Category: News

UK’s First Bricklaying Robot Arrives – Can ‘Walter’ Solve the Construction Crisis? A groundbreaking moment for UK construction has arrived – quite literally – with the debut of Walter, a wall-laying robot now hard at work in Durham. Developed in the Czech Republic and brought over by JT Lifestyle Homes, Walter – or WLTR –…

World’s First Jetpack-Powered Humanoid Robot Takes Flight – iRonCub MK3 Breakthrough! Say hello to iRonCub MK3 — a baby-faced humanoid robot that’s just taken its first flight, quite literally. Thanks to four jet thrusters, this little 3-foot-tall, 22-kilo robot has become the first humanoid to achieve vertical liftoff. Two thrusters are mounted where its arms…

World’s First Mirokai Robot Hackathon – AI Meets Innovation at Queen Mary University This month, in June 2025, Queen Mary University’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with RoboHack, hosted a world first: a hackathon featuring the Mirokai robot from Enchanted Tools. Using the Mirokai simulator—and one of just 20 real Mirokai…

World’s First Remote Robotic Surgery – Doctor in Florida Operates on Patient in Africa! What if your surgeon was on another continent during your operation? That’s exactly what happened when Fernando da Silva, a patient in Angola, had his prostate cancer removed by a doctor… in Florida. Dr. Vipul Patel, based in Orlando, performed the…

Underwater Robot vs Sabotage – How the Royal Navy is Securing UK Seabeds Protecting the UK’s undersea infrastructure just got a high-tech upgrade. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory – or Dstl – has teamed up with industry to trial a new underwater robot that could help prevent sabotage to undersea cables and pipelines. This…

Gecko Robotics Becomes a $1.25B Unicorn – Robots That Save Warships, Power Plants & Infrastructure Gecko Robotics has officially hit unicorn status—no, not the mythical creature, but the billion-dollar kind. With a fresh $125 million in Series D funding, the Pittsburgh-based company has doubled its valuation to a cool $1.25 billion. Not bad for a…

Meta has just unveiled V-JEPA 2, a 1.2-billion-parameter world model that learns from raw video — no extra labels, no human hand-holding. Just pure observation. It’s built on the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture, or JEPA, and it’s designed to help robots understand, predict, and plan — even in unfamiliar environments. Basically, it watches the world,…

Wandercraft & Renault Reveal CALVIN – The Fastest-Built Humanoid Robot Yet?  Wandercraft, the French robotics company known for helping people walk again with advanced exoskeletons, just took a bold step into industrial robotics — meet Calvin, their new humanoid robot, reportedly built in just 40 days. That’s quicker than most of us can assemble flat-pack…

100 Robots Take Over Wuhan! – World Robot Carnival 2025 Showcases Future Tech in Action  The World Robot Carnival has officially kicked off in Wuhan, China—and it’s buzzing with futuristic flair. This year’s event features nearly 100 robots, from robotic pets and make-up artists to a full-on robotics band. Yes, machines are not only helping…

UK Invests £23M in Touch-Sensitive Robots – ARIA’s Bold Bet on the Future of Robotics The UK’s answer to DARPA – the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA – has just invested £23.3 million into nine teams working on something very specific: robotic dexterity. That means better robotic hands – not just for cool…