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US chip champion Intel was so confused by the US government ban on foreign-made robots that it requested and received a waiver “out of an abundance of caution.” The tech company wanted to make sure that it could continue using certain robotic vehicles in its US chip fabs.
The uncertainty surrounding the Federal Communications Commission ban on certain foreign-made robots was revealed in the agency’s decision to grant Intel’s waiver request. On October 22, the FCC published its order allowing Intel to continue using the foreign-made robots in US semiconductor manufacturing facilities for a period of one year.
The robots in question are automated guided vehicles operating on “tracks or predefined paths” while often requiring operator oversight, according to Intel’s website. They help to move materials and items around within warehouses and factory floors.
Nvidia and Agile Robots unveiled Agile ONE SN, a compact humanoid with Jetson Thor computing and Isaac GR00T training tools. Here's what it can do, its specifications, and when it launches.
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Nvidia and Hugging Face show how a $399 duck-shaped robot learns to walk using AI simulation. Here's how Microduck works, what it costs, and when buyers may get one.
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China's Unitree unveils the H2-X humanoid robot with kung fu moves and rescue demonstrations, but questions remain about its autonomy, safety and endurance.
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Faraday Future unveiled a $2,490 humanoid robot and $299 mini model for developers and students, with robotics training, AI tools and phased availability.
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La 92e brigade d'assaut ukrainienne a annoncé ce lundi 19 octobre avoir évacué un soldat blessé du front grâce à un drone aérien lourd, une première mondiale selon elle. Jusqu'ici, ces évacuations sans équipage étaient confiées à des robots terrestres.
Nous avons testé le Narwal V50 Cube, un aspirateur balai sans fil qui promet de conjuguer efficacité, polyvalence et simplicité d’utilisation grâce à sa station multifonction. Performances d’aspiration, maniabilité, autonomie... : nous l’avons mis à l’épreuve pour vérifier ce qu’il vaut réellement au quotidien.
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German police seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly groped a teenage girl in Cologne, raising questions about human control and criminal responsibility.
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Dix-huit ans, trente-huit films, dix-huit séries télévisées et une fatigue industrielle qui ne fait plus rire personne. Le Marvel Cinematic Universe continue de brasser du vide, mais persiste à vouloir se draper dans les oripeaux du cinéma d'auteur. Après le carton de WandaVision, la firme aux grandes oreilles livre enfin VisionQuest, le point final de cette trilogie conceptuelle portée par le synthézoïde le plus célèbre de la pop culture.
UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen plan new humanoid robot trials for factory logistics in China, building on earlier tests as manufacturers explore automation.
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No organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon. The company already has more than 1 million robots working in warehouses around the clock to make tens of millions of same-day and one-day package deliveries happen on a daily basis—and Amazon is poised to significantly grow that robotic fleet in the coming years as it establishes new factories to churn out increasingly more capable robot workers.
Despite deploying so many robots, Amazon is also the second-largest corporate employer in the world, with more than 1.5 million full-time and part-time human workers, according to its 2025 annual report. Amazon executives say that the growing robot fleet has eased the burden on its human workforce by taking on the toughest fulfillment center tasks that carry the greatest risks of physical fatigue and injury. But labor advocacy groups and independent researchers point to evidence suggesting that warehouse automation driven by AI is not all upside for the humans who work alongside robots.
“For the last 100 years, most of the automation that we've seen usually happens away from workers—you're taking that high-risk task away from the worker, and you're doing so in a way that is not physically proximate,” Brad Greenwood, professor of business at George Mason University, told Ars. “The rise of collaborative robots really changes that dynamic for two reasons: one is that it is physically proximate, and two, the robot has the ability to dictate the pace of work.”
Tesla's Optimus robot production reportedly increased in 2026. Here's what to know about Elon Musk's 2027 sales target, manufacturing challenges, and rollout.
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DEEP Robotics tested waterproof DR02 humanoid robots directing traffic and helping tourists in Hangzhou, China, raising questions about safety and reliability.
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Explore the latest tech news, from ChatGPT's interactive AI tools and Microsoft's new hardware to cybersecurity threats, robotics, and Big Tech shakeups.
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Investors bullish on AI data centers may be fueling Nvidia’s multitrillion-dollar market capitalization, but the AI chipmaker has also bet billions of dollars on physical AI technologies such as robotics and self-driving cars. Part of that gambit has involved developing a full-stack safety system that companies can build upon to reduce the risk of their machines harming nearby people.
