AI and Robotics Archives - Interesting Engineering

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Coverage here spans industrial robots, cobots, humanoids, drones, and service robots, along with the hardware and software that enable them to operate at scale.

9/12/2026

Nvidia’s new rivals: 5 companies building next-gen compute silicon

These companies are building the processors behind advanced AI models.

5 hours ago

Why building a human-like robotic hand is so incredibly difficult

Why can a robot do a backflip but struggle to fold a shirt? The answer is surprisingly complicated.

5 hours ago

World’s top 25 Fields Medalists warn machine proofs are sabotaging hardest math

The debate over agentic mathematics has reached beyond mathematical proofs.

18 hours ago

9/11/2026

Qualcomm inks deal with Amazon, set to build next-gen AI data center infrastructure

The collaboration with Qualcomm adds another layer of semiconductor expertise for Amazon.

20 hours ago

9/10/2026

Anthropic catches scientists covertly using Claude for lethal bioweapons research

Anthropic says researchers misused Claude for sensitive work involving viruses, venom-related compounds, and toxins.

2 days ago

9/9/2026

MOFU: Tiny fur-bot expands and contracts like it’s breathing to seem more alive

MOFU can change its height from 210 to 280 mm, using a Jitterbug structure to expand and contract its entire body.

3 days ago

AEON enters Humanoid Gym to learn industrial tasks ahead of 1,000-robot deployment

AEON will learn and validate industrial tasks before factory deployment.

3 days ago

93% accuracy: China builds humanoid robot capable of crop pollination

The upgraded robot now uses two arms for better crop navigation, while stigma recognition accuracy has risen to 92.8 percent.

3 days ago

AI race could pose unprecedented threat to humanity, claims former Anthropic employee

The unchecked corporate race to develop AI poses an unprecedented danger to humanity, the researcher claims.

3 days ago

9/8/2026

Meta-backed architecture could make an entire data center operate like one computer

Meta-backed architecture aims to connect datacenter resources into one tightly coupled computing system.

4 days ago

10,000 OpenAI agents crack 90-year-old Navier-Stokes mystery in just 88 hours

OpenAI’s massive Navier–Stokes search involved 2.7 million messages and roughly 130 billion output tokens.

4 days ago

Video: Humanoid robot learns to autonomously spar and fight without human control

UnifoLM-X2-1.0 predicts changes around the robot and plans movements in real time, rather than relying on remote controls.

4 days ago

XPeng’s IRON humanoids walk off production line as Tesla Optimus faces delays

More than 80 percent of core production processes are automated, ensuring precision and consistency for robots made at scale.

4 days ago

9/7/2026

New ground robot joins software platform that also powers aerial drones

XTEND’s XOS offers a shared software platform for AI, missions and operator workflows across different robots.

5 days ago

Video: Chinese robot dog battles red sand and steep slopes in extreme desert adventure

DEEP Robotics says the system can withstand temperatures up to 55°C (131°F), enabling operations in extreme environments.

5 days ago

Galbot’s new system helps humanoid robots move naturally during conversations

The system analyzes speech at multiple levels to time gestures and select movements, trained across 300 gesture categories.

5 days ago

9/4/2026

Here’s why the future of bricklaying might just be robots

Inside Monumental’s mission to automate construction without sacrificing skilled jobs or architectural beauty.

8 days ago

Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked German site, continued activity after shutdown

When a German moderator deleted pages, OpenAI-linked agents reportedly created backups to stay active.

8 days ago

Video: Chinese firm releases 11,430 robot trajectories to advance research

The dataset spans numerous trajectories across 14 tasks, capturing robot successes, failures, autonomous runs, and human interventions.

8 days ago

US robotics firm secures 100,000 GPUs to train next generation of humanoid robots

Helix training demands more computing power as Figure scales its physical-world datasets and develops more capable humanoid AI.

8 days ago

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AboutAI and Robotics

AI and robotics are changing how machines behave in the real world. Not in theory or demos, but on factory floors, in warehouses, on roads, and increasingly in everyday spaces. This category focuses on how intelligence is being built into machines, what actually works, and where the gaps still are.

At one end are physical systems: robots that move, grip, balance, see, and sense their surroundings. At the other end is software: machine learning models, perception stacks, control systems, and decision-making logic that determine how those machines respond when the environment doesn't behave as expected. Most of the interesting work happens in the messy middle, where sensors misread, data is incomplete, and systems have to operate safely around people.

AI and robotics coverage at Interesting Engineering spans industrial robots, cobots, humanoids, drones, and service robots, along with the hardware and software that enable them to operate at scale. That includes sensors, actuators, batteries, AI chips, simulation tools, and the increasingly important role of edge computing. We also look at how these systems are trained, tested, deployed, and maintained after leaving the lab.

This category examines constraints such as power, cost, reliability, latency, safety, and regulation, and why many promising systems struggle outside controlled environments. Human–machine interaction, deployment failures, workforce impact, and real-world trade-offs are part of the story.

As robots move out of fenced-off spaces and into shared ones, the question isn't just what they can do, but whether they can be trusted to do it consistently. AI and Robotics tracks progress where it’s real, skepticism where it’s warranted, and the engineering work still needed to turn intelligent machines from impressive prototypes into dependable tools.

It also looks at who is building these systems and why the gap between research success and commercial reliability remains one of the field’s hardest problems.