Chef Robotics Escaped the Robot Cooking Graveyard and Says It’s Thriving — Here’s Why
Chef Robotics announced it has processed 100 million robot‑deposited servings, marking a key milestone in its pivot from fast‑casual restaurant automation to large‑scale food manufacturing. The company now serves enterprise clients such as Amy’s Kitchen, Chef Bombay, and a major school‑lunch provider, leveraging AI‑enhanced robot arms to handle complex food components. CEO Rajat Bhageria says the data from these servings fuels smarter AI models, positioning the firm to expand into airline catering, ghost kitchens, and eventually stadiums, prisons, and fast‑casual venues.
Robotic Security Dogs Now on the Job to Protect Crops
Bayer has rolled out Asylon’s DroneDog robotic security dogs across its 8,000‑acre Hawaiian operations, supplementing human patrols with AI‑driven surveillance. The autonomous units carry thermal and electro‑optical cameras with 20× zoom, cloud‑linked AI classifiers, and a rapid‑recharge DogHouse. Real‑time video...
Physical AI Matters More Than Humanoid Robots
Forrester released a new report titled "Physical AI Perceives, Reasons, And Acts In The Real World," outlining four core capabilities—world modeling, perception, reasoning, and actuation—that together enable AI to interact with physical environments. The report argues that these capabilities matter...
RATP and Karsan Wrap up Autonomous Bus Trial in Paris
RATP and Turkish vehicle maker Karsan completed a six‑month autonomous electric bus pilot on Paris’s busy line 393, covering roughly 3,000 km of mixed‑traffic operation. The Karsan e‑ATAK, equipped with Adastec’s lidar, radar and infrared suite, ran five hours daily with a...
Around the Commercial Drone Industry: Pest Solutions, Rail Safety, Dog Rescue
Commercial drones are now tackling three disparate challenges: eradicating invasive mice on Australia’s Browse Island, preventing rail‑side trespassing and fires across England’s North East, and locating missing dogs on the Isle of Man. In Western Australia, custom‑built drones distribute bait...
US Army Chinook Completes First Automated Landing with Boeing A2X
The U.S. Army’s CH‑47F Chinook completed its first fully automated approach and landing using Boeing’s A2X software and Digital Automated Flight Control System. The test, conducted after the system’s January 2026 installation, logged more than 150 approaches with a final...
Simple Robots Inspired by Ants Collectively Build and Excavate
Harvard researchers have created a swarm of simple robots, called RAnts, that coordinate using light‑based “photormones” to emulate ant pheromone communication. By following a few local rules—gradient following, material transport, and threshold‑based deposition—the robots can spontaneously build or excavate structures...
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The Advanced Technology Exploration Community (ATEC) launched ATEC2026, a global competition that treats real‑world robot performance as a “Turing Test” for embodied AI. Teams will field arm‑equipped legged robots to complete long‑horizon tasks across open, dynamic environments, moving from simulation...
The Underwater Battleground: Unmanned Underwater Vessels for the Indian Navy
India is accelerating its unmanned underwater vessel program, fielding several platforms from the 2.15‑meter GRSE Neerakshi AUV to the 40‑meter, 100‑tonne XLUUV. The high‑endurance HEAUV, a 10‑meter DRDO‑built vehicle, can operate for up to 15 days, while Project SWARM focuses...
NASA JPL, Ubotica and Open Cosmos Collaboration
Ubotica Technologies and Open Cosmos have partnered with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to launch the Flight Demonstration of Federated Autonomous MEasurement (FAME) under NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office. The program will initially test six satellites in summer 2026, eventually linking...
Terra Drone Begins Operational Deployment of the “Terra A1” Interceptor Drone in Ukraine
Japanese drone maker Terra Drone has begun operational deployment of its Terra A1 interceptor drone with a Ukrainian military unit, marking the first combat‑proven field test of the system. The low‑cost platform, priced around $2,000‑$7,000 per unit, aims to counter...
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RobCo unveiled Autonomous Alfie at Hannover Messe, a bimanual robot designed for variable, real‑world manufacturing tasks. The system targets Level 4 autonomy, allowing it to learn, adapt, and execute without extensive manual programming. Alfie will be offered through a Robotics‑as‑a‑Service model,...
