The data center fight is going global

Sheco’s unmanned marine cleanup robot “Ark” demonstrated its oil-spill recovery capabilities at a government vessel pier in Incheon on the 23rd. Photo courtesy of the Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development The Korea Coast Guard has conducted a pilot demonstration of unmanned water-purification operations, using an autonomous robotic boat to remove oil pollutants floating…

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The second day’s play at RoboCup 2026 has drawn to a close with another bumper set of matches. Teams have come from far and wide to take part in the humanoid soccer competition this year, with 17 different countries represented. China is the most represented country, boasting 15 teams across the three divisions. Other countries…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026: 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems: 29 July–4 August 2026,…

We developed a leaderboard ranking frontier model security. There's no shortage of model capability rankings, but we didn't find anything comparable for model security. Yet security is becoming increasingly critical to deployment decisions: from the USG making developers pull models for cybersecurity jailbreaks to developers holding back on AI agent deployments due to risks of…

Physical artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mowito, which is building foundation models for industrial robot arms, on Tuesday said it has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Version One Ventures.   The round also saw participation from All In Capital, Unisol, iSeed, and angel investors including Soumith Chintala (Thinking Machines…