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Robotics & Drones
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As drone swarms become one of the most urgent threats on modern battlefields, Lockheed Martin says its latest counter-drone system can stop more than 50 hostile UAVs in a single flight without firing a single missile. The company unveiled…
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Robotics & Drones
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This week, two research teams showed that the standard quadcopter design is far from the only way to build a flying robot. At Northwestern University, engineers unveiled a drone that spins its entire body at 1,500 RPM to become nearly…
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Robotics & Drones
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San Francisco startup Weave Robotics began accepting $250 refundable deposits this week for Isaac 1, a wheeled humanoid robot designed to fold laundry, make beds, and tidy bedrooms without anyone lifting a finger. The robot lands at $7,999…
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Robotics & Drones
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In August 2025, Beijing staged an event no country had attempted before: the first World Humanoid Robot Games, a three-day competition where more than 500 humanoid robots from 280 teams and 16 countries raced, kicked, boxed, and sorted…
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Robotics & Drones
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A handful of humanoid robots are now doing documented, repeatable work on active production lines. The programmes with the loudest marketing, though, have shipped the fewest machines. That gap sits at the center of humanoid robotics in…
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Robotics & Drones
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A Y Combinator-backed French company says its palm-sized drone has, for the first time, tracked and destroyed a flying insect in mid-air with no human at the controls. Mosquitoes are next on the target list. Tornyol, founded by Clovis…
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Robotics & Drones
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The Federal Aviation Administration's Part 108 rule, the first standing federal framework for beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone delivery, began phasing in this month. For the first time, operators can certify package flights at…
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Robotics & Drones
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Enterprise robotics is moving faster in mid-2026 than most forecasts expected. The through-line across the recent wave of announcements is simple: machines that sense and act are leaving demos and entering warehouses, loading docks, and…