Sunday's lineup leans toward a reality check: form follows workflow in industry, while drones dominate the autonomy beat from Coast Guard patrols to data-center strikes. There's a softer story too, with a Swiss fiber motor finally giving soft robots a motor that bends with them.

In today’s roundup

• Will ‘boring’ robots win in the real world? Why robotic form should follow workflow — The Robot Report
  A useful argument that commercially durable robots will be the unglamorous ones built around actual workflows, not the ones designed to go viral.
• US Coast Guard to add MQ-9B drones with 30-hour flight time to boost surveillance — Interesting Engineering
  Four MQ-9B aircraft with 30-hour endurance signal how long-loiter uncrewed surveillance is becoming standard equipment for maritime patrol.
• US firm unveils 864-mile-range Troublemaker drone for one-way attack missions — Interesting Engineering
  An 864-mile-range Group 3 drone built for one-way attack missions underscores the growing market for expendable long-range strike platforms.
• Minuscule Swiss fiber motor keeps robots squishy and pliable — New Atlas Robotics
  A thin, pliable motor solves an awkward contradiction in soft robotics: you shouldn't ruin a squishy robot by bolting a rigid actuator inside it.
• Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google" — Ars Technica
  A drone strike on a data center training Yandex's AI model shows uncrewed aircraft now reaching deep into the infrastructure behind AI itself.

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