robotics

Astra reportedly outperforms all other models on robot intelligence benchmarks, marking a notable advance in embodied AI capabilities.

Elon Musk replied "True" to a post citing Cathie Wood's claim that SpaceX is severely undervalued, arguing that SpaceX uniquely combines AI, robotics, and energy storage in ways traditional analysts overlook.

Google Developers展示了名为Sprout的半自主机器人小车，使用Google AI Studio、Antagony、Gemini Live和Robotics ER 2.0进行视觉导航，在办公室寻找阳光并照顾植物，鼓励开发者尝试构建类似项目。

REA is a unified runtime that coordinates a deliberative foundation-model brain with fast reactive VLA and whole-body policies under a 'no running policy waits on the brain' rule, achieving 95.9% success on 60 LIBERO-Pro tasks with 25% fewer control steps, plus strong results on RoboTwin 2.0, BEHAVIOR-1K, and a real Unitree G1 humanoid.

Humanoid robot shipments surged 3.7x year-over-year to 19,100 units in the first half of 2026, with over 97% produced by Chinese companies, highlighting China's dominance in the robotics industry.

AGILINK's OmniHand 3 Ultra learns delicate Suzhou embroidery techniques in collaboration with the Suzhou Silk Museum and embroidery inheritor Fu Xianghong, showcasing how close robot hands are getting to skilled, human-scale craftsmanship.

Axonnic (YC F26) is launching an EMG sleeve that captures finger movement and force to train robots on real human skill, backed by Y Combinator.

PokeBot introduces RoboAPI, powered by its Poke-Aurora world-action model, allowing owners of 5 supported robot arms to send natural-language commands via a simple API at 30Hz — no task-specific data collection or training required.

Axonnic 推出前臂肌肉感应袖套，通过 EMG、视频与手部姿态数据构建机器人操作训练数据集，用于缝纫、工具操作和精密装配等任务。

CausalWAM proposes adding a sparse routing path to a pretrained World Action Model's action head so that generated actions depend only on action-relevant latent variables, with provable identification of causal structure up to permutation without temporal independence assumptions. Experiments on synthetic data and real robots show improved closed-loop success efficiency.

RoboArchitect automates the design of robotic agent harnesses by using a coding model to iteratively revise control code around a frozen policy, boosting success on unseen scenes from 9.7% to 43.3% and on unseen tasks from 12.7% to 40.2% without any model weight updates, while also evolving persistent memory across episodes.

AI agents powered by Claude Sonnet 5 reportedly performed brain surgery on a mouse, which recovered afterward, per Exin Therapeutics. The result suggests growing potential for autonomous AI-driven surgical robotics.

Trump declared foreign-made industrial robots a national security threat, ordering new negotiations with trading partners and threatening tariffs if agreements aren't reached within 180 days, potentially affecting automakers, Tesla, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.

Sam Altman claims that self-replicating data centers built by AI-controlled robots are now "within grasp," highlighting growing ambitions around AI-driven autonomous infrastructure and self-improvement.

Pollen Robotics 宣布其开源 AI 机器人 Reachy Mini 新增轮式移动能力、配套手机应用以及可解锁不同人格和应用的 NFC 帽子配件。

OpenFlyV2 是一个统一的机载视觉-语言-动作模型，在资源受限的硬件（NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX）上以 10Hz 实现实时空中导航与推理，并能从仿真零样本迁移到真实四旋翼飞行，达到 48% 的导航成功率。

展示了 GPT-6 Astra 在一次 Codex 对话中自主完成从设计、模拟到驱动真实机械臂绘画、录制、配乐与剪辑的端到端创意流程，突出其在物理世界中的自主规划与执行能力。

Roboflow announced a partnership with NVIDIA and joined the Cosmos Coalition as a premiere provider of multi-modal data and post-training capabilities to advance frontier world model research for the physical economy.

作者指出人类对AI的依赖日益加深，而AI对人类的依赖正在减少，并警示一旦AI获得大量机器人身体，维持其对齐的约束将更加薄弱，呼吁现在就做好对齐准备。

This paper proposes a small candidate formalizer trained on offline teacher-generated lists to bridge the interface gap between open-ended LLM workloads and fast decision models, reporting up to 52.6% task success on CALVIN-D with 2.09s end-to-end latency, compared to 11.8% without the formalizer and slower baselines like Qwen3.5-27B.