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Xpeng presents ‘Iron’ humanoid robot at automaker’s AI Day

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XPeng has showcased the latest version of its humanoid robot, known as “Iron”, during its 2025 AI Day event in China, signalling the company’s growing ambition beyond electric vehicles and into advanced robotics.

CnEVPost, a China-based website covering the country’s electric vehicle and technology industries, first reported XPeng’s live demonstration and claims made during the presentation.

XPeng describes Iron as a key part of its long-term “AI mobility” strategy, which spans vehicles, flying cars, and humanoid robots.

According to the company’s own press materials, Iron has been under development for more than five years, progressing through multiple generations and real-world training cycles. [Read more…] about Xpeng presents ‘Iron’ humanoid robot at automaker’s AI Day

Interview with Epson Robots’ Scott Marsic: ‘We make it simple to deploy robots’

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Epson Robots has been a quiet but influential force in industrial robotics for decades, particularly in high-precision automation.

The company’s history in robotics dates back to its internal efforts to automate watch assembly, which pushed it toward small-parts handling, speed, and accuracy rather than heavy-payload industrial automation. That heritage still shapes its strategy.

Today, Epson is best known for its strong market position in the SCARA robot segment – where it has held a prominent position globally for many years – and for supplying compact six-axis systems, vision tools, force-sensing technology, and integrated software environments designed to reduce deployment time and complexity. [Read more…] about Interview with Epson Robots’ Scott Marsic: ‘We make it simple to deploy robots’

AI agents will infiltrate consumer mass market within months, says IEEE

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AI agents are about to take over the world at “lightning speed” and will become mass market by 2026, according to a new survey by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organisation dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, has released the results of “The Impact of Technology in 2026 and Beyond: an IEEE Global Study”, a survey of global technology leaders from Brazil, China, India, Japan, the UK and US.

The study covers which technologies AI will influence the most in 2026; expectations for AI market growth, benefits, uses, and skills; and future technology trends.

To learn more about the study and the impact of technology in 2026 and beyond, visit https://transmitter.ieee.org/iot-2026. [Read more…] about AI agents will infiltrate consumer mass market within months, says IEEE

NomadGo and Richtech partner to develop fully autonomous retail inventory robot

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NomadGo, a specialist in inventory AI, has announced a collaboration with Richtech Robotics, a Nevada-based provider of AI-driven service robots, to integrate NomadGo Inventory AI into physical robotics, paving the way for seamless, end-to-end automation.

The companies are exploring a fully automated inventory solution, aimed at transforming a tedious, manual, and highly inaccurate process into a futuristic operation, where an end-to-end inventory process – from counting to automated ordering to delivery validation to restocking – is performed autonomously.

Powered by NomadGo’s Inventory AI, Dex, Richtech’s recently announced cutting-edge two-armed mobile robot, will be trained to automate every step of the inventory process. [Read more…] about NomadGo and Richtech partner to develop fully autonomous retail inventory robot

Abu Dhabi Autonomous Summit to focus on regulation, deployment and urban-scale rollout

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Abu Dhabi has announced the programme for its first Abu Dhabi Autonomous Summit, a new high-level forum designed to shape global policy and industrial strategy for autonomous systems across land, sea, air and robotics.

The one-day summit, held on 10 November 2025, will open Abu Dhabi Autonomous Week – a six-day series of events that also includes the DRIFTx smart mobility exhibition, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2025 and the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL).

Organised by the Smart and Autonomous Systems Council (SASC), the summit aims to bring together policymakers, technology leaders and investors to translate regulatory frameworks into commercial deployment at scale. [Read more…] about Abu Dhabi Autonomous Summit to focus on regulation, deployment and urban-scale rollout

AWS and OpenAI complete $38 billion cloud deal

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI have announced a multi-year, strategic partnership that provides AWS’s world-class infrastructure to run and scale OpenAI’s core artificial intelligence (AI) workloads starting immediately.

Under this new $38 billion agreement, which will have continued growth over the next seven years, OpenAI is accessing AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art Nvidia GPUs, with the ability to expand to tens of millions of CPUs to rapidly scale agentic workloads.

AWS has unusual experience running large-scale AI infrastructure securely, reliably, and at scale – with clusters topping 500K chips. AWS’s leadership in cloud infrastructure combined with OpenAI’s pioneering advancements in generative AI will help millions of users continue to get value from ChatGPT. [Read more…] about AWS and OpenAI complete $38 billion cloud deal

Honda showcases ProZision autonomous electric mower you can ride

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Honda has showcased its new ProZision series battery-powered riding mowers at the recent Equip Exposition 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky.

The launch included two models – the ProZision Autonomous and the manually operated ProZision – marking Honda’s first battery-powered riding mower series developed for the US market. Both models are scheduled to go on sale in the US before the end of 2026.

The company introduced the ProZision lineup as part of its strategy to apply autonomous and intelligent technologies across its power equipment range. [Read more…] about Honda showcases ProZision autonomous electric mower you can ride

Hyundai and Nvidia partner to develop autonomous mobility, AI factories, and smart manufacturing

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Hyundai Motor Group and Nvidia have agreed a major expansion of their partnership to advance autonomous mobility, robotics and AI-driven manufacturing, including the development of a new “AI factory” powered by Nvidia’s latest Blackwell infrastructure.

The companies say the system will support the training, validation and deployment of AI models across Hyundai’s vehicle platforms, robotics projects and smart factory operations.

Hyundai plans to use Nvidia DGX and other infrastructure to train large-scale AI models, Nvidia Omniverse and Cosmos running on RTX PRO Servers for digital-twin factories and robot simulation, and Nvidia DRIVE AGX Thor as an “AI brain” for vehicles and robots. [Read more…] about Hyundai and Nvidia partner to develop autonomous mobility, AI factories, and smart manufacturing

ETH researchers develop novel artificial muscles that ‘move with sound’

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed artificial muscles that contain microbubbles and can be controlled with ultrasound. In the future, these muscles could be deployed in technical and medical settings as gripper arms, tissue patches, targeted drug delivery, or robots. (See video below.)

It might look like a simple material experiment at first glance, as a brief ultrasound stimulation induces a thin strip of silicone to start bending and arching.

But that’s just the beginning. A team led by Daniel Ahmed, Professor of Acoustic Robotics for Life Sciences and Healthcare, has developed a new class of artificial muscles: flexible membranes that respond to ultrasound with the help of thousands of microbubbles. [Read more…] about ETH researchers develop novel artificial muscles that ‘move with sound’

Kiwibot relaunches as Robot.com with 1.7 million real-world robot tasks completed

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Robot.com – formerly Kiwibot – has officially launched, debuting a global suite of robots built on a leading, field-tested fleet and proving that its technology is moving goods, generating revenue and scaling across industries today.

Having completed more than 1.7 million tasks, the Company now powers delivery, logistics, and advertising robots for Fortune 500 customers across the United States, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Robot.com’s technology is currently deployed in production environments with Sodexo, one of the world’s largest food-service providers serving 80 million consumers every day, including those on college campuses, as well as Canada-based SKIP for food delivery services; a Fortune 500 company automating secure deliveries for a blue-chip US semiconductor manufacturer; and Amazon Web Services to support a global advertising campaign. [Read more…] about Kiwibot relaunches as Robot.com with 1.7 million real-world robot tasks completed