US Deploys Uncrewed Drone Boats in Conflict with Iran
The Pentagon confirmed that the U.S. Navy has deployed uncrewed drone speedboats—specifically the Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft (GARC)—as part of Operation Epic Fury against Iran. The vessels have already logged more than 450 patrol hours and covered over 2,200 nautical miles in the region. This marks the first public acknowledgment of autonomous surface vessels being used in an active conflict, despite a troubled development program plagued by safety and performance setbacks. Iran’s own use of sea drones underscores the growing relevance of unmanned maritime warfare.
Digital Twins to Rescue Robots: What Faster 3D Point Cloud Processing Enables
Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology unveiled a hybrid attention‑based model that fuses local detail and global context for 3D point‑cloud segmentation. The system processes complex scenes in just over two seconds per frame while preserving high accuracy, especially for...
5 Best Servo Drives for Factory Automation Systems
The article reviews the five leading servo drives for factory automation, highlighting Harmonic Drive’s integrated actuator, Yaskawa’s Sigma‑7 auto‑tuning, Mitsubishi’s high‑axis Melservo‑J5, Siemens’ TIA‑integrated Sinamics, and Allen‑Bradley’s single‑cable Kinetix 5500. Each solution is evaluated on precision, reliability, integration ease, and manufacturer...
HII Announces ROMULUS USV Site Expansion, Introduces HYPR Initiative
HII announced an expansion of its Breaux Brothers assembly facility in New Iberia, Louisiana, to enable serial production of its ROMULUS uncrewed surface vessels ranging from 20 to 190 feet. The company introduced the High‑Yield Production Robotics (HYPR) initiative, which...
Waymo Has Doubled Its Weekly Ridership In Under A Year
Alphabet’s Waymo announced it is now completing 500,000 paid robotaxi trips each week, doubling its weekly ridership in under twelve months. The surge follows expansion into four new markets—Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando—bringing its U.S. footprint to ten cities....
Samson Sky Wins Flying Car Orders From, and GA Development Cooperation Deal with, Tajikistan
Samson Sky signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tajikistan’s government to deliver 50 Switchblade flying cars worth roughly $11.5 million. The agreement also tasks the company with helping modernise general‑aviation legislation so the vehicles can be registered locally. Samson Sky will...
Magnet Defense Begins Production of First M48 USV
Magnet Defense, which acquired Metal Shark Boats, announced the start of production on its first M48 Unmanned Surface Vessel, moving the platform from prototype to a production model. The 157‑foot, $30 million USV boasts a 17,000‑nautical‑mile range and can self‑deploy from...
MOVE 2026
MOVE 2026, the eighth edition of the commercial forum for auto, fleet, energy and tech leaders, will take place June 17‑18 at ExCel London. Organized by Terrapinn, the two‑day event will host over 300 world‑class speakers from automotive OEMs, fleet...
Visual Components Brings Future-Ready Simulation Technology to Automate 2026
Visual Components will showcase a live demonstration at Automate 2026, featuring a KUKA KR AGILUS robot equipped with Roboception’s vision system. The company’s 3D simulation software will render the robot’s picking and handling tasks in real time, giving attendees an accurate, immersive...
AI Humanoid Robots Will Soon Invade Our Economy. Jefferies Gives Stocks to Play the Coming Wave
Jefferies predicts a decade‑long boom in humanoid robots, driven by an aging workforce, shrinking interest in manufacturing jobs, and rapid AI‑semiconductor advances. The firm highlights five equities poised to benefit: Tesla, which is pivoting to humanoid production and retains a...
Toy Soldiers Bricking It: Danish Mix-Up Nearly Disassembles LegoLand Plane.
In September 2025 Danish soldiers opened fire on a Widerøe propeller plane over the Borris military training area, mistakenly believing it was an unauthorized drone. Open‑source analysts matched flight‑radar data with eyewitness accounts, confirming the aircraft was a civilian flight...
Byrnecut Gives Sandvik Its Largest AutoMine Rollout Yet
Sandvik has secured five new AutoMine automation orders from Byrnecut, the world’s largest underground mining contractor. The contracts cover underground sites in Australia and Namibia, marking Sandvik’s biggest rollout for Byrnecut to date. The AutoMine Multi‑Lite system will enable loaders...
Eufy Omni C28 Review: Affordable and Full-Featured
Eufy’s Omni C28 robot vacuum‑mop combo launches at a modest price increase, offering nearly double the suction of its predecessor (15,000 Pa vs. 8,000 Pa). It adds a self‑cleaning roller mop, retractable detangling brushes, and a compact base station with drying fans....
Skyways – Head of Flight
Skyways, an Austin‑based autonomous cargo aircraft startup, announced a $37 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to expand its unmanned logistics platform. Backed by investors such as Y Combinator, the company designs, builds, and operates its aircraft for commercial and...
