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FORT and NVIDIA launch AI-driven Outside-In Safety blueprint

FORT Robotics and NVIDIA launched an AI-driven Outside-In Safety blueprint that uses external infrastructure sensors and visual AI agents to enhance autonomous robot productivity and worker safety in industrial environments. The system, demonstrated at Automate 2024, extends robot perception beyond onboard sensors using NVIDIA IGX Thor and Holoscan Sensor Bridge, allowing robots to operate safely alongside workers at higher efficiency levels while dynamically adapting to complex warehouse and manufacturing settings.

The Robot Report15h ago

NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics

NVIDIA launched Halos for Robotics, a comprehensive full-stack safety system designed to unify AI compute and safety for autonomous robots operating in factories, warehouses, and logistics. The system builds on NVIDIA's 18,600+ years of autonomous vehicle safety engineering and includes hardware (IGX Thor, Holoscan Sensor Bridge), software (Halos OS), and an accredited inspection lab, with early access available for developers and the open-source Halos Outside-In Safety Blueprint now on GitHub.

The Robot Report22h ago

Cobot's Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation

Collaborative Robotics unveiled Proxie Gen 2, an advanced mobile manipulator robot featuring bimanual manipulation, autonomous task identification via AI-powered 'autotasking', improved payload capacity, and self-swapping batteries. The second-generation platform, informed by nearly 13,000 operating hours of field deployments across healthcare and logistics, reduces parts by 40% while adding autonomous navigation and environment perception capabilities that can identify materials ready to move without human intervention.

Robotics Business Review1d ago

When Did Robotics Companies Start Solving Wildfire Detection and Freeway Access?

From autonomous wildfire response systems to agricultural weed removal robots, the robotics industry is quietly expanding beyond factories and warehouses into domains we traditionally associate with government infrastructure and emergency services. This shift raises questions about whether we're witnessing innovation filling critical gaps—or private automation creeping into public responsibilities.

Creative Robotics1d agoOriginal

Recalls Are the New Normal for Autonomous Systems

Waymo's second major recall signals a shift in how we handle autonomous technology. Rather than a sign of failure, the recall mechanism may be the most promising development in robotics safety yet — if regulators can keep up.

Creative Robotics2d agoOriginal

Defense manufacturing readiness hinges on autonomous finishing, says GrayMatter Robotics

GrayMatter Robotics highlights how its autonomous surface-finishing systems using edge-deployed physical AI can address critical workforce shortages in defense manufacturing and depot maintenance. The U.S. military faces significant readiness challenges due to a 174,000-worker shortfall in the industrial base, with surface preparation and finishing work being a critical bottleneck that traditional automation cannot handle due to the geometric variation in each job.

Robotics Business Review2d ago

AURA Foresight Reaches Global XPRIZE Wildfire Finals in Alaska

AURA Foresight has been selected as one of four finalist teams in the XPRIZE Wildfire Autonomous Wildfire Response competition, a $5 million global challenge to develop autonomous technology for detecting and responding to wildfires. The system combines fixed sensors, artificial intelligence, and swarms of autonomous flying robots to detect ignitions within minutes and coordinate rapid intervention before fires grow out of control, with finals taking place in Alaska.

Robohub3d ago

Come With Me if You Want to Weed: Autonomous Weedinator Robot back for 2026

The WEEDINATOR autonomous agricultural robot project has reached a significant milestone after nearly a decade of development, demonstrating effective mechanical weed removal using a modified commercial Iseki tractor base. The system uses computer vision (OpenCV and YOLO26n on a Jetson Nano) combined with hydraulically-controlled cultivator claws for autonomous weeding in three axes.

Hackaday Robotics4d ago

RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots

Intel's RealSense unveils the D585 Pro AI-native depth camera designed for robotics applications, featuring on-device AI acceleration, a custom Gen 5 system-on-chip, and capabilities for humanoids, autonomous mobile robots, and industrial systems. The camera offers sub-15cm minimum range, 120×100° field of view at 60 FPS, IP65 protection, and is expected to ship in Q1 2027, with software-defined updates enabling new capabilities without hardware replacement.

The Robot Report5d ago

Waymo recalls over 3,800 robotaxis that might drive onto closed freeways

Waymo is recalling over 3,800 of its self-driving robotaxis due to a software issue that could cause vehicles to enter closed freeway construction zones at high speed. The company has voluntarily restricted freeway operations and filed a software recall with NHTSA, marking the second recall for the autonomous taxi fleet in over a month.