From Scottsdale to São Paulo: Speedbird Aero’s Long Flight Back to America
Speedbird Aero began as a backyard drone project in Scottsdale before relocating to Brazil in 2018 to exploit a more favorable regulatory climate. Leveraging Brazil's ANAC approval for routine BVLOS flights, the company built purpose‑designed DLV‑1, DLV‑2 and DLV‑4 VTOL...
Physical Intelligence Shows Robot Model with LLM-Like Generalization, Flaws Included
Physical Intelligence unveiled π0.7, a robot foundation model that recombines learned skills much like large language models reassemble text. Built on Google’s 4 billion‑parameter Gemma3 model plus an 860‑million‑parameter action expert, it leverages rich metadata and subgoal images to train on...
US Transportation Unions Oppose Autonomous Vehicle Bill over Safety Concerns
Illinois labor groups, including the Teamsters and the Labor Alliance for Public Transportation, have publicly opposed the state's Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Project Act (SB3392/HB5103). The bill would broaden testing and allow commercial deployment of driverless cars and trucks within three...
Horse Powertrain Installs AI Inspection System for Engine Quality Checks
Horse Powertrain, owned by Renault‑Geely‑Aramco, has installed Siemens Inspekto AI visual inspection at its Skövde engine plant, automating defect detection that was previously manual. The system uses a vision camera on a collaborative robot, integrates with Siemens TIA Portal and...
Sector Snapshot: Autonomous Vehicle Funding More Than Triples In 2026 To Hit Record Amount
Funding for autonomous‑vehicle startups exploded in 2026, topping $21.4 billion across 34 deals—more than triple the total raised in 2025. The surge was driven by three megadeals: Waymo’s $16 billion Series D, Shield AI’s $2 billion Series G, and Wayve’s $1.3 billion Series D. Investors are concentrating...
Ultrasense Systems Unveils Ultrasonic Tactile Platform for AI
UltraSense Systems introduced an ultrasound‑based tactile intelligence platform for Physical AI, featuring a protected sub‑surface sensing architecture. The system uses acoustic return signatures to detect contact, localize touch points, and infer force while keeping the core sensors shielded from wear....
Hyperscale Data Announces Strategic Partnership with AGIBOT for AI Robotics
Hyperscale Data Inc., an AI‑focused data‑center operator anchored by Bitcoin mining, announced a strategic partnership between its wholly‑owned subsidiary Omnipresent Robotics and Singapore‑based AGIBOT PTE Ltd., a developer of intelligent robotics. The agreement calls for joint development and commercialization of...
Why Human-in-the-Loop Quality and Simulation-Ready Data Assets Are Non-Negotiable for Safety-Critical AI
Safety‑critical AI systems—autonomous vehicles and robotics—depend on flawless data annotation, yet robotics lags behind due to heterogeneous sensors and no universal benchmarks. TELUS Digital, with a global community of over 1 million annotators, delivers more than 2 billion labels annually and offers...
Software Will Make Drone War - Zero-Sum Game
The article argues that the next generation of drone warfare will be decided by software, not hardware, highlighting China’s development of fully autonomous, decentralized drone swarms. It claims U.S. manufacturers and the Department of Defense still depend on centralized command...
Spanish Army Tests Armed Robotic Ground Vehicles
Spain’s EM&E Group conducted live‑fire trials of its Aunav unmanned ground vehicles equipped with Guardian Aspis remote weapon stations during the Army’s third Tactical Experimentation Campaign at the Álvarez de Sotomayor base. The aunav.BEST and the newly introduced aunav.LINK platforms...
MMD Strikes Deal with CiDi to Bring Autonomy to TraxIQ Platform
MMD Group Limited has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with CiDi Inc. to embed CiDi’s autonomous driving hardware and software into MMD’s TraxIQ material‑handling platform. The deal includes retrofit kits that will convert existing mining equipment into driverless units, allowing...
See Why Tech Companies Are Paying People to Do Chores
Tech firms are turning to gig‑economy workers to capture video of household chores, paying up to $25 an hour. DoorDash leads a nascent data‑collection market, hoping the footage will train AI models that enable robots to fold laundry, wash dishes...
Arctic Drone & Swarm Technology Development Accelerates at Northern Test Site
VTT Technical Research Centre in northern Finland has opened a 3,500 km² Arctic drone test site, the largest of its kind in Europe. The facility now includes a 150‑km corridor for beyond‑visual‑line‑of‑sight flights and supports UAVs up to 150 kg at 9,000 ft...
