Category: News

How One Robot is Revolutionising Shoe Making in Just 3 Minutes – On’s Lightspray Innovation Swiss running shoe brand On has just taken a giant leap—by using a robot to make their new Lightspray shoe. Using cutting-edge tech, a robot from ABB sprays a super-thin, durable plastic thread around a shoe mold to build the…

Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand Breakthrough – Real-Time Finger Movement with No Surgery! Robotic hands controlled by thought alone? It sounds like science fiction, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are making it a reality—no brain surgery required. Professor Bin He has spent over 20 years developing noninvasive brain-computer interfaces using EEG technology. And his team just…

Humanoid Robots Play Football in China – Fully Autonomous AI Match Stuns Fans! China’s men’s soccer team might not be grabbing headlines these days—but their humanoid counterparts certainly are. In Beijing, four teams of AI-powered humanoid robots faced off in the country’s first fully autonomous 3-on-3 football match. No coaches, no remote control—just artificial intelligence…

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,…