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Surgery Shrinks to Seed Size
TL;DR: NTU Singapore researchers built a 4.4 mm surgical robot that can switch between five functions in under a second. Controlled wirelessly by weak magnetic fields, the tiny machine can move across soft tissue, cut, deliver drugs, collect samples, grip material, and generate heat for minimally invasive procedures. Read more →
Atlas Watches the Game
TL;DR: Boston Dynamics showed Atlas studying World Cup footage before recreating football movements on a practice floor. The humanoid shifts weight, kicks a ball, and runs basic drills, turning sports video into another test of balance, timing, agility, and whole-body control. Read more →
Shanghai Builds Robot School
TL;DR: China plans to open its first heterogeneous humanoid robot training facility in Shanghai this July. The Zhangjiang center will host more than 100 robot types from over a dozen companies, simulating home and work environments to build shared data for humanoids moving toward industrial and daily-life tasks. Read more →
Figure Finds Retail Work
TL;DR: Figure AI signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to deploy humanoids across the retailer’s distribution and logistics network. The rollout starts at Catalyst’s Reno facility, moving Figure beyond factory pilots and into retail supply-chain work for a group behind brands including JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers. Read more →
Robot Hands Get Tougher
TL;DR: Sanctuary AI received investment from Japan’s Zeon Corporation and formed a materials partnership focused on robotic hands. The companies will co-develop rugged elastomeric components meant to survive factory conditions while preserving tactile precision, targeting one of the less glamorous bottlenecks in real-world humanoid deployment. Read more →
Deep Robotics Eyes IPO
TL;DR: Deep Robotics filed for a STAR Market IPO seeking about $367 million after its first profitable year. The Hangzhou company, known for quadrupeds and expanding humanoid ambitions, is trying to turn China’s field robotics momentum into public-market capital for broader industrial and embodied AI expansion. Read more →
Domo Makes Humanoids Cheap
TL;DR: Rotaku opened reservations for Domo, a compact humanoid robot platform starting at $2,999. Aimed at developers, educators, makers, and robotics teams, the small humanoid lowers the price of hands-on biped hardware and pushes humanoid experimentation closer to classrooms and small labs. Read more →
Protest Goes Underwater
TL;DR: Greenpeace deployed an underwater robot from 2,300 meters during a survey of Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge ecosystems, staging what it called the deepest-ever seabed protest. The robot carried the campaign into fragile deep-sea territory as mining debates move from policy rooms into remote ocean environments. Read more →
Moon Arms Leave Earth
TL;DR: Redwire delivered a prototype lunar robotic manipulator to the European Space Agency for the Argonaut lunar lander program. The arm is designed for future Moon missions where robotic systems will help unload cargo, support surface operations, and make landers more useful after touchdown. Read more →
Satellites Get Repair Crew
TL;DR: DARPA and industry partners are preparing a 2026 launch for a robotic satellite servicing mission. The project is meant to demonstrate on-orbit maintenance and repair, showing how robots could extend spacecraft life instead of leaving expensive satellites as disposable hardware once something breaks. Read more →
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