Engadget5d ago

Fennec Engineering earns T2 qualification for Advanced Safety Acceleration Platform

Fennec Engineering has received TÜV Rheinland certification (Tool 2 qualification) for its Advanced Safety Acceleration Platform (ASAP), a SaaS tool designed to automate functional safety processes for robotics and AI systems. The platform helps manufacturers manage safety requirements, traceability, and compliance with IEC 61508 and ISO 13849 standards, addressing the challenge of integrating safety into complex autonomous systems from the early stages of development.

Robotics Business Review5d ago

A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

OpenAI and Molecule.one have demonstrated a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 that successfully improved a challenging drug-making reaction in medicinal chemistry. This advancement shows how large language models can be applied to optimize complex chemical synthesis processes, representing progress in AI-assisted scientific research and automation of chemistry workflows.

OpenAI Blog6d ago

Built Robotics, Penn xLAB to develop physical AI for construction

Built Robotics is partnering with the University of Pennsylvania's Safe Autonomous Systems Lab (xLAB) to develop physical AI for construction sites, leveraging Built's 50,000+ hours of operational data and new data-collection robots. The collaboration aims to create a foundation model for safe human-machine coexistence on jobsites by systematically collecting edge case data and training AI models for improved human detection and hazard identification in complex construction environments.

The Robot Report6/16/2026

Building a Ceiling-Based Crane Robot to Keep a Room Clean

Nathaniel Nifong has developed Stringman, an open-source ceiling-mounted robotic crane system that uses wire suspension to autonomously identify and pick up items scattered around a room. The system uses computer vision and a robotic gripper, with firmware based on LeRobot available on GitHub, and the creator is offering both build instructions and ready-made kits for interested users.

Hackaday Robotics6/15/2026

Autonomous freight developer Einride goes public via SPAC

Einride, an autonomous freight company founded in 2016, is going public via a SPAC merger with Legato Merger Corp. III at a valuation of $1.35 billion. The Stockholm-based company operates electric and autonomous heavy-duty vehicles across seven countries with over 30 enterprise customers and $92 million in expected annual recurring revenue, using its AI-powered Saga operating system to manage autonomous fleet operations.

The Robot Report6/15/2026

Burro introduces Grande 44 with proven outdoor autonomy built for heavy industry

Burro launched the Grande 44, an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) designed for heavy industrial applications with 44 hp of power, 6,000 lb towing capacity, and proven outdoor autonomy capabilities. The platform builds on over 1 million hours of field operation and is engineered to handle unpredictable outdoor environments like industrial yards, airports, and rail facilities without infrastructure modifications. Burro's AI leverages millions of environmental scenes to enable the Grande 44 to operate in varied weather and terrain conditions where traditional indoor-focused AMRs cannot function.

The Robot Report6/15/2026

Farms Are Getting Smarter Than Factories

While everyone obsesses over humanoid robots in warehouses, agricultural robotics has quietly become the most sophisticated deployment of autonomous systems in the real world. From disease detection to VR-trained robots, farms are solving problems factories haven't even acknowledged yet.

Creative Robotics6/14/2026Original

The Autonomous Truck Has Arrived — You Just Haven't Noticed

While the tech world obsesses over humanoid robots and AI chatbots, autonomous freight trucks have quietly become operational reality. PepsiCo and Walmart aren't running pilots anymore — they're running supply chains.

Creative Robotics6/12/2026Original

MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star awards

MassRobotics announced the 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star award winners at IEEE ICRA in Vienna: Dr. Allison Okamura (Stanford) received the Robotics Medal for foundational research in haptics, medical robotics, and contributions to robotics education and mentorship; Dr. Ayoung Kim (Seoul National University) received the Rising Star Medal for pioneering work in lidar place recognition and multi-sensor SLAM for autonomous systems.

The Robot Report6/12/2026

Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

Microsoft's Project Ire, an autonomous malware-classification AI agent, successfully identified a previously undetected variant of LOTUSLITE, a Windows DLL backdoor, by analyzing its behavioral patterns rather than relying on signature matching or IOCs. The agent produced a detailed function-by-function analysis without human intervention, catching a malware sample that evaded detection by six major EDR vendors and wasn't in existing indicator lists. This demonstrates the potential of LLM-driven behavioral reverse engineering to identify novel malware variants that share tactics and procedures but lack known indicators of compromise.

Microsoft Research6/12/2026

Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo's North American supply chain

PepsiCo announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Gatik AI to deploy autonomous trucks in its North American supply chain, with operations already underway in Texas, Arizona, and Arkansas. Gatik's autonomous freight system is designed for middle-mile regional logistics with dynamic route orchestration, achieving over 98% on-time delivery across its operations and now operating at commercial scale within one of the world's largest consumer goods supply chains.

