Actuation of space robots poses significant challenges in ensuring operation in vacuum. Conventional electromagnetic technologies face inherent limitations due to heat dissipation and difficulties in ...

The finalists for Hardware/Robotics/Physical AI of the Year at the 2026 GeekWire Awards. Clockwise from top left: AIM Intelligent Machines; Brinc’s Guardian drone; Starfish Space’s Otter spacecraft; ...

If you entered a test site operated by Japan’s space agency recently, you would’ve seen a bunch of tiny red robots trundling across a sandy surface. The AI-powered robots were being tested ahead of a ...

Zurich’s Orbit Robotics built a four-armed space robot called Helios. It targets the 35% of crew time spent on maintenance at $140K/hour. Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a ...

Vision-language-action models have become a go-to method for training robotic manipulation, but a growing body of deployment evidence suggests they plateau well below the reliability thresholds ...

To address the challenges of compliance and safety in robot direct teaching within a constrained task space, this paper proposes a variable admittance control algorithm based on task-space boundary ...

Force measurement sits at the heart of modern engineering. Robots that handle fragile parts, aerospace systems that can't ...