Today in Robotics — Wednesday, October 7, 2026
The data problem behind humanoid learning takes center stage today, with a new motion-capture benchmark and fresh work on adapting whole-body references to...
Today in Robotics — Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Today's lineup spans the delicate and the brawny: a robot hand learning to split silk strands while elsewhere humanoids are rethinking how to haul loads...
Today in Robotics — Sunday, October 4, 2026
Sunday's lineup runs the gamut from the factory floor to the living room, with humanoids crowding into Tesla's neighborhood and household bots suddenly...
Today in Robotics — Saturday, October 3, 2026
Saturday's slate leans toward the strategic and the sobering: intellectual property as competitive moat, and two separate signals that militaries are...
Today in Robotics — Friday, October 2, 2026
Happy Friday from RobotCafe, where the humanoids are trying to prove themselves on the factory floor rather than the demo stage, and the drones are climbing...
Today in Robotics — Thursday, October 1, 2026
Hands are the theme of the morning, with Boston Dynamics rethinking Atlas's grip for the factory floor while sensing suppliers line up to give humanoids a...
Today in Robotics — Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Today the humanoid beat splits neatly between spectacle and substance: motion-capture labs and soccer-playing bots on one side, folded laundry and sober...
Today in Robotics — Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Today spans the whole robotics gamut, from a phone-trainable home humanoid for harried parents to biohybrid aquabots powered by living muscle cells. We've...
Today in Robotics — Monday, September 28, 2026
Deployment is the theme today: Boston Dynamics puts Atlas to work on Hyundai's factory floor, while Elroy Air and Matternet chase the leap from pilot...
Today in Robotics — Sunday, September 27, 2026
Sunday's slate leans philosophical and practical at once, from a fresh look at why Asimov's tidy Three Laws don't map onto real AI safety, to the messy...
Today in Robotics — Saturday, September 26, 2026
Tesla's Optimus dominates today's docket, with the company reportedly nearing 1,000 humanoids a week even as the bots fumble tasks and workers bristle at...
Today in Robotics — Friday, September 25, 2026
Form factor is the theme of the day: Agility is pondering wheels while Tesla wrestles Optimus onto the production line, a reminder that the humanoid ideal...
Today in Robotics — Thursday, September 24, 2026
Today spans the practical and the playful: motion architecture wisdom, a new Epson cobot, and a humanoid learning to haul objects through clutter. There's...
Today in Robotics — Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Humanoids dominate today's conversation, from China's national ambitions to whole-body navigation research and RoboBusiness deployment talk. But there's...
Today in Robotics — Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Today's lineup leans open: Intrinsic and NVIDIA both loosen the grip on their platforms, while Barbara Mazzolai sketches a whole new branch of robotics...
Today in Robotics — Monday, September 21, 2026
Today's lineup follows physical AI out of the lab and onto the factory floor, the warehouse, and even Mars. From Boston Dynamics teaching Atlas to earn its...
Today in Robotics — Sunday, September 20, 2026
Sunday's lineup leans hard into the practical and the tactical: what happens when a humanoid finally gives out, and how militaries are learning to both fly...
Today in Robotics — Saturday, September 19, 2026
Saturday's lineup leans practical, with cobots stretching their reach, warehouses embracing heavier loads and smarter picking, and a reminder that the...
Today in Robotics — Friday, September 18, 2026
Happy Friday from RobotCafe, where the theme is flying things that shouldn't quite work — birotors becoming quadrotors, maple-seed drones, and a robot bound...
Today in Robotics — Thursday, September 17, 2026
Money keeps flowing—$4.9B in August alone—while Arm tries to give the physical-AI crowd a shared vocabulary. Elsewhere, we're wrestling with the harder...