MODEX 2026: Dematic Command Center Analytics Platform Debuts in Atlanta
Dematic, a leading supply‑chain automation firm, unveiled its new Command Center analytics platform at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta. The vendor‑agnostic solution delivers real‑time visibility, advanced analytics and actionable insights across warehouse operations. Executives highlighted the platform’s ability to help customers navigate growing complexity, improve speed and increase reliability. Live demonstrations and refreshed branding were also featured for attendees.
MODEX 2026: Stow, Movu Robotics Demo Storage and Robotics Portfolio
At MODEX 2026, stow, the industrial storage arm of the stow Group, showcased its full racking and semi‑automated portfolio, including the newly upgraded stow Atlas 4.0 pallet shuttle debuting in the U.S. market. The exhibit also featured Movu Robotics, another stow...
Schaeffler Signs Strategic Cooperation Agreement with ROKAE
Schaeffler and Chinese robotics firm ROKAE signed a strategic cooperation agreement on April 7 to co‑develop core components for humanoid robots, including joint modules. The partnership blends Schaeffler’s high‑performance sensors, harmonic drives and precision manufacturing with ROKAE’s full‑stack robotics expertise and...
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[Gasgoo Express] NIO's William Li Discusses ES9 Design, Saying Originality Is Difficult but Must Be Done; March Passenger Vehicle Exports...
NIO founder William Li highlighted the difficulty and necessity of original design while unveiling the ES9, an intelligent executive flagship SUV that blends Chinese cultural aesthetics with cutting‑edge technology. On the same day, China’s passenger vehicle exports surged to 695,000...
How Ottonomy Robots Are Mapping Last-Mile Delivery With Contextual AI
Ottonomy, a US‑based deep‑tech startup manufacturing in India, has raised $7.8 million to commercialize Contextual AI‑powered delivery robots for indoor‑outdoor logistics. Its two SKUs, Ottobot 2.0 and 3.0, can carry up to ten parcels per trip and adapt to hospitals, airports, malls...
Indonesia Can’t Stay Silent on China’s UUV Incursion
A Chinese‑built unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) marked “CSIC” was recovered by a fisherman in Indonesia’s Lombok Strait, a vital maritime corridor linking the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The incident exposes a gap in Indonesia’s under‑sea domain awareness and challenges its...
Tesla’s Supervised Self-Driving Software Gets Dutch Okay, First in Europe
Dutch regulator RDW approved Tesla's Full Self‑Driving Supervised system for highways and city streets, marking the first European authorization of the technology. The approval follows 18 months of testing and positions the Netherlands as a gateway for EU‑wide certification. Tesla...
Hong Kong: Advancing Smart Mobility and Unmanned Systems
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tongji University inaugurated a joint research laboratory focused on smart transportation and unmanned systems. The lab has already produced an amphibious unmanned platform that operated in both air and water, supporting a national...
Iowa Mowbotics Brings AI-Driven Lawn Care Into Daily Life With a Focus on Time and Practical Value
Iowa Mowbotics, founded in 2024 by sixth‑generation farmer Schyler Bardole, offers AI‑driven robotic mowing systems for residential and commercial properties. The mowers combine GPS mapping, obstacle detection and app‑based monitoring to operate autonomously, promising consistent upkeep with minimal human input....
NATO Ally Taps Red Cat’s Black Widow Drones for Next-Gen Defense
Red Cat Holdings’ Black Widow small unmanned aircraft system has won a contract from an unnamed NATO ally after a competitive tender. The sUAS will be deployed in 2026 to augment the ally’s short‑range air‑defence and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance...
Ukraine Fields Helsing HX-2 UAVs: First Videos Surface
Ukraine’s 59th Assault Brigade has begun fielding German‑made Helsing HX‑2 attack drones alongside the older HF‑1 model. The first frontline video shows the HX‑2 launched from a catapult striking tanks, artillery and supply trucks up to 100 km away. Analysts describe...
Over 100 Self-Driving Cars Leave Passengers Stranded in China After Sudden Outage
On March 31, 2026, more than 100 Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan abruptly shut down, leaving passengers stranded on busy streets and an overpass. The company attributed the blackout to a possible system failure and launched an internal investigation. While no one was...
