In August 2026, large funding rounds, humanoid robot developments, and stories about the latest AI models for robotics got our readers’ attention. Here are the 10 most popular articles on The Robot Report in the past month. Subscribe to The Robot Report newsletter and listen to The Robot Report Podcast to stay up to date on the latest robotics news. 10….
From left to right: Bhavana Chandrashekhar, James Davidson, and Michael Vogelsong. Everyone is talking about AI, inside and outside of robotics. While physical AI efforts bring in tens of millions of dollars in funding, the question remains: What is physical AI doing in the real world today? At RoboBusiness 2026, which takes place Oct. 20…
https://www.therobotreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/orbis-720p.webm To generate video with artificial intelligence, a user typically submits a prompt, waits, and then receives a finished clip that cannot be altered. Visko Platform Inc. today opened public access to Orbis, a foundation model that streams worlds in real time with persistent memory, interactivity, and physics-grounded generation for unlimited duration. The company has…
Why robot safety assurance must account for attacks that can change how a machine sees, decides, and acts. Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can it remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing…
Robotics Australia Group and HowToRobot are offering AI to help businesses get automation. Source: HowToRobot Australia lags behind most other industrialized countries in terms of robot adoption, with a robot density of 134 robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. The world average is 162. HowToRobot and Robotics…
“Micromixer” might just sound like a fancy name for a tiny blender, but mixing liquids at the microliter scale is no simple task. Micromixers are essential components of microfluidic devices widely used across the pharmaceutical, life sciences, chemistry and materials engineering industries, where they rapidly and evenly combine tiny amounts of reagents.
For generations, farmers tracked their fields on paper ledgers and spreadsheets; now, John Deere is letting them talk directly to their operational data with JD, a new conversational AI tool it said is designed to turn years of private field metrics into instant, profit-boosting answers. JD operates exclusively on the historical data for each farm….
Of the former National Football League (NFL) players who died in recent years, at least 25% had brain changes related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy ( Cleveland Browns quarterback Bill Nelson hands off to running back Leroy Kelly during the 1969 NFL Championship Game against the Minnesota Vikings on January 4, 1970. Many safety precautions that…
If you blow across the top of an empty bottle you’ll hear a clear, steady note. Now, engineers have used that same concept to power tiny robots that move without a single motor on board. These new devices are powered entirely by sound. When the right frequency is aimed at them, hollow chambers built into…
The Crown of Kerch was discovered in a high-status woman’s grave in Crimea more than a century ago. (Image credit: Mirko Kuzmanovic/Alamy) QUICK FACTS Name: Crown of Kerch What it is: A gold-and-garnet diadem Where it is from: Kerch, Crimea When it was made: Late fourth to early fifth centuries At the beginning of the…
