Robot ID codes and patrol robots
China drafts a lifetime ID code for every robot it makes, Ring launches a patrol drone and security rover, and LiveKit bridges ROS 2 graphs over WebRTC.
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Robot ID cards, weight space and drone noise
China drafts a lifetime ID code for every robot it builds, ros2_control ships Lyrical Luth breaking changes, and drone noise reaches the zoning board.
Intrinsic open-sources its robot runtime
Intrinsic put its industrial robot runtime on GitHub under Apache 2.0, Agility cleared its SPAC vote, and Tutor raised $75M to scale real-world robot data.
Meta's humanoid Max, robot orders climb
Meta built a humanoid with Fourier in three months, North American robot orders rose 24.8 percent, and Hyundai cut robot debugging time with AI agents.
Five million robots, and no refusal layer
The IFR counts five million industrial robots, frontier agent policies follow harmful commands, ANYmal learns to pass doors, and a Jetson runs targeting.
Atlas Metaplant opens, Halos safety stack
Boston Dynamics starts training Atlas inside Hyundai's Metaplant America, NVIDIA argues safety has to be a whole stack, and robot policies rarely refuse.
Gorai, Jetson strike drone, humanoid recycling
A Go and NATS robotics framework, autonomous target selection running on a Jetson Orin Nano, and why retired humanoids are a hard recycling problem.
Map-free drone nav, ARM cross-compiling
An open ROS 2 and PX4 stack flies a drone through urban terrain without a map, colcon gains ARM cross-compiling, and rosbag2 learns to change topics mid-recording.