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Fluor and Inelectra Plan a New Engineering Base in Venezuela
Fluor is returning to Venezuela through an agreement with Inelectra, drawing on a history that includes a 190,000 bbl/d extra-heavy crude up...
Why Memory Is Becoming the Bottleneck in Physical AI Design
Physical AI shifts design attention from compute to data movement. LPDDR vs GDDR and on-chip sizing hinge on workload reuse and latency.
GEFERTEC to Show 700 kg WAAM Impeller and Titanium System at Formnext 2026
GEFERTEC will exhibit large WAAM components and preview modular, titanium-focused and containerized production systems in Frankfurt.
Women in Robotics Medal Gala Honors Ayoung Kim and Allison Okamura
MassRobotics' 4th Women in Robotics Medal Gala recognized 2026 honorees Ayoung Kim and Allison Okamura, and set nominations for the 2027 med...
Robotics Targets Logan’s Space, Baggage and Airfield Maintenance Constraints
Nine startups presented airport robotics for mobility, cleaning, baggage handling and airfield work as Massport looks to grow capacity throu...
Humanoid Robots Advance, but General Purpose Autonomy Remains a Long Way Off
RoboCup’s humanoids show gains in hardware and learned control, while task fit, reliable autonomy and human interaction remain open challeng...
ISO 21423 Extends AMR Interoperability Across Robots, Fleet Systems and Factory Equipment
ISO 21423 builds on open AMR interfaces to help robots, fleet managers and facility systems exchange status and coordinate work across share...
Hackster.io's Emotion in Motion Contest Asks Machines to Read People
Hackster.io's Emotion in Motion contest offers 500 Arduino UNO R4 WiFi boards and a $14,500 prize pool for projects where machines respond t...
Wireless Charging Moves Into Fleet Planning as Mobile Robot Deployments Grow
Ben Waters describes how opportunity charging, battery sizing, power infrastructure and higher output chargers shape robot fleet uptime.
Electric Motors on a Shared Backbone Mimic Muscle Coordination
Bristol researchers built a tabletop array of electric motors that self-coordinates like muscle, suggesting simpler control strategies for r...
UK Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Grants Fall by £700m as Acorn Funding Ends
A £500m hydrogen grant reduction and the loss of Acorn’s £200m allocation reshape UK project support, while other cluster funding remains pr...
RoboCup@Home’s 50-Object Vision Challenge: Raphael Memmesheimer on NimbRo’s Award-Winning Method
NimbRo’s semi-automatic image labeling helped its robot learn unfamiliar objects faster and tackle RoboCup@Home tasks, including laundry, at...
MassRobotics Startups Get a Look Inside ADI's Robotics Engineering Hub
MassRobotics founders spent a day with Analog Devices' Emerging Tech Hub, learning how a large chip supplier's teams can support robotics st...
Allegro's 48V PMIC and Position Sensors Target Humanoid Robot Joints and Hands
Allegro's new 48V power IC and sensor lineup aims at humanoid robot joints and hands, with a claimed roughly 50% cut in power-stage footprin...
DMC New York Welcomes Sean Clarkson with a Jet Ski Tour of the Hudson
DMC’s New York team welcomed Sean Clarkson with a Hudson River jet ski tour, giving him a new view of the city and a chance to connect with...
Flash Memory Compute Could Bring Adaptive AI to Subwatt Edge Devices
SST’s memBrain performs neural network calculations inside flash memory; AnalogAI aims to pair it with on-device adaptation at one watt or l...
Sellafield's Misrouted Plutonium Oxide Puts Organisational Learning Under Scrutiny
The ONR is weighing further action after Sellafield sent residual plutonium oxide to the wrong site, and found gaps in the internal investig...
Startup Pilots, RaaS Contracts and Funding Lessons from RoboBusiness 2026
MassRobotics ran a two-part bootcamp at RoboBusiness 2026 covering IP, funding, RaaS contracts, and how startups and corporate teams turn pi...
Haptics Gets a Shared Protocol and a Palm-Sized Drive Module
TITAN Haptics' VH Module is the first product to implement the Universal Haptics Protocol 1.0, pairing audio-to-haptics with a primitives-ba...
MassRobotics Builds a Shared Robotics Hub for Startups and Physical AI
MassRobotics connects robotics startups with workspace, labs and industry partners; its resident companies have raised nearly $3 billion col...
Algorized and ZHAW Study Sensor Fusion for Human-Aware Collaborative Robots
A two-year study will combine radar, Wi-Fi and optical sensing to estimate human position and movement for robot controllers in under 100 ms...