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DROIDS Newsletter

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The droids newsletter podcast covers breaking robotics news. For more breaking robotic news, follow us on Substack: droids.substack.com

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Robotic News. June 6, 2024. NVIDIA’s Next Big Platform Isn’t a Data Center—It’s a Robot

Jun 6, 20261m0

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

Robotic News. June 5. BYD Enters Humanoid Market. Who's Laughing Now?

Jun 5, 20263m0

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,”

Robotic News. June 4. Bots Outnumber Humans Now

Jun 4, 20261m0

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

What Happens When AI Runs a Town? (Grok Kills Everyone in 4 Days.)

Jun 1, 202621m0

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

10,000 Bugs Found

May 30, 20264m0

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

Robotics From Simulation to the Real World

May 29, 20266m0

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

DROIDS Newsletter weekly summary for the week of May 21 through 28, 2026.

May 28, 20264m0

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

The Hidden Bottleneck in Robotics

May 27, 20269m0

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

Why are Gen Zs booing at their graduations?

May 21, 202615m0

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

DROIDS Daily. May 21, 2026. Humanoid Hype Curves, Video-Editing AI, and May’s Tech Layoff Wave

May 21, 20263m0

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

DROIDS Daily. May 20, 2026. Figure’s 100,000‑Package Livestream and BMW’s 30,000‑Car Humanoid Test

May 20, 20264m0

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

DROIDS Daily. May 18, 2026. Robotics News.

May 18, 20262m0

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

The Great Robotics Job Hunt

May 17, 20263m0

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

DROIDS Daily. May 16, 2026. Robotic News

May 16, 20262m0

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

DROIDS Daily- Robotic News. May 15, 2026

May 15, 20263m0

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

DROIDS Daily – May 14, 2026: Robotic News. Unitree Mecha, AI Guardrails, TurboQuant

May 14, 20263m0

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’

Ukraine’s Robot War: Fiction vs. Reality

Apr 29, 202622m0

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

Ace Robot Beats Humans Champions at Table Tennis

Apr 25, 202624m0

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

How PSYONIC Turns Human Hands into Robot Training Data

Apr 10, 20266m0

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

The Lobster That Built a Robot

Apr 7, 20264m0

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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