Drones & Robotics– category –
Technology news on drones (UAVs), robotics and autonomous driving
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FAA’s New Mosaic Rule Streamlines Certification for Recreational eVTOLs, Opening Doors for Personal Air Mobility
Aviation Week USA Overview The FAA's new Light Sport Aircraft rule, 'Mosaic' (Part 22), is revolutionizing the certification process for recreational electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The Airplane Farm, founded by v... -
NEURA Robotics and SECO Forge Strategic Partnership to Industrialize Physical AI for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Quantilus Innovation Germany Overview German NEURA Robotics and Italian SECO have announced a strategic partnership to industrialize and scale Physical AI across Europe. This collaboration aims to build a broad European Physical AI ecosy... -
Bedrock Robotics Achieves Large-Scale Supervised Autonomous Excavation with Aftermarket LiDAR, GPS, and Camera Package
Progressive Policy Institute USA Overview Bedrock Robotics successfully completed the industry's largest-scale supervised autonomous excavation using its "Bedrock Operator" package, which retrofits excavators and bulldozers with LiDAR, G... -
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... -
Harvard and Georgia Tech Release “RLE-Bench” to Evaluate AI’s Capability in Designing and Controlling Physical Robots
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Georgia Tech School of Computational Science and Engineering USA Overview Researchers from Harvard University and Georgia Tech have released "RLE-Bench," an op... -
Cross-Embodiment Foundation Framework “X-WBC” for Humanoid Whole-Body Control Unveiled, Demonstrated Across 9 Simulations and 4 Real Robots
arXiv Unknown Overview A cross-embodiment foundation framework, "X-WBC," has been developed to scale whole-body control for humanoid robots towards general deployment. This framework separates the relatively shared semantics of human mot...