Nvidia's Halos system launched in 2025 with hardware and software tools to help developers implement guardrails in self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles. Then the company expanded its safety architecture to more physical AI technologies by announcing Nvidia Halos for Robotics in June 2026—with the goal of enabling safe deployments of autonomous mobile robots in warehouses, humanoid robots walking around inside a factory, or even surgical robots.
“Now the AI models are getting capable, the robot hardware is getting capable, and a thing we thought is going to be the next bottleneck is safety,” Amit Goel, head of robotics ecosystem and edge computing at Nvidia, told Ars. “So that's why we launched our Halos for Robotics to unlock the capability of these systems.”
Moflin leads our robot companion picks, while Loona, Mirumi, Ropet KAMOMO, and Eilik offer mobile, wearable, customizable, and budget alternatives.
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Le Rampart, le nouveau lanceur anti-drones de Naval Group, a fait ses premiers tirs en mer lors de l’exercice Wildfire de la Marine nationale, au large de Toulon, du 28 septembre au 2 octobre.
Depuis le vendredi 2 octobre, les taxis autonomes de Tesla roulent jusqu'à 23 heures à Austin, une heure de plus qu'avant. Pour expliquer pourquoi ils ne vont pas jusqu'au bout de la nuit, Elon Musk avance que ses voitures risquent d'écraser les animaux par manque de luminosité.
Tesla beat third-quarter delivery expectations, but sales remain below last year as investors wait to see whether higher volume can restore durable growth.
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On a passé une grosse quinzaine de jours avec le Freo 20 , le nouveau robot aspirateur laveur de Narwal présenté à l'IFA de Berlin début septembre. Autant le dire tout de suite, c'est un des appareils du genre les plus aboutis qu'on ait fait tourner.
Sur le papier, l'aspiration grimpe à 31 000 pascals, soit le haut du panier actuel, et dans la vraie vie ça se vérifie : miettes, poussière, poils d'animaux, tout part en un seul passage, y compris le long des plinthes.
Le vrai truc qui le différencie de la concurrence, c'est côté lavage. Narwal a laissé tomber les serpillières rondes rotatives qu'on voit partout pour un rouleau microfibre de 26 cm qui couvre quasiment toute la largeur du robot, pressé au sol avec 12 newtons et alimenté en eau chauffée à 60 degrés.
Ce rouleau se rince en continu à l'eau propre pendant qu'il travaille, du coup la crasse de la cuisine ne finit pas étalée dans le salon. Une tache de café séchée disparaît sans qu'on ait besoin de repasser trois fois derrière. C'est franchement impressionnant.
Le Freo 20 va surtout très loin sur l'entretien automatique. De retour à la station, la serpillière est lavée à 100 degrés puis séchée à l'air chaud, histoire d'éviter ces odeurs de serpillière humide qui plombent la moitié des robots laveurs du marché.
La station remplit aussi le réservoir d'eau propre du robot, nettoie elle-même son bac d'eau sale et compacte la poussière dans un sac de 2,4 litres annoncé pour environ quatre mois. En pratique, on ne touche à rien, ou presque.
Les cheveux et les poils longs, le cauchemar habituel de ces machines, sont gérés par un système anti-enchevêtrement qui fait plutôt bien le job. Après plus d'une semaine avec un chat à la maison, la brosse n'a pas réclamé un seul démêlage.
Côté navigation, deux caméras couplées à de la lumière structurée, autrement dit une projection lumineuse qui mesure le relief de la pièce, reconnaissent plusieurs centaines d'objets. Câbles, chaussettes et gamelles ont été contournés proprement, et le robot franchit des seuils de 4 cm.
L'application est claire, avec une carte précise, des zones à exclure et un mode multi-cartes si vous avez un étage. Vous n'aurez qu'à porter le robot là-haut, il se repère tout seul.
La station de charge est assez grande, il faut avoir la place, mais c'est souvent le cas avec les robots aspirateurs laveurs de ce genre. Si vous avez la place ça n'est pas un problème, les finitions sont belles, le revêtement texturé ne marque ni les doigts ni la poussière, et le robot lui-même, avec ses 9,5 cm de haut, se faufile sous la plupart des meubles.
