Humanoid robot beat the half-marathon world record in Beijing. Here’s what experts say it...
SUMMARY: In April 2026, a humanoid robot finished a half marathon in Beijing faster than any human ever has. The result is real and...
Inside the FCC foreign robot ban: The vulnerabilities that justified it, and who actually...
SUMMARY: On July 28, 2026, the FCC blocked new foreign-made humanoid, quadruped, and mobile robots from US import authorization, citing three specific, already-documented security...
Chinese hardware vulnerabilities and supply chain security: What the evidence actually shows
SUMMARY: In August 2026, the UK Ministry of Defence found that a Royal Navy sea drone had been sending a periodic signal to a...
Robot cybersecurity vulnerabilities: What CVE-2026-8153 and UniPwn reveal about robot safety
SUMMARY: For nearly a decade, security researchers have shown that a robot's physical safety features — the speed limits, force limits, and proximity sensors...
How robot mobility outpaced safety regulations: Why industrial robot rules are falling behind
SUMMARY: A Tesla technician's $51 million lawsuit sits inside a much larger, harder-to-see problem: as robots have gained the mobility to work unguarded alongside people,...
These AI research labs are building very different world models for robot training
Physical AI shifts the focus of robotics from rigid, hard-coded automation to an entirely new realm, in which machines can survey the real world,...
Best data labeling companies for robotics & physical AI in 2026
Robots are moving out of labs and onto factory floors, into warehouses, hospitals, and homes — and every one of them runs on labeled...
Surgical robots in 2026: Beyond da Vinci — Who is competing and what they...
On April 21, 2026, Intuitive Surgical reported Q1 2026 revenue of $2.77 billion — a 23% year-on-year increase — with 11,395 da Vinci systems now installed...
Will robots take manufacturing jobs? What the data actually shows
South Korea has 1,220 robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers — the highest robot density ever recorded for any country, according to the IFR's World Robotics 2025...
How AI robots depend on reliable hardware more than ever
Walk onto any modern factory floor and the change is palpable. Robotic arms that once blindly repeated the same motion for years now adapt....
Why robot downtime still happens in smart factories
Industry 4.0 painted a vision of self-healing production lines, lights-out manufacturing, and robots that predict their own failures. Yet on real factory floors—the kind...
General-purpose vs. task-specific robots: A practical guide for decision-makers
In September 2025, the International Federation of Robotics reported 542,000 industrial robot installations in 2024 — the fourth straight year above 500,000 units. Of that total,...