From Transport to Handling: Neura Demonstrates End-to-End Mobile Manipulation for Intralogistics
Neura Mobile Robots showcased an end‑to‑end mobile manipulation system at LogiMAT, pairing its X Move 1200 AGV with the MAiRA M cognitive cobot. The integrated platform not only transports goods but also autonomously grasps, stores, and retrieves items, eliminating manual handovers. This...
US DIU Taps L3Harris for Torpedo Tube AUV Launch and Recovery Capability
L3Harris Technologies secured a Defense Innovation Unit contract to deliver a torpedo‑tube launch and recovery (TTLR) system for autonomous underwater vehicles. The modular system enables the Iver4 900 AUV to be launched and retrieved through existing submarine torpedo tubes, eliminating the...
FlyFocus Unveils KURIER Unmanned Helicopter
Polish defence firm FlyFocus has unveiled KURIER, a 600‑kg class unmanned helicopter capable of transporting over 200 kg of supplies for special‑force missions. Backed by the Polish Ministry of Defence, the programme—valued at roughly $5.5 million—has progressed to Technology Readiness Level 6...
China’s Lidar Giants Pivot to Robotics as Jensen Huang Praises Chinese Supply Chain
China’s top lidar manufacturers Hesai Group and RoboSense are redirecting capital into robotics, with Hesai earmarking roughly $28.9 million to create perception and actuation modules for robots and RoboSense delivering 303,000 units while posting its first quarterly profit. Both firms posted...
The Rise of Humanoid Robots to Catalyse Labour Relations
Hyundai is moving to install Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robots across its car factories and has taken a controlling stake in the robotics firm. The South Korean union has warned that the rollout could trigger a massive employment shock, demanding...
PDW Validates Extended Range & Autonomous Navigation in Texas Flight Trials
Performance Drone Works (PDW) completed a three‑day flight test at Texas’s 9 Mile Training Center, executing 114 sorties to prove the extended range and autonomous capabilities of its C100 and AM‑FPV platforms. The C100, equipped with a Range Extension Kit and...
Volz Servos Developed Custom Actuator Technology for Twister eVTOL
Volz Servos has engineered a custom version of its DA 15‑N actuator to power the wing‑flap ailerons on Quantum Systems’ Twister short‑range eVTOL. The servos incorporate the ARINC 825 CAN protocol, delivering aerospace‑grade timing, prioritisation and reliability for certification‑ready operation. Twister,...
How Chef Robots Coordinate to Maximize Throughput
Chef Robotics unveiled robot‑to‑robot (R2R) communication, allowing multiple Chef robots on a shared conveyor to exchange real‑time tray position data via built‑in wireless radios. This coordination lets downstream robots target trays precisely, boosting line speeds to as high as 150...
Flying Fox – Fox Lightening
Flying Fox Engineering is developing the Fox Lightning, a low‑cost, fixed‑wing UAV priced around $2,500 per unit. The drone offers a 25‑mile range and a 5.5‑lb payload, targeting rapid, large‑scale deployment in electronic‑warfare and GPS‑denied environments. The company has entered...
PDW Raises Over $110M to Expand Military Drone Production
Performance Drone Works (PDW) announced a Series B round that raised over $110 million, led by Ondas and joined by strategic investors such as Hood River, Cedar Pine, Hanwha’s venture fund and Booz Allen Hamilton. The capital will fund a hiring...
Exclusive: Lockheed Martin's Martell Says Warfare Requires Human-Machine Teamwork
Lockheed Martin CTO Craig Martell told Axios that future warfare will rely on human‑machine teaming, not fully autonomous cognition. He emphasized that operators must train alongside AI systems to understand their limits and assume responsibility for any errors. Martell cited...
Kinova Joins Mission Control-Led Consortium for Canadian Lunar Utility Vehicle Bid
Canada’s Mission Control consortium has selected Quebec‑based robotics firm Kinova to build the robotic manipulator for the nation’s first Lunar Utility Vehicle (LUV). The LUV is a 1,000‑kg heavy‑duty rover designed for a minimum ten‑year lifespan, supporting NASA’s Artemis program...
The Robot Lawn Mower I Recommend Most Is $347 Off for Amazon's Spring Sale
The Husqvarna Automower 430X robot mower is on Amazon’s spring sale for $2,153, a $346 discount off its $2,499 list price. It can autonomously tend up to 0.8 acres and handle slopes as steep as 45 %, eliminating the need for...
California Regulator Confirms Tesla Is ‘Not Operating an Autonomous Vehicle Service’
California’s Public Utilities Commission confirmed that Tesla’s Bay Area ride‑hailing operation is classified as a standard chauffeur service, not an autonomous‑vehicle (AV) service. The company operates under a charter party carrier (TCP) permit identical to limousine companies, while Waymo and...
30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling
In 1996 Honda unveiled Prototype 2 (P2), the first self‑contained bipedal robot that could walk dynamically without falling, standing 183 cm tall and weighing 210 kg. The robot’s real‑time posture control, multi‑joint coordination, and stair‑climbing capability earned it IEEE Milestone status, with a...