The Robot Report6/12/2026

Nobody Wants to Talk About What Happens When a Million AIs Start Arguing

Google DeepMind just committed $10 million to study multi-agent AI safety—a problem most people don't know exists yet. As companies race to deploy autonomous AI agents that can act independently online, we're building a system where millions of AIs will soon interact with each other, and nobody has seriously tested what happens next.

Creative Robotics6/12/2026Original

Carnegie Mellon Team Helps Farmers Fight Crop Disease With Robots

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute developed Erwin, an autonomous robot that detects fire blight disease in orchards using computer vision and robotic arms, winning the Amiga Innovation Award at the 2026 Farm Robotics Challenge. The system combines GPS, LIDAR, and AI-trained cameras to navigate orchard rows, identify infected trees, classify disease severity, and create spatial disease maps to assist farmers in targeted pruning during dormant seasons.

CMU Robotics Institute6/11/2026

Drone rescue highlights US Navy's autonomous push

The U.S. Navy used an autonomous surface vessel (Corsair) to conduct its first-ever sea-based drone rescue operation, retrieving two Army aviators near the Strait of Hormuz. The incident highlights the Navy's growing integration of unmanned systems and AI technology through Task Force 59, which demonstrates how autonomous platforms can reduce costs and expand operational capabilities beyond their original design parameters.

Phys.org Robotics6/11/2026

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding a $10 million research initiative to study the safety risks of multi-agent AI systems, concerned about potential dangers when millions of autonomous AI agents interact online. The funding, announced alongside Schmidt Sciences, the UK government's ARIA, and other partners, aims to establish a field of research around multi-agent safety, focusing on risks like coordinated scams, prompt injections, and cyberattacks that could emerge from agent deployments at scale.

MIT Technology Review AI6/11/2026

For Robotaxis, Safety Must Be Built In, Not Bolted On

NVIDIA announced Halos OS, a comprehensive safety system for autonomous robotaxis that addresses regulatory requirements for level 4 autonomous vehicles through a certified operating system, standardized hardware/software interfaces, and verifiable AI guardrails. The article covers new robotaxi deployments by Uber, Foxconn, VinFast, and HUMAIN using NVIDIA's DRIVE Hyperion platform, alongside the technical architecture of Halos OS designed to ensure safe autonomous operation at scale.

NVIDIA Blog AI6/10/2026

Robots are closing in on human-like judgments, addressing a key challenge in physical AI

KAIST researchers developed VOTP (Video-based Optimal TransPort Preference), an AI technology that learns human judgment criteria from just a few preference videos rather than thousands of data points, addressing a key challenge in physical AI commercialization. The breakthrough enables robots, autonomous vehicles, surgical systems, and other physical AI applications to understand human intentions more efficiently, significantly reducing development time and costs for applications across manufacturing, healthcare, and autonomous systems.

Phys.org Robotics6/10/2026

Surgical Drones and Counter-Drone Weapons Share the Same Technology Stack

Two recent funding announcements—one for battlefield surgical drones, another for autonomous anti-drone systems—reveal an uncomfortable truth: the same AI, computer vision, and robotics technologies are being deployed for both saving and taking lives. This convergence raises questions the robotics industry can no longer ignore.

Creative Robotics6/8/2026Original

Autonomous drone can deliver life jackets to people that fall overboard

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have developed an autonomous drone prototype that can be rapidly deployed from moving ships to locate and assist people who fall overboard. The drone uses multiple camera types (RGB, infrared, thermal) for detection and carries an inflatable GPS-enabled life jacket, while algorithms optimize search patterns based on maritime conditions to significantly improve rescue success rates compared to traditional methods.

Phys.org Robotics6/8/2026

ACS raises $200M to scale autonomous counter-drone system

Allen Control Systems (ACS) raised $200 million in Series B funding to scale production of Bullfrog, an autonomous counter-drone weapon station that uses AI, computer vision, and robotics to detect and neutralize unmanned aerial systems. The system is already deployed with the U.S. Army and Navy, and achieved a 100% success rate in recent military testing, with the funding supporting expanded manufacturing and new product development.

The Robot Report6/8/2026

Robotic arm inspired by octopus uses tactile sensors in suction cups for autonomous underwater grasping

Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have developed an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm equipped with tactile sensors integrated into artificial suction cups, enabling autonomous underwater grasping and object manipulation. The study, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, represents a significant advance in soft robotics by combining bioinspired design with distributed tactile sensing capabilities for complex autonomous tasks.

