Robotics & Autonomous Systems

1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (204+ words) Picking up products, placing them on shelves and repeating the same movements for hours. At a Føtex supermarket near Copenhagen, robots are learning to perform one of the most time-consuming jobs in retail. Developed by Danish start-up Hive Robots and…...

7+ hour, 13+ min ago   (716+ words) Robot Training-Data Firm Mecka Raises $60M Series B Wowtale Robot Training-Data Firm Mecka Raises $60M Series B Fifty years ago, a robot needed five hours to cross a room. Last year, humanoids ran the 100-meter dash in a stadium in Beijing. The…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago   (487+ words) The way automated vehicles (AVs) drive frustrates many motorists sharing the road with them, leading to more dangerous driving and possibly road rage. “Automated vehicles drive safer but induce riskier behavior in human drivers in car-following scenarios” is the title…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (652+ words) At a Van Ness arena, 200-pound robots wielded steel blades. Rektile, a 6-foot-2, 180 pound-machine sported steel claws, while its opponent, the 190-pound T-REK, brandished vicious looking spartan blades. Each had a reach of over 6 feet, and the organizers worried the…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (101+ words) You're browsing RuntimeWire with JavaScript disabled. Articles and navigation work fully. Interactive features — search, comments, and newsletter signup — require JavaScript. Josh Gao's startup is building human-motion data and deployment tools as robotics labs spend heavily to train machines outside the…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (98+ words) While these modern outposts would be a technical step up from the ISS, they are also going to be much smaller, at least originally. Many will only have a crew of two or four astronauts, and many go long stretches…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1397+ words) By Ron Zukerman | October 11, 2026 The Atlas humanoid robot doing a cartwheel. | Source: Boston Dynamics Robots have captured our imagination. We have seen humanoids balancing on one leg, doing backflips, folding laundry, and moving smoothly over difficult terrain. This is all…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (571+ words) Hypercraft and Forterra partner to integrate Forterra's combat-proven autonomous driving technology, AutoDrive, into Hypercraft’s Razorback unmanned ground vehicle. Hypercraft and Forterra Partner to Field Autonomy-Native Ground Vehicles for Contested Logistics Purpose-built unmanned vehicle pairs Hypercraft’s software-defined architecture with Forterra’s combat-proven…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (519+ words) When discussing autonomous driving technology, debate often circles around theoretical risks and worst-case scenarios. The real question is much simpler: does the software reduce crashes on everyday roads compared to human drivers? Tesla has released safety metrics for Australia and…...

10+ hour, 13+ min ago   (302+ words) Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become important equipment for overhead power grid inspection, yet general-purpose path planning methods are inefficient in large mountainous inspection areas and produce jagged paths that violate UAV turning limits. This paper presents an integrated pre-mission…...