Kraus Hamdani K1000ULE Recharges without Landing
Kraus Hamdani’s K1000ULE has become the first aircraft to receive laser‑generated power in flight, recharging its batteries without touching down. The system uses a ground‑based laser to beam energy through free space, which the aircraft converts into usable electricity. This...
Red Cat Adds Arastelle to Futures Initiative for Tethered UAS Integration
Red Cat Holdings has expanded its Futures Initiative by bringing Arastelle Drone Solutions into its consortium. The partnership integrates Arastelle’s lightweight tethering kit with Red Cat’s Black Widow platform, enabling drones to deliver persistent ISR and communications without battery limits....
GM Details Unified Camera Stack for Driver Assist
General Motors unveiled a unified vehicle‑anchored geometry platform that powers its Top‑Down View and Transparent Trailer driver‑assist systems. By treating wide‑angle cameras as geometric sensors and projecting their pixels into a common rear‑bumper‑ground frame, the stack delivers consistent perception across...
Xpeng Pushes Physical AI Pitch at Beijing Auto Show
Xpeng will use the Beijing Auto Show opening on April 24, 2026 to rebrand itself as a “Physical AI” group that unites intelligent driving, humanoid robotics and aerial mobility under a single technology stack. The company highlighted its VLA 2.0 intelligent‑driving...
StradVision Wins India Commercial Vehicle ADAS Deal
StradVision has been chosen by an unnamed global commercial‑vehicle OEM to roll out its SVNet AI perception software across the OEM’s India lineup, targeting a fleet‑scale ADAS deployment. The platform will provide automatic emergency braking, forward‑collision warning and lane‑departure warning...
Physical AI Company Chef Robotics Completes 100 Million Servings in Production
Chef Robotics announced its food‑robotics systems have now produced 100 million servings in customer facilities, a scale ten times larger than any rival. The milestone reflects deployments in more than a dozen sites across the United States, Canada and Europe, where...
Army’s Work With OPV Black Hawk To Inform Bringing Autonomy To MV-75 FLRAA
The U.S. Army has accepted the first H‑60Mx Optimally Piloted Vehicle (OPV) Black Hawk, equipped with Sikorsky’s MATRIX autonomy suite, to serve as a testbed for autonomous capabilities on the upcoming MV‑75 Cheyenne II FLRAA tilt‑rotor. Recent DARPA‑originated demonstrations, including the...
Russia Is Perfecting This Formidable Weapon Fast—Making Iran’s Drones ‘Significantly Deadlier’
Russia is systematically upgrading Iran’s Shahed‑136 loitering munition, adding radar‑absorbing paint, advanced anti‑jamming navigation, and a suite of more lethal warheads. The enhanced drones have already been used in strikes on U.S. embassies in Baghdad and Riyadh and on a...
Air Force’s Experimental Ops Unit Flies and Maintains Anduril CCA
The Air Force’s new Experimental Operations Unit (EOU) flew Anduril Industries’ YFQ‑44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) from Edwards AFB, with Airmen—not engineers or test pilots—controlling each sortie. The exercise proved that a handful of maintainers can sustain semi‑autonomous drones, accelerating...
Draft for Approval of Mandatory National Standard for "Safety Requirements for Combined Driving Assistance Systems of Intelligent Connected Vehicles" Completed
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has completed a draft mandatory national standard titled “Safety Requirements for Combined Driving Assistance Systems of Intelligent Connected Vehicles.” The rule applies to M and N‑category vehicles and classifies combined driving assistance systems...
Picogrid Awarded Contract to Streamline XVIII Airborne Corps Battlefield Integration
Picogrid secured a contract to help the XVIII Airborne Corps integrate emerging battlefield systems, with a focus on counter‑unmanned aerial threats. The firm will field its Legion and Expeditionary Command‑and‑Control Nodes to fuse sensors, response tools, and mission software even...
Schneider Electric Unveils Next Generation Agentic Manufacturing Capabilities with Microsoft Azure AI at Hannover Messe 2026
Schneider Electric announced a next‑generation agentic manufacturing platform built on its EcoStruxure Automation Expert and Microsoft Azure AI at Hannover Messe 2026. The joint solution creates a single, traceable workflow that spans design, simulation, commissioning and operations across cloud and edge environments....
Roboticom Installs 400th Robot Worldwide with SandRob System at Balanced Body
Roboticom announced the installation of its 400th SandRob robotic sanding system, this time at Balanced Body, a leading Pilates equipment maker. The SandRob solution automates heavy sanding while leaving the final ergonomic finish to skilled craftsmen. Balanced Body reported a...