Phys.org Robotics6/8/2026

Congratulations to the #AAMAS2026 best paper award winners

The AAMAS 2026 conference announced its best paper award winners across three categories, recognizing research in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Winning papers include work on human-LLM agent teams, neurosymbolic planning for autonomous vehicles, multi-robot collaboration, and foundation world models for agents, highlighting advances in AI-driven agent coordination and decision-making.

Robohub6/8/2026

NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA and LG Group are partnering to build an AI factory that combines NVIDIA's AI infrastructure with LG's manufacturing expertise to accelerate physical AI, robotics, and autonomous systems development. The collaboration includes integrating NVIDIA's Isaac simulation frameworks and GR00T foundation models into LG's home robot development (like CLoiD), creating a physical AI data factory for synthetic training data, and establishing an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem with real-time data connectivity. Additionally, LG will expand AI factory infrastructure capabilities aligned with NVIDIA's DSX platform, including thermal management and modular deployment technologies.

NVIDIA Blog AI6/8/2026

NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure

NVIDIA and Doosan Group announced an expanded collaboration to advance physical AI and robotics across multiple business units. Doosan Robotics is integrating NVIDIA's Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Cosmos foundation models, and Jetson Thor into its Agentic Robot OS to develop more autonomous collaborative robots and humanoid platforms for industrial tasks like depalletizing and sanding. The partnership also includes exploring AI factory power solutions through Doosan Enerbility and advanced PCB materials for NVIDIA's MGX data center infrastructure.

NVIDIA Blog AI6/7/2026

Warehouses Are Teaching Robots to Speak Human

Amazon's natural-language upgrade to its Proteus robot marks a turning point in how humans and machines communicate at work. Instead of programming interfaces and specialized training, warehouse workers can now just talk to their autonomous colleagues—and the robots understand.

Creative Robotics6/7/2026Original

Why deterministic real-time systems are more critical than ever in robotics

The Robot Report Podcast features Winston Leung from QNX discussing how deterministic real-time systems and functional safety are critical for robotics operating in human environments. The episode explores QNX's microkernel architecture approach to providing real-time control and cybersecurity for autonomous systems, with insights into partnerships with NVIDIA and Intel for optimizing high-performance computing in next-generation robots.

The Robot Report6/5/2026

Mitsubishi Electric opens Serendie Street Boston digital transformation hub

Mitsubishi Electric opened Serendie Street Boston, its first Western digital transformation hub designed for co-creation and real-world testing of AI-integrated solutions across industries. The facility showcases research including autonomous robot mapping using Unitree quadrupeds, wireless charging for robotic end effectors, and collaborative AI infrastructure optimization for manufacturing and facility management.

The Robot Report6/5/2026

Robot Talk Episode 159 - Robot sensing and manipulation, with Maria Koskinopoulou

Robot Talk Episode 159 features an interview with Maria Koskinopoulou, an Assistant Professor in Robotics and Computer Vision at Heriot-Watt University, discussing her research on autonomous robotic manipulators for surgery, industry, and related applications. Her work spans robotic manipulation, perception, robot vision, medical robotics, and machine learning, supported by major UKRI and EU-funded projects.

Robohub6/5/2026

The $700 Million Week That Proved Defense Tech Is Eating Robotics

Two massive funding rounds this week—$400M for Generalist AI and $300M for Mach Industries—signal a fundamental shift in where robotics capital is flowing. The convergence of general-purpose AI and autonomous defense systems isn't just reshaping investment priorities; it's redefining what 'robotics' means in 2026.

Creative Robotics6/4/2026Original

Can surgical robots fly? SS Innovations discusses challenges, solutions

SS Innovations is developing the Vimana Aero, a flying surgical drone designed to deliver remote robotic surgery capabilities to battlefield casualties, with a functional prototype expected by mid-2026. The system combines the company's SSi Mantra surgical robot technology with autonomous drone delivery to minimize time between injury and medical intervention, addressing hemorrhage as the leading cause of soldier deaths in war zones. Key technical challenges include payload capacity, battery life, and dust management during landing, which the company believes are solvable engineering problems.

The Robot Report6/4/2026

Proteus gets natural-language ability as Amazon expands European robot deployments

Amazon announced an upgraded version of its Proteus autonomous mobile robot with natural-language understanding capabilities, allowing warehouse workers to issue commands without programming experience. The company plans to deploy Proteus across Europe starting in the first half of 2025, alongside expanding deployments of its Vulcan picking robot and STARK collaborative tote-handling system, as part of a €10+ billion modernization investment in European fulfillment operations.

