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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…

Samsung plans to merge AI, sensors and chip expertise into robots for homes and factories, promising growth yet demanding sustained research investment and industry partnerships. Samsung Electronics is creating a robotics division as a key element of its growth strategy for the coming years. The new direction will bring together the development of service robots,…

By Syl Kacapyr Cornell engineers have developed a robotic collective that behaves less like a machine and more like a material that flows, reshapes and adapts to its environment without centralized control. The system, called the Cross-Link Collective, consists of dozens of small robots that have limited mobility individually, but together exhibit coordinated and sustained…

Burros can carry, tow, scout, patrol, mow, push, pull, or propel a variety of attachments as a platform for manipulation. | Credit: Burro AI In 2018, Burro did a demo. The robot worked. We were excited. We thought we understood the problem. We did not understand the problem. What we understood was how to make…

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By Michael Psenka, Mike Rabbat, Aditi Krishnapriyan, Yann LeCun, Amir Bar GRASP is a new gradient-based planner for learned dynamics (a “world model”) that makes long-horizon planning practical by (1) lifting the trajectory into virtual states so optimization is parallel across time, (2) adding stochasticity directly to the state iterates for exploration, and (3) reshaping…