Robotics archive
Every Robotics story, newest first. 84 in this archive.
Jul 27, 2026
The Proximity Layer: Gene.01's Smart Skin Tests Whether Humanoids Can Sense Before They Touch
Generative Bionics unveiled Gene.01—a six-month-built humanoid with full-body tactile skin—at AMD Advancing AI 2026, pairing peer-reviewed ergoCub research with a Fincantieri shipyard welding deployment and an open-source digital twin.
Jul 26, 2026
The Repeat-Back Protocol: Korea's Navy Tests a Humanoid LLM at the Helm
South Korea's Navy conducted its first combat experiment with KAIST's PIBOT humanoid at a bridge simulator in Changwon — using a large language model to interpret helm orders, repeat them back, and steer through narrow-channel, night, and heavy-weather scenarios as phase one of a four-stage rollout under the Navy Sea GHOST program.
Jul 26, 2026
Contact Before Motion: RynnBrain 1.1 Tests Whether Embodied Brains Can Scale Like LLMs
Alibaba DAMO Academy's RynnBrain 1.1 adds contact-point prediction, native 3D grounding, and a unified cross-embodiment VLA — then deploys it on Unitree G1, Astribot-S1, and Tianji-Wuji with benchmark-leading cognition scores and up to 95% real-robot success.
Jul 26, 2026
The Reconstruct Bottleneck: Anthropic and Andon Labs Put Frontier Models in the Cockpit of a $129 Drone
Anthropic's Project Pilot and Andon Labs' new Drone-Bench benchmark test whether frontier AI models can autonomously locate and follow a person with a consumer drone — and reveal a six-month gap between peak capability and reliable performance.