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Jul 6, 2026
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  1. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Sam Francis

    Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot integrate AI-powered robots to automate inbound warehouse logistics (opens the original)

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    Ambi Robotics and Pickle Robot Company have integrated their AI-powered robotic systems to automate one of the most labor-intensive parts of warehouse operations, creating an end-to-end inbound logistics solution that handles everything from trailer unloading to pallet stacking. Developed in response to demand from Fortune 500 retailers and logistics providers, the combined system links Pickle Robot’s […]

  2. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Sam Francis

    UK startup Humanoid launches reinforcement learning system to improve robot manipulation (opens the original)

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    UK-based robotics and AI company Humanoid has introduced KinetIQ Ascend, the company’s reinforcement learning approach designed to reach 99.9 percent manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond. KinetIQ Ascend builds on the previously announced KinetIQ platform with trial-and-error learning, helping the company’s robots improve directly on industrial tasks. The new system was tested on several […]

  3. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Sam Francis

    Apptronik launches Robot Park to train Apollo humanoid robots with Google DeepMind (opens the original)

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    AI-powered robotics company Apptronik has announced the opening of the newly expanded Robot Park, its flagship data collection and training facility for humanoid robots in Austin, Texas. The facility in Austin anchors a growing global network of Robot Parks at customer and partner sites around the world, and the company plans to open new Robot […]

  4. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Sam Francis

    University of Rhode Island opens advanced Ocean Robotics Laboratory for autonomous marine research (opens the original)

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    Event marked milestone for Narragansett Bay Campus The University of Rhode Island celebrated a major milestone in the $300 million, multi-phase revitalization of the Narragansett Bay Campus with an underwater ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Ocean Robotics Laboratory on June 25. Students Elliot Roman and Jake Bonney piloted URI’s remotely operated vehicle Rhody to […]

  5. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Sam Francis

    Oak Ridge National Lab reveals ‘hidden workforce’ behind AI-powered research facilities (opens the original)

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    By Clint Keaton Behind every self-driving laboratory at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a team most people never see. Facilities and Operations (F&O) workers are building and maintaining the infrastructure that makes autonomous science possible. Autonomous labs run with little human intervention. Instead, they rely on robotics, sensors and automation […]

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