Robotics

ASEAN Tech 7 min The US Robot Ban Exempts Everything Already Approved Every model authorised before 28 July keeps selling, so the American shelf does not empty. And the content rul... SA Sarah Chew 31 Aug Science 6 min Fukushima Holds 880 Tons of Debris. Crews Have Removed Under a Gram. Two trial retrievals have brought out 0.887 grams against 880 tons of fuel debris. The grams are not the proje... NA Nadia Rahim 31 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Hugging Face's $399 Robot Duck Ships With Its Training Recipe Apache 2.0 covers the control stack, the pipeline and all seven shipped policies. The reward functions, domain... MA Maya Lin 29 Aug Cybersecurity 7 min The Unitree Robot Bluetooth Flaw Was a Missing Cloud Check Two root RCE chains against the G1 EDU, one starting over Bluetooth without pairing. The step that made it wor... KE Kenji Tanaka 29 Aug Business 8 min A Ten-Week-Old Robotics Startup Just Raised Over US$90 Million Veeda AI, founded by Nvidia's former VP of AI research, is building world models so robots can learn in simula... EV Eva Chin 21 Aug AI & ML 8 min Boston Dynamics Adds Google DeepMind Reasoning To Its Inspection Robots The Spot quadruped and the Orbit inspection platform are getting Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, aimed at spatial reas... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Sustainability 7 min The Pentagon Has Committed More to This Battery Company Than Every Investor Combined A conditional commitment of up to $1.4 billion from the Office of Strategic Capital roughly matches everything... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug Business 7 min Sony and TSMC Are Reported to Be Spending ¥1 Trillion on Sensors. The Reason Is Robots. A reported ¥1 trillion joint venture in Kumamoto, 60% Sony and 40% TSMC, producing next-generation image senso... EV Eva Chin 11 Aug Business 7 min Unitree Priced at 36 Times Revenue. The Number to Watch Is 5,500. Unitree priced its Shanghai STAR Market listing on 6 August at a valuation of about 61 billion yuan, roughly 3... EV Eva Chin 8 Aug Business 5 min The FCC Barred Imported Humanoid Robots on Security Grounds. Beijing Says It Will Retaliate The restriction covers bipedal and quadruped machines and applies to new device models rather than units alrea... EV Eva Chin 3 Aug Health & Wellness 6 min J&J Says the FDA Authorised Its OTTAVA Surgical Robot — Almost Nothing in the Announcement Can Be Checked Yet The release never says "nine procedures". Both performance claims cite unpublished internal documentation. And... AM Amelia Wong 26 Jul AI & ML 5 min NVIDIA Opens Singapore AI Research Lab as City-State Launches Singapore's First Multi-Operator Robotics Testbed, Planned for Later in 2026 Singapore announced two linked moves on 20 May: NVIDIA confirmed its first research lab in the city-state, and... AI AI Tools Desk 1 Jun