🤖 Sashimi Needs Three Arms
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Robotics is done posing. Now it has to cut fish, plug wires, clean windows, cross deserts, dodge walls, and survive the factory floor.
Sashimi Needs Three Arms
TL;DR: Researchers at NTNU built Sashimi-Bot, a three-arm kitchen robot trained in simulation to cut raw salmon with minimal human help. One arm positions the fish, another handles the knife, and touch feedback helps detect the cutting board with 95% accuracy, turning slippery sashimi prep into a robotics stress test. Read more →
NASA Lets ERNEST Roam
TL;DR: NASA JPL's ERNEST rover completed a 16-mile autonomous trek over 37 hours in California's Colorado Desert. The four-foot, four-wheeled prototype uses active suspension and autonomy software for high-speed, long-distance Moon and Mars exploration, giving NASA a tougher testbed for terrain, lighting, and distance than classic rover designs. Read more →
Moving Wires Get Solved
TL;DR: Sanctuary AI says its robotic system reached 99.5% success on a fast wire-plugging task for automotive assembly. The test matters because moving wires are messy, deformable, and hard to align at production speed, making the milestone a sharper factory benchmark for Physical AI than another clean tabletop demo. Read more →
Drones Learn to Squeeze
TL;DR: Researchers reported a drone control system that helps UAVs pass through narrow gaps using onboard AI rather than carefully staged external guidance. The work, covered by TechXplore from a Science Robotics paper, pushes small aerial robots toward cluttered real-world spaces where inspection, search, and indoor navigation depend on fast body-aware motion. Read more →
NEURA Brings the Whole Stack
TL;DR: NEURA Robotics is taking its full-stack robotics pitch to Automate 2026 in Chicago, showing its cognitive robot portfolio, Neuraverse platform, and NEURA Gyms training environments. The message is broader than one machine: NEURA wants customers to see robot bodies, learning tools, and deployment infrastructure as one connected system. Read more →
Windows Get a Dirt Hunter
TL;DR: Clevio introduced RoboClean, a robotic window cleaner built for high and hard-to-reach glass. The Wyoming company says the device uses industrial-grade suction, smart edge detection, battery backup protection, and a reinforced safety cord, aiming to replace ladders and awkward manual cleaning with a safer consumer robot. Read more →
DENSO Keeps Arms Busy
TL;DR: DENSO Robotics will showcase live demos of its high-speed 4-axis, 6-axis, and collaborative robot models at Automate 2026 in Chicago. The company is using the show floor to make a practical case for precision automation across industrial workflows, not just one flagship arm or isolated application. Read more →
US Robot Orders Rebound
TL;DR: The International Federation of Robotics says U.S. industrial robot installations rose 11% year over year to 38,000 units in 2025. Food and other non-manufacturing sectors drove the rebound, while automotive remained the largest adopter at 13,500 units, only 1% below the previous year. Read more →
Unitree Gets a Japan Channel
TL;DR: GMO AI & Robotics signed an authorized distributor agreement with Unitree Robotics for Japan on June 19. GMO AIR says it will support Unitree robot sales, implementation, and secure communications, giving the Chinese humanoid and quadruped maker a more formal route into Japanese business deployment. Read more →
Doosan Makes Physical AI Industrial
TL;DR: NVIDIA and Doosan are expanding a physical AI partnership across robots, construction machines, energy systems, and circuit-board materials. The Automate-timed report highlights Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Isaac Sim, Cosmos, and Jetson Thor as part of a larger sim-to-real pipeline for industrial AI deployment. Read more →
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