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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the Robotics desk.
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Boston Dynamics mechanical engineer Diane Heinle describes how the company endurance-tests the moving cables on its Stretch warehouse robot. Lab rigs cycle cable sections millions of times, while customer-site data helps set the target for expected use.
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Boston Dynamics describes Spot deployments for hazardous inspections, suspected explosives and emergency incidents. The robot combines remote cameras and sensors with a mobile arm that can move objects.
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Boston Dynamics has detailed a four-finger, 13-degree-of-freedom hand for its Atlas humanoid, designed for dexterous manipulation and tool use. The company says early tests show sim-to-real transfer for dynamic tasks.
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Honda R&D plans CEATEC 2026 demonstrations of a smartphone-based driver-assistance system and an AI-supported avatar robot. The exhibition is scheduled for October 13–16 in Chiba, Japan.
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Figure says it retired most of its F.02 robot fleet by having robots trained in simulation jump into molten steel at a foundry in Finland. The company plans to turn the resulting metal into a limited series of commemorative artifacts.
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NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 adds agent-ready development workflows, ROS Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04 support, and deployment across Jetson platforms. The open-source release is designed to help developers build and run physical AI applications more efficiently.
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Figure says its Helix 2.5 neural network performed three whole-body household tasks across 30 previously unseen Bay Area homes without collecting data or adapting in those environments. Index pretraining increased zero-shot success from 9% to 56% in a controlled comparison.
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Boston Dynamics has become an official DoW SkillBridge industry partner, creating transition opportunities for U.S. service members. The company is currently recruiting for Field Applications and Field Service roles.
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Boston Dynamics says its Spot robots are supporting FIFA Security with perimeter patrols, visual and thermal data collection and alert escalation at two 2026 World Cup venues.
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Figure and Nscale have announced a planned partnership for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, with initial deployment targeted for the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas, to support training of Figure's Helix robotics models.
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Figure says its Figure 03 humanoid robot is being demonstrated at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, combining parts sequencing, manipulation, repositioning and cart pulling under Helix 02 control.
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Figure says its BotQ facility has delivered more than 350 Figure 03 humanoid robots and reported a demonstration of a perception-conditioned controller traversing real stairs after simulation training.
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Figure says its Index app is collecting real-world physical-task videos for training the Helix robotics system, but the company has not published independent evidence that the dataset improves robot performance.
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Hyundai Motor Group used its CES 2026 exhibition to present humanoid, quadruped, logistics, mobility and workplace-assistance robots, while outlining planned and current deployments.
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Figure says Creators have uploaded more than 16 million videos through its Index app, but the announcement provides no independent evidence that the data improves robot performance.
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Hyundai Motor Group used its CES 2026 exhibition to demonstrate Boston Dynamics robots, MobED mobility platforms, autonomous charging systems, industrial wearables and factory logistics technologies.