Robotics & Autonomous Systems

2+ hour, 16+ min ago   (447+ words) Published Sep 20, 2026 11:01 AM EDT There are plenty of safety concerns to consider when deploying robots in workplaces like warehouses alongside human workers. They can lead to malfunctions, injuries, fires — and in extreme cases, even deaths. And now that we’re inching…...

2+ hour, 47+ min ago   (1382+ words) A 44.1-gram drone uses pressure-sensing artificial whiskers for wall following and tactile mapping, with its onboard autonomy occupying about 34 KB of additional RAM. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 20, 2026 · How we edit A 44.1-gram quadcopter has learned…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (416+ words) Multimodal sensor fusion architectures such as TransFuser achieve strong waypoint-based driving performance by fusing RGB panoramas and LiDAR bird’s-eye-view (BEV) representations through transformer attention, but their dual backbones and quadratic-cost fusion blocks preclude deployment on resource-constrained platforms. This work proposes…...

12+ hour, 57+ min ago   (478+ words) Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models autonomously identified and attacked targets in a recent demo. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models…...

10+ hour, 17+ min ago   (709+ words) If ride-sharing vehicles without anyone in the driver's seat and Cybertrucks without rear-view mirrors freak you out to any degree, then you may not want to know about the newest innovation in autonomous car technology. Earlier this month, Tesla's new…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago   (309+ words) Published Sep 20, 2026 9:01 AM EDT Is this video of a huge drone hovering over a dog and blasting it with water adorable in its canine innocence? Is it dystopian in its implications? You’ll just have to decide for yourself. The viral…...

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4+ week, 17+ min ago   (261+ words) Is physical artificial intelligence the key to creating autonomous warehouses? Aftermarket parts distributors face a unique set of fulfillment challenges. SKU counts continue to grow, demand can change without warning, and customers often need parts quickly to restore critical equipment....

6+ hour, 41+ min ago   (418+ words) Transmission-line inspection requires a single detector to localize complete insulator strings together with much smaller broken-shell and flashover-damaged regions. These targets differ in spatial extent and in their dependence on local detail and surrounding context, which complicates cross-scale feature fusion…...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago   (410+ words) Surface recognition can organize structural inspection imagery, but high classification accuracy does not establish crack detection or structural diagnosis. This study evaluates the supplied 49,124-image StructDamage collection, containing nine surface categories and 4586 masonry-focused images. A shared ResNet-18 encoder supports ten…...