RoboStrategy’s tokenized BOT shares reportedly outtraded the underlying Nasdaq stock on a Sunday after Backpack Securities listed them on Solana, making the robotics fund one of the network’s busiest tokenized equities. Behind it sits CEO Andrew Kang’s bet on Figure AI, Apptronik and a handful of other private humanoid-robot makers, funded through a string of private share raises now running alongside a 24/7 secondary market.
RoboBusiness 2026, which takes place October 20-21 in Santa Clara, Calif., has opened its call for startups. The event is looking for robotics startups to take part in its startup alley. Selected startups will get a free 10×10 booth on the RoboBusiness show floor. The deadline for submissions is August 12, 2026. We’re looking for…
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…
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One of several interesting conditions documented during recent structural assessments. Curious how others in the engineering field would evaluate the observed condition and prioritize potential next steps for investigation. submitted by /u/DMAS1638 [comments]
Mistral AI has released Robostral Navigate, its first dedicated robotics navigation model and a key step in the French startup’s push into “physical AI” for factories, warehouses and industrial automation. Robostral Navigate is an 8‑billion‑parameter vision‑language‑action model that takes images from a single RGB camera plus a plain‑language instruction and moves a robot through complex…
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,…