Why Automation Systems Fail Without Weather Intelligence
Automation systems often fail due to missing weather intelligence, despite advanced sensors and AI. Weather variables such as rain, wind, and temperature directly affect robot traction, drone stability, and battery performance. Raw weather data is inconsistent, delayed, and too coarse,...
MODEX 2026: FANUC America Showcases Robotics and AMRs for Warehousing and Logistics
FANUC America unveiled five high‑performance robotic systems at MODEX 2026, highlighting a mobile manipulator (CRX‑30iA) paired with Rockwell’s OTTO 600 autonomous mobile robot. The integrated solution demonstrates palletizing, box scanning, weighing, transport and sorting, operating at up to 2 m/s while using...
Amazon to Scale up Drone Delivery in 2025, CEO Says
Amazon announced a major expansion of its Prime Air drone service, aiming to reach 30 million customers by the end of 2025 and deliver 500 million packages annually by 2030. The rollout will use more than 85 same‑day fulfillment centers and over...
Chef Robotics Expands AI-Powered Automation Into Meatpacking
Chef Robotics, a San Francisco‑based food robotics firm, has extended its AI‑driven automation platform to tray assembly for meatpacking. The system can pick, orient and place raw, frozen and precooked proteins—such as pork loins, chicken breasts, steaks and sausage links—onto...
Sky Robots Showcases Integrated Drone Security Model for Mines, Other High-Value Assets
Sky Robots unveiled an integrated drone security platform aimed at mines and other high‑value assets, combining VTOL fixed‑wing aircraft for persistent surveillance with rapid‑response multi‑rotor drones. The solution bundles remote piloting, ROIP communications, AI‑driven flight safety, and a full suite...
Waymo Robotaxis Are Now Finding Potholes
Waymo’s autonomous robotaxis are now detecting potholes across five test markets, transmitting the information to city agencies and the Waze navigation app. The fleet’s lidar and camera sensors feed high‑resolution road‑condition data into a shared platform, enabling real‑time alerts for...
Around the Commercial Drone Industry: Whale Tracking, Expo Sneak Peek, Manufacturing
Harvard mechanical‑engineering seniors designed a fixed‑wing eVTOL drone that launches vertically from a research vessel to track sperm whales off Dominica, addressing the limitations of quadcopter‑based tagging. The Commercial UAV Expo 2026 in Las Vegas will spotlight BVLOS operations, UTM integration,...
Faraday Future Showcases Autonomous Food Delivery Scenario with Its FX Aegis Robot, Integrates OpenClaw to Enable No-Code Skills Development and...
Faraday Future unveiled a demonstration where its FX Aegis quadruped robot autonomously completed a food‑delivery task, highlighting the platform’s real‑world capabilities. The robot now incorporates OpenClaw, an open‑source framework that lets users program skills through no‑code or low‑code conversational commands...
Russia Pairs North Korean Rocket Artillery with Ground Drone
Russian forces have equipped the Courier unmanned ground vehicle with a North Korean‑made Type 75 107 mm multiple‑launch rocket system, creating a crewless artillery platform. The 12‑tube launcher can fire a full salvo up to roughly 8.5 km, delivering high‑explosive or cluster munitions...
SVT Robotics Launches ‘Softbot Intelligence’ to Power AI with Real-Time Automation Data
SVT Robotics unveiled Softbot Intelligence, a platform that captures and contextualizes real‑time execution data from robotics, software, and enterprise systems. By correlating events with millisecond precision, the solution creates a high‑fidelity data backbone that AI can consume for accurate predictions...
Robot Talk Episode 151 – Robots to Study the Ocean, with Simona Aracri
Claire interviews Simona Aracri of Italy's National Research Council about cutting‑edge ocean‑robotics. Aracri’s work blends innovative sensors with autonomous platforms to expand observational oceanography. She has logged over six months aboard research vessels in the Mediterranean, Pacific and North Sea,...
BlueBotics to Highlight Fleet Manager Standardization and Advanced Obstacle Avoidance for AGVs/AMRs at MODEX 2026
BlueBotics, the Swiss leader in autonomous navigation, will showcase its ANT platform and new SmartPass obstacle‑avoidance technology at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta. The company will co‑host a seminar with Kohler titled “The Power of One,” highlighting the advantages of standardizing fleet‑manager...
UK Backs Fusion Processing to Explore Driverless Airport Transportation
Fusion Processing has secured UK government funding through the CAM Pathfinder program to study driverless staff transport on airport airside. The feasibility study will assess operational, economic and safety cases for Level 4 autonomous vehicles across multiple UK airports, using a...
