However, their repeated leg movements consume far more energy than the rolling motion of wheeled robots, making it challenging to improve energy efficiency.",
      "published": "2026-07-31T15:40:05Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Streamlined AI Model Identifies Early Parkinson\u2019s Motor Signs Within Minutes",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16445",
      "description": "A streamlined AI model used three motor modalities to distinguish early-stage Parkinson\u2019s patients from healthy controls with performance approaching an 11-modality model.",
      "published": "2026-07-31T09:42:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Researchers develop modular nanorobot",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/researchers-develop-modular-nanorobot/",
      "description": "Illustration of the versatile nanorobot. It is 150 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. (Illustration: Marina Br\u00e4m) By Angelika Jacobs Nanorobots sound like science fiction: tiny machines for medicine, the environment, or industry. In fact, nanorobotics has become a rapidly growing field...",
      "published": "2026-07-31T09:21:31Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize",
      "link": "https://news.mit.edu/2026/daniela-rus-receives-bavarian-minister-presidents-high-tech-prize-0730",
      "description": "Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.",
      "published": "2026-07-30T21:00:00Z",
      "source": "MIT News Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://news.mit.edu/topic/robotics"
    },
    {
      "title": "Legged robots raise surveillance, job and battlefield accountability concerns",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-legged-robots-surveillance-job-battlefield.html",
      "description": "Legged robots have recently transitioned from science fiction to engineering fact, with modern humanoid and quadrupedal machines now capable of delivering packages to front doors and taking on dangerous military missions. With a massive surge in financial investment in the offing, a new study descri...",
      "published": "2026-07-30T16:50:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Muscle radar unlocks potential for future robotic limbs",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-muscle-radar-potential-future-robotic.html",
      "description": "University of Queensland researchers have developed new noninvasive sensors that measure muscle forces, unlocking new possibilities for wearable robotic mobility devices. Ultra-wideband radar sensors measure electromagnetic changes in muscles as they contract, allowing researchers to collect data in...",
      "published": "2026-07-30T16:20:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "2,000 Interns, One Mission: Shape the Future of AI at NVIDIA",
      "link": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2026-interns/",
      "description": "Summer means intern season \u2014 and this year, NVIDIA welcomed over 2,000 interns from nearly 300 universities to teams spanning every area of the company, from open source software platforms to hardware verification, gaming technology and autonomous vehicle (AV) development.\u00a0 NVIDIA internships are ta...",
      "published": "2026-07-30T15:00:08Z",
      "source": "NVIDIA Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/tag/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Muscle Radar Unlocks Potential for Future Robotic Limbs",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16444",
      "description": "New non-invasive sensors that measure muscle forces have been developed by University of Queensland researchers, unlocking new possibilities for wearable robotic mobility devices.",
      "published": "2026-07-30T11:51:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "This robot can snuff out wildfires with a cryogenic spray",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-robot-snuff-wildfires-cryogenic-spray.html",
      "description": "About 20 years ago, Yiannis Levendis, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, was working on an experiment to find an alternative to coal\u2014grinding up old car and truck tires and burning the crumbs.",
      "published": "2026-07-30T11:40:06Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "If you planned to buy a Chinese robot in the US, we've got bad news",
      "link": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/usa-chinese-robot-ban/",
      "description": "The US is banning the sale of robots made outside the country. That includes all the cool ones we've covered out of China, which can dance, provide companionship to seniors, fight fires, and carry loads over rocky terrain.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, EngineeringTags: Humanoid, Robots, Quadrup...",
      "published": "2026-07-29T11:07:06Z",
      "source": "New Atlas Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Surviving the paper deluge: a one-year study in learning from demonstration",
      "link": "https://robohub.org/surviving-the-paper-deluge-a-one-year-study-in-learning-from-demonstration/",
      "description": "By Emmet Cole With the explosion of robotics research, staying current in fields like Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a monumental challenge. Is AI the solution to the \u201cpaper deluge,\u201d or is it part of the problem? Read the article preview below to learn more! Download the full paper: Surviving ...",
      "published": "2026-07-29T09:16:32Z",
      "source": "Robohub",
      "source_url": "https://robohub.org/"
    },
    {
      "title": "US bans foreign-made humanoid robots, targeting China over national security",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-humanoid-robots.html",
      "description": "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is banning imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move that targets China. Beijing quickly accused the U.S. of protectionism.",
      "published": "2026-07-29T09:10:01Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Basler Introduces Compact 3D Stereo Camera System for Robotics and Logistics",
      "link": "https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16443",
      "description": "Basler AG, a leading provider of machine vision components and solutions, is expanding its 3D portfolio with the Stereo mini \u2013 a compact, lightweight, and cost-efficient camera developed specifically for use in robotics and logistics applications.",
      "published": "2026-07-29T04:59:00Z",
      "source": "AZoRobotics",
      "source_url": "https://www.azorobotics.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AI security robot rolls up on one wheel looking quite unserious",
      "link": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/1rollo-monowheel-security-robot/",
      "description": "Why pay to design and mass-produce a four-wheeled autonomous security robot, when you can make a less costly one with just one wheel? That's the thinking behind the 1Rollo, a monowheel-bot that could soon be patrolling near you.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, EngineeringTags: Self Balancing Unic...",
      "published": "2026-07-28T23:03:00Z",
      "source": "New Atlas Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://newatlas.com/robotics/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Future-aware AI doubles robot speed in pick-and-place tasks",
      "link": "https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-future-aware-ai-robot-tasks.html",
      "description": "A new method developed by MIT researchers makes robots better at thinking ahead while they are acting, leading to smoother motions and quicker reactions. The research is published on the arXiv preprint server.",
      "published": "2026-07-28T17:22:56Z",
      "source": "TechXplore Robotics",
      "source_url": "https://techxplore.com/robotics-news/"
    }
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