🤖 Infantry Gets A Cargo Mule
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We may be getting close to the point where “robot platform” means something more than a very expensive demo with legs.
Infantry Gets A Cargo Mule
TL;DR: BLADE's Hunter WOLF unmanned ground vehicle is heading into field evaluation with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division on August 20 at Fort Polk, Louisiana. The 2,800-pound-payload robot will be tested for equipment transport, casualty evacuation, communications support, and mobile power, giving dismounted soldiers a machine built to carry the load across difficult terrain. Read more →
Factory Work Meets Fight Club
TL;DR: EngineAI released a polished video of its T800 humanoids working inside Luxshare-ICT's Suzhou factory, just days after the same robot appeared in a San Francisco humanoid fighting event. The split presentation puts factory material handling, MES-issued work orders, vision recognition, and dual-arm picking beside a combat-sports stress test for the same industrial hardware platform. Read more →
Import Bans Build A Factory
TL;DR: RoboStore is turning into Robo Inc. as U.S. restrictions reshape the business of imported humanoids and quadrupeds. The company plans a 66,000-square-foot Long Island facility, localized production beginning in January 2027, and full operations in Q1 2027, while maintaining service for more than 1,500 deployed robots and its Roboverse developer community. Read more →
Samsung Wants Its Own Body
TL;DR: Samsung is accelerating an in-house humanoid effort separate from Rainbow Robotics, organizing the work under a Robotics eXperience office that reports to CEO TM Roh. The project combines custom actuators, Samsung Gauss foundation models, world-model simulation, and a Gumi manufacturing site being converted into a data factory for robot training pipelines and operational feedback loops. Read more →
Pharmacy Picking Scales East
TL;DR: Brightpick is expanding its Dr. Max Group deployment from Prague into more pharmacy logistics hubs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The new rollout adds 44 Autopicker autonomous mobile robots, bringing the fleet to 74 units after Prague operations reached 20,000 items a day, cut manual picking labor 95%, and raised warehouse capacity 40%. Read more →
Robot Safety Eyes Nasdaq
TL;DR: FORT Robotics and Newbury Street II signed a business combination that would take FORT public as FORT Robotics Holdings under the ticker FROB. The transaction values the safety-platform company at a $556.6 million pro-forma enterprise value, backing its machine-agnostic Trust Layer for physical AI with 25 patents and more than 600 customers worldwide today. Read more →
Moxi Gets A Longer Shift
TL;DR: Diligent Robotics began rolling out Moxi 2.0 to U.S. health systems after five years of hospital operations across more than 25 sites. The updated mobile manipulator adds 10x onboard compute, 10-15x faster perception, up to nine hours of runtime, 30% faster charging, improved recovery, and a world model that learns from fleet experience. Read more →
Heart Surgery Cuts Smaller Doors
TL;DR: El Camino Health Heart and Vascular Institute is using Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci robot for coronary artery bypass grafting, one of the world's most common cardiac surgeries. The robotic approach works through small incisions between the ribs instead of opening the chest, even though less than 1% of CABG procedures currently use robots in practice. Read more →
Robot Eyes Get Calibrated
TL;DR: Trossen Robotics and Stereolabs are putting factory-calibrated stereo vision into Trossen's new Physical AI hardware suite. Workbench and Rivet pair dual WidowX Pro 6-DoF arms with ZED X Mini scene cameras, wrist-mounted ZED X Nano cameras, Jetson AGX Orin compute, and synchronized RGB-depth data for robot learning workflows and teleoperated demonstrations at scale across labs. Read more →
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