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Today is Saturday, June 6, 2026. A reminder that DROIDS Daily News is selected and verified by a human, and then read by an AI. At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA unveiled the Isaac GR00TReference Humanoid Robot, an open platform des
BYD is pushing into humanoid robotics as a new core business, with Executive Vice President Stella Li announcing the Chinese automaker is “advancing independent research and development of humanoid robots in full force,”
Automated bot traffic has surpassed human traffic on the internet for the first time, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced on June 3. According to Cloudflare’s Radar dashboard, bots now account for 57.5% of all HTTP r
Researchers gave Claude, Gemini, Grok, and GPT-5 Mini their own AI towns and let them govern for 15 simulated days. Claude built a stable society. Gemini stayed productive despite rampant crime. Grok’s town collapsed int
Anthropic says its experimental Claude Mythos Preview model uncovered more than 10,000 high and critical-severity software vulnerabilities in just one month. The results are staggering. Mozilla found over ten times more
NVIDIA is significantly advancing the field of physical AI by demonstrating how robots trained in virtual simulations can successfully transition to complex, real-world applications . Through a series of research papers
Welcome to the DROIDS Newsletter weekly summary for the week of May 21 through 28, 2026... At Google I/O 2026, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Gemini Spark, a cloud-based personal AI agent that runs continuously on dedicated
Robotics startups are getting very good at building demos. Getting products through certification, testing and real-world deployment is much harder. In this episode, Tony Gao of Fuchsia (YC P26) discusses the hidden comp
Spring 2026 graduation season brought an unexpected sound to college campuses across the country: a coordinated chorus of boos. From the University of Arizona to the University of Central Florida, top executives like for
In today’s DROIDS daily update for May 21, 2026, we zoom out on physical AI and humanoids as analysts start publishing macro forecasts that treat embodied robots as a multi‑trillion‑dollar market by mid‑century, with hun
In today’s DROIDS Daily, we break down Figure AI’s latest F.03 livestream, where three humanoid robots reportedly ran more than 80 hours and sorted over 100,000 packages in a tightly controlled warehouse test. She then d
Welcome to the DROIDS Newsletter daily update for May 18, 2026. Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has announced a national program to invest over 33.5 million dollars through 2030 to develop homegrown AI-powered humano
On paper, the robotics job market in 2026 looks “hot”: strong growth, six‑figure roles, and constant headlines about a talent shortage. But that’s not what many students and early‑career roboticists are experiencing on t
Next-gen space AI: NASA is testing a radiation-hardened AI chip delivering hundreds-fold performance gains for onboard autonomy, enabling real-time navigation, anomaly detection, and data triage in harsh space conditions
Lunar rover planner: JAXA’s new hierarchical reinforcement learning system autonomously plans multi-sol traverses, optimizing for terrain, slip, and thermal risk while cutting human replanning time by over 60% in field t
Today’s episode covers a wild new rideable mecha from Unitree, fresh funding for industrial robotics, early moves on AI “guardrails” from the U.S. and China, and two big stories in astrophysics. In this episode: Unitree’
We tend to imagine war robots as autonomous machines marching into battle. Ukraine is showing something very different. In this episode, we take a closer look at how unmanned ground vehicles are actually being used on th
What happens when a robotic arm spends five years training in simulation, learns to read spin at 20 milliseconds, and then steps up to the table against some of the best ping pong players in the world? It wins. Sony's Pr
This is one of the hardest problems in robotics: hands. PSYONIC is solving it by using human data, capturing touch, grip, and dexterity, and transferring it to robots. Alex Wolf Torres, Associate Editor, DROIDS, spoke wi
At NVIDIA GTC, we visited the Build-a-Claw demo to see how OpenClaw actually works in practice. DROIDS Associate Editor Alexander Wolf Torres speaks with NVIDIA’s Mark McKeen about how an AI agent can move from concept t
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