Why Commercial Drones Move Slowly While Military Drones Transformed Warfare Overnight
The article contrasts the rapid evolution of military drones with the sluggish adoption of commercial drones. In war zones, risk‑tolerant environments and urgent mission value accelerate development, allowing cheap off‑the‑shelf quadcopters to become decisive tools in Ukraine, Gaza, and the...
Bureaucracy and Phantom Sightings: The Truth Behind the Dutch Drone Panic
In late 2025 the Netherlands experienced a wave of anxiety over alleged drones hovering over military bases, airports and other critical sites. Freedom‑of‑information documents released by AD show that despite hundreds of public reports, authorities never located a single confirmed...
Case Study: Underground Digitalisation at Rampura Agucha
Hindustan Zinc is digitising its flagship Rampura Agucha underground mine in Rajasthan, deploying automated haul trucks, remote‑monitoring sensors, and low‑emission power systems. The initiative links equipment to a central control platform, enabling real‑time performance analytics and predictive maintenance. Early results...
Crack Detection in Stainless Steel Tanks Using Robotic Technology
Ensuring the structural integrity of stainless‑steel tanks is vital for chemicals, pharma and food processors, yet traditional visual and NDT inspections are time‑consuming and often require vessel shutdowns. Recent advances in robotic inspection allow remote‑controlled units equipped with ultrasonic, laser...
Bear of the Day: AeroVironment (AVAV)
AeroVironment (AVAV), a designer of uncrewed aircraft systems and related software, is grappling with intense competition and a heavy reliance on U.S. government contracts. The company reported third‑quarter earnings of $0.64 per share, missing the consensus by 6%, and analysts...
U.S. Firm Develops Interceptor Drone with AI Sound Targeting
Talon Avionics of Boise unveiled SECTR, an autonomous counter‑drone platform that combines AI‑driven acoustic sensing with radar to detect, classify and engage hostile drones in under one second. The modular station can launch up to 100 lightweight interceptors, each weighing...
Lyreco Automates French Logistics Hub with Exotec Skypod Robots in €25 Million Upgrade
Lyreco has completed a €25 million (≈$27 million) upgrade of its Villaines‑la‑Juhel logistics hub, adding a new 3,000 m² facility and more than 100 Exotec Skypod robots. The French site handles 60% of Lyreco’s 50,000 daily parcels, and the automation streamlines outbound sequencing,...
The Institute for Driverless Transport Event Debates Britain’s AV Rollout
The Institute for Driverless Transport convened experts, lobbyists and taxi operators in London to debate Britain’s autonomous‑vehicle (AV) rollout. The UK’s 2024 Autonomous Vehicle Act will take effect in 2026, allowing pilot programs on public roads for the first time....
French Navy Orders Five Additional CAMCOPTER UAVs From Schiebel
The French Navy has placed a follow‑on order for five additional CAMCOPTER S‑100 unmanned air vehicles from Austrian manufacturer Schiebel. Each new system includes two VTOL UAVs, bringing the navy’s total to eight S‑100 installations once deliveries, scheduled to begin...
Latvia Confirms Ground Drone Procurement From Three Local Firms
Latvia’s Ministry of Defence announced on April 10, 2026 that it has signed contracts with three domestic firms—Brasa Defence Systems, Natrix and LV‑Teh—to supply unmanned ground systems for the National Armed Forces. The agreements cover delivery, support, repair, modernization and grant the...
New Pentagon Memo Complicates DJI Drone Ban Reversal
The Pentagon released a memo reaffirming its opposition to any reconsideration of the FCC’s “Covered List,” which bars foreign‑made drones and critical components from U.S. sale. The memo cites both classified and unclassified intelligence, including a classified annex submitted to...
Philippine Navy Develops Prototypes of Autonomous Logistics Drones
The Philippine Navy has signed an agreement with Cebu Technological University to build two autonomous logistics platforms – a Hybrid Marine‑Air Vehicle (HMAV) and a Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS). Both prototypes aim to improve inter‑island transport, disaster response and...
Royal Navy Expands Autonomous Underwater Fleet via New Teledyne Marine Contract
Teledyne Marine has secured a UK Ministry of Defence contract to supply autonomous ocean‑observing systems for the Royal Navy’s Future Maritime Data Gathering program. The deal provides Sentinel and Slocum gliders along with APEX profiling floats and full support services,...
