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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,…

Ant Group leads $73.58M funding round in humano…  Pluang

Dublin, July 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “AI in Operating Room Market Report 2026” has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The artificial intelligence (AI) in operating room market is witnessing substantial growth, as it is projected to expand from $0.9 billion in 2025 to $1.17 billion in 2026, achieving a 30% compound annual growth…

Alibaba-affiliate Ant Group is accelerating its push into humanoid robotics, leading a 500 million yuan ($73.6 million) funding round in Chinese robotics startup Zeroth as the company expands beyond fintech and artificial intelligence into one of the fastest-growing frontiers of AI-powered hardware. The investment marks Ant’s latest move to build a strategic presence across China’s…

Arm drift after long reinforcement training caused by action prefix drift. Source: Humanoid Robotic manipulation is making progress with artificial intelligence. London-based Humanoid last week introduced KinetIQ Ascend, its reinforcement learning, or RL, approach designed to reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond. “The humanoid race is becoming a question of scale, and…

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…

Researchers led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) have developed a new technique that could greatly improve how scientists study the expansion of the Universe and investigate the mysterious force known as dark energy. Published in Nature Astronomy, the research introduces a framework called CIGaRS that can extract far…

McLaren will deploy autonomous quadruped robots initially to capture 360° site imagery, generate data and support safety compliance patrols and quality assurance. Regular automated scans by FieldAI robots will create a visual and spatial record of work as it is installed. AI-enabled analysis will compare site data against the design model, reducing the time between install…