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DROIDS Daily. May 16, 2026. Robotic News
Next-gen space AI: NASA is testing a radiation-hardened AI chip delivering hundreds-fold performance gains for onboard autonomy, enabling real-time n…
14 hours ago
DROIDS Daily- Robotic News. May 15, 2026
Lunar rover planner: JAXA’s new hierarchical reinforcement learning system autonomously plans multi-sol traverses, optimizing for terrain, slip, and …
1 day, 9 hours ago
DROIDS Daily – May 14, 2026: Robotic News. Unitree Mecha, AI Guardrails, TurboQuant
Today’s episode covers a wild new rideable mecha from Unitree, fresh funding for industrial robotics, early moves on AI “guardrails” from the U.S. an…
2 days, 10 hours ago
Ukraine’s Robot War: Fiction vs. Reality
We tend to imagine war robots as autonomous machines marching into battle.
Ukraine is showing something very different.
In this episode, we take a clos…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Ace Robot Beats Humans Champions at Table Tennis
What happens when a robotic arm spends five years training in simulation, learns to read spin at 20 milliseconds, and then steps up to the table agai…
3 weeks ago
How PSYONIC Turns Human Hands into Robot Training Data
This is one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands.
PSYONIC is solving it by using human data, capturing touch, grip, and dexterity, and transferr…
1 month ago
The Lobster That Built a Robot
At NVIDIA GTC, we visited the Build-a-Claw demo to see how OpenClaw actually works in practice.
DROIDS Associate Editor Alexander Wolf Torres speaks w…
1 month, 1 week ago
Anthropic’s Crackdown on the Claw's endless appetite
Somewhere, 135,000 agents hit a wall at noon on a Saturday. Turns out $20 a month doesn't cover an always-on AI coworker.
Anthropic cut off Claude Pro…
1 month, 1 week ago
“Home Dog” Just Got Redefined
In this episode, I spoke with Tony Yang from Unitree to talk about what he calls the “home dog.”
Quadrupeds may be the first robots that actually make…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Robotics News: March 13, 2026.
Tesla doubles down on Optimus Gen 3, shifting Fremont from cars to humanoid robots and signaling a long‑term pivot from EVs to physical AI. Rivian sp…
2 months ago