Forget drones dropping boxes from the sky or awkward little coolers on wheels getting stuck on curbs. Boston Dynamics is cooking up a much more agile solution to the “last-mile” delivery problem, and it involves their famous four-legged cyber-pup, Spot.
The evening before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s speech on Wednesday, in which he announced he was taking control of Australia’s AI strategy, the head of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, posted an essay urging pre-release testing of AI models. He was quickly supported by a chorus of other US AI companies. A clue about why they…
An AI-enabled humanoid robot sorts medication packs at a pharmaceutical facility.Credit: RobotEra In 2025, Shenzhen-based robotics manufacturer UBTech began deploying its silver, humanoid Walker S1 model across car assembly lines in China. Working alongside human employees, the robot quickly adjusted its posture, grip, and balance in real time, responding to visual signals and physical contact. That…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto's Continuum Robotics Laboratory introduced CRAFT, a 3D-printed modular design library for tendon-driven continuum robots that allows a single robot to physically reconfigure its shape, stiffness, and degrees of freedom within minutes by snapping together six interchangeable modules. The same base robot was reconfigured into a long teleoperated probe for…
Astronomers at the University of Warwick have confirmed more than 100 exoplanets, including 31 newly identified worlds, using a new artificial intelligence system. The team applied this tool to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission that scans the sky for slight dips in starlight that occur when a planet crosses in…