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FF Nova: a $2,490 humanoid with 20 DoF, capped at 100 units
FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem and Faraday Future unveiled the $2,490 FF Nova and the $299 Nova Mini. The first batch of the larger humanoid is capped at 100 units.
Anthropic ditches Git: 30,000 merges a day forced it to build Scion
Anthropic replaced Git with its own system, Scion, in five months. Daily merges grew from 2,500 to over 30,000, and the checkout infrastructure shrank 200-fold.
Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: 87% on ERQA, 56% to 75% on hardware
Google detailed Gemini 4 Argon's robotics applications. The model scored 87% on ERQA and lifted a physical robot's success rate from 56% to 75%, training it on data from a simulation it built itself.
Stretch 4 moves in with older adults for a three-year study
Hello Robot is putting Stretch 4 into the homes of people with mild cognitive impairment. A study running to May 2029, 60 participants and eight-week observations — clinical method, not a showcase.
Flourish 1 at $3,555: a 1.5 kg payload and a task learned in an hour
Flourish Robots is selling a home robot for $3,555. Tasks are laid out in an app and shown through half an hour of teleoperation. The 1.5 kg payload sets the limit: light tidying, not the kitchen.
Qualcomm buys PickNik, with MoveIt pledged to stay open and neutral
PickNik, the company behind MoveIt, is moving to Qualcomm. Two pledges come with it: the existing open-source licence and hardware neutrality. A motion-planning stack passes to a chip vendor.
Sharpa's trio: the D01 humanoid, W02 hand and AE01 data glove
Sharpa brought the D01 humanoid, the 21-DoF W02 hand and the AE01 data glove to IROS 2026. Together they are not a parts catalogue but a ready-made chain for collecting the contact data that trains policies.
ScaFi: 0.6, 1.1 and 2.9 metres from one robotic fish design
EPFL and NYU built a robotic fish scalable through a single parameter — the tail-rod diameter. The kinematics carried across all three sizes; the energy efficiency did not.
Dyna 2.1 aims at whole shifts, measured by time between interventions
Dyna Robotics has shown a semi-humanoid on a wheeled base and pitched it around MTBI — mean time between human interventions. It claims 200 units an hour in a warehouse and 22 minutes per hotel room.
Clone shows a 41-second hand demo and promises Torso 4 in November
Clone Robotics showed a teleoperated Torso 3 hand — April hardware it is retiring — and set Torso 4 for November. The reason for the redesign is not more force but easier simulation and control.
Nucleus says its factory demo is 60% autonomous, 40% teleoperated
Nucleus released uncut footage of its robot working a factory floor and named the human share itself: 60/40. It did not say whether that covers time or tasks — and the video runs 67 minutes, not the promised two hours.
Wandercraft buys Ekso Bionics, merging two exoskeleton pioneers
Wandercraft has bought Ekso Bionics, putting four medical exoskeletons under one roof — two clinical, two personal. No price was disclosed, but the prize is access to 700 centres and to reimbursement.