China’s space agency to launch deflection impact test on an asteroid 4.3 million miles away in 2029

Circle.com Japan became the first nation to designate a physical AI compute cluster as national infrastructure on Thursday, announcing a government-backed factory of 27,500 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs — enough raw compute to train the trillion-parameter models that robots need to navigate, grasp, and adapt in real industrial environments. Behind the hardware…

Abstract According to the latest IndexBox report on the global Automated Assembly Line Robotic System market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture. The World Automated Assembly Line Robotic System market is entering a sustained expansion phase, with demand projected to grow at…

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/us-considers-creating-finra-like-watchdog-to-vet-top-ai-models The speed and near-universal endorsements from AI lab leaders and tech CEOs after Demis published his proposal wasn't a spontaneous reaction. this had obviously been discussed and refined behind the scenes for months. The whole "everyone at the frontier agrees" story now looks carefully constructed to build momentum for the reported FINRA-style regulator….

Key Points Serve Robotics develops last-mile logistics solutions to lower the cost of making small commercial deliveries. It has deployed over 2,000 of its robots into food and retail delivery networks like Uber Eats and DoorDash. Revenue is soaring thanks to a mix of organic growth and a key acquisition, so its stock looks attractive….

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU), and several partner institutions have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of mapping disease-related changes throughout an entire mouse body at cellular-level detail. Using the new platform, known as MouseMapper, the team discovered widespread inflammation and previously unknown nerve damage linked to obesity. The study…

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,…