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Flexiv previews 7-DOF tactile arm and modular humanoid at ICRA
Flexiv will preview two unreleased robotic platforms at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, including a 7-DOF force-controlled arm with whole-body touch sensing and a modular humanoid system combining dual arms, vision, and an autonomous mobile base. The systems represent the company's push into high-dexterity man...
Robot dogs track car thieves to arrest at Atlanta apartment complex
Two suspects breaking into cars at an Atlanta affordable housing complex were tracked and arrested with assistance from Undaunted's autonomous quadruped robots on May 21. One robot pursued fleeing suspects while another alerted Atlanta Police, who arrived within minutes — one suspect was caught flee...
Kawasaki opens Silicon Valley Physical AI center focused on healthcare robotics
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has launched a Physical AI development center in San Jose, partnering with Nvidia, Microsoft, Analog Devices, and Fujitsu to build autonomous healthcare systems. The facility will integrate AI with Kawasaki's existing surgical and service robots, starting with a "hospital o...
Gecko Robotics tests Ouster's Rev8 color lidar for infrastructure inspection
Gecko Robotics is testing Ouster's Rev8 digital lidar sensor to enhance its Cantilever platform for industrial infrastructure inspection. The Rev8's ability to output colorized 3D point clouds alongside infrared and intensity data enables Gecko's AI to more reliably detect structural anomalies that ...
Quartermaster raises $43M for ship-mounted sensor network
Quartermaster has closed a $43M Series A to scale its SmartMast sensor package — a weather-hardened mast-mounted unit combining cameras, radios, and analytics software that turns ships into a continuous sensing network. The system addresses critical gaps in maritime situational awareness, where the ...
Octopus-inspired gripper shifts from soft to rigid in under 2 seconds
Researchers at Peking University have developed an octopus-inspired underwater gripper that transitions between soft and rigid states in 1.3 seconds — 10x faster than existing shape memory polymer systems. The OUT-Robot uses electrically heated PLA arms that grip fragile or irregular objects when so...
Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5 model with human-scale robotic hands
Genesis AI has launched its first foundational model, GENE-26.5, alongside human-scale robotic hands developed with China's Wuji Tech. The hands perform complex manipulation tasks including cooking, piano playing, and lab work — trained on human video data and teleoperation collected via a lightweig...
Engineer accesses 7,000 robot vacuums via DJI backend flaw
Software engineer Sammy Azdoufal reverse-engineered his DJI Romo vacuum cleaner and discovered a backend vulnerability granting access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, and floor plans from nearly 7,000 devices globally. The disclosure highlights systemic security weaknesses in consumer IoT ro...
Ouster launches Rev8, the first LiDAR with native color perception
Ouster has released Rev8, the first LiDAR sensor family that captures color natively in every 3D data point, removing the need for separate camera fusion or post-processing. The flagship OS1 Max offers 500-meter range, 256 channels, and operates across extreme lighting conditions—from near-darkness ...
