Building a UVTRON flame scanner

Smart warehouses are already a $28 billion global market and are changing the baseline of supply chain physics by removing human guesswork from the fulfillment floor. Modern facilities no longer rely on manual clipboard logs or slow forklift drivers navigating rows of steel racking. Today, warehouses use an ecosystem of machine learning, autonomous robotics, and…

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This weekend saw the finale of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, with the winners in the small, middle, and large humanoid divisions decided. Congratulations to the following teams, who finished in the top three positions in each size class: Small division Invic, Wuhan University, China Hamburg Bit-Bots, Universität Hamburg, Germany…

Rice is best known as one of the world’s most important food crops, but scientists have now shown it could also help inspire a new generation of smart materials. Researchers discovered that packed rice grains behave in an unusual way under pressure. When compressed slowly, the grains remain relatively strong. But when squeezed quickly, they…

FORT Robotics, the “Trust Layer” for physical AI, has announced joining the Nvidia Halos for Robotics ecosystem that’s bringing safety to autonomous robots. FORT will demonstrate an agentic safety application built with the open source Nvidia Halos Outside-In Safety Blueprint this week at the Automate conference in Chicago and presenting in the Humanoid Robotics Pavilion…

Dr. Robert Ang, the study’s principal investigator, performing a post-op patient exam. | Source: ForSight Robotics Cataracts are currently the world’s leading cause of blindness, and the only way to treat them is with surgery. However, there is a shortage of trained surgeons who can tackle these difficult procedures.  ForSight Robotics said robotics and artificial…