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Why are Gen Zs booing at their graduations?
Spring 2026 graduation season brought an unexpected sound to college campuses across the country: a coordinated chorus of boos. From the University of Arizona to the University of Central Florida,…
DROIDS Daily. May 21, 2026. Humanoid Hype Curves, Video-Editing AI, and May’s Tech Layoff Wave
In today’s DROIDS daily update for May 21, 2026, we zoom out on physical AI and humanoids as analysts start publishing macro forecasts that treat embodied robots as a multi‑trillion‑dollar market by…
DROIDS Daily. May 20, 2026. Figure’s 100,000‑Package Livestream and BMW’s 30,000‑Car Humanoid Test
In today’s DROIDS Daily, we break down Figure AI’s latest F.03 livestream, where three humanoid robots reportedly ran more than 80 hours and sorted over 100,000 packages in a tightly controlled…
DROIDS Daily. May 18, 2026. Robotics News.
Welcome to the DROIDS Newsletter daily update for May 18, 2026.Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has announced a national program to invest over 33.5 million dollars through 2030 to develop…
The Great Robotics Job Hunt
On paper, the robotics job market in 2026 looks “hot”: strong growth, six‑figure roles, and constant headlines about a talent shortage. But that’s not what many students and early‑career roboticists…
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 navigation, anomaly detection, and data triage in…
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 thermal risk while cutting human replanning time…
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. and China, and two big stories in astrophysics.In…
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 closer look at how unmanned ground vehicles are…
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 against some of the best ping pong players in the…
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 transferring it to robots.Alex Wolf Torres, Associate…
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 with NVIDIA’s Mark McKeen about how an AI agent can…
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 and Max subscribers from routing their flat-rate…
“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 sense in the home. They’re stable, already…
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 spin‑out Mind Robotics raises a massive $500M to…
Robotics News: March 11, 2026
Industrial robotics is reaching an economic tipping point and reshaping factory strategies, while humanoid robots are edging closer to real deployments. In this episode of DROIDS, Diana breaks down…
Can robots help seniors
Stories about aging, for me, always begin with my own aging parent.She is in remarkable health. Intellectually sharp. She still corrects my German grammar with the patience of a retired…
Helix 02 from FigureAI
The Helix 02 video draws you in from the beginning with the sound. The gears moving as Helix approaches the dishwasher. There is no background music. No excessive production value. It is four minutes…
NVIDIA'S Open-Source Car Brain Just Landed in a Mercedes
NVIDIA just lobbed a heat-seeking missile at Tesla’s Full Self-Driving empire. It’s called Alpamayo, and it doesn’t just want to drive your car. It wants to reason through traffic like a real…
Boston Dynamics Says Its Atlas Humanoid Robot Is Ready for Factory Work
For more than a decade, the humanoid robot Atlas has served as a symbol of what advanced robotics might one day achieve. Developed by the Massachusetts-based firm Boston Dynamics, the robot became…
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