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Robotics & Drones
1,150 words 6 min read
The global operational stock of industrial robots hit 5.08 million units last year, a 9% jump from 2024 and the highest total ever recorded, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). Annual installations surged 11% to…
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Robotics & Drones
1,848 words 9 min read
On 1 October 2026, sitting in the Council chamber in Brussels, the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration explained why he was handing member states more money for drones than the Commission had originally offered. The…
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Robotics & Drones
1,930 words 9 min read
For most of the last decade, the argument about who is winning in robotics has been settled by counting things: how many arms are bolted to a line, how many humanoids rolled off a conveyor, how many autonomous vehicles are licensed…
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Robotics & Drones
1,645 words 8 min read
For most of the last decade, the pitch for drones in wildfire operations was straightforward and almost entirely futuristic: smaller aircraft, cheaper to fly, less danger to crews on the ground. Every year the pitch got cheaper to state…
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Robotics & Drones
1,951 words 9 min read
On the morning of September 30, 2026, roughly six hundred junior officers and enlisted service members stood on the parade ground at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and heard their defense secretary announce something the Pentagon…
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Robotics & Drones
2,001 words 10 min read
For most of the last decade the headline claim in humanoid robotics has been about locomotion. Vendors have competed on how a machine walks, balances, climbs stairs and survives a shove, and a long parade of demonstration videos has…
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Robotics & Drones
2,259 words 11 min read
In a converted industrial hall in Tallinn last week, more than a hundred companies set out to sell Europe the machines that will fight the next war. The drones dominated the floor, as they have dominated every conflict since 2022. But the…
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Robotics & Drones
1,489 words 7 min read
On 30 September 2026, Singapore's Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) opened the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre (H2RC) in one-north, a 29,000 square foot facility whose entire purpose is to train humanoid robots to work…
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Robotics & Drones
1,943 words 9 min read
For most of the last decade, the autonomous drone market has been a quadcopter market. The reason is physics, not marketing. A multirotor can hover, which means it can inspect a substation transformer from six feet away, hold a position…
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Robotics & Drones
1,654 words 8 min read
On 12 September 2026, a 14,000-square-metre building in Liuzhou, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China, started doing something that until very recently existed mostly in promotional video. It started building humanoid…
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Robotics & Drones
2,133 words 10 min read
There is a particular kind of milestone that does not make headlines because it arrives as a statistic rather than a launch event. A cross on a whiteboard, a figure nudged past a round threshold, and a press release that gets read…
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Robotics & Drones
1,682 words 8 min read
Product launch videos are usually edited as arguments. One product, one message, cut clean. So when the closing seconds of Agility Robotics' Digit 5 launch video showed something the company had spent years arguing against — a humanoid…