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AI that leaves the screen. Robots, self-driving cars and machines that see the world, decide what to do, and act on it. Humanoids, robotaxis, warehouse fleets and the models that power them.
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Walmart and Wing start drone deliveries from seven stores around Charlotte
Wing has started drone deliveries from seven Walmart stores around Charlotte, part of a plan to reach about 270 Walmart sites by 2027.
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Intuitive’s surgical robots did about 14% more operations last quarter
Intuitive says da Vinci procedures grew about 14% in the third quarter and it placed 546 systems, 315 of them its newest da Vinci…
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GXO takes Agility’s Digit humanoid robots to two more US warehouses
The logistics firm will put Digit robots to work at sites in North Carolina and Tennessee from early 2027, after its first deployment in…
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US proposes lighting rules for driverless cars with no steering wheel, including optional cyan lamps
NHTSA wants to update US vehicle lighting rules so cars driven entirely by software can comply, and to allow optional cyan lamps that show…
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Logistics is the biggest buyer of professional service robots, IFR says
Sales of professional service robots rose 24% in 2025, and transport and logistics took about 117,000 of the almost 250,000 sold.
How does a robot think?
Every robot runs the same loop, many times a second. It senses the world with cameras and sensors, an AI model decides what to do next, and motors carry it out. Then it checks what happened and goes again.
What is new is the middle step. Instead of hand-written rules, robots now use one large model that can see, understand an instruction like “put the cup in the sink”, and turn it into movement.
New to AI? Start here →A robot senses, thinks and acts, again and again
- Meet a helper robot.Someone asks it to put the cup in the sink. To do that, it runs the same three steps over and over.
- Sense.Its cameras look around and spot the things that matter here: the cup and the sink.
- Think.An AI model inside works out a plan: pick up the cup, carry it over, put it down gently.
- Act.Motors move the arm and hand to follow the plan, a little bit at a time.
- Check, then go again.It looks again to see if it worked. Robots repeat sense, think, act many times every second.
How does a self-driving car work?
A robotaxi is a robot on wheels. It runs the same sense, think, act loop, just at highway speed.
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Who is building it
General-purpose humanoid robots for work and the home.
LATEST NEWS → HumanoidsUSTeslaOptimus humanoid, now in early production in Fremont; Robotaxi service in Austin, where Cybercabs joined the fleet in September.
PROFILE → HumanoidsUSBoston DynamicsMaker of the Atlas humanoid and the Spot robot dog.
LATEST NEWS → WarehouseUSAgility RoboticsDigit, a humanoid built to move totes in warehouses.
LATEST NEWS → HumanoidsChinaUnitreeLow-cost robot dogs and humanoids.
LATEST NEWS → Self-drivingUSWaymoDriverless robotaxi service from Alphabet.
LATEST NEWS → HealthcareUSIntuitive SurgicalThe da Vinci surgical robot.
LATEST NEWS → DronesUSZiplineDrone delivery for medical supplies and retail.
LATEST NEWS → Robot brainsUSPhysical IntelligenceFoundation models that let robots learn new tasks.
LATEST NEWS → Robot brainsUSNVIDIARobot chips, simulation tools and the GR00T models.
PROFILE → WarehouseUSAmazonRuns one of the largest fleets of warehouse robots.
PROFILE → Robot brainsUSGoogle DeepMindThe Gemini Robotics models for robot control.
PROFILE →Models that move things
The chips inside the robot
NVIDIA · Robot computerJetson ThorNVIDIA’s computer for humanoids and other robots.All AI chipsSilicon tracker →Where robots are being built
From factory arms to humanoids
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