Cleveland Police Put More Drones on the Beat
Cleveland Police has rolled out a Drone as First Responder (DFR) system, enabling drones to be launched from weather‑proof boxes in as little as 90 seconds. Operators control the aircraft from the control room, providing live aerial footage to guide...
Multi-Sensor Airspace Management System Deployed at Oklahoma Air & Space Port
Vigilant Aerospace has deployed its FlightHorizon TEMPO airspace management system at the Oklahoma Air & Space Port, integrating long‑range radars and transponder receivers to monitor thousands of square kilometers. The multi‑sensor network currently covers 5,000 km² and will expand to about...
Meet the Swiss Founder Building Robots that Make Crêpes
Swiss startup Maus Robotics, founded by 28‑year‑old Robert Hennig, has built an automated crêpe‑making robot that can serve a fresh crepe every 90 seconds. The prototype, developed during Hennig’s EPFL PhD, costs roughly $5,400–$6,500 in hardware and uses a patented...
Bosch and Qualcomm Expand Partnership to Cover ADAS
Bosch and Qualcomm announced an expansion of their automotive partnership to include advanced driver‑assistance systems (ADAS), adding to a collaboration that already powers cockpit computing. The joint ADAS integration platform, built on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Ride Flex system‑on‑chip, will combine cockpit...
Waymo and Waze to Share Pothole Data with US Cities
Waymo and Waze have launched a pilot that streams autonomous‑vehicle‑detected pothole data to municipal transportation departments via the Waze for Cities platform. The program currently operates in five U.S. metro areas—San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Austin and Atlanta—where Waymo’s...
PonyWorld 2.0 Adds Self-Diagnosis to Pony.ai’s L4 Stack
Pony.ai unveiled PonyWorld 2.0, an upgraded world model that lets its Level‑4 autonomous driving stack diagnose its own performance gaps. The system creates targeted data‑collection tasks for human teams, feeding fresh samples back into a cloud‑based training loop. Pony.ai says...
ZYT and Lisheng Technology Form Strategic Partnership on Intelligent Driving
ZT Y and Lisheng Technology signed a strategic partnership on April 3, 2026 to co‑develop intelligent driver‑assistance systems. The agreement covers chip adaptation, system integration and large‑scale manufacturing, with joint projects on mainstream automotive‑grade chips and a multi‑chip ecosystem to...
PickNik Releases MoveIt Pro 9 to Improve AI-Driven Robotics in Variable Environments
PickNik launched MoveIt Pro 9, adding AI‑driven scan‑and‑plan capabilities that let industrial robots perceive and adapt to variable environments in real time. The update introduces AI perception filtering, point‑cloud alignment, automated contour extraction, and collision‑aware motion planning. Early adopters such as Autowash,...
MODEX 2026: Peak Technologies Introduces Peak Automation Intelligence
Peak Technologies launched Peak Automation Intelligence at MODEX 2026, an AI‑powered platform that delivers real‑time visibility and automated data capture across warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing operations. Built on machine‑vision, smart optics and mobile computing, the solution tracks every pallet,...
Mariana Minerals and Pronto Announce Partnership to Automate Mining Truck Ops at Copper One
Mariana Minerals is integrating Pronto's autonomous haulage system into its MineOS platform at Copper One, the company’s Utah copper mine and refinery. The partnership follows Pronto’s recent acquisition by Atoms, a physical‑AI firm founded by Travis Kalanick. By feeding real‑time...
MODEX 2026: Yale Lift Truck Technologies to Showcase Offerings that Address Warehouse Challenges
Yale Lift Truck Technologies is showcasing its latest lift‑truck portfolio, operator‑assist systems, and automation portal at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta. The exhibit features ergonomic three‑wheel stand‑up trucks, a new lithium‑ion‑powered counterbalanced model, and the Route Runner direct‑store delivery solution. Interactive...
Musk Says Tesla FSD V15 Will ‘Far Exceed’ Human Safety — He Said the Same About V12 and V14
Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s upcoming Full Self‑Driving version 15 will "far exceed human levels of safety," echoing identical promises made for versions 12 and 14. The claim follows a recent user review of FSD v14.3, which highlighted ongoing bugs and...