Le Freo 20 ramène sous la barre des 850 euros ( 835 euros en ce moment ) des prestations qu'on trouvait jusqu'ici sur des machines facturées 1 400 euros et plus. Pour un foyer avec des sols durs et des animaux, c'est, si vous voulez mon avis, un des meilleurs achats du moment.
En quinze jours de test, on n'a pas touché une seule fois à la serpillière. Si vous n'avez pas d'aspirateur robot chez vous, considérez sérieusement cette option ! Il est actuellement en promo sur Amazon d'ailleurs, en cliquant ici.
This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit.
They’ve been hiking into the wilderness with powered assistive devices attached to their hips and legs. Designed to increase lower-body strength when climbing or carrying heavy loads, these pieces of equipment are being tested to see if they can boost rescuers’ speed and endurance when it matters most—during searches for stranded people.
Devices like these are called human exoskeletons. They attach to parts of the body to create an external—or “exo”—mechanical structure. This powered frame enhances the wearer’s physical capabilities.
Pete Hegseth, secrétaire américain à la Guerre, a annoncé ce mercredi 30 septembre 2026 la création d'un commandement à quatre étoiles consacré aux drones et aux systèmes autonomes, prévu pour le 1er octobre 2027.
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The US Army evaluated armored humanoid Alex for dangerous tasks. Explore its capabilities, supporting technologies and limits before field deployment.
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Humans can be a frisky bunch, and it wasn’t very long after Tesla Autopilot started letting drivers go hands-free before people decided to post footage of themselves having sex from the driver’s seat. Recently, The San Francisco Standard interviewed multiple people who claimed to have had sex in robotaxis belonging to General Motors’ now-defunct Cruise. “There’s no one to tell you, 'You can’t do that.' It gets to the point where you’re more and more and more comfortable, and if you’re with someone, like a more serious partner, it can escalate to other activities,” one man told SF Standard.
“The interiors of vehicles has been sexualized and appropriated for sex since forever in popular culture. You can see it in movies, you can see it in lyrics, you can see it in photography,” said Alexandros Rouchitsas, a human factors/UX researcher and one of the organizers of a recent workshop, “Love in Traffic,” that brought researchers from academia and industry together in late September in Sweden to consider how design can help the problem.
One difference between a robotaxi and a human-driven ride is the removal of the social obligation to interact with a human driver. There’s no need to make small talk, and you won’t have to listen to someone’s terrible opinion, which can lead to riders assuming far more privacy than the cameras and ridership terms and conditions provide. That's a lesson that a pair of teens who hired a Waymo, spent their ride getting drunk, and shot gel beads out the windows learned the hard way this summer.
Lefant, la marque spécialisée dans les aspirateurs robots au rapport qualité-prix particulièrement attractif, lance ses promotions d’automne. L’occasion idéale de s’équiper à petit prix et de s’épargner une bonne partie des corvées de ménage.
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Recently, the astronauts on board the International Space Station performed a routine "walk-off" maneuver with the large, 58-foot-long robotic arm attached to the orbiting laboratory.
The robotic arm, known as Canadarm2 because it was supplied by the Canadian Space Agency, is something of a modern engineering miracle—it can effectively move around the exterior of the large space station like an inchworm because both ends are essentially identical.
However, after this particular walk-off maneuver, the robotic arm, along with the mobile transporter that guides it along the main truss of the space station, engineers noted some issues with operations.
Poussé par un Elon Musk prêt à tout pour transformer son constructeur automobile en empire de la robotique, Tesla fait face à la fronde de ses salariés. Entre pièces défectueuses et salariés qui refusent de former leur remplaçant, c'est un casse-tête.
Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of complex robot hands and disgruntled employees pushing back against training their robotic replacements. The struggle to scale up production comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bet the company’s future on AI and robotics.
As someone who frequently makes claims that fail to materialize, Musk has described the Optimus humanoid robot as potentially “the biggest product ever” during Tesla’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call. But he also acknowledged that making an autonomous humanoid robot capable of handling many different tasks is “one of the hardest things to solve”—and now extensive reporting by The Information has revealed multiple complications that Tesla is trying to tackle while developing general-purpose robots and scaling up for mass production.
Tesla’s Fremont factory in California has already stopped making the Model S sedan and Model X SUV as of May 2026, with the company switching both line workers and engineers over to working on Optimus, according to The Information.
AGIBOT and Chimelong are deploying more than 300 robots across a Chinese theme park and hotel, testing embodied AI in real commercial operations.
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