USMC Tests TRV-150C Resupply Aircraft System Aboard Amphibious Ship
The U.S. Marine Corps has finished shipboard trials of the TRV‑150C tactical resupply uncrewed aircraft system aboard an amphibious transport dock. Over two weeks at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Marines launched and recovered the drone multiple times, proving cargo...
Interview: Jabil on Scaling Humanoid Robots From Prototype to Production
Jabil, a global manufacturing and supply‑chain leader, is helping Apptronik move its Apollo humanoid robot from prototype to volume production. The company emphasizes design‑for‑manufacturability, repeatable testing, and supply‑chain maturity as the core levers for scaling. Unlike mature AMR and AGV...
Peak Technologies Partners with Jacobi Robotics to Deliver Next-Generation Mixed-Case Palletizing Automation
Peak Technologies has teamed up with Jacobi Robotics to bring the OmniPalletizer, an AI‑driven mixed‑case palletizing system, to complex warehouses. The platform removes the need for upstream buffering, sorting and manual programming by using real‑time motion planning, computer vision and...
First Mass-Production Deployment of WeRide’s WRD 3.0 ADAS Solution in Co-Developed GAX Aion N60
GAC Aion has opened pre‑sales for the Aion N60, a smart urban SUV equipped with WeRide’s WRD 3.0 ADAS platform, formerly known as WePilot. The vehicle marks the first mass‑produced passenger car jointly developed by WeRide and GAC Aion and the...
“Robots and Drones Will Soon Replace Food Delivery Drivers”
Barclays’ new report predicts autonomous robots and drones will soon dominate the food‑delivery last mile, offering a cheaper and greener alternative to human couriers. The analysis shows robot delivery could cost as little as $1 per order, dramatically lower than...
Fieldwork Robotics Signs Collaboration Agreement with Dynium
Fieldwork Robotics has entered a collaboration agreement with UK‑based Dynium, a maker of autonomous polytunnel vehicles. The deal lets Fieldwork mount its modular harvesting robots on Dynium’s high‑torque e‑hub platforms, expanding terrain capability and payload. Growers gain more navigation options,...
How AI Is Powering the Next Generation of Robots – Insights From a Leading Global Conference
The 2026 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference will convene in Denver from June 3‑7, spotlighting AI‑powered robotics through workshops, papers, and an expo dominated by leading AI and robotics firms. Highlights include the Embodied AI Workshop’s ManipArena competition, which...
Training for Beijing’s Humanoid Half-Marathon Is Gruelling
On April 19, Beijing’s Yizhuang industrial‑technology park will host a half‑marathon featuring more than 300 humanoid robots running alongside thousands of human participants. The event marks a dramatic rise from last year’s inaugural race, which saw only 21 robots enter...
Exail’s DriX H-9 USV Selected for Counter-UAS Research
Exail Technologies has landed a second contract for its DriX H‑9 uncrewed surface vehicle, this time to support Counter‑Unmanned Aerial System (C‑UAS) research for a leading U.S. defense research organization, likely the Navy’s Office of Naval Research. The H‑9 will...
SEER Robotics Showcases Capabilities of Its All-Robot Platform with New AMRs at MODEX 2026
SEER Robotics unveiled five new autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) at MODEX 2026, demonstrating its "all robots, one platform" strategy. The lineup includes the space‑saving SPT‑1500UL pallet truck, the narrow‑aisle SSR‑1400US forklift, the line‑side SLR‑600UL transporter, the high‑density SCT‑50UL tote robot,...
Path Robotics Launches Rove, Bringing Mobility to Welding Automation Powered by Physical AI
Path Robotics unveiled Rove™, a mobile robotic welding system that combines its Obsidian physical AI model with a quadruped robot. The platform extends autonomous, adaptive welding from fixed cells to large, immobile assemblies in shipbuilding, heavy construction, and other high‑variability...
Matternet and SoftBank Robotics America Announce Strategic Partnership to Scale Drone Delivery Networks
Matternet and SoftBank Robotics America announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercialization of autonomous drone delivery networks, initially targeting healthcare, retail and other enterprise logistics. The collaboration combines Matternet’s FAA‑certified drone platform and proven BVLOS operations with SoftBank’s manufacturing,...