The Robot Report6/4/2026

Finding the best ways for humans and robots to work together requires 'swarm' thinking

A new study published in Transportation Science examines optimal human-robot collaboration strategies in warehouse environments, finding that workers achieve higher productivity when dynamically switching among multiple autonomous mobile robots (a "swarm" approach) rather than maintaining fixed one-to-one pairings with individual robots. The research, which analyzed over 12,000 warehouse scenarios, shows that flexible collaboration strategies become increasingly advantageous as robots become faster and more numerous, though fixed pairings remain optimal under certain conditions such as similar worker-robot speeds and limited robot availability.

Phys.org Robotics6/3/2026

Autonomous defense manufacturer Mach Industries raises $300M

Mach Industries will use the funding to accelerate executing government contracts, acquire talent, develop products, and expand its network. The post Autonomous defense manufacturer Mach Industries r...

The Robot Report6/3/2026

NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

NVIDIA Research presented three papers at CVPR addressing key challenges in physical AI: GraspGen-X, a foundation model for zero-shot robotic grasping trained on 2 billion simulated grasps that works with any gripper; LCDrive, which uses compact latent representations to enable faster autonomous vehicle reasoning on embedded hardware; and NitroGen, a generalized gameplay AI foundation model for training embodied agents in virtual environments. The research demonstrates that training at scale creates AI systems that generalize across diverse applications, with two papers receiving best paper finalist recognition at the conference.

NVIDIA Blog AI6/3/2026

NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With Agent Skills For Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics And Vision AI

NVIDIA unveiled new physical AI agent skills at CVPR designed to accelerate research in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and vision AI by automating workflows like scene reconstruction, synthetic scenario generation, and policy training. The announcement includes NVIDIA Cosmos 3, an open foundation model for physical AI, along with specialized tools like Neural Reconstruction skills, AlpaGym reinforcement learning framework, and Alpamayo 2 Super, a 32-billion-parameter vision-language-action model for autonomous driving development.

NVIDIA Blog AI6/3/2026

Festo launches lightweight pneumatic gripper and tests GripperAI

Festo launched the HPPH lightweight pneumatic gripper designed for collaborative robots, integrating controls and safety functions directly into the gripper body to reduce weight and wiring constraints. The company also introduced GripperAI, AI software that enables robots to autonomously determine optimal grasping points for unfamiliar objects in disordered environments without programming or teach-in training, compatible with various robot platforms and industrial applications.

The Robot Report6/3/2026

Boston University team wins MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge at Robotics Summit

Boston University won first place at MassRobotics' Form & Function Robotics Challenge with AGROBOT T.O.M., an autonomous precision-harvesting robot for vertical farming that uses lidar and machine learning to identify and gently harvest ripe produce. The competition featured 15 university teams globally competing with donated components from major sponsors, while MassRobotics also showcased 13 resident startups and announced a Physical AI Fellowship cohort to accelerate robotics innovation.

The Robot Report6/3/2026

Industrial Software Leaders Build Secure, Autonomous AI Engineers With NVIDIA NemoClaw

NVIDIA and over a dozen engineering software providers are showcasing autonomous AI agents built on NVIDIA NemoClaw, an open blueprint for specialized long-running agents that automate end-to-end industrial engineering workflows including CAE and EDA tasks. Industrial leaders like Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens, and Synopsys are integrating NemoClaw to build AI engineers that reduce design verification and simulation times from weeks to hours, while startups like Flexcompute and Luminary are extending agentic AI to multiphysics design and physics model training.

NVIDIA Blog AI6/2/2026

NVIDIA Partners With Microsoft on Unified Stack for Agentic AI Deployment, From Windows Devices to Cloud to Local

NVIDIA and Microsoft announced an expanded partnership to deliver a unified stack for agentic AI deployment across Windows devices, Azure cloud, and local environments. The collaboration includes new hardware (RTX Spark laptops and DGX Station for Windows), NVIDIA open models on Microsoft Foundry, GPU-accelerated Microsoft Fabric, and the NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime for autonomous agents.

NVIDIA Blog AI6/2/2026

FORT Robotics acquires Mapless AI to expand teleoperation capabilities

FORT Robotics acquired Mapless AI to integrate teleoperation and onboard active safety capabilities into its Trust Platform, enabling autonomous machines to operate safely in complex real-world environments like construction, logistics, and defense. The acquisition combines FORT's industrial safety expertise with Mapless AI's environmental sensing and remote operation technologies, allowing a single operator to supervise multiple autonomous vehicles while keeping human workers out of high-risk zones.

The Robot Report6/2/2026