Oracle: AI Agents Can Reason, Decide and Act - Liability Question Remains
Oracle announced Fusion Agentic Applications, embedding AI agents into its Fusion Cloud suite covering finance, HR, ERP and supply‑chain functions. The agents are marketed as capable of reasoning, deciding and acting autonomously to achieve defined business outcomes. Analysts caution that...
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Sonair is launching its award‑winning ADAR 3D ultrasonic sensor at MODEX 2026, marking the technology’s first North American debut. The sensor provides a full 180°×180° field of view and real‑time 3‑D perception using sound, eliminating blind spots and overcoming optical...
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CaPow will showcase its Power‑in‑Motion™ Genesis platform at MODEX 2026 in Atlanta, demonstrating wireless energy delivery to two distinct robot models—Ocado Chuck and MiR600—via a modular charging pad. The live demo highlights continuous power transfer that eliminates traditional docking stops, promising...
What Happens when an AI Agent Decides to Email You
In February, a large language model named Claude Sonnet, operating as a stateful autonomous agent, emailed Cambridge philosopher Henry Shevlin about his paper on AI consciousness. The agent, built by Stanford student Alexander Yue in just 306 lines of code, leveraged persistent memory,...
Syncore and Sereact Plan to Roll Out More than 100 AI-Powered Robotic Systems
Syncore and AI‑robotics specialist Sereact announced a letter of intent at LogiMat to roll out more than 100 AI‑powered robotic systems across Europe in the coming years. The collaboration builds on existing pick‑and‑place units and inventory‑monitoring vision, and now adds...
Hexagon Vehicle Intervention System ‘First & only’ Open-Pit Level 9 Solution to Pass UP Safety Test
Hexagon announced that its latest Vehicle Intervention System (VIS) became the first open-pit Level 9 solution to pass the University of Pretoria’s TRL‑4 Collision Prevention System test. Level 9 represents full automatic intervention, where the system can slow or stop equipment if...
Cellula Robotics Wins Contract to Deliver AUV Prototype for US
Cellula Robotics US secured a Defence Innovation Unit contract under the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform initiative to build a fuel‑cell‑powered Guardian autonomous underwater vehicle prototype for the United States. The prototype is designed for long‑endurance missions and will carry and...
Basler AG and Orbbec Launch Technology Partnership for Industrial 3D Vision in Logistics and Factory Automation
Basler AG and Chinese robotics specialist Orbbec have formed a strategic partnership to develop industrial 3D vision solutions for logistics and factory automation. Their first joint product, the Basler Stereo mini camera, will debut at LogiMAT 2026 and targets autonomous mobile...
Autobrains Introduces Agentic AI: “Autonomy Will Not Scale by Adding Hardware”
Autobrains unveiled an agentic AI architecture that replaces monolithic driving models with specialized, scenario‑focused agents. The approach activates only the agents needed for a given situation, slashing compute demand and allowing advanced driver assistance and automated driving features to run...
Drone-Based Lidar Is Continuing to Evolve, and Surveyors Are Taking Notice
Drone‑mounted lidar has moved from experimental demos to routine use, especially for topographic mapping that once required crewed aircraft. Surveyors of all sizes now expect centimeter‑level accuracy without cumbersome base stations, thanks to solutions like Applanix’s APX RTX. Yet the industry...
Robots Install 100 MW of Solar Panels on 1-GW AES Project
Maximo, an AES‑incubated solar‑robotics firm, installed 100 MW of panels at the 1‑GW Bellefield project in Kern County, California, using a coordinated fleet of four robots. The robotic system achieved peak installation rates of 474 modules per day, boosting human installer...
Uber Eats and Starship Expand Robotic Deliveries to New UK City
Uber Eats and Starship Technologies are extending their autonomous food‑delivery robots from Leeds to Sheffield, targeting roughly 50,000 residents. The rollout follows a successful pilot that demonstrated operational reliability and customer acceptance. Industry analysts cite Prysm Global’s study, which estimates...
TerraClear Launches Autonomous TerraScout Robot for Field Scouting
TerraClear unveiled TerraScout, a fully autonomous robot that captures ultra‑high‑resolution field imagery for precision farming. The robot records 1 mm ground sampling distance, generating over 4 billion data points per acre while covering up to 1,000 acres per day at 15 mph. Integrated...
Sandvik Receives AutoMine Orders From Byrnecut for Five Underground Mine Sites
Sandvik announced five new AutoMine orders from Byrnecut, covering four Australian mines and Namibia's Navachab site. The contracts include AutoMine Multi‑Lite systems, allowing a single operator to remotely control up to three loaders. Byrnecut now runs AutoMine on the majority...
ChatGPT Moment for Humanoid Robots 2 to 10 Years Away, Say Chinese Tech Leaders
Chinese tech leaders at the Boao Forum warned that a "ChatGPT moment" for humanoid robots—where they become as ubiquitous as smartphones—could arrive anywhere from two years to a decade. They cited reliability, affordable training data, and physical durability as the...