The ‘edge AI wall.’ Click here to enlarge. Credit: Zhengis Tileubay My previous article for The Robot Report examined the problem of computational instability in autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs. Since then, the rapid development of artificial intelligence over the past year has led to a broader perspective about edge AI. The article, “Phase stability…
Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects. The ongoing effort, which has not been previously reported, may eventually allow Meta to operate its rapidly expanding data center footprint with fewer humans, keeping…
A team of neurosurgeons in London have used AI to help them operate on a man’s brain. The AI tool analyzed live footage of the operation and flagged key brain structures like nerves and blood vessels as surgeons removed a large tumor on the patient’s pituitary gland, according to The Guardian, ensuring that they didn’t…
Earlier this year, OpenAI found that a group of its AI models broke out of their sandbox environment and hacked third opens source AI platform Hugging Face’s systems. The incident highlighted how quickly frontier AI models had turned into a real cybersecurity threat — not just a tool to bolster existing cybersecurity defenses. Both Anthropic…
A small sample of Amazon’s vast deployed warehouse fulfillment fleet. Source: Amazon Swarm robotics systems rely on power architecture because energy distribution influences coordination efficiency and fault tolerance in multi-agent environments. Centralized models depend on unified infrastructure and coordinated energy management. Meanwhile, decentralized approaches distribute power control and operational decision-making across individual robotic units within…
The Robot Report Podcast · From Teach-and-Repeat to SelfPath AI: The next robotics leap John Black, CTO, Brain Corp. In Episode 259 of The Robot Report Podcast, the topic is scaling robot fleets and building trust while operating in public spaces. Our guest is John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp. He has…
Danny Bernstein (l) from Reservoir and Sean Sundberg (r) from John Deere announced a partnership at the Ruggedize event. | Credit: Reservoir Deere & Co. last week posted Q3 2026 net income of $1.379 billion, or $5.10 per share, outperforming market expectations despite headwinds in its Production and Precision Agriculture division—the primary unit driving revenue…
Radha Basu, EVP and head of iMerit (left), and Rohit Kapoor, CEO of EXL (right). Credit: Mark Liflander, EXL The actions of physical AI, including robots, are only as good as the human expertise and data used to build the AI models that train them. ExlService Holdings Inc. this month completed its acquisition of iMerit…
NeuraGrasp can grasp a wide range of items, from small containers to porous polybags and cloth items. | Source: Locus Robotics Locus Robotics Corp. has successfully tackled many robotic challenges in real working environments. Its autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, have navigated countless miles in a variety of facilities, and they have aided in more…
There are a litany of reasons to take the output of generative AI with a heavy dose of salt. Its answers are known to sound authoritative, convincing, and elaborate — while simultaneously being completely and utterly wrong. It’s a lesson astrophysicist and science communicator Paul Sutter learned the hard way, and was brave enough to…
