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US-Developed Battery-Powered Drone Sets New World Record with Nearly Nine Hours of Flight, Manufactured in Under 24 Hours
Interesting Engineering USA Overview A battery-powered drone developed in the U.S. established a new world record for flight endurance, achieving 8 hours, 41 minutes, and 43 seconds during the "Game of Drones 26-2" test at Edwards Air Fo... -
Shell Secures First FAA Self-Authorization for Offshore BVLOS Drone Operations in U.S. Gulf, Revolutionizing Inspection Efficiency with “Drone-in-a-Box”
JPT USA Overview Shell has become the first energy company to receive FAA approval allowing it to self-authorize Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations at all its owned and operated offshore facilities in the U.S. Gulf. Thi... -
JAL and Donecle Pioneer Fully Autonomous Drone Aircraft Inspection in Japan, Significantly Improving Maintenance Time and Safety
Aviation Wire Japan Overview Japan Airlines (JAL) and French drone manufacturer Donecle have conducted Japan's first verification of aircraft exterior inspection using a fully autonomous drone officially recognized by aircraft maintenanc... -
China Unveils Lunar Intelligent Robot Technology Development Roadmap: Tracing Evolution from Weak to General Intelligence
EurekAlert! (China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology) China Overview A research team led by Wang Xiaowei from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology has systematically elucidated the development requirements and progress of lu... -
University of Delaware Develops Medical Micro-Robots for Precise Drug Delivery and In-Vivo Tracking
College of Education & Human Development (University of Delaware) USA Overview The Das Lab at the University of Delaware has developed medical micro-robots capable of navigating biological environments and precisely delivering therapies ... -
Kinova White Paper Defines Dual-Arm Robotics and Haptic Telepresence as Foundation for Physical AI
Kinova Canada Overview Kinova has published a white paper asserting that dual-arm robotics is fundamental to the future of Physical AI. The paper highlights haptic-feedback-enabled telepresence as the most reliable method for generating ... -
Unitree Robotics Unveils 6-Billion-Parameter UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 Foundation Model for Next-Gen Humanoid Robots
Unitree Robotics (GitHub) China Overview Unitree Robotics has released UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, a 6-billion-parameter foundation model for humanoid robots, on GitHub, significantly advancing spatial perception and understanding. Trained on appro... -
Agility Robotics Launches AI-Powered Digit 5 Humanoid Robot, Enabling Barrier-Free Collaborative Work at Scale
Agility Robotics USA Overview Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, its next-generation general-purpose humanoid robot, designed for large-scale collaborative work with humans without physical safety barriers. This marks a significant a... -
Motus2 Integrates Tactile Feedback and Self-Evolving General World Model, Enhancing Dexterous Manipulation Success by 12.5 Points
alphaXiv Unknown Overview Motus2, a self-evolving general world model for dexterous manipulation, has been introduced. This model integrates tactile feedback with a global auto-regression memory, enabling robots to "remember" objects and... -
AppScale Blog Releases 2026 Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Foundation Model Architecture Guide, Comparing Four Leading Models
AppScale Blog Unknown Overview The AppScale Blog has published a 2026 architecture guide for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models, targeting robotics engineers and ML platform leads. The guide provides a comparative analysis of...
