Academia / Research

A whole-body control foundation model could help launch humanoid robots toward general-purpose capability, says Agility Robotics.

Amazon Robotics said the innovation lies in leveraging a visual model as its backbone and performing feasibility checking and test-time optimization based on physical constraints derived from tactile and proprioceptive observations.

The researchers said the model learns to plan trajectories by trial and error, eventually developing generalized strategies that can be applied to new, unseen layouts.

UC Berkeley Prof. Ken Goldberg shares his thoughts about humanoid hype and the emerging paradigm shift in the robotics field.

Investments, leadership changes, earnings reports, new research, and new product releases took center stage in August 2025.

An international group of roboticists, including three from MIT, debated the best way to approach robotic manipulation moving forward.

Exoskeleton combines machine learning and a physics-based model to learn each user’s unique movements and provide support for daily activities like eating and drinking.

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher.

Waterloo researchers have developed a minimally invasive treatment to ease kidney stone pain with magnets and robots.

The myCobot Pro 450 is also compatible with a wide range of Large Language Models (LLMs), including DeepSeek, ChatGPT.

VERSES AI says its robotics model outperformed current methods on Meta’s Habitat Benchmark without needing a lot of data.

Once applied to a whale, Project CETI’s tags collect bioacoustics, heart rate, dive depth, and body orientation.

Mass adoption of humanoid robots, particularly as household helpers, may not happen in the near or medium term, said the International Federation of Robotics.

North American robot orders increased year over year in the first half of 2025, according to the Association for Advancing Automation.

A key RoboBusiness session on physical AI will feature Ambi Robotics’ PRIME-1 foundation model as a case study.

In July, The Robot Report launched a new program geared toward highlighting unique and interesting startups.

MIT CSAIL researchers said Neural Jacobian Fields can learn to control any robot from a single camera, without any other sensors.

MIT’s “versatile demonstration interface” allows robots to learn via three human demonstration methods: teleoperation, kinesthetic guidance, or natural task performance.

Loomia created its tactile sensing developer kit after surveying 100 engineers as part of the NSF I-Corps program.

The ‘Tree of Robots’ from the Technical University of Munich classifies robots by sensitivity, aiming for a new safety and performance standards.

The study showed a single LBM can learn hundreds of tasks and use prior knowledge to acquire new skills with 80% less training data.

Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face launched Reachy Mini, an open-source robot that aims to democratize AI development and human-robot interaction.