News Sep 25, 2026 Chinese robotics startup Spirit AI predicts 2027 breakthrough for general-purpose robot intelligence Zhang Yunhan, founder of Chinese robot brain startup Spirit AI, predicts humanoid robots will handle most general-purpose tasks from verbal instructions by 2027. The Beijing-based company, known for partnerships with Xiaomi and Qualcomm, sees this as a ChatGPT-like moment for embodied AI, though practical household applications remain further out. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 24, 2026 A humidity-sensing memristor works without being touched A nickel pyrophosphate device changes its electrical memory when moist air from a finger is nearby and can sort humidity states with high accuracy. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 23, 2026 Katalyst wins a contract to assemble a power-beaming spacecraft in orbit A robotic spacecraft will join solar-power tiles in low Earth orbit and send microwave energy to Earth for remote sites and military use. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Article Aug 25, 2026 Exploring the Moon will require rovers that can think for themselves – an upcoming NASA mission will test whether they can At the Moon’s South Pole, the terrain itself can cause communication disruptions. AI is needed for autonomy. Republished from The Conversation 6 min read
Article Aug 3, 2026 I was on track, more or less: Moravec speaks A recent interview with Hans Moravec, published in The New York Magazine, and commentaries. Giulio Prisco 6 min read
Article Jan 6, 2026 The science of human touch - and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. But ask a robot to touch something... Republished from The Conversation 6 min read
Community Dec 19, 2025 Self-Adapting Robotics: Pushing Computation from Cloud to Edge As robotics shifts intelligence from cloud to edge, self-adapting models promise faster decisions, greater autonomy, and new ethical questions about accountability in decentralized machine intelligence. Emmanuel Kordzo AGBONYITOR 3 min read
Community Jan 9, 2026 Low-Cost Robotics for Agriculture: The Quiet Robotics Revolution Feeding the Future Low-cost farm robots are quietly transforming food security favoring resilience over hype, local intelligence over the cloud, and human-centered automation over displacement in fields facing climate and labor pressures. Emmanuel Kordzo AGBONYITOR 3 min read
Community Dec 30, 2025 Stop Choosing Sides: How AI is Finally Merging Evolution with Intelligence What if AI learned like a team, not a genius? Evolutionary Policy Optimization merges evolution and reinforcement learning, unlocking robotic skills where solo algorithms stall and redefining scalable intelligence globally. Bereket Eshete 5 min read
News Aug 28, 2026 A six-legged robot learned to walk from a stick insect From a few insect steps, software inferred the goal of walking and taught a larger six-legged robot to handle rough ground and a missing limb. Giulio Prisco 2 min read