The Robot Report

Context is king: How Avride uses cloud VLMs as a safety net for delivery robots

It is important to clarify: we do not use VLMs to drive the robot. Using a heavy cloud model to steer in real time would ...
The Manila Times

Back-to-back victories signal rise of PH space talent

UNIVERSITY students from various colleges and universities in the country produced back-to-back successes in the Kibo Robot Programming Challenge reflects the country's growing depth in space ...

10Beauty Raises $23.5M Led by Story Ventures to Expand Robotic Manicures to Retail and Salons

10Beauty, the robotics company behind the first full-service robotic manicure, has raised $23.5 million in new funding led by Story Ventures, bringing total funding to more than $70 million. This ...
Tech Times

Klara and the Sun Trailer: Ishiguro’s AI Fiction Is Now Engineering Fact

Taika Waititi’s Sony Pictures adaptation of Ishiguro’s novel hits theaters October 23, 2026, and every technology the book imagined is real. Vision Transformers process images as Klara does — in ...
Circuit Digest

Autonomous Robotic Fish Combines Computer Vision and Wireless Charging

A YouTube channel named CPSDrone has developed a fully autonomous robotic fish capable of operating without direct human ...
The New Yorker

Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed?

Børnich, a forty-two-year-old Norwegian, has been obsessed with robots since he was a child. His firm used to be called ...
Tech Times

Claude AI Beats Human Robotics Teams 20x: Anthropic Marks Physical AI Turn

Claude AI robotics benchmark shows Opus 4.7 finishing physical robot programming in 9 minutes, against 181 minutes for ...

Tesla Completes Key AI Chip Milestone in Its Push Beyond the Auto Industry

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Elon Musk are making a big push to expand beyond electric vehicles . The company recently completed ...
IEEE

A Unified Framework for Real-Time Failure Handling in Robotics Using Vision-Language Models, Reactive Planner and Behavior Trees

Abstract: Robotic systems often face execution failures due to unexpected obstacles, sensor errors, or environmental changes. Traditional failure recovery methods rely on predefined strategies or ...
IEEE

A Learning Package of Computer Vision with a Robotic Arm for Industrial Applications

Abstract: The paper presents a learning package of computer vision applying LabVIEW with a robotic arm for industrial applications. The completed kit comprises a robot equipped with a robotic arm, a ...